Your "thorough study" is from a mediocre press with, apparently, no discernible peer-review policy. Unsurprisingly, the book Amazon pairs with your title is "The Rantings of a Single Male: Losing Patience with Feminism, Political Correctness . . . And Basically Everything."
For me it's gotto be Ed Harris as Gene Kranz Apollo 13. There's the moment when they're trying to figure out how much fuel the ship has remaining and Kranz shouts "work the problem" and this bank of 10 engineers in mission control all whip out their slide rulers and start frantically calculating.
What I like it that it de-mythologizes the scientis/engineer, replacing crazy Alexander Lloyd with a buch of guys frantically doing math to solve a pressing problem.
I found the post about using Google Scholar to research soul-catchers interesting. My initial reaction was one of dismisal as anyone with access to a decent set of library databases (MLA, Wilson, J-Store, MUSE) could have found that information much faster with full text to boot. But what if you're a HS student at East HogWaller High, or an adult doing some independent research. If you don't have access to a substantial library with all the latest tools, Google Scholar allows you a level of access to scholarly materials you may not have otherwise enjoyed.
So, to be persuasive I should craft an argument that makes use of specific, quantifable, verifiable, evidence? And you're telling me that this is more persuasive than unsupported generalizations?
The fact that this counts as "news" is a strong comment on how the focus on job training has reduced our universities to glorified tech colleges.
"I don't trust the rankings there. Boardgamegeek ranks DOOM: The Boardgame higher than Risk,Monopoly, and even Chess."
Risk and Monopoly are the Windows of boardgames. Just because you and everyone else plays them doesn't mean they're good. The Chess ranking can be explained as well if you bother to read around on the site.
The problem I see here is the existence of internet only specials on the SouthWest web site. By making the site inaccessible to blind users S.W. is excluding a class of consumers from certain discount fares on the basis of their disability.
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Your "thorough study" is from a mediocre press with, apparently, no discernible peer-review policy. Unsurprisingly, the book Amazon pairs with your title is "The Rantings of a Single Male: Losing Patience with Feminism, Political Correctness . . . And Basically Everything."
For me it's gotto be Ed Harris as Gene Kranz Apollo 13. There's the moment when they're trying to figure out how much fuel the ship has remaining and Kranz shouts "work the problem" and this bank of 10 engineers in mission control all whip out their slide rulers and start frantically calculating.
What I like it that it de-mythologizes the scientis/engineer, replacing crazy Alexander Lloyd with a buch of guys frantically doing math to solve a pressing problem.
I found the post about using Google Scholar to research soul-catchers interesting. My initial reaction was one of dismisal as anyone with access to a decent set of library databases (MLA, Wilson, J-Store, MUSE) could have found that information much faster with full text to boot. But what if you're a HS student at East HogWaller High, or an adult doing some independent research. If you don't have access to a substantial library with all the latest tools, Google Scholar allows you a level of access to scholarly materials you may not have otherwise enjoyed.
Still pissed about the China page, though.
So, to be persuasive I should craft an argument that makes use of specific, quantifable, verifiable, evidence? And you're telling me that this is more persuasive than unsupported generalizations?
The fact that this counts as "news" is a strong comment on how the focus on job training has reduced our universities to glorified tech colleges.
"I don't trust the rankings there. Boardgamegeek ranks DOOM: The Boardgame higher than Risk ,Monopoly, and even Chess."
Risk and Monopoly are the Windows of boardgames. Just because you and everyone else plays them doesn't mean they're good. The Chess ranking can be explained as well if you bother to read around on the site.
The problem I see here is the existence of internet only specials on the SouthWest web site. By making the site inaccessible to blind users S.W. is excluding a class of consumers from certain discount fares on the basis of their disability.