The same can be said for any channel. Or movie producer. Or music label. If you want to avoid giving money to hucksters in suits who hold you in contempt, you're doomed to a mass media free existence.
All you have to do is look at the fatality rates. The number of people who die per mile traveled today is a quarter of the number in the early fifties.
Just to give an idea how silly individual data points are, here's what the data says in English:
People who are born in January will get, on average, one month less education.
Babies who are born in January are 10% more likely to have a teenager for a parent. (Note teenager means under 20)
Babies who are born in January are 3% more likely to be born to an unwed mother.
Interesting statistics, but the differences too small to really matter when comparing individuals. The fact that all of these measures aren't showing direct correlation with success but only correlations with other factors that correlate with success, any concern about when individuals are born is pointless. This study says little or nothing about what advantages a rich kid with married parents who is born in May might have over a rich kid with married parents who is born in January.
Perhaps if you were born in May, you'd understand about significant, but small statistical differences and how they relate to the experience of individuals.
Or to put it in more real world terms, you are like a woman reading an article saying "statistically speaking, the average man is four inches taller than the average woman" and saying "what crap! I'm taller than a lot of men I know!"
It's the being overly dramatic part that I object to. The difference may be significant, but it is small enough that in practice it means little for individuals. It's this kind of thing that has parents doing idiotic things like trying to conceive their kids in September so that they do better.
Yeah, I have little doubt that there is a real effect here, but I hate when things like this are sensationalized. There may well be an effect, but it is a small one.
When sociologists have looked at hunter-gather societies, they found pretty much constant low-grade warfare, to the extent that the death rate due to these small scale raids was on the order of 10% of the male population over a man's lifetime. The implication of that is that a higher percentage of the population likely died due to warfare in 4000-3900 BC than in 1900-2000 AD.
In modern times, whole nations (like, say, Poland) were flattened over a five year period and then underwent 60 years of peace. In prehistoric times, there was likely very constant endemic warfare that over the long run killed a larger percent of the population.
(Not to mention that there were pre-twentieth century events like the 30 years war that killed a significant percentage of the population.)
The World Wars were horrible events, but realize that a billion people in the US and Europe have essentially seen no deaths due to warfare in their home territories. Then read the Old Testament, which describes a pretty constant litany of cities being sacked and large populations being put to the sword.
Perimeter first required the human leadership to put it in an "alert" mode. Then it required that human leadership to drop out of communication. Finally, it required an actual human being (albeit a low ranking one) to actually push the button.
A simple surprise detonation on Russian soil would not do it.
Cursive isn't a basic form of knowledge, nor is it a prerequisite for a basic form of knowledge. Cursive is a way of handwriting text more efficiently. Given that almost no one writes large amounts of text any more, it is effectively useless.
If you don't do algebra, you can't solve the problems that require algebra. If you can't write in cursive, you just write the block letters that every kindergartner knows and nearly everyone can read.
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On the other hand, new Playstation 2s are still available for sale.
The same can be said for any channel. Or movie producer. Or music label. If you want to avoid giving money to hucksters in suits who hold you in contempt, you're doomed to a mass media free existence.
Try a device that uses an eInk display.
The price is dropping. I expect in 3-5 years you'll be able to get them for ~$100.
This is why the original poster mentioned the Kindle. It doesn't use a video screen.
I didn't say it was a smart business decision.
Unless the DVR and Blu-Ray player and a Wifi card are all built into the TV.
There are cases in the early 20th century where farmers stole power by rigging up systems using rolls of barbed wire under high capacity power lines.
You realize you can use a DVR with broadcast TV, right?
I here someone once figured out a way to send signals from a TV station to a TV set without wires. Crazy I know, but true.
Just a nitpick: Rhode Island and Connecticut were both founded by Puritans who disagreed with the Massachusetts founders and left.
Er....we're talking about safety here not how well the cars hold up.
All you have to do is look at the fatality rates. The number of people who die per mile traveled today is a quarter of the number in the early fifties.
Just to give an idea how silly individual data points are, here's what the data says in English:
People who are born in January will get, on average, one month less education.
Babies who are born in January are 10% more likely to have a teenager for a parent. (Note teenager means under 20)
Babies who are born in January are 3% more likely to be born to an unwed mother.
Interesting statistics, but the differences too small to really matter when comparing individuals. The fact that all of these measures aren't showing direct correlation with success but only correlations with other factors that correlate with success, any concern about when individuals are born is pointless. This study says little or nothing about what advantages a rich kid with married parents who is born in May might have over a rich kid with married parents who is born in January.
That's a good question, and I have no clue why some boneheaded moderator thought it was flamebait. Please mod up.
Lots of studies have shown that higher socioeconomic status correlates with higher education
Perhaps if you were born in May, you'd understand about significant, but small statistical differences and how they relate to the experience of individuals.
Or to put it in more real world terms, you are like a woman reading an article saying "statistically speaking, the average man is four inches taller than the average woman" and saying "what crap! I'm taller than a lot of men I know!"
It's a pity...if only you'd been born in May, you'd have been getting a 96% average!
It's the being overly dramatic part that I object to. The difference may be significant, but it is small enough that in practice it means little for individuals. It's this kind of thing that has parents doing idiotic things like trying to conceive their kids in September so that they do better.
Yeah, I have little doubt that there is a real effect here, but I hate when things like this are sensationalized. There may well be an effect, but it is a small one.
Of course the difference jumps out. The chart was deliberately designed to make the change jump out by not using 0 as the origin of the Y axis.
This is a very common technique for making a difference look a lot larger than it actually is.
When can I get one running OSX?
I've used three of those menus in the last week.
When sociologists have looked at hunter-gather societies, they found pretty much constant low-grade warfare, to the extent that the death rate due to these small scale raids was on the order of 10% of the male population over a man's lifetime. The implication of that is that a higher percentage of the population likely died due to warfare in 4000-3900 BC than in 1900-2000 AD.
In modern times, whole nations (like, say, Poland) were flattened over a five year period and then underwent 60 years of peace. In prehistoric times, there was likely very constant endemic warfare that over the long run killed a larger percent of the population.
(Not to mention that there were pre-twentieth century events like the 30 years war that killed a significant percentage of the population.)
The World Wars were horrible events, but realize that a billion people in the US and Europe have essentially seen no deaths due to warfare in their home territories. Then read the Old Testament, which describes a pretty constant litany of cities being sacked and large populations being put to the sword.
Not as designed, they couldn't.
Perimeter first required the human leadership to put it in an "alert" mode. Then it required that human leadership to drop out of communication. Finally, it required an actual human being (albeit a low ranking one) to actually push the button.
A simple surprise detonation on Russian soil would not do it.
Cursive isn't a basic form of knowledge, nor is it a prerequisite for a basic form of knowledge. Cursive is a way of handwriting text more efficiently. Given that almost no one writes large amounts of text any more, it is effectively useless.
If you don't do algebra, you can't solve the problems that require algebra. If you can't write in cursive, you just write the block letters that every kindergartner knows and nearly everyone can read.