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1051.
by learnstats2 12y ago
Nope http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23487928
1052.
by learnstats2 12y ago
It's very hard to go against this advice. So hard that many people stay in jobs that make them utterly miserable and cause them to miss better opportunities. I've watch my ex-colleagues take pay-cuts and benefit-cuts because they
1053.
by learnstats2 12y ago
Speaking personally, my main problem with what you are doing is this: I don't believe you have any reason to pay people more than they are worth. That would be bad for your business and is not credible if we exclude nepotism. So, by ad
1054.
by learnstats2 12y ago
And so - again - you only hire people who are privileged. In this case, privileged enough never to have observed any personal problem with transparency nor to have any aspect of a personal life that they might not wish to share with work co
1055.
by learnstats2 12y ago
>They are people, they have needs - ignoring that is stupid, in my opinion. If we have someone on staff who is contributing greatly to the company but has high mortgage payments, and I pay them less because I have this other person who i
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by learnstats2 12y ago
I perceive that I am much less likely to turn my head (to check the traffic behind me) when I'm wearing a helmet. It's perceptibly less comfortable to do that. I will turn my head if I absolutely need to, but I don't make it
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by learnstats2 12y ago
There would be a negotiation (regarding e.g. the UK contribution and rebate), yes. Citizenship and self-determination are absolute fundamentals of the EU. I understand why there is pressure - particularly from Spain - to obfuscate this, but
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by learnstats2 12y ago
Agreed. And many people have to vote tactically for the lesser of two evils, completely obscuring the true scale of the problem (which is nonetheless still very evident).
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by learnstats2 12y ago
The US is very similar to the Westminster system and has the same major underlying problem: with no attempt towards proportionality, very few people end up with their first choice of representation. Norway's electoral system, based on
1060.
by learnstats2 12y ago
Please keep on that struggle. David Cameron's goal from this referendum was to win and close down any suggestion of real reform. There's significant danger that just a few weeks of chatter about it remain.
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by learnstats2 12y ago
I suspect there would have been no fuss. The UK had the legal right to ask the EU what the status of an independent Scotland would be within the EU. It's my belief that the EU would not eject 5 million citizens unless they asked to lea
1062.
by learnstats2 12y ago
I will say the same as the other commenter, but the opposite: It was suggested that very large bets were placed on No, skewing the odds, perhaps because City of London workers had significant sentiment for No.
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by learnstats2 12y ago
Or, that is how it was represented in the media - I understand there was one "Nick Robinson" banner (here pictured) but the wider protest was against the BBC's bias. That is, in fact, strictly what the article says, but not h
1064.
by learnstats2 12y ago
Not the only way: The Norwegian system is such that regions are compensated for their geography - rural areas with less direct access to government have disproportionately more representatives. The EU also works quite well for small nations
1065.
by learnstats2 12y ago
It's not sexist to point out a fact: "Girls Get Better Grades Than Boys". This is almost universally true where statistics can be found, internationally and across all subjects. It's factual that girls perform better in
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by learnstats2 12y ago
Keeping a secret/lying about subjects that are important to another party is a gamble that you won't be exposed. If the secret/lie comes out later, then the consequences are often far worse than they would have been if you ha
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by learnstats2 12y ago
In general, if your results contradict existing science, your work for publication will be passed immediately to those scientists for "peer review". Those same scientists are motivated to protect their own existing and future work
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by learnstats2 12y ago
Results which generate international headlines tend to get replicated in the hope of further headlines. This does not represent the experience of many millions of scientists. You should consider that all science is on the fringe - the pur
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by learnstats2 12y ago
All the A/B testing in the world feels desperately pointless when a founder claims that the #1 lesson learned was a 7th grade statistics lesson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suggestive_question