I think it is at least in part, that few and fewer people in the general public actually understand how a variety of technologies work. It’s all magic to them, so if a CEO promises some crazy thing that an expert knows is bogus, most of the people aren’t critical because who knows, it might be possible.
Women get unwanted pregnancies by not being educated or misinformed about how sex works, so sure, educate everyone in Sex Ed . But women get unwanted pregnancies in lots of ways that Sex Ed won’t stop, including failed contraception and rape. And there are a large number of reasons to have medical abortions available including ectopic or other high risk pregnancies. Hence the poster relying to you saying both is fine, but “just” Sex Ed is a terrible idea.
It’s not stupid. Anyone reading needs to know where a statement or conclusion comes from in case they need to check and see how that conclusion was reached in the first place.
This is an example I use when I teach data types. It happens because the scale (F or C) is an “interval” scale. Its zero is not based on the absence of the property it is measuring, so you can’t apply a multiplicative transform to it like, “double”.
It is like lining up by height, calling the shortest person the standard and measure height of everyone else from that. So, the next tallest might be 2 cm, the next 4cm. But clearly the person we are calling 4cm is not twice the height of the person we called 2 cm.
Truly you are a connoisseur…
Point for “gripping hand” reference
Also brilliant…😀
Not a movie, but the series Cosmos.
“We are a way for the universe to know itself.” -Carl Sagan
Historical sword-making, modern metallurgy, practical stats and experimental design. How to structure a business in a not-dumb way that treats employees as people.
Majority in House but 60 votes in Senate are needed to avoid a filibuster, which will require some Democrats.
It is possible, but very unlikely. Maybe two bh merge that has exactly opposite angular momentum.
If you saw the video, it was clear that he was hit in the brain stem and was dead instantly from hydrostatic shock. Look at what his arms did instantly.
You didn’t mention the third group though. More of us voted against him and are stuck in this nightmare.
Heh, that would have been perfect.
Yeah, no one “flashes a Mensa card” unless they are a jerk. We joined many years ago when we lived in Iowa for the social aspect. The parties are a lot of fun and the people are all fascinating. Not all people you want to spend time with, but fascinating. We let our memberships lapse when we moved back to Colorado.
Nearly universally, Mensans recognized that IQ is only measure of how well you do on an IQ test (which, as you may know, was never intended as a test for the upper end, only to find students who needed intervention) or the other allowed tests.
There were materially successful people and not, socially adept and not. People we learned to avoid and people who became friends. Cringe and connection.
I suppose it is like any other social club where you have something in common with the additional kicker that people were not holding back in conversation. You had the chance to rapidly be humbled in that case if you went on at length about some favorite topic only to find out the person you were talking to was an expert in it.
Plus there were cool speakers and field trips. “Dumb things smart people do” was one of our favorites.
City of heroes is still available for free and is a lot of fun. Pre-WOW but the graphics are decent. A great community too.
I was a peer writing tutor at a top engineering school. I would be surprised if an engineer had verb-noun agreement. (That said, my kid was a nuclear engineer and is a great writer, so that is the danger of stereotypes…)
City of Heroes/Villains https://forums.homecomingservers.com/getting-started/
Waaaaaay less than OpwnAI though