"repetitively switching tasks lowers performance and productivity"
And it's easy to convince yourself (and hopefully, signal to your boss) that you're more "effective" - certainly more busy. After all, the only things that count are appearances and perception, right?
More and more innocuous things are being redefined as 'hate' and 'violence' by people with mental problems and serious personality disorders in order to advance their political agendas and desire for power over others. This will end well...
Great post. Oddly, none of the ridiculous events you mention have sunk this fraud / delusion / scandal yet, let alone all of them combined. It shows the power of having effectively unlimited funding (thanks, taxpayers!) PR management and a compliant media.
For how long have we had relatively accurate temperature measurement? Anything before that is proxy. And "hottest" by how much - tenths of a degree while we emerge from an ice age? After data-fiddling from selected sources? CO2 output up over the past 20 years and temperatures are stable. Game over, now let's stop throwing money away on this taxpayer-funded hysteria.
Well, they do willfully ignore any and all evidence that contradicts their hypothesis. And there's too much (taxpayer) money, virtue-signalling and too many opportunities for false moral superiority personal attacks to let go. Some people get a kick out of abusing others and if you can do it with government support, all the better!
Design and drafting used to be considered a highly skilled job. Now, almost all the entry-level tasks have been automated. Many fewer drafters are now employed and people new to the field move straight into higher level tasks (that are now easier to do because of software) without having had the years of experience, training and exposure to the engineering culture that once was needed. Knowledge and skill are built into the software now.
Knowledge, skill and experience are being built into software to a much greater extent now, so there will be many fewer knowledge workers. We see that in the engineering world and there are hardly any entry-level tasks remaining that have not been automated. So we end up with expensive, older workers being replaced by software operated by relatively inexperienced people performing fairly high level work.
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Positional good reinforces poor existing self-image, news at 11.
But the good news is that you can do all these things MUCH FASTER!
"repetitively switching tasks lowers performance and productivity"
And it's easy to convince yourself (and hopefully, signal to your boss) that you're more "effective" - certainly more busy. After all, the only things that count are appearances and perception, right?
Yes, I've noticed this too. I've often wondered if some CC is done by machine or just illiterates.
"even when the human transcript is double-checked by a second human for accuracy"
Everything depends on how dumb the transcriber and/or checker is.
There are a lot of activists masquerading as journalists these days. While the public's opinion of "journalists" is at an all-time low. No surprise.
See subject line.
"The headline and summary makes it sound like it is a large effect. It's not."
You just summarized the entire Climate Change / Global Warming hysteria debacle.
More and more innocuous things are being redefined as 'hate' and 'violence' by people with mental problems and serious personality disorders in order to advance their political agendas and desire for power over others. This will end well...
so he eliminated the rest and called it "science"
"Didn't meet the criteria of the study".
Great post. Oddly, none of the ridiculous events you mention have sunk this fraud / delusion / scandal yet, let alone all of them combined. It shows the power of having effectively unlimited funding (thanks, taxpayers!) PR management and a compliant media.
It's sophistry of the highest order. But when you have virtually unlimited funds all things are possible.
"hottest years on record"
For how long have we had relatively accurate temperature measurement? Anything before that is proxy. And "hottest" by how much - tenths of a degree while we emerge from an ice age? After data-fiddling from selected sources? CO2 output up over the past 20 years and temperatures are stable. Game over, now let's stop throwing money away on this taxpayer-funded hysteria.
Well, they do willfully ignore any and all evidence that contradicts their hypothesis. And there's too much (taxpayer) money, virtue-signalling and too many opportunities for false moral superiority personal attacks to let go. Some people get a kick out of abusing others and if you can do it with government support, all the better!
Much of the left believes in Critical Theory and thinks it's (or tries to portray it as) critical thinking.
"The two magic properties of hydrogen are the ability to store and transport it,"
Coincidentally, those two are also the two biggest magic PROBLEMS with hydrogen.
Fucking Norwegians...
Design and drafting used to be considered a highly skilled job. Now, almost all the entry-level tasks have been automated. Many fewer drafters are now employed and people new to the field move straight into higher level tasks (that are now easier to do because of software) without having had the years of experience, training and exposure to the engineering culture that once was needed. Knowledge and skill are built into the software now.
Prepare to be modded into oblivion, you're not sufficiently enthusiastic about renewable energy.
Shhh! You'll ruin the taxpayer-guaranteed ROI for "investing" in solar and wind!
But if things go wrong, "those damn furriners" can be blamed by incompetent management!
You should have used a nuclear-powered calculator.
Do your figures for wind and solar include government subsidies?
Knowledge, skill and experience are being built into software to a much greater extent now, so there will be many fewer knowledge workers. We see that in the engineering world and there are hardly any entry-level tasks remaining that have not been automated. So we end up with expensive, older workers being replaced by software operated by relatively inexperienced people performing fairly high level work.
My wife used to squeeze my goodies all the time but now we're separated.