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by araneae 16y ago
Right. Because every woman is a housewife just waiting for that chance to spend her husband's money on a rhinestone-studded refrigerator.
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by araneae 16y ago
I left because Verizon because it cooperated with warrant-less wiretapping (as did AT&T) and T-mobile did not. Now I'm screwed because I have a Nexus One so I'm basically locked in. I bought the phone without a contract but it's not lik
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by araneae 16y ago
You missed the "and never substantiated" bit of my reply. The post I was responding to had asked for verification. Of course, there is none, so we are left with one guy vs. many. In your scenario, we have had verification. It's called compa
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by araneae 16y ago
Thank you for this. The "official" definition of extroversion and introversion and the "colloquial" definitions are bit different, I think. I have a greater tendency to buy the colloquial version. The former was a definition invented by on
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by araneae 16y ago
I have to confess that whenever I do any statistics (which isn't much, these days) I struggle with R for a bit and then say "screw it" and use MatLab.
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by araneae 16y ago
I think the point is to learn statistics using an easier language than R, ugly figures be damned.
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by araneae 16y ago
That's kind of like saying, "if having unprotected sex can kill you than why do Thai prostitutes offer to do it bareback?" Making money is important. Steve Jobs could literally be the devil and people would STILL work for him because cash
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by araneae 16y ago
Which is a whole pie. So not a problem.
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by araneae 16y ago
Oh come on. You can't translate these studies into real world results at all. If you hand people two cigarette packs and say "which one looks healthier," sure, they're going to pick one. They might even pick one over the other pretty cons
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Giftedness Linked to Prenatal Exposure of Higher Levels of Testosterone(sciencedaily.com)
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Everybody thinks like a scientist(scienceblogs.com)
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by araneae 16y ago
If it would allow me to delete my Facebook wall history... yes. Only then :)
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Alien Microbe Claim Starts Fight Over Meteorite(wired.com)
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Screen Reader User Survey #3 Results(webaim.org)
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by araneae 16y ago
shrug Michael Behe did good work as a microbiologist and publishes in the Journal of Creation. I'm sure this guy really believes it.
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by araneae 16y ago
"But let's assume JoC is a crackpot journal. Why is a NASA scientist publishing there?" He's publishing there because he couldn't publish it in a reputable journal, indicating its quality is rather low. I agree that this article doesn't tak
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by araneae 16y ago
This was published in a crockpot journal and is likely fake: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2294516
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Did scientists discover bacteria in meteorites? No.(scienceblogs.com)
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A Non-Programmer’s Apology(aaronsw.com)
86 points by araneae 16y ago|70 comments
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The innocent, unconscious bias that discourages girls from math and science(slate.com)
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by araneae 16y ago
Entertaining perhaps, but I thought the interview with the IBM guy was a lot more interesting. There's not much on here except personal information and jokes.
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by araneae 16y ago
Funny, but this point is actually quite interesting since it's an example of inter-species reciprocity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocity_(evolution)
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by araneae 16y ago
Probably not much at all. Toxoplasmosis wouldn't explain a sex-biased result. Additionally there's no good evidence that the parasite affects human cognition. Something much more simple is likely going on. In all likelihood cats are more
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by araneae 16y ago
I do sometimes buy Groupons to things I know I will probably not go to again. For instance there was one for a new vegan restaurant and as I'm not a vegan I have a limited tolerance for pizza with weird fake cheese stuff on it. It's certai
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by araneae 16y ago
While I like Bayesian statistics it is NOT a substitute for maximum likelihood in many situations. Additionally, some of his criticism of NHST is unfair because he criticizes weaknesses Bayesian also has. In the part where he gives the exam
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by araneae 16y ago
We're supposed to be sad about this? I mean, sure, if it were being replaced with more violent thievery that would be bad, but crime has been dipping across the board.
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by araneae 16y ago
I'm pretty sure this is bad advice. I say this as someone who has irresistible urges to "shake things up" when I'm going through rough patches. In fact, I think that desire is really common. I bet that's why this guy did all that stuff; h
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by araneae 16y ago
Perhaps that's how it should be, but it's clear that that isn't actually how our legal system works. We have copious amounts of legislation detailing what and when are appropriate firing situations. Anything relating to biological sex,
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by araneae 16y ago
It's not really a hypothesis anymore. Mitochondria have their own DNA so we can put them on a phylogeny. The closest living relatives to mitochondria are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphaproteobacteria Similarly, plastids are most clos
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In Breaking Down Walls, Does Online Education Sacrifice Quality?(openeducation.net)
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