Is delayed fatherhood the cause, or is there an underlying root cause that also leads to delayed fatherhood.
In other words, are fathers who are statistically more likely to sire children with these problems also subject to behavioral or other biases that lead them to more often have children later in life?
"Mathematical calculations typically take place in the intraparietal sulcus, mathematical reasoning in the right frontal pole, and logical reasoning in the left frontal pole. These areas were not strongly activated in comprehending source code.
Usually, when I'm reviewing legacy source code, I find that the author's mathematical and logical reasoning centers were not strongly activated while writing the code, either.
Well, depending on who is administering justice, my kids may well end up incarcerated some day. They're not violent, or harmful to others, or mean, or prone to unusual destruction of property or theft, but they don't follow verbal directions well, at all. Judging from all the Cops episodes ever produced, failing to follow the officer's direction, immediately, invariably leads to arrest... We've also been through a whole host of elementary schools, with principals that ranged from apathetic, to incompetent, to outright vicious and retaliatory, to compassionate and very helpful. The vicious one, among other things, sent the county officials to our home to "inspect" the home living conditions, in direct retaliation for us standing our ground about not being locked up in the rubber room all day long. The county official became our good friend to the point that she was no longer called in to any consultation meetings because the county people didn't want us having her on our side in the meetings...
If such a "magic pill" existed, and the kids expressed a desire for it, I would give it to them if I thought they understood what it would do. We already have used pro-biotics and similar treatments, not in hopes of "curing" or "changing" them, but in hopes of helping them to feel and function better. Success has been limited, but not non-existent.
Well, the way my kids "behave," you'd think they could do better on those tests, "if they just applied themselves." "They're obviously really smart, they just don't talk like other kids their age do.." etc. There's a reason it's called a dis-ability, but, from a parent's ever optimistic perspective, they're "differently-abled" and I hope I can help them find a way to be themselves and also not get clobbered by the competitive world out there.
For a couple of decades, the majority of my peers called me alternately "Moron," "Idiot," "WTF is wrong with you," etc. I didn't like them doing that, but I really wouldn't have liked being made into a carbon copy of them. I was fortunate enough to be "in sync" with the academic testing regime of the day, so while most of my classmates called me "Moron," I was consistently turning in test scores that said otherwise, in spades.
My kids aren't getting the test scores that I did, but they are having a less traumatic time in school - no bones broken by childish pranks, nobody twice their weight sitting on them to pin them down in a fire ant pile, and as parents, I think we are much more aware of what's going on with our kids in school than my parents ever were. Their school experience could be better than it is, if we had unlimited resources, given what we've got, they're doing o.k.
Be careful when you think about "normal" and "fuller life" - my high school graduating class had about 250 people (at the beginning of senior year, closer to 200 by graduation), "normal" would be the middle of that group of 250, the ones that knocked around town attending Junior College after high school, getting crap jobs because they got their girlfriend pregnant, joining the military, spending a disproportionate amount of their time smoking grass, etc. The top 10-15% who took the advanced classes and went on to mostly get university degrees and good jobs, they're not normal, they are also exceptional.
Also be careful about wishing for a world where everyone suddenly becomes like the "top 5%" model students of today, learning all the course material presented to them, working diligently, etc. That would be a very different world from the one we live in, surely better in some ways, but shockingly worse in others.
My children (2 boys, 10 and 12) are "exceptional" - which used to have less nice sounding labels when I was in school.
I struggled for a while with the concept when they were first diagnosed, but, in the end, I want to help them cope with the world the best they can as they are. If there was a magic pill I could give them that would forever "cure" them and make them "normal," I'd really hate to use it. That whole "as they are" concept is pretty squishy and ill defined, but I don't want to live in a "monoculture" world, and I really don't want my children to be "forced to the middle of the road" by some kind of drastic intervention.
Punishment is easy to administer and audit - it pairs well with the concept of "Justice." Rehabilitation is a squishy concept, hard to measure, easy to accuse of uneven administration, favoritism, corruption.
Even though "Justice" has little to do with making the future a better time / world a better place, those are the systems we have in place, and they seem to endure more because they are easy to explain and understand than because they are effective.
I agree, it's about the active parts, not the scaffolding. Just as you would judge a home more by its occupants than by the walls and furniture, at least if you were interested in behavior more than artifact and architecture.
Well established,/. is not the place for breaking news, it's got an older moderation system that wasn't designed to get stuff to the front page quickly, in internet time. Compared to print media,/. is more or less on par with a good daily newspaper's story reporting speed (is there such a thing as a good daily newspaper anymore?)
Reddit is pretty good about bubbling up interesting stuff to the front within an hour or two, though the good AMAs always seem to make the front page just after the host has signed off...
If you want to read about what's going to be on CNN, Fox, et. al. tomorrow, watch the Reuters feeds. The news of the weird stuff usually comes across RSS 5 to 7 days before it makes it out on morning radio shows...
If you need your news faster than Reddit gets it to you, I think you have to be personally present where it is happening.
One of the old dating websites (in the 1990s), used to tell you how far potential dates lived from you - harmless enough, unless you live in Key West or a similar linear settlement, that gives a really big circle on which the person could live.
However, if you signed up for 3 (free, no verification required) accounts, and gave your different accounts different addresses around town, you could get three distances to the same potential date, giving a rather accurate estimate of their domicile location.... or, at least whatever they input when they signed up - if they were as paranoid as me, they also had three accounts and none of them had an accurate address.
We've got those "no-contract" phones from T-Mo, and what I'm realizing about them is that, while there's no service contract, I've invested close to $2000 in 3 phones that aren't actually very portable to other carriers.
I entered a writing contest, won a multi-thousand dollar prize, from an unspecified automaker who wanted to re-imagine the automotive user interface.
I just rambled a bit about putting a "real" PC in to have enough oomph to do things like run open CV, track gaze following on the occupants (especially driver) etc. Apparently it was what they were looking for.
Marriage brings a tax penalty. Lots of old people shack up because they can't (/won't) afford the tax consequences of legal marriage - and they have plenty of free time on their hands to figure it all out.
There are some legal benefits (insurance coverage, etc.), but mostly it's a losing proposition.
And about the shallow enough to care about financial stability, you are absolutely right, in an ideal life, I would find my life partner - date for a few years, then fall on hard financial times and see what happens. Unfortunately, life rarely cooperates with presenting the right tests at the right time.
My uncle has 3 dogs and a tiny patch of grass outside his house. He told a joke once: Why are women like dog turds? They're both easier to pick up when they get older.
Look closely into the relationships of your M.D. and Lawyer friends (if you don't have any, just be nosy about strangers...)
They have plenty of relationship dysfunction too. Lots of doctors end up married (or committed to a life partner) young, and regret it later. Lawyers are all over the map, but I will say the ones that snag super-model type wives get what they deserve.
I am taking a "free online" course in programming Android for Mobile Handheld Systems. I can deal with passively listening to the lecture videos, I can deal with looking up the information required for the quizzes, but I have to draw the line at jumping the hoops required for the automated lab grading system. For the time invested in figuring out what hoops these guys want me to jump through, I can finish writing my own app, learn how to color outside their lines, and generally get a better education in App programming for the same time invested. If I thought I "needed" that grade, I'd have to waste an awful lot of time and brainpower to get it.
I'd much rather show impressive working original Apps than a certificate from a course showing that I can jump prescribed hoops.
Based on where we stand today, if we were relatively slow, I'd expect to have been visited by "others".
I am almost certain there are "others," and lots of them - but if any of them are even twice as fast developing as we have been, they'd be spreading something to other stars by now.
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What are the paternity laws effects for minor fathers?
Or, don't marry until you can tell the difference between an evil witch and a good hearted princess.
If you think that you shouldn't have children or own a gun or fly a plane, you're probably right.
Same could be said for getting out of bed in the morning, driving a car, having sex, going to crowded public places, etc.
Also, correlation != causation.
Is delayed fatherhood the cause, or is there an underlying root cause that also leads to delayed fatherhood.
In other words, are fathers who are statistically more likely to sire children with these problems also subject to behavioral or other biases that lead them to more often have children later in life?
"Mathematical calculations typically take place in the intraparietal sulcus, mathematical reasoning in the right frontal pole, and logical reasoning in the left frontal pole. These areas were not strongly activated in comprehending source code.
Usually, when I'm reviewing legacy source code, I find that the author's mathematical and logical reasoning centers were not strongly activated while writing the code, either.
Well, depending on who is administering justice, my kids may well end up incarcerated some day. They're not violent, or harmful to others, or mean, or prone to unusual destruction of property or theft, but they don't follow verbal directions well, at all. Judging from all the Cops episodes ever produced, failing to follow the officer's direction, immediately, invariably leads to arrest... We've also been through a whole host of elementary schools, with principals that ranged from apathetic, to incompetent, to outright vicious and retaliatory, to compassionate and very helpful. The vicious one, among other things, sent the county officials to our home to "inspect" the home living conditions, in direct retaliation for us standing our ground about not being locked up in the rubber room all day long. The county official became our good friend to the point that she was no longer called in to any consultation meetings because the county people didn't want us having her on our side in the meetings...
If such a "magic pill" existed, and the kids expressed a desire for it, I would give it to them if I thought they understood what it would do. We already have used pro-biotics and similar treatments, not in hopes of "curing" or "changing" them, but in hopes of helping them to feel and function better. Success has been limited, but not non-existent.
Well, the way my kids "behave," you'd think they could do better on those tests, "if they just applied themselves." "They're obviously really smart, they just don't talk like other kids their age do.." etc. There's a reason it's called a dis-ability, but, from a parent's ever optimistic perspective, they're "differently-abled" and I hope I can help them find a way to be themselves and also not get clobbered by the competitive world out there.
For a couple of decades, the majority of my peers called me alternately "Moron," "Idiot," "WTF is wrong with you," etc. I didn't like them doing that, but I really wouldn't have liked being made into a carbon copy of them. I was fortunate enough to be "in sync" with the academic testing regime of the day, so while most of my classmates called me "Moron," I was consistently turning in test scores that said otherwise, in spades.
My kids aren't getting the test scores that I did, but they are having a less traumatic time in school - no bones broken by childish pranks, nobody twice their weight sitting on them to pin them down in a fire ant pile, and as parents, I think we are much more aware of what's going on with our kids in school than my parents ever were. Their school experience could be better than it is, if we had unlimited resources, given what we've got, they're doing o.k.
Be careful when you think about "normal" and "fuller life" - my high school graduating class had about 250 people (at the beginning of senior year, closer to 200 by graduation), "normal" would be the middle of that group of 250, the ones that knocked around town attending Junior College after high school, getting crap jobs because they got their girlfriend pregnant, joining the military, spending a disproportionate amount of their time smoking grass, etc. The top 10-15% who took the advanced classes and went on to mostly get university degrees and good jobs, they're not normal, they are also exceptional.
Also be careful about wishing for a world where everyone suddenly becomes like the "top 5%" model students of today, learning all the course material presented to them, working diligently, etc. That would be a very different world from the one we live in, surely better in some ways, but shockingly worse in others.
My children (2 boys, 10 and 12) are "exceptional" - which used to have less nice sounding labels when I was in school.
I struggled for a while with the concept when they were first diagnosed, but, in the end, I want to help them cope with the world the best they can as they are. If there was a magic pill I could give them that would forever "cure" them and make them "normal," I'd really hate to use it. That whole "as they are" concept is pretty squishy and ill defined, but I don't want to live in a "monoculture" world, and I really don't want my children to be "forced to the middle of the road" by some kind of drastic intervention.
Punishment is easy to administer and audit - it pairs well with the concept of "Justice." Rehabilitation is a squishy concept, hard to measure, easy to accuse of uneven administration, favoritism, corruption.
Even though "Justice" has little to do with making the future a better time / world a better place, those are the systems we have in place, and they seem to endure more because they are easy to explain and understand than because they are effective.
I agree, it's about the active parts, not the scaffolding. Just as you would judge a home more by its occupants than by the walls and furniture, at least if you were interested in behavior more than artifact and architecture.
Well established, /. is not the place for breaking news, it's got an older moderation system that wasn't designed to get stuff to the front page quickly, in internet time. Compared to print media, /. is more or less on par with a good daily newspaper's story reporting speed (is there such a thing as a good daily newspaper anymore?)
Reddit is pretty good about bubbling up interesting stuff to the front within an hour or two, though the good AMAs always seem to make the front page just after the host has signed off...
If you want to read about what's going to be on CNN, Fox, et. al. tomorrow, watch the Reuters feeds. The news of the weird stuff usually comes across RSS 5 to 7 days before it makes it out on morning radio shows...
If you need your news faster than Reddit gets it to you, I think you have to be personally present where it is happening.
One of the old dating websites (in the 1990s), used to tell you how far potential dates lived from you - harmless enough, unless you live in Key West or a similar linear settlement, that gives a really big circle on which the person could live.
However, if you signed up for 3 (free, no verification required) accounts, and gave your different accounts different addresses around town, you could get three distances to the same potential date, giving a rather accurate estimate of their domicile location.... or, at least whatever they input when they signed up - if they were as paranoid as me, they also had three accounts and none of them had an accurate address.
We've got those "no-contract" phones from T-Mo, and what I'm realizing about them is that, while there's no service contract, I've invested close to $2000 in 3 phones that aren't actually very portable to other carriers.
Can they do it (WiFi calling) on a Nexus 5?
I have T-Mobile with WiFi calling, it's a good thing, but not as "rock solid" as you might expect it to be.
What does one antenna cost?
Can I put one on the pole outside my bedroom window?
If I could get reliable cell coverage in my home, I'd pay $200-300 for that.
I entered a writing contest, won a multi-thousand dollar prize, from an unspecified automaker who wanted to re-imagine the automotive user interface.
I just rambled a bit about putting a "real" PC in to have enough oomph to do things like run open CV, track gaze following on the occupants (especially driver) etc. Apparently it was what they were looking for.
Marriage brings a tax penalty. Lots of old people shack up because they can't (/won't) afford the tax consequences of legal marriage - and they have plenty of free time on their hands to figure it all out.
There are some legal benefits (insurance coverage, etc.), but mostly it's a losing proposition.
And about the shallow enough to care about financial stability, you are absolutely right, in an ideal life, I would find my life partner - date for a few years, then fall on hard financial times and see what happens. Unfortunately, life rarely cooperates with presenting the right tests at the right time.
My uncle has 3 dogs and a tiny patch of grass outside his house. He told a joke once: Why are women like dog turds? They're both easier to pick up when they get older.
Look closely into the relationships of your M.D. and Lawyer friends (if you don't have any, just be nosy about strangers...)
They have plenty of relationship dysfunction too. Lots of doctors end up married (or committed to a life partner) young, and regret it later. Lawyers are all over the map, but I will say the ones that snag super-model type wives get what they deserve.
An interesting stat (to me) would be average age of: first marriage, first child born, etc. The broad population statistics hide things like this.
Yep, this totally explains child abusers and the like.
NOT.
Just learn them.
I am taking a "free online" course in programming Android for Mobile Handheld Systems. I can deal with passively listening to the lecture videos, I can deal with looking up the information required for the quizzes, but I have to draw the line at jumping the hoops required for the automated lab grading system. For the time invested in figuring out what hoops these guys want me to jump through, I can finish writing my own app, learn how to color outside their lines, and generally get a better education in App programming for the same time invested. If I thought I "needed" that grade, I'd have to waste an awful lot of time and brainpower to get it.
I'd much rather show impressive working original Apps than a certificate from a course showing that I can jump prescribed hoops.
Based on where we stand today, if we were relatively slow, I'd expect to have been visited by "others".
I am almost certain there are "others," and lots of them - but if any of them are even twice as fast developing as we have been, they'd be spreading something to other stars by now.