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So? It's still just following the existing trends. Boys do what they see men doing, and girls do what they see women doing.

I'm an educational psychologist and a statistician. Yes I've spent plenty of time with kids (more than I'd like) and run the full gamut of developmental psych courses. I'm a research psychologist and not a clinical one so I do spend most of my time with statistics and not people though. No...

It's NOT hard to argue with the 'testosterone link' at all. Sure, there's some small correlations, but it's not anywhere near a large enough correlation to explain the massive gender differences in occupations. The only way to explain that is to bring sociological forces into it. Further...

They didn't bother to show how any of their data on how much the babies differed in their facial/mechanical interests. I'm guessing their R values weren't very high. Those are the exact kinds of studies where people fudge statistics until they get something that looks meaningful or passes a...

Neither of the American or British scientists they talked were any more 'hard' science than the others. They were psychologists and sociologists too. They just happened to agree with your uninformed point of view. Regardless, your first point actually supports my hypothesis. Because...

You fucking suck at reading comprehension because that's the opposite of what I said. What I said that even if you did find minor differences in proficiency it would be irrelevant when compared to the variation between individuals.

I actually did refute it by presenting a simpler hypothesis that explains their results better than their own. They claimed it was biological because it was across cultures, but showed no actual evidence of biological forces which produced said results, results that could easily be explained by...

Yes, it was clearly explained that genders have certain preferences, but not where those preferences come from. They all come from modelling behaviors, which is a better and simpler explanation than the scientists in the video. Just because those two scientists supported the video creator's...

You don't understand what science or cherrypicking is. People accused *me* of cherrypicking but that's actually what they were doing to MY data. I brought more than my fair share of data to my arguments, considering how many people were attacking them by cherrypicking tiny bits of them and how...

I'm not complaining that it's hard, I'm saying why *I* didn't do it. Not externalizing blame. Everyone succumbs to the same social forces, but they are just that,socialforces, not biological ones. I mean, a simple 'path of least resistance' theory would apply to everything the video said...

Yes, boys WANT to do what they see men doing, and girls WANT to do what they see women doing. It's called modelling and it's the most absolutely fundamental way by which all animals pass learned behaviors onto other animals. And that, being the simplest possible explanation, is almost...

It's a documentary put together by a comedian. It's not science. He set out with a point to prove, then chose only evidence that supported his point. That's the exact opposite of the scientific method. *Actual* science involves making a hypothesis then ruling out all other possible...

Do you have any scientific evidence that men are fundamentally better at being physicists, chemists and engineers than women on a biological level, as opposed to it just happens to turn out that way because of how we're socialized? I know the other side of the coin is definitely not true...

Can you back this up with anything other than trends which can be explained by my hypothesis or any other number of hypothesis? Do you have any science that fundamentally predisposes one gender or the other towards specific tasks by more than a few percentage points? Putting aside heavy...

I mean professional level professions, not like blue collar shit obviously, though it still applies there. I would have loved to be a carpenter instead of this awful, useless job I have that pays garbage, I'm just not really sure how realistic it was to get a carpentry apprenticeship as a woman.

The problem is that once you start going down the rabbit hole towards that type of primitivism, you put everything in modern society up for grabs. Soon you're questioning why did we get rid of slavery, I mean, it worked so well for so long... We *know*, on an intellectual level, that not...

The next stretch goal should be finish the fucking game already, and the one after that should be honest and just say hookers and blow for all the devs.

Time Warner is HBO's parent company.

Yes, it is baked into the prices they list, but if I give them cash, they get an even higher margin on that sale. Maybe it's because New England, but I might shop at too many stores that people would consider 'quaint.'

I always use cash at non-corporate type stores, because I know they have to pay the credit card payment processing fee and that cuts into their margins.

Mail it to me. Then you would need another useless thing, a stamp.

Yeah, this.

I just watch S1E1 to see what this was about. What the fuck.

Shit, I missed the key giveaway.

Did you turn off any fast boot options in BIOS?

Ray still rayin.

Those look amazing. So jealous.

Should have watched the first half. Rise was actually pretty damn good.

What I've learned from remodeling my mom's house is that being a contractor pays a LOT for only a few hours of hard work a week. Most of it is pretty easy once you've made all of the obvious fuckups once or twice and learned how to not do them again, and if you have all the right tools.

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More than 4 is pretty ambitious if gaming is important to you.

Five Guys is fine but I'd rather go to Red Robin for that much money. I'll get 2 Big Kings for 5 dollars if I want something fast.

Maximus has a flaming sword. How bad could it really be?

I figured out there was no god about 15 minutes after I caught my mom lying about the Tooth Fairy. No Tooth Fairy means there's clearly no Easter Bunny, which means no Santa, which means no God. I was 4. Yes, I've always been a cunt. I kinda forgot this movie existed, my brain mixed it...

A whole lot of them come DOA or damn close. Way more than IBM thinkpads ever did.

A huge problem with colleges across the country is that they have to spend 2+ years getting average 'college-prep' high school graduates ready to learn college level material. The other problem being that professors are not teachers, and their teaching ability has very little to do with their job.

Yeah, well, high schools are another problem.

I'd get a real job but URI is the only large employer in southern RI. I don't want to drive 40 fucking minutes both ways with the worst drivers in the country outside of DC.

I really wanted him to say: "I came here to tell you...I'm Batman."

Pretty much all schools are heavily subsidized one way or another, pay no taxes, and all sorts of other perks from the government. Seventy-one percent of all undergraduate students received some type of financial aid in the 2011-12 academic year. These places need to start acting like...