My favorite calibration tools have been one where there was a numerical answer and you had to express a 50% confidence interval, or 90% confidence interval.
Like, a question would be how many stairs are there in the Statue of Liberty? And my 50% interval would be 400-1000, and my 90% interval would be 200-5000.
Looking up the answer it was 354, and I would mark my 50% as wrong and my 90% as right.
From chapter 38, when Harry buys the Quibbler:
“Gosh,” Harry said half a minute later, “you get a seer smashed on six slugs of Scotch and she spills all sorts of secret stuff. I mean, who’d have thought that Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew were secretly the same person?”
EDIT: Then,
“And I’m secretly sixty-five years old.”
Which is also true, because of Voldemort inside him. Which leaves....
“And I’m betrothed to Hermione Granger, and Bellatrix Black, and Luna Lovegood, and oh yes, Draco Malfoy too...”
“In that extremity, I went into the Department of Mysteries and I invoked a password which had never been spoken in the history of the Line of Merlin Unbroken, did a thing forbidden and yet not utterly forbidden.”
So, this is the single change that makes this story an AU?
Hm, any particular reason, if Harry is already discussing other vulnerable info like having a transfigured Voldemort, he won’t fess up to the part where Quirrel was Voldemort and that he won single-handedly?
Harry’s upper hand relies on the idea that Dumbledore knew exactly what he was doing, and them that Dumbledore hired Voldemort to teach children for a year would undermine that.
Incidentally, my P(Dumbledore knew about Quirrelmort) just went way up this chapter.
The creature in the potterverse with the most absolute defense is the phoenix.
That would require getting a hold of and killing a Phoenix, which would be difficult even for Quirrel.
That is when Dumbledore realizes Harry is a “good” Tom Riddle. We don’t know when he realizes Harry is a horcrux.
EDIT: In fact, it’s almost certain that Dumbledore realizes that Harry is a horcrux before that scene, or at least suspects it. It doesn’t look like anything in that conversation in particular would make him realize that, and he clearly knows it by that point.
It was specifically said that every student and teacher individually signed the contract, so unless that’s a lie this is probably not what will happen.
In some years, when I had become bored with ruling Britain and moved on to other things, I would arrange with the other Tom Riddle that he should appear to vanquish me, and he would rule over the Britain he had saved.
This is precisely the plan that Quirrel originally planned for Harry, have him pretend to defeat LV and set him up to rule the country.
“you are the first person ever to succeed in doing it deliberately?”
Having Quirrell kill someone wouldn’t count as them cheering him up deliberately.
That definitely hints that part of the plan is to make use of Harrymort in some way, which makes the “why the hell did he bring Harry along” part make sense.
I’m not sure how serious this is, but if it were said aloud Harry would hear the difference between the two definitions of “tears,” and wouldn’t be worried about it if that were the case.
I have been pissed off for years at the existance of h-bar and h as separate constants, where almost everywhere h-bar should be the basic constant. IIRC, this is just because the first time either was derived, it happened to be h, so that got called the quantum mechanical constant.
I’ve had a permanent retainer in my bottom 4 teeth for about 5 years now. I recently started a habit of flossing, but it takes too much effort for me to use the official flosser for those. But, I recently started using the proxabrush every morning, which takes about 5 seconds per tooth and gets about 90% of the job done.
I’ve been doing it for 2 months almost every day now.
You can just say “non-binary people” or “agender people.” In any case, binary and non-binary are the types you are talking about.
Incidentally, are there separate words for ‘non gender identifying transgender’ and ‘trapped in the wrong body transgender’?
I think what you are going for is non-binary/agender trans people vs. binary trans people.
But, I’m not sure which distinction you’re talking about. There are people who fit the classic “trapped in the wrong body,” who have a clear idea of what body parts they would/wouldn’t like (which could be anything from having a penis and breasts to no genitalia at all). There are other people who are completely fine with their physical body but are uncomfortable with the idea of identifying with the gender they were assigned at birth.
If you’re talking about that distinction, then people in the second category don’t necessarily identify as agender or non-binary, and people in the first category don’t always identify as a binary gender.
Sure, that path seems possible as well.
I would say that since transgender people are much more depressed, presumably due to being trapped in the wrong body (which, as we both mentioned, doesn’t apply to all trans people) then GID is a mental illness because it causes depression and suffering.
Although some of the depression could be caused by that, it seems pretty likely that a large portion of it could also because by being treated by society as a gender they aren’t, as well as more targeted transphobia. GLB people also have much higher rates of depression, which is probably for that reason and not some third link.
Furthermore, I think we need to go back to diseased thinking about diseases. When we call something a mental illness, it’s because we are trying to treat it in some way, or alleviate the effects. This is not something we want to do with trans people, the effects that we’re talking about are all other mental illnesses that we do want to treat the symptoms of.
I’ve been using this benzol peroxide wash.
I am also a massive fan of Lyx.
I’m only an undergrad physics major, but I’m in 2 classes where I have to submit moderately high level reports, and I’m working on a thesis. And I’ve only ever had to use one special format, which also happened to be the default format.
So far, I’ve found documentation to be eh, but I haven’t had too many problems where that was an issue yet. The biggest problem is that my knowledge of LaTeX is sorely lacking because I’ve been using Lyx for everything!
Natural experiments: I’ve been trying a new acne wash for the past 6 months, and although I felt like it was working, I wasn’t sure. Then, the other day when I was applying it to my back, my partner noticed there was an area I wasn’t reaching. In fact, there was an entire line on my back where I wasn’t stretching enough to get the wash on. This line coincided exactly with a line of acne, while the rest of my back was clear.
Now I know the wash works for me.
Related: http://xkcd.com/700/
If I had to guess, Voldemort did something so Snape understands how Dumbledore manipulated him. Considering how pissed off Voldemort was that Dumbledore would do that, it seems likely that he would find a way to change that now that Dumbledore is gone.