Strange things are afoot
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Could have been worse:
https://lemmy.world/post/24169630
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.ml•Billionaire founder of fashion chain falls and dies while hiking in SpainEnglish6·5 months agoAh. They would never do anything good because they’re evil, and they’re evil because they would never do anything good. Logic so airtight not even the tiniest fact can penetrate.
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.ml•Billionaire founder of fashion chain falls and dies while hiking in SpainEnglish7·5 months ago2,300 different charities according to her website. You can see the whole list here: https://yieldgiving.com/gifts/
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.ml•Billionaire founder of fashion chain falls and dies while hiking in SpainEnglish3·5 months agoWell MacKenzie Scott has given away $17 billion of her ~$60 billion over 5 years, so she’s not terrible.
Actual title of the research paper is Elective co-parenting with someone already known versus someone met online: implications for parent and child psychological functioning.
It compares a small sample of two different co-parenting situations, and while it does conclude they are both within “normal range”, it certainly doesn’t make or justify the claim in the headline, which doesn’t even mention co-parenting.
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•President Biden commutes sentence for former Dixon, Ill. Comptroller Rita Crundwell, who embezzled over $53MEnglish13·6 months agoNone of these are pardons; they are commutations
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto Political Discussion and Commentary@lemmy.world•Looking for a way to fight the new administration? Follow the money!English8·6 months agoGoods Unite Us (https://www.goodsuniteus.com/app/)
They did mention the name, but doesn’t hurt to highlight it.
Disclaimer: This is not an endorsement. I know nothing about the app except that the poster above mentioned it.
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Senators Have a Chance to Halt Weapons Sales to Israel. Will They Take It?English6·6 months agoThis would also have to pass the House, which it would not. I agree with Bernie’s statement and respect his choice to put the resolution forth on principle. I do not respect the article author or commentors who are either ignorant of basic U.S. civics, or choosing to be deliberately deceptive in order to place blame solely on Democrats.
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Liz Cheney Was an Electoral Fiasco for Kamala HarrisEnglish17·7 months ago- The article argues campaigning with Liz Cheney seems to have no effect. Calling it an “electoral fiasco,” especially in the headline, clearly implies that it was detrimental in a significant way.
- The evidence that the rallies were ineffective is comparing Harris’s results against Biden’s. This is terrible analysis. This should be at least a difference-in-difference comparison (the difference in the change vs Biden, using similar counties that were/weren’t visited). Useful evidence that their analysis actually works would be applying it to strategies they think were positive, and showing the relative improvement there.
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Our Best Option for Defending Ourselves From Trump’s Second Term Is Each OtherEnglish4·7 months agoAn article about how we all need to come together opens with a salvo against all of their allies. Beyond parody
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Bar association presidents warn lawyers against frivolous election lawsuitsEnglish2·7 months agoAlso, he was suspended in July 2021, so the consequences were pretty quick, and only the final nail in the coffin was delayed.
Is this p-hacking?
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Even Fox News’s Bret Baier Admits Harris Outsmarted Him in InterviewEnglish2·8 months agoNah, that’s another cut up with very little of the interview
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Even Fox News’s Bret Baier Admits Harris Outsmarted Him in InterviewEnglish22·8 months agoHere is the full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80DaR2CVNNk
Yes, that is precisely what I was attempting to say. Thanks
The problem is there isn’t anything “useful” for understanding humans [in evolutionary psychology]. Yes we can come up with plausible evolutionary justifications for behavior like cooperation, but they are basically untestable and useless for predictions.
Edited to clarify I mean specifically evolutionary psychology.
RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•New fear unlockedEnglish17·9 months agoBased on what I know of Imposter Syndrome and the Dunning-Kruger effect, it seems you’re at your most competent when you feel like you’re at your least.
I’m not sure how you come to that conclusion, even with the internet meme version of the Dunning-Kruger effect. In the meme version, the incompetent think they are most competent, but I don’t think it follows that the most competent would think they are least competent.
I would summarize the actual Dunning-Kruger effect as: people tend to think they are a bit above average, and actual skill factors in only slightly. Worth emphasizing that these results are over groups of people, and individuals have extreme variation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
For more context, this is in part the result of a 2021 settlement with the state of Washington over them doing the opposite: https://www.npr.org/2021/09/27/1040968238/greyhound-warrantless-searches-lawsuit-settlement
The settlement only forces this behavior in Washington though, so good on Greyhound for deciding that it is the right policy everywhere.