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- Comment on "Does Hitler have a right to privacy?" and other big questions in research ethics. 10 hours ago:
A niece or nephew isn't a direct descendant
- Comment on Is it normal to feel intense fear when in the presense of any sort of yelling / loud arguments? 1 day ago:
I'm not sure i understand the cough thing, is it because that's what they would do as their biggest sign of upsetness?
- Comment on Is it normal to feel intense fear when in the presense of any sort of yelling / loud arguments? 1 day ago:
For me it depends on the type of yelling. If it looks like anyone might be in danger then I'm super activated, or if it's an adult yelling at a kid then I'm very upset, but if it's something like a boyfriend and girlfriend arguing about something juicy then I'm like oooo!
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 2 days ago:
Tell me you didn't read the post before commenting without telling me
- Comment on Maybe there's seagulls, maybe they're just crazy 3 days ago:
But that's exactly what i explained above. It's not that also using women's voices would've been harder, it's that doing so would've been a worse study design, as explained in my initial comment and in the quote from the paper that you copied here.
A good study narrows down factors to as few as possible.
- Comment on Maybe there's seagulls, maybe they're just crazy 3 days ago:
When designing a study researchers limit the method to include only the factors that they think are most likely to find a signal out of the noise, and if a positive result is found then they will do further studies to test additional factors. The factors chosen to include or exclude are by necessity based on previous research results or assumptions based on available evidence.
So i would guess that when the researchers were designing this study they chose to only include male voices because of previous research or assumptions that seagulls would've had more experiences of hostility from human men than women, or maybe based on males of most species generally being the more aggressive of the sexes, or something else like that.
If you read the study paper itself (which i haven't done) i would bet they explain their exact reasoning
- Comment on Parents App'rule'ved 1 week ago:
Pubs, amusement parks, sports events, music shows, museums, operas, theater plays, etc etc etc. it's very common for something to be kid friendly and also serve alcohol
- Comment on Y'all seem to have lost track of the correct response to people crying about dead baddies 1 week ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Y'all seem to have lost track of the correct response to people crying about dead baddies 1 week ago:
That's not a new event
- Comment on Y'all seem to have lost track of the correct response to people crying about dead baddies 2 weeks ago:
Did something happen that i missed? I'm on a serious news diet
- Comment on Space is beautiful 2 weeks ago:
it's far easier to just look at recorded images or videos.
You're missing the idea of why this is cool. Recorded images only go back a couple hundred years
- Comment on Space is beautiful 2 weeks ago:
He didn't curse in that line. In fact he didn't curse much generally. I don't have any objection to curse words, it just doesn't sound like his voice when you add curse words in.
Fuck shit ass titties. I just had to get that out after talking about not cursing
- Comment on Space is beautiful 2 weeks ago:
That's why we need to find a natural mirror somewhere already out there, so we can see into our past. Something like a planet made of pure mercury, or an arrangement of blackholes doing gravitational lensing that bends our light back to us, or whatever
- Comment on Everytime 2 weeks ago:
Deutschland, obviously
- Comment on They're calling again. 3 weeks ago:
No, you really don't
- Comment on When the webpage doesn't want you opening new tabs 3 weeks ago:
Is there a way to do this in mobile browsers?
- Comment on When the webpage doesn't want you opening new tabs 3 weeks ago:
They block the contextual menu > open link in new tab
- Comment on When the webpage doesn't want you opening new tabs 3 weeks ago:
Some webpages block that feature
- Comment on Does it get windy in New York City? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Helpful guide 3 weeks ago:
From what i find on a quick websearch, it seems that neutron stars aren't stars. I don't really know anything about that topic
- Comment on Helpful guide 3 weeks ago:
Again, you're not wrong, but that's not the topic of the thread you're replying on
- Comment on Helpful guide 3 weeks ago:
The comment thread you're replying to is talking about the actual size of the celestial bodies
- Comment on Helpful guide 3 weeks ago:
Incorrect. The smallest known star is 7 times larger than earth
- Comment on Helpful guide 3 weeks ago:
All stars are significantly bigger than earth
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/116663-smallest-known-star
- Comment on Is it possible to be a leftist, but still really enjoy capitalism? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, the end result of unregulated capitalism is always power getting concentrated into a handful of individuals while the rest of the planet's billions of people are effectively in poverty and powerless
- Comment on Fucking math... 3 weeks ago:
Huh? It's not "close enough", it's exactly accurate. 4% of 75 is 3 exactly. I don't know where the rest of what you wrote comes from. This post is about pure arithmetic
- Comment on Is it possible to be a leftist, but still really enjoy capitalism? 3 weeks ago:
true capitalism results in economic singularities and infinite wealth for everyone.
No it doesn't. I have no idea where you came up with that thought, but it's totally incorrect. And that's the entire fundamental basis of your concept, so everything else is incorrect too
So your opinion is even wrong, because it's an opinion about a false concept
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 4 weeks ago:
At a bare minimum it has to be related to a tool or functionality of a tool. So you could stretch the definition to things on a stream, but not to a convention of celebrities
- Comment on Dead Cells 2 doesn't exist because its devs would rather make what they want than listen to external pressures 4 weeks ago:
I don't see how this is clickbait, the title doesn't have a missing noun or say anything inflammatory
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 4 weeks ago:
As a mod obviously you're the one that gets to decide for this community. This is obviously not technology, but whatever, you get to do what you want here