User: Kuo-Cheng

Re:If you absolutely cannot hire an attorney...

On: Defending Self In a Case of On-Line Identity Theft?

Not legal advice? By virtue of what -- not advising any particular action? Not being about legal matters? It makes you wonder. (This is not sarcastic rejoinder.)

Re:Questions about the linked instrument

On: Students Show a Dramatic Drop In Empathy

The instrument strongly measures the subject's willingness to make universal generalizations. Simply by strongly agreeing with all "sometimes" statements and strongly disagreeing with the "every" statement, one is fated to a maximum empathy of 54/70.

How to make the point.

On: Verizon Can't Do Math

The caller should have resorted to fractional reasoning, which is easier and more intuitive than decimals for people without math training, and more easily avoids the cognitive interference from the unit conversion:

1. Can we agree that .2 means one fifth?
2. Can we agree that .002 means one five hundredth? Divide 1 by 500 on the calculator to check, please.
3. Can we agree that you've quoted me one five hundredth of a penny for each kB?
4. Can we agree that every 500 kB should therefore cost a penny?
5. Therefore, let's find out how many pennies I owe by dividing 35893 by 500.
6. ...Profit! (Obligatory)

I believe this approach would have been more successful.