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by anbende 5y ago
It's not the fact that he doesn't leave that's delusional, it's all the ideas he has about leaving that can't be based in reality as he has not experienced them. It's similar to anyone who has strong opinions a
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That's a very interesting question, but unfortunately it's not really my area. If you'll permit me to speculate a bit: I do clinical work as well, and I'd say that therapy produces some personality change if done long en
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There are a number of metrics that are commonly used to settle on a number of factors to extract. There's some judgment in it to be sure, but you are looking at data-driven phenomena as well like percentage of variance explained, a pre
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>Is Openness then really a feature of personality? Or maybe rather a description of the social behaviour of one person in a specific context? This is a great question! And it touches on what's call the "person-situation" d
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A major problem with humorism was that it did not have any empirical evidence to support it. Modern personality theory DOES. Personality theory uses a variety of techniques to show that a construct is internally consistent and related to re
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Tautology implies that the definition we give is redundant, but none of these things were defined in this way. This is because none of the research relies on this kind of dictionary definition. Instead, they literally ask people hundreds of
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Psychologist here. Yes, that is correct. Without the inversion, it is sometimes also referred to as "emotionality" or even "negative emotionality". "Neuroticism" sounds pejorative to many.
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Hi there, psychologist here who has done research in personality including looking at the Big Five. It's not my personal favorite set of constructs, but I have great respect for the body of work supporting it. Modern personality theory
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That's a good question, and your reaction to the Myers-Briggs is justified! It is not evidence-based and is roundly rejected by modern personality psychology. The work the author of this piece was describing on the other-hand is one of
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While this is true for a lot of common psychological constructs, the Big Five were not defined according to agreement or consensus. The definitions were driven by the lexical hypothesis whereby the wide variety of personality descriptive ad
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The farmer has a lot of ideas about what it would have been like to leave or do something different and why there was no point in doing so. Having never left, these ideas are not based in experience, and there is likely an element of self-j
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Actually it might. If expansion accelerates indefinitely, which is one of the theories, then eventually expansion will be stronger than the binding force of atoms and then sub-atomic particles. This is called the "Big Rip". https
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I believe the argument they were making was about the electricity cost of securing it if all money was in bitcoin. At the current energy requirements (which are escalating per transaction), it would take more than the entire energy producti
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Psychologist here, and yes this is commonly done in studies where you have access to that information. However these statistical controls are imperfect at best due to things like generational effects of education. E.g., first generation edu
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I think you raise important points about bundling and banning. I'm constantly terrified that Google will just lock me out of all my email and other Google accounts. What would I do? I don't have a massive social media following. I
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Apparently, a big piece of the decision by the FTC not to take Google to court was the recommendation of the two economists on the panel: The pair suggested that advertisers had plenty of alternatives to doing business with Google: Display
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How Washington fumbled the future: The antitrust case against Google(politico.com)
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If we are just looking at numbers with no units attached there is no difference. As soon as there are units, a difference arises. I will collect 12 apples 5 times. The 12 apples are the multiplicand and the 5 times is the multiplier. The an
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by anbende 6y ago
Not before you leave a poor review but before you accuse them of being a scammer. They didn't sue for the poor review, they sued for defamation. There's an important difference there.
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Google may be a monopoly, but this quote has nothing to do with monopoly status. It has to do with power. As a local businessman I can ruin someone’s life by applying the right legal pressure. Likewise, if one of my customers is reliant on
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This is answered in the article. Chunks of R are written in Fortran 90, which can’t be converted to C easily right now. You might ask why it’s written in Fortran at all. Probably has something to do with its history coming out of the S lang
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Well, apparently Chess24 has an engine that will let you play against a simulated Magnus Carlsen at various stages and skill-levels of his career. So you can set some engines not to pick perfect moves but to pick moves consistent with a par
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My understanding is that this only applies at long distances. The center of the galaxy can only block things farther away than that (10s of thousands of light years or more). The kill distance is very close at 25 light years, and stars must
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I love this book. It opens with a beautiful description of the creation of an artificial mind. Worth reading for that alone.
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In general, you're right of course. The article in question used a lagged design, using temporally prior markers to predict later change. This is not fully causal, but it's not fully correlative either. In the field, it's con
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Right, but this was a study conducted by the American Psychological Association, an organization that has literally nothing to do with the medical practices you spoke about.
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The second quote does not imply that all depressed people are such because they are lacking perseverance. There are several issues with this interpretation. The first is that because something is on average true does not mean it is always t
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Thank you! Most people are not returning to business as usual. It’s not like the economy is going to just return to normal as cases skyrocket and people are dying.
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Gambling does increase risk, but it is not done TO increase risk. Risk is accepted (or embraced) to increase reward. Of course it gets murkier when people talk about the “rush” of gambling, which is I think what you’re alluding to, but it’s
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The situation is a little more complicated as these tests ALSO have a false negative rate. And that false negative rate is also about 20%. As well, the false positive rate is for scores at threshold , which is 3 out of 5. If they score a 4

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