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More data. More stuff. (Septemberish 02019)
Let's start with siderea pointing out vocational awe is a terrible way to run an education system, especially when it refuses to differentiate between the need to have expert professionals teaching and the generally terrible design of a schooling system and its inhabitants. Furthermore, voational awe is even more terrible a reason to run a system of medicine, because science opposes the idea that something is immune from being tested to see if it is true and definitely opposed to the idea of continuing to do something if the science says it is ineffective, mistaken, or harmful. Science should always be applied to medicine.
Which may mean abandoning the use of statistical significance as an indicator of results in studies.
Thieves stole a functioning toilet make of 18k gold. Because they could? Or if they planned on melting the gold down, I guess. Because I can't exactly see the resale value of a golden toilet. Unless you were trying to appease a tinpot dictator by presenting it to them as a gift. (There's probably a Putin joke here.)
If you want to see the impact of online distribution and projects like AO3, take a look at this 2011 interview with Joanna Russ about slash and women's sexual desire, and see the differences in the community from now and then. (Except the part where a bunch of dudes are horrified at the prospect of slash, and how parody is more protected than fanfiction.) Also, Naomi Novik offered correct opinions about the Hugo that AO3 won.
Seeing yourself represented in media is trandformative, and Good Omens is likely to be more transformative than most. (Which sometimes means very direct transformations instead of figurative ones.
Trying to read lots of books in a short amount of time isn't going to help someone enjoy reading. It'll be almost the opposite of it, really. Neither, however, is treating reading as an obligation or as a sacred duty. One of the best things you can do in the situation is to read, let your kids read, and most importantly, shut the fuck up about what your kids are reading. (Unless it's radicalization literature, and then, like, say lots about it, because we need less people thinking they're entitled to everything and getting guns to try and enforce that.)
The existence and ability of Simone Biles as a gymnast is rewriting not only what can be achieved in women's gymnastics, but also what a gymnast does and says when interviewed. If you are looking for an analogue to Ladybug, or who Ladybug's design is based on, Simone Biles is the best example you can get.
The rise of an industry devoted to elaborate marriage proposal plans. Which makes me pop an eyebrow and wonder exactly why people need to do this thing and spend lots of money on it or any other performative aspect like that. Mostly because I would want to use that money for other things. Which has, in its opposition, the rise and use of divorce and separation parties, to mark that other transition. Which is nice for people who don't dissolve their relationship in one month, and then have to physically move themselves out of their own house to say they mean it and get enough clarity to actually force the issue.
It is possible to read the Christian Foundational Writings and come to the conclusion that the Being Represented By The Tetragrammaton forbade marriages and relationships between races, and thus argue that it's not racist discrimination to refuse an interracial couple a wedding venue. To do so requires significant proof-texting and picking which parts you like and don't and ignoring the scholarly consensus that those Writings were created over several generations, have had significant political decisions made about them, and otherwise ignoring their context to justify your own belief.
New York state now mandates a moment of silence in rememberance of the 11 September attacks. One wonders what is taught about those attacks and the campaign still being waged ostensibly in response to that today that has yet to actually impose any sort of sanction on the country that provided most of the persons responsible for the attack. If you see what Mayor 9/11 tweeted out on the anniversary, you get a rather stark picture.
Publishers continue to treat libraries like they're unwanted competition, and librarians would like you to tell publishers to stop being assholes to libraries. We'd also like to mention that shaming people for their choices in reading is a bad thing and should not be done. One of the many examples of why not to do this is because trauma and stress make it exceedingly difficult to do things that require concentration and higher brain functions. Like reading. You know how they've finally figured out that kids need to have both a home and school environment that doesn't contain major stressors if they're going to succeed at school? Same idea for reading.
Another thing that would be useful is if schools worldwide would stop slashing their library budgets and staff, because having a qualified person there to help with the instruction and recommendation processes is invaluable to producing people who can read and reason independently. I realize that's not an actual goal of many of our school systems, but the library as place, space, and staff who can curate and recommend and handle all of the things is invaluable to the student population. Any place that can raise enough in athletics so that teams can afford new uniforms regularly can provide sufficient support to their libraries to keep them open.
The suggestion that most people want to recreate the games of their childhood because they miss not having the responsibilities of adulting. I think they're wrong, in that they're aiming too far back in the past. Most people probably wouldn't want to relive their childhood. Their collegiate days, if they were the ones who had independence and not that many full responsibilities, and could thus do whatever seemed like a good idea at the time, that I will go for. If people want to relive the things they enjoyed doing on the playground in an environment where, in theory, there are adults who aren't going to be as cruel as kids can be, that's a different thing entirely.
Econcomically unattractive men are making it hard for the modern woman who wants a man to find a marriage partner, but it's not feminism to blame for this, no matter what dittoheads think. It seems to be more a problem that those economically unattractive men are carrying specific attitudes about marriage and who should be doing what work along with them that make them unsuitable partners, and the situation has changed sufficiently that women don't have to settle for what money a man can bring to the relationship when choosing.
Using the equation about whether or not there is other intelligent life in the universe to figure out your potential pool of matches is not what I would consider a successful dating strategy. Then again, I also have the opinion that a person has to be someone that others would find attractive and want to date before one can do a whole lot of success in dating and relationships.
Women's magazines continue to fold under economic pressures, which is unsurprising, mostly because women's magazines have always been a useful channel for discussions and topics deemd by men to not be suitable for society and there's a persistent problem assuming that things made by or for women are automatically less important and less deserving of support than things for men. And so, while periodicals and newspapers continue to be hit hard by decisions they made about throwing their lot in with advertisers (and the lack of love those advertisers showed to the publications), it should be no surprise that women's magazines are taking it harder than others.
A short idea of what it's like to be an abortion clinic escort, at least in a setting where there aren't quite as many threats of violence.
A student swimmer won her meet, only to be told she'd been disqualified because the suit had ridden up on her and exposed more flesh than was deemed appropriate. Not because she had acted to cheat, or because the school-issued swimwear was out of regulation bounds, but because something happened during the course of the competition and...she suddenly became too sexy to compete? Like, what is the actual, honest-to-Prime reasoning here? Unless the suit riding up somehow produced a competitive advantage, the answer to such a challenge should be "Buzz off." Even the statement reinstating the result and returning points earned to the school says that they're doing so because the referee failed to follow proper procedure about improper attire, not because they have an opinion on whether or not this situation is something that needs anyone to actually care about it.
Having hoped that this particular issue stayed confined to the United States and its ultraconservatives, I am somewhat dismayed to see leaflets sent to parents in the UK about schools teaching sex education making claims very similar to those of US evangelicals.
And yet, as usual, while there is the focus on what children are learning about sexual practice, there's not much research going into whether a procedure intended to get rid of cervical cancer might also prevent a cervix from being sexually stimulated.
Alanis Morisette on being a parent, on debuts, on having talked about what would become known as #metoo for some significant time in lyric form, and more.
Milo Yiannopolous intended to attend Midwest FurFest, and registered himself for it. The organizers permanently banned him, citing safety concerns for other attendees, and, if not officially, because Milo's fursona is a troll.
Drought conditions in Europe have re-surfaced a henge in Spain that was flooded by a dam-and-reservoir project from the Franco regime.
A work that's being inflouenced by a culture's aesthetic should also be influenced by that culture's values as well, said the Astounding Award winner (back in 2016), in relation to how Kubo and the Two Strings is a gorgeous movie with great visuals and no core. It looks Japanese, but it isn't, but it's also not really cultural appropriation, because that would assume it had culture in it to appropriate.
Marvel and Sony make trainloads of money with each other by allowing Spider-Man to continue existing in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Dalmatian-spotted magpie, figureing out how to make things change color and blend in without destroying the color-changing layer, a two-headed snake, wild boar on an island they wouldn't normally be on, high heels adorned with felt to resemble pigeons, a story about searching for life in the cosmos while ignoring the life that's right next to you, what teaching rats to play hide-and-seek can do for studying play and brain responses, and uttering "NO" in as loud a voice and as many times as needed about the idea of letting meat industries regulate themselves rather than having government inspectors do the same.
In technology, a remarkably unique physics problem where a truck hits a ditch and bounces in such a way that it leans, nose-down, against a house.
A payroll company's CEO thought he could just direct all the deposits to his own account. When that didn't work, he vanished and shuttered the company. There's some extra technical glitch info about how some reversals got processed twice, leaving a lot of people being debited for a pay period rather than credited, and that's a lot of headaches to get sorted out, but it also shows that, a small degree, fraud controls worked to make sure when someone turned nefarious, they didn't get away with that specific heist.
The appeal of the Le Creuset Dutch oven has some things to do with the aesthetics, but a lot to do with the fact that it does what it does extremely well.
A police department's standard practice is to alter photos of suspects and evidence so as to fit their narrative. If it were a policy, it could be challenged, but since it's "practice", we don't discover the truth until it comes out in a court case. It also mkes me wonder how many thousands of people have pled out based on the "overwhelming evidence" they would be convicted that has been altered or forged.
Despite knowing about it, there's still a lot more to know about Lyme disease. And about whether or not a particular drug might help with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
A story about the AI that knows more about you than you do, and that wants to help you, but gets frustrated by the fact that humans are often pretty terrible at following the directions put in front of them. And then a story about the new robot revolution happening one beetle at a time and the humans that are helping bring it about. Looking at the world through the lens of the bag and the carrier, rather than the spear or the sword, which is a narrative that de-centers heroes and geniuses and centers community.
A story of Africanfuturism and seeing the foundations of your life crumbling in slow motion. (CN for sexual assault by a family member.) (A response to the story that makes it less of the future and more of the now.) Being angry and unforgiving about climate disasters doesn't mean abandoning doing work on them, but you'll see the people most likely to suffer blame being the quickest at trying to unload it. Which is silly, if a prediction that it's possible to meet Paris climate targets by their target date if we start now with getting things in order. It'll take some doing, of course, and massive change will affect people that need retraining or to trade in a gas car for an electric. And there's still the question of whether the rare-earth mining and other extractions needed will put a serious blunt on the otherwise rosy picture of zero carbon. New York City excused students, provided they had appropriate permissions, to attend a climate strike.
Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez narrates a message from a more utopic future that our own, all based on things that could happen along the way that would be beneficial for a lot of people who aren't white men desperate to hold onto the last shreads of power they believe they're entitled to.
Airline flights where seats with infants and very small children are highlighted, so that a person who wants to sit away from them can choose to do so.
Last for tonight, the story of Gary Gygax creating Dungeons and Dragons is far more complicated and involves many more people than the popular narrative wants to admit to. Also, a 3D-printed Batman suit based on the Arkham Origins model and a tutorial and explanation of cosplaying a raven Kenku, or just things to drool at because they're pretty and well done.
To put it mildly, all the things that make Tumblr and spaces like it great for advertisers make it absolutely terrible for users, because Tumblr and Twitter and them don't provide an easy way for a person to set the parameters of who they want a post to go to, to provide context, or to shut down something after it's gone out into the world. There's no real privacy and no incentive to actually do something when others are violating norms and the terms of service, because outrage drives interaction, and interaction is what the algorithms and advertisers want. Which makes it remarkably difficult for people in privacy-enabled places to find fellow fans, and makes it remarkably difficult in places that aren't privacy-enabled for anyone to do anything more than broadcast forever. People yearn for the old days of LiveJournal because it had managed to get popular enough to have stuff without having had to engage wholesale in the selling-out to the advertisers. (Usually pre-Strikethrough LJ, because at that point, one could plausible believe that the Moral Guardians weren't out to get them.) This may be related to the idea of Instagram piloting a project that removes the like counts from being seen except by the original poster and an apparent trend toward attempting demtrication in social media as a way of trying to get people to engage with content more, rather than mashing buttons to indicate approval and put another person's content in your timeline.ruuger suggests the Archive of Our Own might benefit greatly from demetrication, for much the same reasons of wanting engagement with the works and because many of the metrics aren't necessarily the things that people are looking for in Archive work, thanks to the search and tagging systems that were at least some part of the AO3's Hugo win.
The Alternative Limb Project, producing prosthetics that help a person match their self-image or match artistic and aesthetic designs for them, including vines and tentacles rather than human limbs.
siderea pointing out vocational awe is a terrible way to run an education system, especially when it refuses to differentiate between the need to have expert professionals teaching and the generally terrible design of a schooling system and its inhabitants. Furthermore, voational awe is even more terrible a reason to run a system of medicine, because science opposes the idea that something is immune from being tested to see if it is true and definitely opposed to the idea of continuing to do something if the science says it is ineffective, mistaken, or harmful. Science should always be applied to medicine.Which may mean abandoning the use of statistical significance as an indicator of results in studies.
Thieves stole a functioning toilet make of 18k gold. Because they could? Or if they planned on melting the gold down, I guess. Because I can't exactly see the resale value of a golden toilet. Unless you were trying to appease a tinpot dictator by presenting it to them as a gift. (There's probably a Putin joke here.)
If you want to see the impact of online distribution and projects like AO3, take a look at this 2011 interview with Joanna Russ about slash and women's sexual desire, and see the differences in the community from now and then. (Except the part where a bunch of dudes are horrified at the prospect of slash, and how parody is more protected than fanfiction.) Also, Naomi Novik offered correct opinions about the Hugo that AO3 won.
Seeing yourself represented in media is trandformative, and Good Omens is likely to be more transformative than most. (Which sometimes means very direct transformations instead of figurative ones.
Trying to read lots of books in a short amount of time isn't going to help someone enjoy reading. It'll be almost the opposite of it, really. Neither, however, is treating reading as an obligation or as a sacred duty. One of the best things you can do in the situation is to read, let your kids read, and most importantly, shut the fuck up about what your kids are reading. (Unless it's radicalization literature, and then, like, say lots about it, because we need less people thinking they're entitled to everything and getting guns to try and enforce that.)
The existence and ability of Simone Biles as a gymnast is rewriting not only what can be achieved in women's gymnastics, but also what a gymnast does and says when interviewed. If you are looking for an analogue to Ladybug, or who Ladybug's design is based on, Simone Biles is the best example you can get.
The rise of an industry devoted to elaborate marriage proposal plans. Which makes me pop an eyebrow and wonder exactly why people need to do this thing and spend lots of money on it or any other performative aspect like that. Mostly because I would want to use that money for other things. Which has, in its opposition, the rise and use of divorce and separation parties, to mark that other transition. Which is nice for people who don't dissolve their relationship in one month, and then have to physically move themselves out of their own house to say they mean it and get enough clarity to actually force the issue.
It is possible to read the Christian Foundational Writings and come to the conclusion that the Being Represented By The Tetragrammaton forbade marriages and relationships between races, and thus argue that it's not racist discrimination to refuse an interracial couple a wedding venue. To do so requires significant proof-texting and picking which parts you like and don't and ignoring the scholarly consensus that those Writings were created over several generations, have had significant political decisions made about them, and otherwise ignoring their context to justify your own belief.
New York state now mandates a moment of silence in rememberance of the 11 September attacks. One wonders what is taught about those attacks and the campaign still being waged ostensibly in response to that today that has yet to actually impose any sort of sanction on the country that provided most of the persons responsible for the attack. If you see what Mayor 9/11 tweeted out on the anniversary, you get a rather stark picture.
Publishers continue to treat libraries like they're unwanted competition, and librarians would like you to tell publishers to stop being assholes to libraries. We'd also like to mention that shaming people for their choices in reading is a bad thing and should not be done. One of the many examples of why not to do this is because trauma and stress make it exceedingly difficult to do things that require concentration and higher brain functions. Like reading. You know how they've finally figured out that kids need to have both a home and school environment that doesn't contain major stressors if they're going to succeed at school? Same idea for reading.
Another thing that would be useful is if schools worldwide would stop slashing their library budgets and staff, because having a qualified person there to help with the instruction and recommendation processes is invaluable to producing people who can read and reason independently. I realize that's not an actual goal of many of our school systems, but the library as place, space, and staff who can curate and recommend and handle all of the things is invaluable to the student population. Any place that can raise enough in athletics so that teams can afford new uniforms regularly can provide sufficient support to their libraries to keep them open.
The suggestion that most people want to recreate the games of their childhood because they miss not having the responsibilities of adulting. I think they're wrong, in that they're aiming too far back in the past. Most people probably wouldn't want to relive their childhood. Their collegiate days, if they were the ones who had independence and not that many full responsibilities, and could thus do whatever seemed like a good idea at the time, that I will go for. If people want to relive the things they enjoyed doing on the playground in an environment where, in theory, there are adults who aren't going to be as cruel as kids can be, that's a different thing entirely.
Econcomically unattractive men are making it hard for the modern woman who wants a man to find a marriage partner, but it's not feminism to blame for this, no matter what dittoheads think. It seems to be more a problem that those economically unattractive men are carrying specific attitudes about marriage and who should be doing what work along with them that make them unsuitable partners, and the situation has changed sufficiently that women don't have to settle for what money a man can bring to the relationship when choosing.
Using the equation about whether or not there is other intelligent life in the universe to figure out your potential pool of matches is not what I would consider a successful dating strategy. Then again, I also have the opinion that a person has to be someone that others would find attractive and want to date before one can do a whole lot of success in dating and relationships.
Women's magazines continue to fold under economic pressures, which is unsurprising, mostly because women's magazines have always been a useful channel for discussions and topics deemd by men to not be suitable for society and there's a persistent problem assuming that things made by or for women are automatically less important and less deserving of support than things for men. And so, while periodicals and newspapers continue to be hit hard by decisions they made about throwing their lot in with advertisers (and the lack of love those advertisers showed to the publications), it should be no surprise that women's magazines are taking it harder than others.
A short idea of what it's like to be an abortion clinic escort, at least in a setting where there aren't quite as many threats of violence.
A student swimmer won her meet, only to be told she'd been disqualified because the suit had ridden up on her and exposed more flesh than was deemed appropriate. Not because she had acted to cheat, or because the school-issued swimwear was out of regulation bounds, but because something happened during the course of the competition and...she suddenly became too sexy to compete? Like, what is the actual, honest-to-Prime reasoning here? Unless the suit riding up somehow produced a competitive advantage, the answer to such a challenge should be "Buzz off." Even the statement reinstating the result and returning points earned to the school says that they're doing so because the referee failed to follow proper procedure about improper attire, not because they have an opinion on whether or not this situation is something that needs anyone to actually care about it.
Having hoped that this particular issue stayed confined to the United States and its ultraconservatives, I am somewhat dismayed to see leaflets sent to parents in the UK about schools teaching sex education making claims very similar to those of US evangelicals.
And yet, as usual, while there is the focus on what children are learning about sexual practice, there's not much research going into whether a procedure intended to get rid of cervical cancer might also prevent a cervix from being sexually stimulated.
Alanis Morisette on being a parent, on debuts, on having talked about what would become known as #metoo for some significant time in lyric form, and more.
Milo Yiannopolous intended to attend Midwest FurFest, and registered himself for it. The organizers permanently banned him, citing safety concerns for other attendees, and, if not officially, because Milo's fursona is a troll.
Drought conditions in Europe have re-surfaced a henge in Spain that was flooded by a dam-and-reservoir project from the Franco regime.
A work that's being inflouenced by a culture's aesthetic should also be influenced by that culture's values as well, said the Astounding Award winner (back in 2016), in relation to how Kubo and the Two Strings is a gorgeous movie with great visuals and no core. It looks Japanese, but it isn't, but it's also not really cultural appropriation, because that would assume it had culture in it to appropriate.
Marvel and Sony make trainloads of money with each other by allowing Spider-Man to continue existing in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Dalmatian-spotted magpie, figureing out how to make things change color and blend in without destroying the color-changing layer, a two-headed snake, wild boar on an island they wouldn't normally be on, high heels adorned with felt to resemble pigeons, a story about searching for life in the cosmos while ignoring the life that's right next to you, what teaching rats to play hide-and-seek can do for studying play and brain responses, and uttering "NO" in as loud a voice and as many times as needed about the idea of letting meat industries regulate themselves rather than having government inspectors do the same.
In technology, a remarkably unique physics problem where a truck hits a ditch and bounces in such a way that it leans, nose-down, against a house.
A payroll company's CEO thought he could just direct all the deposits to his own account. When that didn't work, he vanished and shuttered the company. There's some extra technical glitch info about how some reversals got processed twice, leaving a lot of people being debited for a pay period rather than credited, and that's a lot of headaches to get sorted out, but it also shows that, a small degree, fraud controls worked to make sure when someone turned nefarious, they didn't get away with that specific heist.
The appeal of the Le Creuset Dutch oven has some things to do with the aesthetics, but a lot to do with the fact that it does what it does extremely well.
A police department's standard practice is to alter photos of suspects and evidence so as to fit their narrative. If it were a policy, it could be challenged, but since it's "practice", we don't discover the truth until it comes out in a court case. It also mkes me wonder how many thousands of people have pled out based on the "overwhelming evidence" they would be convicted that has been altered or forged.
Despite knowing about it, there's still a lot more to know about Lyme disease. And about whether or not a particular drug might help with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
A story about the AI that knows more about you than you do, and that wants to help you, but gets frustrated by the fact that humans are often pretty terrible at following the directions put in front of them. And then a story about the new robot revolution happening one beetle at a time and the humans that are helping bring it about. Looking at the world through the lens of the bag and the carrier, rather than the spear or the sword, which is a narrative that de-centers heroes and geniuses and centers community.
A story of Africanfuturism and seeing the foundations of your life crumbling in slow motion. (CN for sexual assault by a family member.) (A response to the story that makes it less of the future and more of the now.) Being angry and unforgiving about climate disasters doesn't mean abandoning doing work on them, but you'll see the people most likely to suffer blame being the quickest at trying to unload it. Which is silly, if a prediction that it's possible to meet Paris climate targets by their target date if we start now with getting things in order. It'll take some doing, of course, and massive change will affect people that need retraining or to trade in a gas car for an electric. And there's still the question of whether the rare-earth mining and other extractions needed will put a serious blunt on the otherwise rosy picture of zero carbon. New York City excused students, provided they had appropriate permissions, to attend a climate strike.
Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez narrates a message from a more utopic future that our own, all based on things that could happen along the way that would be beneficial for a lot of people who aren't white men desperate to hold onto the last shreads of power they believe they're entitled to.
Airline flights where seats with infants and very small children are highlighted, so that a person who wants to sit away from them can choose to do so.
Last for tonight, the story of Gary Gygax creating Dungeons and Dragons is far more complicated and involves many more people than the popular narrative wants to admit to. Also, a 3D-printed Batman suit based on the Arkham Origins model and a tutorial and explanation of cosplaying a raven Kenku, or just things to drool at because they're pretty and well done.
To put it mildly, all the things that make Tumblr and spaces like it great for advertisers make it absolutely terrible for users, because Tumblr and Twitter and them don't provide an easy way for a person to set the parameters of who they want a post to go to, to provide context, or to shut down something after it's gone out into the world. There's no real privacy and no incentive to actually do something when others are violating norms and the terms of service, because outrage drives interaction, and interaction is what the algorithms and advertisers want. Which makes it remarkably difficult for people in privacy-enabled places to find fellow fans, and makes it remarkably difficult in places that aren't privacy-enabled for anyone to do anything more than broadcast forever. People yearn for the old days of LiveJournal because it had managed to get popular enough to have stuff without having had to engage wholesale in the selling-out to the advertisers. (Usually pre-Strikethrough LJ, because at that point, one could plausible believe that the Moral Guardians weren't out to get them.) This may be related to the idea of Instagram piloting a project that removes the like counts from being seen except by the original poster and an apparent trend toward attempting demtrication in social media as a way of trying to get people to engage with content more, rather than mashing buttons to indicate approval and put another person's content in your timeline.
ruuger suggests the Archive of Our Own might benefit greatly from demetrication, for much the same reasons of wanting engagement with the works and because many of the metrics aren't necessarily the things that people are looking for in Archive work, thanks to the search and tagging systems that were at least some part of the AO3's Hugo win. The Alternative Limb Project, producing prosthetics that help a person match their self-image or match artistic and aesthetic designs for them, including vines and tentacles rather than human limbs.
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which I present as example of a scenario vastly preferable to the existence of a wedding proposal industry
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are the grand gestures to the tune of surprise proposals in front of thousands of people not bad enough?
(no, don't answer that. I read at some point this…week maybe…about someone who went diving outside where he and his girlfriend were staying so as to propose to her through the window; somewhere in there he drowned.)
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I thought the p-test editorial was very interesting, even if I don't fully grasp all the implications to it, but having had to run a lot of statistics like that in my schooling.
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Hee, I meant that it'll take me a while to get through all the parts of this linkspam that personally interest me -- which is quite a lot of it!
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Okay. Making sure people understand they don't have to do the whole thing is important.
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