I think the idea that scepticism comes from humanities rather than science is a joke, and shows a complete misunderstanding of falsifiability and Karl Popper's work on the philosophy of science.
You are aware that Popper was a professor at a humanist department, right? That whole "philosophy of science" thing could have been a hint...
Scientists should take courses on Rational Thinking.
That's what the OP said. "Rational Thinking" usually gets taught in a course called logics, which is a subdomain of philosophy, to be found in *drumroll* the humanities department.
Humanist misunderstands what Science and the Scientific method are
Amusingly, the Humanities are the realm where Science and the Scientific method have been invented, where the shortcomings of positivism where highlighted and critical rationalism (="you can't prove a scientific model, only falsify it") got created to solve that problem. Guess you should have taken one of those courses;)
I'll do you better than that: an interactive tool which shows the data [philanthropy.com]. There's a link on that page detailing how the data was compiled. (Note that IRS data only includes people earning over $50,000 a year.)
... which handily debunks your own claims. GP said: "And proselytizing expenditures and church heating bills don't count." - while your source lumps them together with real charity:
Religion has a big influence on giving patterns. Regions of the country that are deeply religious are more generous than those that are not. Two of the top nine statesâ"Utah and Idahoâ"have high numbers of Mormon residents, who have a tradition of tithing at least 10 percent of their income to the church. The remaining states in the top nine are all in the Bible Belt.
When religious giving isn't counted, the geography of giving is very different. Some states in the Northeast jump into the top 10 when secular gifts alone are counted. New York would vault from No. 18 to No. 2, and Pennsylvania would climb from No. 40 to No. 4.
They can buy a used Thinkpad X series. Way more powerful, stellar build quality in comparison to a netbook, same price point, same weight. And even a used device will last longer than a new netbook.
The second is that you have proposed no measurable way to determine if the students have learned anything. Standardized tests are bad, in the same way democracies are bad. There just hasn't been any better way demonstrated. I'd love to ditch the stress of standardized testing. However, I've got nothing else to measure, in any objective way, student learning. Essays? Standardized tests that measure vocabulary (parental income) and attention span. Orals? Not at all objective. Give me something to use.
Please be aware that this is mostly a US-only problem and has been solved better in other education systems. The solution is pretty simple: Measure individual learning progress, not knowledge relative to other classmates.
Example:
Suppose we have two kids entering school, the class has a really passionate and able teacher. Their performance (let's say their reading ability) gets measured. The average in the class is 100%.
Now, the low income kid really only starts with a performance level of say 50%, while the high income kid already has 150%.
Now a year later the class gets grades on their reading performance. 100% is rated F, because relative to the average on day one it means zero progress. 150% means grade A, a big improvement compared to day one.
The low income kid really learned hard, the passionate teacher gave special training to the kid etc. The kid managed a phenomenal progress up to 100%, 50% increase!. The teacher in the current US system: "Awesome! But still Grade F, sorry.". The high income kid gets a A without needing to do anything.
The end result: _Both_ loose their motivation to do anything in school.
The idea of trickle down economics is that "the theory that economic benefits to particular groups will inevitably be passed on to those less well off" (source.) You really don't think this somehow relates to the wage level?
What in the hell does wage development have to do with trickle down economics?
Well, quite a bit? The definiton according to the wikipedia article is: "Trickle-down, adj., of or based on the theory that economic benefits to particular groups will inevitably be passed on to those less well off...; orig. and chiefly U.S."
Yes, the unemployment rate also fits into that category. So, let's look at the unemployment rate development in other countries in that timespan (I just looked up three):
Canada: same curve.
Sweden: same curve.
Australia: same curve.
I could not find a nice graph for germany and france.
Conclusion: trickle down did not measurably effect the unemployment rate. So I guessed you meant the wages when you said it had positive effects on the poorer parts of the population.
And yes, trickle down did work until we regulated industry out of the US and people had to choose asking if you want fries with that as a career path.
Nope, trickle down never actually worked. Have a look at the real wage development visualized in the diagram in the criticsm section of the wikipedia article.
why did you call it 'climate change', by the way? The climate is ALWAYS changing
As has been stated before: "climate change" was a spin introduced by Frank Luntz (a Republican "political consultant"), to make global warming sound nicer.
you must never open word documents with embedded graphics or excel workbooks with scripts/coding or general mathematical calculations (in multiple languages where the "," versus "."
Serious companies are aware of vendor lock-in and prefer to implement mission-critical calculations in a vendor agnostic way. Do the scripting in something like python, R or whatever suits you, drop the results in a database, and use excel to access that database. It's easier to maintain, simplifies version control and is vendor agnostic.
(The whole topic also highly depends on your commercial niche, the country, your customers etc. Personally I rarely get MS documents at all (only from universities sometimes), it's mostly Open Office anyway.)
It's flat (in 2004 standards), rectangular, with uniformly rounded corners, with bezels of about equal width, with the front completely made of hardened glass. There even is a HP Logo on the same place where the button on the ipad is (admittedly with a different function, but visually quite similar). I own one of those. They really look similar.
I can only see two differences: The color of the bezel and the absence of those leds.
6 years later, Apple somehow "invents" that design. It's magic!
This is what people are upset about. Either Apple _really_ innovates, then ok, fine, let them have that design patent and sue all the copycats. Or Apple has to accept the fact that tablets with a glass front all look similar (which is what they did, they basically went with the tc1000 and made the bezel black!). You can't have both.
How can you attack something that isn't falsifiable? If the temperature drops it stops being called global warming and is called climate change instead.
Nope, "climate change" was a spin introduced by Frank Luntz (a Republican "political consultant"), to make global warming sound nicer.
Exactly. Anarchism subsumes a pretty wide political spectrum [1]. For those inclined to read more: John Zerzan's assay Future Primitive appears to me as the most widely cited publication. Wikipedia also has a nice introduction in the article anarcho-primitivism.
[1] = Still personally I would not include primitivism, simply because they archive the stateless society by abolishing society as a whole. With that reasoning killing the whole population is anarchist, too, because without population there is no society and therefore no state...
If by bone loss you mean osteoporosis, then there are a few additional factors:
- genetics seem to play a role
- higher intake of phosphor than calcium
- lack of exercise (push ups and the like, stuff that stimulates muscle growth)
If your point of China and India lacking this problem is true, than I would assume the culprit is the lack of exercise as the jobs move from physically demanding things farming etc. to cubicle and assembly line jobs (which of course still is demanding, but in a different sense).
Yes, third... right after the US, China, and Japan... and maybe India.
The GDP does not measure wealth, but income. Sure, China and maybe India have a higher GDP for 2 years now IIRC, but they are still quite poor in comparison, i.e. the amount of stuff _saved_ over the years is still much lower.
The amount of wealth per capita available right now is probably more important for a decision from Google than potential wealth in 15 or 20 years.
AFAIK the problem mostly isn't the size of the jaw but the position of the teeth: They more often than not come out diagonally, and thus pushing out the other teeth while growing. You can see that under x rays while they are still completely inside the jaw bone.
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I think the idea that scepticism comes from humanities rather than science is a joke, and shows a complete misunderstanding of falsifiability and Karl Popper's work on the philosophy of science.
You are aware that Popper was a professor at a humanist department, right? That whole "philosophy of science" thing could have been a hint...
Scientists should take courses on Rational Thinking.
That's what the OP said. "Rational Thinking" usually gets taught in a course called logics, which is a subdomain of philosophy, to be found in *drumroll* the humanities department.
Humanist misunderstands what Science and the Scientific method are
Amusingly, the Humanities are the realm where Science and the Scientific method have been invented, where the shortcomings of positivism where highlighted and critical rationalism (="you can't prove a scientific model, only falsify it") got created to solve that problem. Guess you should have taken one of those courses ;)
I'll do you better than that: an interactive tool which shows the data [philanthropy.com]. There's a link on that page detailing how the data was compiled. (Note that IRS data only includes people earning over $50,000 a year.)
... which handily debunks your own claims. GP said: "And proselytizing expenditures and church heating bills don't count." - while your source lumps them together with real charity:
Religion has a big influence on giving patterns. Regions of the country that are deeply religious are more generous than those that are not. Two of the top nine statesâ"Utah and Idahoâ"have high numbers of Mormon residents, who have a tradition of tithing at least 10 percent of their income to the church. The remaining states in the top nine are all in the Bible Belt.
When religious giving isn't counted, the geography of giving is very different. Some states in the Northeast jump into the top 10 when secular gifts alone are counted. New York would vault from No. 18 to No. 2, and Pennsylvania would climb from No. 40 to No. 4.
(emph. mine, source.)
TL;DR: atheists give to charity, christs give to the church.
Correct. For instance, the Nazis actually did great things for Germany's economy and national pride.
Except they didn't do great things for Germany's economy. Neither in workers wages nor in GDP.
They can buy a used Thinkpad X series. Way more powerful, stellar build quality in comparison to a netbook, same price point, same weight. And even a used device will last longer than a new netbook.
It's often still cheaper even if you throw the original components away.
The second is that you have proposed no measurable way to determine if the students have learned anything. Standardized tests are bad, in the same way democracies are bad. There just hasn't been any better way demonstrated. I'd love to ditch the stress of standardized testing. However, I've got nothing else to measure, in any objective way, student learning. Essays? Standardized tests that measure vocabulary (parental income) and attention span. Orals? Not at all objective. Give me something to use.
Please be aware that this is mostly a US-only problem and has been solved better in other education systems. The solution is pretty simple: Measure individual learning progress, not knowledge relative to other classmates.
Example:
Suppose we have two kids entering school, the class has a really passionate and able teacher. Their performance (let's say their reading ability) gets measured. The average in the class is 100%. Now, the low income kid really only starts with a performance level of say 50%, while the high income kid already has 150%.
Now a year later the class gets grades on their reading performance. 100% is rated F, because relative to the average on day one it means zero progress. 150% means grade A, a big improvement compared to day one.
The low income kid really learned hard, the passionate teacher gave special training to the kid etc. The kid managed a phenomenal progress up to 100%, 50% increase!. The teacher in the current US system: "Awesome! But still Grade F, sorry.". The high income kid gets a A without needing to do anything.
The end result: _Both_ loose their motivation to do anything in school.
I'm not sure I see wages in that wikipedia quote.
So, what other metrics do you see reflected in that quote?
Also, I sure as hell do not understand why you are bringing up 2012 unemployment rates.
You can adjust all linked graphs to show the curves starting in 1980, look above the chart.
but you do realize that the countries you picked also lowered corporate taxes to
Nope, I included Sweden on purpose. Sweden is socialist in the U.S. definition of the word, and that reflects in their corporate taxes.
The idea of trickle down economics is that "the theory that economic benefits to particular groups will inevitably be passed on to those less well off" (source.) You really don't think this somehow relates to the wage level?
What in the hell does wage development have to do with trickle down economics?
Well, quite a bit? The definiton according to the wikipedia article is: "Trickle-down, adj., of or based on the theory that economic benefits to particular groups will inevitably be passed on to those less well off...; orig. and chiefly U.S."
Yes, the unemployment rate also fits into that category. So, let's look at the unemployment rate development in other countries in that timespan (I just looked up three):
Canada: same curve.
Sweden: same curve.
Australia: same curve.
I could not find a nice graph for germany and france.
Conclusion: trickle down did not measurably effect the unemployment rate. So I guessed you meant the wages when you said it had positive effects on the poorer parts of the population.
And yes, trickle down did work until we regulated industry out of the US and people had to choose asking if you want fries with that as a career path.
Nope, trickle down never actually worked. Have a look at the real wage development visualized in the diagram in the criticsm section of the wikipedia article.
Oh yes, that's interesting. Gonna research that a bit. Thank you!
why did you call it 'climate change', by the way? The climate is ALWAYS changing
As has been stated before: "climate change" was a spin introduced by Frank Luntz (a Republican "political consultant"), to make global warming sound nicer.
you must never open word documents with embedded graphics or excel workbooks with scripts/coding or general mathematical calculations (in multiple languages where the "," versus "."
Serious companies are aware of vendor lock-in and prefer to implement mission-critical calculations in a vendor agnostic way. Do the scripting in something like python, R or whatever suits you, drop the results in a database, and use excel to access that database. It's easier to maintain, simplifies version control and is vendor agnostic.
(The whole topic also highly depends on your commercial niche, the country, your customers etc. Personally I rarely get MS documents at all (only from universities sometimes), it's mostly Open Office anyway.)
they didnt used to be before the ipad. nor were the phones.
This is what a tablet looked like in 2004: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TC1100-1.JPG
It's flat (in 2004 standards), rectangular, with uniformly rounded corners, with bezels of about equal width, with the front completely made of hardened glass. There even is a HP Logo on the same place where the button on the ipad is (admittedly with a different function, but visually quite similar). I own one of those. They really look similar.
I can only see two differences: The color of the bezel and the absence of those leds.
6 years later, Apple somehow "invents" that design. It's magic!
This is what people are upset about. Either Apple _really_ innovates, then ok, fine, let them have that design patent and sue all the copycats. Or Apple has to accept the fact that tablets with a glass front all look similar (which is what they did, they basically went with the tc1000 and made the bezel black!). You can't have both.
How can you attack something that isn't falsifiable? If the temperature drops it stops being called global warming and is called climate change instead.
Nope, "climate change" was a spin introduced by Frank Luntz (a Republican "political consultant"), to make global warming sound nicer.
Exactly. Anarchism subsumes a pretty wide political spectrum [1]. For those inclined to read more: John Zerzan's assay Future Primitive appears to me as the most widely cited publication. Wikipedia also has a nice introduction in the article anarcho-primitivism.
[1] = Still personally I would not include primitivism, simply because they archive the stateless society by abolishing society as a whole. With that reasoning killing the whole population is anarchist, too, because without population there is no society and therefore no state...
find this astronaut, cosmonaut and taikonaut so embarrassing for fuck sake. It's the same fucking thing.
Me too. So let's call all of them cosmonauts from now on, as that notation clearly was the first in use (applied to Juri Gagarin).
If your point of China and India lacking this problem is true, than I would assume the culprit is the lack of exercise as the jobs move from physically demanding things farming etc. to cubicle and assembly line jobs (which of course still is demanding, but in a different sense).
I take your population density argument and give you norway: 80mbit for about 60 Euros a month :)
(Norway has one third of the population density of the US).
System On a Chip - the embedded equivalent of cpu, gpu, nortbridge, southbridge etc. combined in one package.
Yes, third... right after the US, China, and Japan... and maybe India.
The GDP does not measure wealth, but income. Sure, China and maybe India have a higher GDP for 2 years now IIRC, but they are still quite poor in comparison, i.e. the amount of stuff _saved_ over the years is still much lower.
The amount of wealth per capita available right now is probably more important for a decision from Google than potential wealth in 15 or 20 years.
Germany is only 80M ppl.
Germany is the third richest country in the world.
AFAIK the problem mostly isn't the size of the jaw but the position of the teeth: They more often than not come out diagonally, and thus pushing out the other teeth while growing. You can see that under x rays while they are still completely inside the jaw bone.