The question was about the largest bone, not the longest bone.
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Took the survey.
This sort of testimony strikes me as weak evidence. If you’ve just failed to kill yourself and don’t want to be committed, or have been committed but want to be let out soon, this is exactly what you’d say regardless of truth.
It bothers me that this fact is usually interpreted to mean that suicides are the result of poor judgment or a disconnect with reality. Mental illness is a common cause of genuine severe suffering.
The standard on psych studies seems to be “Level of education: (1) Some high school (2) High school graduate (3) Some college (4) College graduate (5) Some post-graduate (6) Graduate degree.” This is pretty simple and does not warrant more than one question.
My view is similar to yours, but with the following addition:
I have actual obligations to my friends and family, and I care about them quite a bit. I also care to a lesser extent about the city and region that I live in. If I act as though I instead have overriding obligations to the third world, then I risk being unable to satisfy my more basic obligations. To me, if for instance I spend my surplus income on mosquito nets instead of saving it and then have some personal disaster that my friends and family help bail me out of (because they also have obligations to me), I’ve effectively stolen their money and spent it on something they wouldn’t have chosen to spend it on. While I clearly have some leeway in these obligations and get to do some things other than save, charity falls into the same category as dinner out: I spend resources on it occasionally and enjoy or feel good about doing so, but it has to be kept strictly in check.
Usually the proper fix for a leaking faucet is substantially more conservative than replacing the whole assembly.
Yeah, I was pissed off and stated things a little too strongly. But having your every achievement constantly doubted and assumed less meaningful than the same achievement from a man really is corrosive, and I would say also makes it hard to be productive and encourages the “keep your head down” mentality that fubarobscuro mentioned.
That’s logically inconsistent — downvoting means something doesn’t belong on the site, not that you disagree with it
I don’t think this follows. If a comment contains a glaring logical fallacy, I could consistently both downvote it and point out the flaw in the argument. Not claiming that’s what’s happening here, though.
Huh. Two downvotes on this, fair enough. But I’ve also gotten another 9 downvotes for old unrelated comments in the very short time since I posted this. Smells fishy.
Looking at this comment section… wow. Yes, regularly encountering people who behave like Azathoth at work would be a level of (not really micro) aggression that could easily drive me out of a company, and I consider myself to have a pretty thick skin. Seems like there’s no level of achievement a woman could reach that he’d see as strong evidence of competence. Doesn’t matter if she has a physics degree from Caltech, no, her professors probably just passed her out of sympathy. Doesn’t matter if she’s written good code in the past, no, her references must all be assumed to be lying for mysterious reasons.
Hypothesis: Azathoth and people with the same attitude encounter few competent women at work because if said women can get a job somewhere else, where they won’t be constantly assumed less competent than their achievements demonstrate, they do so.
The bit about quotas increasing the quality of the female applicant pool to the point where they don’t even need to be used is counterintuitive and interesting. Myself, I’ve always avoided any college/company/etc I thought might have a quota because I want there to be no shadow of a doubt that I’ve earned what I have, but I’m aware I’m far from being a representative woman.
Failing to find an actual paper that does more than mention in passing that they-re not shown effective—it just gets treated as common knowledge. Wikipedia’s condom article references “Boston Women’s Health Book Collective (2005). Our Bodies, Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era. New York, NY: Touchstone. p. 333. ISBN 0-7432-5611-5.”
Here’s a nifty visualization of the scales involved: Cell Size and Scale
I’ve found something like this useful, especially at work, but hard to calibrate. “What would a more less shy kalium do? Tell the CTO that he’s wrong, because he’s wrong.” Sometimes this is a good idea, but sometimes it’s not. “What would an optimally shy kalium do?” is not so easy to predict.
It’s not that easy to convert marginal labor into money. Getting a second job is a high transaction cost, and alternatives like online surveys don’t pay well. I just don’t buy this type of argument except for certain very far from universal situations, e.g. hourly workers who have some leeway to set their own schedules.
No, a sperm cell is very substantially larger than a virus particle. Lambskin condoms have not been shown to be effective at blocking virus transmission.
These people suffer from increased food preparation costs that make $3/meal cheap by comparison.
I don’t think it’s correct to describe these mental costs in dollar terms. It’s more convenient, sure, but that’s not the same thing as cheaper. But yeah, now that I think of it cereal is probably $0.50/meal (skip the milk, goes bad too fast) but you don’t want that more than once a day, and it’s reasonably plausible that it would be hard to get two decently proteiny frozen meals for under $8.50 if grocery store selection is poor in your area.
I don’t understand all these people saying that $3 a meal is cheap. Maybe their alternative is going out to a restaurant?
Healthier is pretty hand-wavy. It’s got pretty much no protein, which makes it not a great meal substitute for some people. That said, it was tastier than I’d have expected. Butter tea is a similar drink that’s also surprisingly tasty, but easier to augment with spices if you don’t like the base flavor.
Also… that guy came to speak at the company I work at, and uttered an incredible variety of nonsense. (Mentioned in passing that kale causes autism, said that you have to buy his special coffee beans because the headache you get after the coffee wears off is not caffeine withdrawal but mold poisoning and his beans are the only non-moldy ones on the market.) Kind of put me off the whole concept.
Thanks to its multiple infection sites, herpes has the unusual property that two people, neither of whom have an STI, can have sex that leads to one of them having an STI. It’s a spontaneous creation of stigma! And if you have an asymptomatic infection (very common), there’s no way to know whether it’s oral (non-stigmatized, not an STI) or genital (stigmatized, STI) since the major strains are only moderately selective.
I used to believe that almost nobody was really interested in anything. This was because (a) I had never been really interested in anything and (b) “Passion” was a mandatory signal, required for getting into college. When I saw people who appeared to be genuinedly interested in things (sports, music, running the school newspaper, building robots, whatever), I assumed they were just better than me at sending the required signals. When I got to college and saw people who continued to appear interested in these things, even though extracurriculars were no longer valuable, I realized I had been wrong.