Midday dump

[silveradept]

Okay, taking a time out in the middle of the day to toss all this stuff up. I'm not panicking, but I really am trying to get my shit together so that I don't have to panic. (It'll happen anyway - just at what degree is what I'm looking for.) What I may not have mentioned was that yesterday, as I was completing my grocery errand, I returned to find there had been an accident right at the intersection that my house was on the corner of, and one of the vehicles was on fire. The area had been sealed/cordoned off, and so I had to wait for it to clear to get back into my driveway. Very interesting. A little off-putting of my schedule, but everything but the apologetic comic actually did get done.

Just dumping off some links then. Like the idea of a religious United Nations of sorts.

There's also Patriot Act: The Home Edition. And perhaps some rumblings that people in the right places are seriously considering impeachment. They may not actually do anything about it, though. In any case, we'll have to wait for elections before any serious talk is made...

For a laugh, and nothing else, enjoy a study that claims that insecure children grow up to be conservatives. There's nothing to suggest that this data is in any way valid enough to be an actual conclusion, and it might be better suited for an Ig Nobel prize, but it does show that some people are really interested in taking the nature/nurture argument as far as it will go.

There. Got those out of the way. Perhaps, if I'm not industriously working on papers tonight, I'll be able to make some fuller account of all the stuff swirling around my head.

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[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

For a laugh, and nothing else, enjoy a study that claims that insecure children grow up to be conservatives. There's nothing to suggest that this data is in any way valid enough to be an actual conclusion, and it might be better suited for an Ig Nobel prize, but it does show that some people are really interested in taking the nature/nurture argument as far as it will go.

I actually wasn't laughing at it, surprisingly. You should have seen some of the half-assed studies that I had to read about in class...no wait, you really shouldn't.

There never has really been any solid proof that children are a product of Nature or Nurture. Are we who we are because of our parents or because of our environmental influences? Or is it an even balance of both? No social scientist has ever been able to quite pin it down, thought they have deinitly tried.

I'm a bit dissapointed at the sample size of this study, I think it would have had real potential if they had studied more than 77 kids from Berkely. They should have had sub groups in several other towns and cities, ranging from small-town nebraska, to big city NYC in order to try to make any type of a definite statement one way or the other.

...oh god. Please stop me. I just went into Behavioral Development Mode...