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15y ago
I think that the problem may be the other way around: it's hard to imagine his system because it's exactly the system that we're living under. There's United Nations lists 192 legal systems from which to choose. The only remaining questio
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15y ago
I've had the exact opposite experience. In the past month, I've received Facebook ads for diet pills (I'm skinny), office temp work (I have a job), tequila (I don't drink), DVRs (I don't have cable), and real estate (in a city I don't live
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16y ago
I would have to disagree on two counts. The first point is pedantic, but, in the standard normal distribution, half the curve is over ten times greater than the mean. Of course, that's cheating, since the mean is zero, but it's not imposs
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First off, thank you for pointing this out. I occasionally teach introductory physics and I had never realized that people could interpret the graph in that manner. I'll try to make nip this in the bud when I present this material in the
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16y ago
My office is three miles from my house. If I walk at a slow, I-don't-want-to-go-to-this-meeting pace, I get to work in forty minutes. Same time for getting home. I did this for five years and I wasn't even in shape. I'm not arguing that
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I'm also a little curious about the gender data from a different perspective. I don't know whether the eyes were randomized, but, when I took the test, all of the "romantic" emotions (e.g. flirtatious) in the test were displayed with femal