Actually this research shows why age discrimination should be illegal, and the laws against it should actually be enforced. Therefore fwd.us will be spending lots of money to refute this research.
They forgot to add to their model known degradation
In other words they took a fresh look at it, rather than designing the studies so that they simply confirmed already known "facts". What kind of a way is that to do science? Next thing you know they'll be using some cockamamie notion of quantized EM energy to explain black body radiation, when we already know that's not the way it works.
makes me forget names of people even though I recognize their faces
I do the same thing constantly, forgetting people's names despite the fact that I not only remember their faces, but their voices, past interactions I've had with them, and sometimes half their life story. You could chalk it up to my age, but I used to do the same thing in my 20's.
Boo! Hiss! You're really not in the spirit of things. Us Yanks north of the Mason-Dixon line are saying that if Atlanta can't even handle a little snow, Sherman did them a favor by burning the place down.
Alfred Binet, when faced with this problem, validated his test by correlating it with school achievement.
In fact the only thing Binet was interested in was deciding what types of classes children should be put in. He specifically said that it wasn't a test of the various and numerous types of intelligence, and that it shouldn't be taken as such. It became perverted when some Americans in the eugenics movement latched onto it. Nowadays psychologists who seriously study intelligence laugh at the idea that the standard IQ tests are a serious measure of intelligence. You may have also heard that the eugenics movement is in somewhat ill repute.
Several African peoples are traditionally big herders, and rely heavily on dairy for their diets. Same with many in India. IIRC the current theory is that the lactose tolerance mutation occurred (and thrived) independently in several different places.
We no longer have crews as small as aircraft crews. Moreover, flights are short, where submarines go out to see for months - more the time scale of current space missions.
degree of specialisation/generalisation required
Most submariners have highly specialized positions on the sub, but are also cross-trained to do another job if necessary. Moreover they're all trained to do important safety tasks like fighting leaks and fires, and for escape procedures.
Use the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) principle - don't send people. Never send a person to do a robot's job.
I hate to say this, because I grew up with the excitement of the Apollo program (you may have heard of it in your ancient history classes), but robots, or whatever you want to call unmanned probes or satellites, have done almost all of the scientific and practical work in space, and for a fraction of the cost of manned stuff. It's hard to think of a justification for manned space travel other than the Buck Rogers publicity or the science fiction notions of humanity surviving on another planet after some catastrophic event on earth. The former is silly - that's why we have sci-fi. As for the latter, anyplace on earth, including the South Pole or deep mine shafts, is a much more benign environment than space. We, or at least a few of us, could survive something like a nuclear war or the event that killed the dinosaurs, much more easily on Earth than on the moon or Mars. We have to prevent a mine shaft gap! (and the prodigious service part doesn't sound so bad either).
But at least farms serve a purpose. Undoubtedly we should reduce fertilizer usage on farms (there are ways to do it without affecting yield) but it should be banned altogether on golf courses, and seriously limited on lawns. What is it with golfers and pretty green fairways anyhow? The original Scots golfers would have laughed at them, and pointed out that if you need such manicured fairways you just don't know how to play.
Depends, places with older systems (e.g. NYC) have combined storm and sanitary sewers. The problem isn't excrement in the streets, but that sustained heavy rains overload the sewage treatment. In practice some nasty stuff gets dumped into waters around NYC when that happens.
New Zealand's incredibly innovative and creative economy has allowed their populace to experience the highest living standard the World has ever known, followed by Finland's.
No, in GDP/capita (PPP) Finland is ranked 37th and NZ is 48. The US is 13. Finland and NZ are also ranked lower than Norway, Switzerland, Austria, Canada, Australia, Netherlands, Ireland, Sweden, Iceland, Germany, Taiwan, Belgium, Denmark, UK and Japan. Source: https://www.cia.gov/library/pu...
NZ and/or Finland may be wonderful places to live, because they're both more than wealthy enough to more than provide for people's basic needs, and I think there's a lot more to quality of life than standard of living (a phrase which in practice means material prosperity). Regardless, your claim is wrong.
The carton that a refrigerator comes in is ideal. Whenever somebody's parents got a new refrigerator, the cast off box was a treasure to us. Cartons for washers, dryers etc. were good, but came in second.
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Actually this research shows why age discrimination should be illegal, and the laws against it should actually be enforced. Therefore fwd.us will be spending lots of money to refute this research.
English teaches fad and fashion.
If English is so useless, why are you writing in it?
They forgot to add to their model known degradation
In other words they took a fresh look at it, rather than designing the studies so that they simply confirmed already known "facts". What kind of a way is that to do science? Next thing you know they'll be using some cockamamie notion of quantized EM energy to explain black body radiation, when we already know that's not the way it works.
makes me forget names of people even though I recognize their faces
I do the same thing constantly, forgetting people's names despite the fact that I not only remember their faces, but their voices, past interactions I've had with them, and sometimes half their life story. You could chalk it up to my age, but I used to do the same thing in my 20's.
And there's a word for people like you: humorless. Sheesh, I'm past the half century mark and I thought it was funny.
Being a Canadian ... Don't be so hard on Atlanta
Boo! Hiss! You're really not in the spirit of things. Us Yanks north of the Mason-Dixon line are saying that if Atlanta can't even handle a little snow, Sherman did them a favor by burning the place down.
No snow? So what. Male bovine manure is even more slippery.
What part of Russia? It's a big place. Over how long of a period did the six feet fall? It makes a big difference.
Alfred Binet, when faced with this problem, validated his test by correlating it with school achievement.
In fact the only thing Binet was interested in was deciding what types of classes children should be put in. He specifically said that it wasn't a test of the various and numerous types of intelligence, and that it shouldn't be taken as such. It became perverted when some Americans in the eugenics movement latched onto it. Nowadays psychologists who seriously study intelligence laugh at the idea that the standard IQ tests are a serious measure of intelligence. You may have also heard that the eugenics movement is in somewhat ill repute.
Neanderthal brains were big if not bigger ... so they were potentially pretty smart. However, they may have been relatively anti-social.
Now I know who programmers and engineers descended from.
That would make some sense if the suicide rate was around 50%. Thankfully it's much lower.
Several African peoples are traditionally big herders, and rely heavily on dairy for their diets. Same with many in India. IIRC the current theory is that the lactose tolerance mutation occurred (and thrived) independently in several different places.
I've always found the neanderthal theory of autism interesting.
Never heard of it. Do you have more info?
Crew sizes, in terms of the social dynamic
We no longer have crews as small as aircraft crews. Moreover, flights are short, where submarines go out to see for months - more the time scale of current space missions.
degree of specialisation/generalisation required
Most submariners have highly specialized positions on the sub, but are also cross-trained to do another job if necessary. Moreover they're all trained to do important safety tasks like fighting leaks and fires, and for escape procedures.
Use the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) principle - don't send people. Never send a person to do a robot's job.
I hate to say this, because I grew up with the excitement of the Apollo program (you may have heard of it in your ancient history classes), but robots, or whatever you want to call unmanned probes or satellites, have done almost all of the scientific and practical work in space, and for a fraction of the cost of manned stuff. It's hard to think of a justification for manned space travel other than the Buck Rogers publicity or the science fiction notions of humanity surviving on another planet after some catastrophic event on earth. The former is silly - that's why we have sci-fi. As for the latter, anyplace on earth, including the South Pole or deep mine shafts, is a much more benign environment than space. We, or at least a few of us, could survive something like a nuclear war or the event that killed the dinosaurs, much more easily on Earth than on the moon or Mars. We have to prevent a mine shaft gap! (and the prodigious service part doesn't sound so bad either).
1300 miles and you're in Oz. Nice place, but still Oz. BTW, where's Sidney?
But at least farms serve a purpose. Undoubtedly we should reduce fertilizer usage on farms (there are ways to do it without affecting yield) but it should be banned altogether on golf courses, and seriously limited on lawns. What is it with golfers and pretty green fairways anyhow? The original Scots golfers would have laughed at them, and pointed out that if you need such manicured fairways you just don't know how to play.
Depends, places with older systems (e.g. NYC) have combined storm and sanitary sewers. The problem isn't excrement in the streets, but that sustained heavy rains overload the sewage treatment. In practice some nasty stuff gets dumped into waters around NYC when that happens.
The Southern Alps are beautiful, and some guys seem to have a special fondness for sheep.
NZ is so far from any place else that that's not surprising. Australians sometimes call their country Oz, but I've no idea what NZ'ers could use.
New Zealand's incredibly innovative and creative economy has allowed their populace to experience the highest living standard the World has ever known, followed by Finland's.
No, in GDP/capita (PPP) Finland is ranked 37th and NZ is 48. The US is 13. Finland and NZ are also ranked lower than Norway, Switzerland, Austria, Canada, Australia, Netherlands, Ireland, Sweden, Iceland, Germany, Taiwan, Belgium, Denmark, UK and Japan. Source: https://www.cia.gov/library/pu...
NZ and/or Finland may be wonderful places to live, because they're both more than wealthy enough to more than provide for people's basic needs, and I think there's a lot more to quality of life than standard of living (a phrase which in practice means material prosperity). Regardless, your claim is wrong.
The carton that a refrigerator comes in is ideal. Whenever somebody's parents got a new refrigerator, the cast off box was a treasure to us. Cartons for washers, dryers etc. were good, but came in second.
Why is he unkempt?
No more unkempt than a Unix programmer of yore. I wonder if he wore sandals with socks?
The way I see it is that the Vietnamese immigrants had a rougher start, but they are working hard to catch up. Give them time.
I agree that that's the likely explanation. I only mentioned the Vietnamese to debunk the "cultural superiority" notion.
P.S. I love stuffed squid, but admit that I prefer the Americanized version that has more squid than chili peppers.
+5!