Went to Las Vegas this summer. Payed $12 for a shuttle ride to my hotel. Buy the ticket, wait 8 minutes on the bus for it to fill, then we take off and stop at two other hotels before we arrive at mine.
On the trip back, my buddy gets an Uber. Three of us ride the same distance for a total of $7.
I don't see how anyone can be making money at that low of a price.
I agree, Macs are great. I only boot into Windows for games. I'm delighted with Steam's attempt to move to Steam OS / Linux, but they have a long way to go. Once games are more widely available for either Macs (not likely) or Steam OS / Linux, there won't be any need for a very large number of people to ever use Windows.
Actually, based on your comments and the findings of numerous other studies, it sounds like education has a lot to do with motivation, and relatively little to do with forms of education delivery. Look at the history of education, do you see enormous growth spurts tied to the printing press, movies, radio, home video, the internet? In as much as they make information more readily available they increase education. But it's not like there's some magic mode for learning. How many people would sit and watch a Disney film on Differential Equations, no matter what the production values were or how applied it was, etc.? So yes, whatever we can do to make information available is good, but we should stop thinking that we're going to come up with a magical sugar coating that will make everyone want to learn everything.
Motor Trend named the Chevy Vega the car of the year in 1971. Car and Driver named the Renault Alliance as one of 1983's 10 best cars. In 1985 the Ford Merkur also made this list. You might enjoy this.
Actually, before Top Gun, FM and Heavy Metal were two other movies that featured extensive and problematic soundtrack licensing issues. Heavy Metal, for example, wasn't released to home video until 1995 (despite being released in 1981 to theaters) because they couldn't get the legal issues sorted. Even the original soundtrack LP left off songs that had appeared in the film.
"Celebrities had found Marfa too. The town's beloved food truck, the Food Shark, has nearly 1,700 'Likes' on its Facebook page -- including ones from luminaries such as Bob Dylan, Tammy Wynette, and Willie Nelson."
According to Wikipedia Tammy Wynette died in 1998. Facebook was launched in February 2004.
Some sort of redirection towards findings that can be verified by independent labs would seem to be an improvement on the current system. But that would require a focus non science as a system and less of the "great researcher" emphasis we see today.
Great link to the table, and it explains some of the findings. As you point out, you can sort by any of the column headings. If we sort by unemployment percentage, we see the Law of Large numbers at work. Of the 10 majors with the lowest unemployment (0 - 2%, by the way), you can see that they are very unpopular majors. That means that very few of the people surveyed reported having majored in these things in college = small samples. When you reverse the sort for 10 highest unemployment rates, we see the same trend. With the exception of Architecture, these majors are very unpopular. Again, very small samples. Samples vary, but small samples vary more than big ones - that's the Law of Large Numbers.
Some of the majors don't make sense, either. The highest unemployment rate is for "Clinical Psychology." I can only imagine these majors are self-report data from the U.S. Census, but there is no college in the U.S. where you can major in "Clinical Psychology." You can major in Psychology, and you might get a concentration in Clinical, but you don't get a clinical psychology degree at the undergraduate level. No state in the U.S. will allow you to work as a clinical psychologist without graduate level training and many hours of supervised experience.
By the way, if you just look at people who responded "Psychology" you see an unemployment rate of 6.1% and it was the 5th most popular major (i.e., big sample, probably more accurate numbers). At a time (2010) when unemployment is arguably 10%, that sounds pretty good to me.
However, as other posters note, the data don't tell you if their jobs are mud wrestling, dog walking, or pimping, so it's rather difficult to use these numbers to judge how "useful" a particular major might be.
I had mononucleosis once, does that mean I am now qualified to diagnose it in others? A hallmark of the autism spectrum is difficulty communicating - Steve Jobs, seriously?
Excellent question, and one way to examine this would be to look at bilingual speakers who have suffered brain damage. If both languages relied on a single speech center, you would expect impairment as a result of the damage to be about equal for both languages. If, on the other hand, one language was clearly impaired while the other was not, these results would suggest two independent processing centers in the brain.
Unfortunately, the results are not as clear. Sometimes the first language acquired recovers first, and in other patients the second language recovers first. In still other patients both languages appear to recover at about equal rates. Some researchers have concluded that age of acquisition, fluency in the language, and other factors can influence the results.
You might enjoy: Marrero et al.'s (2002) "Bilingualism, brain injury, and recover: Implications for understanding the bilingual and for therapy." in Clinical Psychology Review, 22(3), 465-480.
Lorenzen & Murray (2008) Bilingual aphasia: A theoretical and clinical review." in American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 17, 299-317.
At my college we had a Crazy Kong machine in 1982. It was another year before I saw a "real" Donkey Kong, and I thought the real one was the knock-off because of the gaudier (to me) color scheme. According to the Wikipedia article it was licensed outside the U.S., but this was definitely in the U.S. As I recall Atari games were still much bigger than Donkey Kong, at least with my age group. The big hits were Tempest and Centipede.
But governments like to hold onto power. Remember, you're always about 9 meals away from a revolution. As Juvenal noted, it's all about bread and circuses. Agricultural subsidies can help insure food supply and stabilize prices. As with all government subsidies (housing, education), the rich game the system, but without them you would see a lot more instability in food prices.
Get this through your head: When you stick your head in the sand, there's still a lot of you exposed. It's your kind of thinking that let the war go on 10 years with no end in sight.
Over 30,000 civilians were already dead when American bombing brought the war to an end. Why aren't you weeping for them? Or better still be thankful for the civilian casualties that were avoided when the Americans brought the war to an end.
Better to let the war rage on and keep wringing your hands from the sidelines?
No attempt by Britain, France, and Germany that failed? I guess you've never heard of the Brijuni Agreement, the Carrington-Cutileiro plan, the Vance-Owen plan, the Owen-Stoltenberg plan, or the Contact Group plan. All primarily European efforts at peace that failed miserably. How did they differ from the Dayton Accords? That's right, the big stick. Because while it's all well and good to say, "You kids stop that fighting!" in the end somebody has to actually go in and separate the parties and be able to threaten real consequences if they go back to fighting. Face it, in ten years the Europeans couldn't muster the political will to get it done.
As U.S. Defense Secretary Gates pointed out this last week, NATO without the U.S. is less than a paper tiger. Their reach has once again exceeded their grasp in Libya, again on Europe's doorstep. Britain and France started out talking tough, but now Norway says they have to be home by August, so good luck to anyone else who wants to keep on playing.
I don't have a problem with countries prioritizing their interests, I just think it's disingenuous to pretend that good things happen when magic wands get waved in Brussels.
While I support a reliance on the rule of law in theory, your example points out the exception. The breakup of Yugoslavia resulted in a war that dragged on for 10 years. Over 100,000 people died as a result, over a third of them innocent civilians. The European community, particularly Britain, France, and Germany, were incapable of halting an atrocity-filled war on their very doorstep. For all we know the war would still be going on today if the Americans hadn't stepped in and stopped it.
While you understandably decry American cowboy diplomacy, let's face it: without the big Yankee stick you'd be getting your news from Pravda. If you honestly think that would be preferable to the world situation now, I will leave you to think longingly on what might have been.
And as a parting shot with regard to Mladic, don't you ask yourself, "Why is this guy crawling out from under his rock now?" Let's not confuse political expediency with justice...
It's a rotten and unjust world, let's hope we can make some improvements. But don't ever kid yourself that bureaucrats in Brussels will be able to do the job all by themselves.
Exactly. The chart says "Bachelor's Degree in Counseling Psychology." WTF is that? Is it anything like a Bachelor's in Medicine, or Veterinary Science? It sounds like some made-up degree offered by an online college that's trolling for suckers.
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We had "dark-mode" 40 years ago. Then it was called a DEC VT-100.
To name just one thing, I like to control when my computer updates. I don't want it updating in the middle of a presentation.
Went to Las Vegas this summer. Payed $12 for a shuttle ride to my hotel. Buy the ticket, wait 8 minutes on the bus for it to fill, then we take off and stop at two other hotels before we arrive at mine. On the trip back, my buddy gets an Uber. Three of us ride the same distance for a total of $7. I don't see how anyone can be making money at that low of a price.
I agree, Macs are great. I only boot into Windows for games. I'm delighted with Steam's attempt to move to Steam OS / Linux, but they have a long way to go. Once games are more widely available for either Macs (not likely) or Steam OS / Linux, there won't be any need for a very large number of people to ever use Windows.
Nuke 'em from orbit.
Actually, based on your comments and the findings of numerous other studies, it sounds like education has a lot to do with motivation, and relatively little to do with forms of education delivery. Look at the history of education, do you see enormous growth spurts tied to the printing press, movies, radio, home video, the internet? In as much as they make information more readily available they increase education. But it's not like there's some magic mode for learning. How many people would sit and watch a Disney film on Differential Equations, no matter what the production values were or how applied it was, etc.? So yes, whatever we can do to make information available is good, but we should stop thinking that we're going to come up with a magical sugar coating that will make everyone want to learn everything.
There were definitely a lot of stinkers in those days. But sadly, I think that for many of us the Vega was the worst of the worst.
Motor Trend named the Chevy Vega the car of the year in 1971. Car and Driver named the Renault Alliance as one of 1983's 10 best cars. In 1985 the Ford Merkur also made this list. You might enjoy this.
Actually, before Top Gun, FM and Heavy Metal were two other movies that featured extensive and problematic soundtrack licensing issues. Heavy Metal, for example, wasn't released to home video until 1995 (despite being released in 1981 to theaters) because they couldn't get the legal issues sorted. Even the original soundtrack LP left off songs that had appeared in the film.
"Dear Sirs, I never believed the stories in you magazine until one day..."
It's a lot worse than you think! FTFA:
"Celebrities had found Marfa too. The town's beloved food truck, the Food Shark, has nearly 1,700 'Likes' on its Facebook page -- including ones from luminaries such as Bob Dylan, Tammy Wynette, and Willie Nelson."
According to Wikipedia Tammy Wynette died in 1998. Facebook was launched in February 2004.
There's an app for that...
Some sort of redirection towards findings that can be verified by independent labs would seem to be an improvement on the current system. But that would require a focus non science as a system and less of the "great researcher" emphasis we see today.
I'd call that fair use. And by the way, I'm shocked, shocked to find that Wikipedia and Google would stoop so low.
Justice is blind. Whichever side puts the most gold on the scales of justice wins!
Great link to the table, and it explains some of the findings. As you point out, you can sort by any of the column headings. If we sort by unemployment percentage, we see the Law of Large numbers at work. Of the 10 majors with the lowest unemployment (0 - 2%, by the way), you can see that they are very unpopular majors. That means that very few of the people surveyed reported having majored in these things in college = small samples. When you reverse the sort for 10 highest unemployment rates, we see the same trend. With the exception of Architecture, these majors are very unpopular. Again, very small samples. Samples vary, but small samples vary more than big ones - that's the Law of Large Numbers.
Some of the majors don't make sense, either. The highest unemployment rate is for "Clinical Psychology." I can only imagine these majors are self-report data from the U.S. Census, but there is no college in the U.S. where you can major in "Clinical Psychology." You can major in Psychology, and you might get a concentration in Clinical, but you don't get a clinical psychology degree at the undergraduate level. No state in the U.S. will allow you to work as a clinical psychologist without graduate level training and many hours of supervised experience.
By the way, if you just look at people who responded "Psychology" you see an unemployment rate of 6.1% and it was the 5th most popular major (i.e., big sample, probably more accurate numbers). At a time (2010) when unemployment is arguably 10%, that sounds pretty good to me.
However, as other posters note, the data don't tell you if their jobs are mud wrestling, dog walking, or pimping, so it's rather difficult to use these numbers to judge how "useful" a particular major might be.
I had mononucleosis once, does that mean I am now qualified to diagnose it in others? A hallmark of the autism spectrum is difficulty communicating - Steve Jobs, seriously?
"Or have you diluted yourself into thinking that the reason we have say public education is because of the Dept. of Ed?"
Are you trying to suggest that homeopathy is the answer to our problems?
Or are you trying to say the Dept. of Ed. might need to focus more effort on helping people understand the difference between dilution and delusion?
Excellent question, and one way to examine this would be to look at bilingual speakers who have suffered brain damage. If both languages relied on a single speech center, you would expect impairment as a result of the damage to be about equal for both languages. If, on the other hand, one language was clearly impaired while the other was not, these results would suggest two independent processing centers in the brain.
Unfortunately, the results are not as clear. Sometimes the first language acquired recovers first, and in other patients the second language recovers first. In still other patients both languages appear to recover at about equal rates. Some researchers have concluded that age of acquisition, fluency in the language, and other factors can influence the results.
You might enjoy: Marrero et al.'s (2002) "Bilingualism, brain injury, and recover: Implications for understanding the bilingual and for therapy." in Clinical Psychology Review, 22(3), 465-480.
Lorenzen & Murray (2008) Bilingual aphasia: A theoretical and clinical review." in American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 17, 299-317.
At my college we had a Crazy Kong machine in 1982. It was another year before I saw a "real" Donkey Kong, and I thought the real one was the knock-off because of the gaudier (to me) color scheme. According to the Wikipedia article it was licensed outside the U.S., but this was definitely in the U.S. As I recall Atari games were still much bigger than Donkey Kong, at least with my age group. The big hits were Tempest and Centipede.
But governments like to hold onto power. Remember, you're always about 9 meals away from a revolution. As Juvenal noted, it's all about bread and circuses. Agricultural subsidies can help insure food supply and stabilize prices. As with all government subsidies (housing, education), the rich game the system, but without them you would see a lot more instability in food prices.
Get this through your head: When you stick your head in the sand, there's still a lot of you exposed. It's your kind of thinking that let the war go on 10 years with no end in sight.
Over 30,000 civilians were already dead when American bombing brought the war to an end. Why aren't you weeping for them? Or better still be thankful for the civilian casualties that were avoided when the Americans brought the war to an end.
Better to let the war rage on and keep wringing your hands from the sidelines?
No attempt by Britain, France, and Germany that failed? I guess you've never heard of the Brijuni Agreement, the Carrington-Cutileiro plan, the Vance-Owen plan, the Owen-Stoltenberg plan, or the Contact Group plan. All primarily European efforts at peace that failed miserably. How did they differ from the Dayton Accords? That's right, the big stick. Because while it's all well and good to say, "You kids stop that fighting!" in the end somebody has to actually go in and separate the parties and be able to threaten real consequences if they go back to fighting. Face it, in ten years the Europeans couldn't muster the political will to get it done.
As U.S. Defense Secretary Gates pointed out this last week, NATO without the U.S. is less than a paper tiger. Their reach has once again exceeded their grasp in Libya, again on Europe's doorstep. Britain and France started out talking tough, but now Norway says they have to be home by August, so good luck to anyone else who wants to keep on playing.
I don't have a problem with countries prioritizing their interests, I just think it's disingenuous to pretend that good things happen when magic wands get waved in Brussels.
While I support a reliance on the rule of law in theory, your example points out the exception. The breakup of Yugoslavia resulted in a war that dragged on for 10 years. Over 100,000 people died as a result, over a third of them innocent civilians. The European community, particularly Britain, France, and Germany, were incapable of halting an atrocity-filled war on their very doorstep. For all we know the war would still be going on today if the Americans hadn't stepped in and stopped it.
While you understandably decry American cowboy diplomacy, let's face it: without the big Yankee stick you'd be getting your news from Pravda. If you honestly think that would be preferable to the world situation now, I will leave you to think longingly on what might have been.
And as a parting shot with regard to Mladic, don't you ask yourself, "Why is this guy crawling out from under his rock now?" Let's not confuse political expediency with justice...
It's a rotten and unjust world, let's hope we can make some improvements. But don't ever kid yourself that bureaucrats in Brussels will be able to do the job all by themselves.
Exactly. The chart says "Bachelor's Degree in Counseling Psychology." WTF is that? Is it anything like a Bachelor's in Medicine, or Veterinary Science? It sounds like some made-up degree offered by an online college that's trolling for suckers.