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| Topic | John Stossel: Even liberals can't stand university's silencing of free speech |
| COVxy 09/15/17 6:44:16 AM #18 | frozenshock posted... What's with conservatives waging war on universities Universities have become associated with "elites", the idea bring that these people cannot possibly represent the needs of the common man, and therefore any deference to expertise is just giving power to the elite. It's a ridiculous line of thought. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | "Social anxiety" is such an excuse for a disease |
| COVxy 09/13/17 8:43:35 PM #23 | Balrog0 posted... what about CBT? I mean, CBT is a large umbrella, of which exposure therapy, and its various forms, fall under. As far as I know, all empirically validated behavioral interventions for anxiety have some form of exposure. But, this isn't really my field, so I could be off here. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | "Social anxiety" is such an excuse for a disease |
| COVxy 09/13/17 8:41:18 PM #20 | Balrog0 posted... is exposure therapy always recommended? Should probably be, kinda the only empirically valid behavioral intervention. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | University experience in 2017 |
| COVxy 09/13/17 8:36:20 PM #5 | DezCaughtIt posted... Is this your new shtick Apparently. Tiring, really. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | I thought Clinton's book was supposed to be a mea culpa? |
| COVxy 09/13/17 11:23:09 AM #49 | Balrog0 posted... I dunno, until like 9 p.m. on election night everyone was still sure she was gonna win. It's easy to monday morning quarterback (in either direction) especially when something unexpected happens I'm not saying predictably. I was pretty certain she was going to win as well. But the issue is that I was underestimating how much of an impact a lot of the ridiculous media coverage was really having an impact. Darkman124 posted... i don't think that is quesitonable Across the many states in which she lost. I think the point made about the demographics of the swing states, and their relative importance given our electoral college system in this other 538 post is very poignant: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-real-story-of-2016/ Second, demographics gave Trump a big advantage in the Electoral College. Clinton won the popular vote by 2.1 percentage points, similar to George W. Bush’s margin of victory over John Kerry in 2004, after which Bush claimed to have earned a mandate. But she lost in the biggest popular vote-versus-Electoral College discrepancy since 1876. Although Trump has protested otherwise, this discrepancy does not appear to have been mainly the result of tactical choices made by the campaigns. Instead it reflected demographics: White voters without college degrees, by far Trump’s strongest demographic group, were disproportionately concentrated in swing states, while Clinton’s coalition of minorities and college-educated whites (but with declining turnout among black voters) produced huge gains for her in states such as California and Texas without winning her any additional electoral votes. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | I thought Clinton's book was supposed to be a mea culpa? |
| COVxy 09/13/17 11:10:26 AM #45 | PiOverlord posted... So Nate silver is saying it is everyone's fault! Hillary is a perfect human being. No, moreover pointing out that a large culmination of external factors made this a particularly hard election for her to win. It's easy to pin all the blame on Clinton because she's unlikable. She has an impersonal personality, which makes it easy to mold her into suspect and evil. But it's a silly interpretation of what really happened. It's even questionable if she would have won if she ran the perfect campaign (mind you, she didn't) given all the factors against her. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | People who say "problematic" unironically |
| COVxy 09/13/17 10:26:15 AM #13 | If I say a statistical analysis is problematic due to the violation of the fundamental assumption of normality of the residuals, does that make me an SJW? --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | I thought Clinton's book was supposed to be a mea culpa? |
| COVxy 09/13/17 10:15:00 AM #16 | My guess is that it's both. The general public's viewpoint on what exactly went down during the election is so drastically skewed by propaganda that I think a bit of reorienting is probably a necessary device. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | People who say "problematic" unironically |
| COVxy 09/13/17 9:54:41 AM #3 | Pretty useful word, tbh. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | The people who want to add "art" to STEM |
| COVxy 09/12/17 7:41:54 PM #9 | It's stupid, but so is the acronym STEM, so meh. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | My friend is ABD right now |
| COVxy 09/12/17 4:34:45 PM #28 | C7D posted... This is customizable. I got 4 exams : electrokinetics, neutron scattering, clinical diagnostics, and polymer physics. They tried to tailor mine directly to my research topics. It depends on the department, but all have some form of exam that has very similar stress. My department has you write a review or meta-analysis and then you present it in front of your committee. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | My friend is ABD right now |
| COVxy 09/12/17 3:46:24 PM #23 | ChromaticAngel posted... I'm not entirely sure what his position was. I know he was in some minor authority position. He had keys to access the building after hours and such and had to do things like lock up rooms with animals so that the cleaning staff couldn't get in and fuck up the ongoing experiments, and that he was basically paid to get his degree--although not much. He still worked side jobs for general living expenses. All this is pretty normal for PhD students. Renraku_San posted... Do we really need a stupid acronym for that? Keep in mind that what precedes it is usually an extremely stressful comprehensive exam which you demonstrate to a panel of experts that you have enough knowledge about a field to continue onwards. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | My friend is ABD right now |
| COVxy 09/12/17 3:11:02 PM #11 | ChromaticAngel posted... It's one of the reasons it took 17 years is because it was basically real research he was doing. I mean, that's all science PhDs though. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Hillary Clintons book "What Happened" reads like a therapy session. |
| COVxy 09/12/17 1:12:39 PM #34 | pinky0926 posted... I don't even know what is and isn't satire anymore, this election put everything up for grabs. More like, people are so deluded due to all of the propaganda that they'll accept what is obviously blatant satire as truth because it fits within their cartoonish view of Hillary. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | There should be a temporary ban on Caffeine |
| COVxy 09/11/17 7:16:43 AM #36 | _Goggalor_ posted... It would stop enough people. And if it didn't, that would just further prove that addiction is addiction. Addictions are not equal. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | There should be a temporary ban on Caffeine |
| COVxy 09/11/17 5:56:42 AM #17 | Seems to me that there are very little health risks associated with even heavy caffeine use, the LD50 is ridiculously safe, and the psychoactive effects are completely complementary to the normal life of a functioning citizen. Anyway, obligatory "cut myself on all that edge in this topic". --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | The problem with calling some degrees worthless... |
| COVxy 09/10/17 6:44:28 PM #19 | GreatEvilEmpire posted... COVxy posted...What university offers a degree in parapsychology? So few, probably rivals the number of universities that literally offer underwater basket weaving. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | The problem with calling some degrees worthless... |
| COVxy 09/10/17 6:31:49 PM #16 | GreatEvilEmpire posted... Parapsychology What university offers a degree in parapsychology? Verdekal posted... It's REALLY arrogant to think someone can pick up books on a subject and become as erudite as a PhD holder in those fields. People who say this have usually never been judged by a master of that field. Didn't you make a topic last week claiming exactly this? --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | PETA launches a series of personal attacks on postdoc bird researcher. |
| COVxy 09/10/17 2:29:18 PM #5 | Glass_Phantom posted... Ornothologist. Why use an opaque specialized term when addressing a general audience? --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | PETA launches a series of personal attacks on postdoc bird researcher. |
| COVxy 09/10/17 2:21:04 PM #1 | http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/09/peta-versus-postdoc-animal-rights-group-targets-young-researcher-first-time These activists are way too black and white, simple minded and myopic. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | do you regret your major? |
| COVxy 09/10/17 1:42:09 PM #67 | RedWhiteBlue posted... Everyone I know has had a miraculous event that gave them a purpose and career goal and they love life That is absolutely not how it works most of the time. Finding purpose and direction takes real effort. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | USC expelled a guy from campus for a crime the victim denies completely |
| COVxy 09/09/17 6:27:19 PM #8 | Sounds quite suspicious, like she was pressured to recant. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | is it normal to have to do work at home for a min. wage job? |
| COVxy 09/09/17 2:30:00 PM #10 | Lol. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | What degree are you studying for/already have? |
| COVxy 09/08/17 7:52:45 PM #18 | Have a BA and MA in psychology. Working on PhD in neuroscience. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Let's be honest, Star Wars Awakening was hardly any better than the first three. |
| COVxy 09/08/17 7:50:19 PM #15 | Way better than the prequels. Hard to say whether it's just nostalgia putting the OT slightly ahead of it though. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Currently watching the new Ghostbusters and honestly... |
| COVxy 09/08/17 7:47:29 PM #14 | It definitely wasn't a Ghostbusters movie, the humor was very different. Okay for a random comedy, pretty shitty for a Ghostbusters movie. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | It shouldn't be called "white privilege" |
| COVxy 09/08/17 5:09:19 PM #51 | The big issue is that the vast majority of people agree on the substance of white privilege, but refuse to acknowledge it nominally. This is the issue with being intentionally provocative. Yes, you may garner more attention, but you lose the support of people you would have otherwise had. Attention/exposure is not more important than support. This is the big issue with people on the "SJW" end of things, they tend to prioritize exposure over truthiness, which just undermines the very valid point underlying what you are talking about. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Study "unpublished" after its conclusions prove too controversial |
| COVxy 09/08/17 5:02:55 PM #20 | shockthemonkey posted... Yep, real curious as to how this was done, although it still seems silly to do the study then try to ignore the results. I mean, they can submit it to a peer reviewed journal if they'd like. The issue is probably that it doesn't meet the standards of peer review. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Study "unpublished" after its conclusions prove too controversial |
| COVxy 09/08/17 4:56:53 PM #17 | Balrog0 posted... COVxy posted...I'm having trouble imagining how such a study could possibly be empirical, though. Yeah, this just seems like click bait to me. Nobody is suppressing real studies, an organization retracted an opinion piece, more or less. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Study "unpublished" after its conclusions prove too controversial |
| COVxy 09/08/17 4:51:49 PM #14 | I'm having trouble imagining how such a study could possibly be empirical, though. I find people are too liberal with the word study and publish, too. Unless it was going into a peer reviewed journal, these words are misleading. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Page limits on papers |
| COVxy 09/08/17 8:15:03 AM #3 | Page maximums tend to be much harder than minimums. Partly because all of school up to the end of undergrad really trains you into really shitty writing techniques because of page minimums, but also because being concise is just much harder than being verbose. The hardest thing I ever wrote was the two page NSF GRFP grant. So hard to write anything meaningful in two pages. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Page limits on papers |
| COVxy 09/07/17 10:35:45 PM #1 | http://phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd090617s.gif Pretty accurate, working on my dissertation proposal now, pain in the ass to provide the right amount of detail and keep it within a reasonable grant proposal length. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | how is Clinton's new book? is it out yet? |
| COVxy 09/07/17 3:08:44 PM #61 | ElatedVenusaur posted... You're putting way more thought into this than 99+% of voters would. I think the same people who blame the closed primary for Bernie's loss would also claim that he was screwed out of it by opposition voters employed by the establishment. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | how is Clinton's new book? is it out yet? |
| COVxy 09/07/17 2:12:05 PM #58 | lilORANG posted... COVxy posted...lilORANG posted...open primaries would help. And that isn't just as unfair, if a republican votes against the star democratic candidate to reduce their probability of winning the primary? --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | how is Clinton's new book? is it out yet? |
| COVxy 09/07/17 2:04:53 PM #56 | lilORANG posted... open primaries would help. Doesn't this open up the possibility of people going out and voting against the competitor they don't want to be pitted against? --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Mark Dice suggests DREAMERs should be enslaved and put into forced labor |
| COVxy 09/07/17 9:13:57 AM #34 | pres_madagascar posted... You realize 91% of dreamers are gainfully employed paying taxes right? Most likely he just doesn't give a shit what the truth is. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | gosh darn it the 3.5mm jack on my phone broke. |
| COVxy 09/06/17 8:02:48 AM #2 | You've just innovated your phone. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Racists preferentially pull out the free speech argument. |
| COVxy 09/05/17 11:06:14 PM #21 | |
| Topic | Penn Professor defends traditional values. 33 profs write letter condemning her. |
| COVxy 09/05/17 10:34:05 PM #81 | The Admiral posted... COVxy posted...The Admiral posted...Only if people like you had your way. People like me? --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Wouldn't the best way to "fix/deal with/cure/help/etc" transgenderism |
| COVxy 09/05/17 8:21:16 PM #19 | Zeeak4444 posted... COVxy posted...Then how would eliminating gender roles fix transgenderism? It's a stupid idea that demonstrates a lack of understanding. Nobody is transgendered because they think "I'm female, but I like football and muted colors, I must be a dude." --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Wouldn't the best way to "fix/deal with/cure/help/etc" transgenderism |
| COVxy 09/05/17 8:14:43 PM #11 | Then how would eliminating gender roles fix transgenderism? --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Racists preferentially pull out the free speech argument. |
| COVxy 09/05/17 8:13:40 PM #11 | The Admiral posted... COVxy posted...Participants low in explicit racial prejudice actively avoided endorsing free speech values in racialized conditions compared to nonracial conditions, but participants high in racial prejudice increased their endorsement of free speech values in racialized conditions. Because it's primarily what they found, because of the study design. I clarified in my post. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Wouldn't the best way to "fix/deal with/cure/help/etc" transgenderism |
| COVxy 09/05/17 8:12:08 PM #9 | Gender roles aren't the reason people are transgendered. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Racists preferentially pull out the free speech argument. |
| COVxy 09/05/17 8:07:26 PM #7 | I'll look into unpaywalling it when I get home. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Racists preferentially pull out the free speech argument. |
| COVxy 09/05/17 8:05:42 PM #6 | NINExATExSEVEN posted... I can't load the link. What's it about? Do claims of “free speech” provide cover for prejudice? We investigate whether this defense of racist or hate speech serves as a justification for prejudice. In a series of 8 studies (N = 1,624), we found that explicit racial prejudice is a reliable predictor of the “free speech defense” of racist expression. Participants endorsed free speech values for singing racists songs or posting racist comments on social media; people high in prejudice endorsed free speech more than people low in prejudice (meta-analytic r = .43). This endorsement was not principled—high levels of prejudice did not predict endorsement of free speech values when identical speech was directed at coworkers or the police. Participants low in explicit racial prejudice actively avoided endorsing free speech values in racialized conditions compared to nonracial conditions, but participants high in racial prejudice increased their endorsement of free speech values in racialized conditions. Three experiments failed to find evidence that defense of racist speech by the highly prejudiced was based in self-relevant or self-protective motives. Two experiments found evidence that the free speech argument protected participants’ own freedom to express their attitudes; the defense of other’s racist speech seems motivated more by threats to autonomy than threats to self-regard. These studies serve as an elaboration of the Justification-Suppression Model (Crandall & Eshleman, 2003) of prejudice expression. The justification of racist speech by endorsing fundamental political values can serve to buffer racial and hate speech from normative disapproval. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved) --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Racists preferentially pull out the free speech argument. |
| COVxy 09/05/17 7:57:55 PM #1 | For hate speech over other instances of angry speech with consequences. http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-17075-001 People, in general, use free speech as an unprincipled argument, it seems. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | transgendered men do not become women, nor do transgendered women become men |
| COVxy 09/05/17 4:25:24 PM #81 | Howl posted... So the argument you've made only further proves that gender is a biological construct and not a social one at all. I believe gender to be biological in nature, yes. That doesn't contradict what I think you think it contradicts. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
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