My psych prof in college mentioned how a lot of studies use a pool of freshman psych students instead of real population cross sections. We had to volunteer for a certain number of tests to pass the course. I had one grad student bitch me out for throwing off his statistical spread by being too good at picking out words from jumbled letters. Certainly didn't raise my faith in studies to hear that.
Numfar! Do the dance of joy.
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Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Sep 01, 2013 4:21:34 pm PDT #4092 of 30000
brillig
Juliebird - Sep 01, 2013 4:45:32 pm PDT #4093 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I remember once before a pop quiz that my psych prof asked if we had any questions before we began. I raised my hand and asked what the answers were.
He gave them.
Unfortunately, the final answer was "caffeine" and my pavlovian response was to write "coffee" because it was an 8am class and I am not a morning person.
§ ita § - Sep 01, 2013 5:14:03 pm PDT #4094 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Burrell, well enough to go home is great on many levels. That's excellent.
My one psych class destroyed my image of the science (including as a science--I'm still recovering from that) by using broad brushes that didn't colour me.
I just realized that Philosophy had my favourite electives.
Juliebird - Sep 01, 2013 5:24:05 pm PDT #4095 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I had a philosophy prof who used to be a marine, and cleared the room by at least two thirds by giving a scary speech about kids looking for an easy elective. We got into lots of arguments. One day he was talking about unpredictable random things, and I was pissed at him for something (most likely me using an argument of his against him, one that he used often on us, that he then dismissed as unfounded).
So I got up and walked out.
He didn't count it as an absence.
After the class was over he wrote me a nice letter about how much he enjoyed our talks.
Connie Neil - Sep 01, 2013 5:33:36 pm PDT #4096 of 30000
brillig
So many teachers are just waiting for someone to yell back at them.
billytea - Sep 01, 2013 6:05:38 pm PDT #4097 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
So many teachers are just waiting for someone to yell back at them.
And yet, so few judges.
sarameg - Sep 01, 2013 6:10:10 pm PDT #4098 of 30000
Home. Unpacked. Trying to decompress so I can freaking get up early enough to swim tomorrow. I miss it. Also miss the Milky way and stars down to a visible horizon, but that's NM's effect for you.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 01, 2013 6:46:21 pm PDT #4099 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I'd have argued less with my professors if they were able to give me jail time for contempt of class.
billytea - Sep 01, 2013 6:54:52 pm PDT #4100 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I'd have argued less with my professors if they were able to give me jail time for contempt of class.
Funnily enough, even given that ability, I've spent more of my life arguing with judges than with professors.
sarameg - Sep 01, 2013 7:16:40 pm PDT #4101 of 30000
Ahahaha. Not even a month into the new mortgage, Fannie Mae bought it. (Last mortgage, it was Freddie Mac within a couple months.) Small fry mortgages. Also, almost caught up on my snail mail.
Pumpkin really missed me, she's been all over me. Loki is being a dork and either nipping my calves or hair...or ignoring me entirely.