A not particularly seasonal wreath of linkspam
Well, I am all for quiet carriages and minimising the aural impact of one's fellow passengers, but does not 'psychotherapist and writer' quoted in the article muddle together chosen and unchosen sound effects? There is a difference between having to listen to somebody else's transistor radio and having your own carefully curated mixtape on your Sony Walkman, surely? I might even find it in me to object to having to listen to a soothing soundtrack of 'natural' sounds: the back-to-basics crunch of leaves underfoot; birds singing; the patter of raindrops
I think I may have mentioned the far from serene thoughts conveyed by birds going full throttle outside one's window in the early hours...
But I guess there are more things I’ve got to say now: this year's Turner Prize Winner, oldest, first BME woman... About not being the lone solitary figure of the usual narrative.
‘Saluton!’: the surprise return of Esperanto: I will give this points for pretty much getting it that Esperanto was supposed to be a kind of Universal Second Language that did not come with any existing baggage. (Among the projects I want to get back to: constructed languages between the Wars. Hah.)
Guéguen's large body of research is the kind of social psychology that demonstrates, and likely fuels, the Mars vs. Venus model of gender interactions. But it seems that at least some of his conclusions are resting on shaky ground. Since 2015, a pair of scientists, James Heathers and Nick Brown, has been looking closely at the results in Guéguen's work. What they've found raises a litany of questions about statistical and ethical problems. In some cases, the data is too perfectly regular or full of oddities, making it difficult to understand how it could have been generated by the experiment described by Guéguen.
Heathers and Brown have contacted the French Psychological Society (SFP) with the details of their concerns. The SFP informed Heathers and Brown about French regulations and offered to mediate with Guéguen. But, after nearly two years of receiving unsatisfactory responses from the researcher, the organization announced it had done all it could as a mediator.
Rather than go through more achingly lengthy official procedures, Heathers and Brown have opted to make the scientific community aware of the issues. They will be publishing the nitty-gritty details of their critique over numerous blog posts, and they shared an overview of the findings with Ars.
But really, looking at some of those pieces of 'research', they look more like something that appears on a clickbaity website ('we sent our interns out to do a survey') than SRS SCIENCE.
Because I've had this open for a while: A Porlock Day Manifesto. Julie Phillips. In praise of procrastination, interruption, and the unfinished work.
Ghastly ideas: Flitted past me somewhere on social media today, have now tracked down further details: phone-case that pops up engagement ring, films recipient's reaction, facility (not, yet, automatic) to post to social media. The video represents what, I suppose, the creators of this - object - imagine it will achieve. The whole thing strikes me generally as being the same sort of bad idea as those very public proposals.
I also saw, somewhere, but not sure if this is really a thing, something about couples being married with their smartphones in their hands so that they can change their Facebook status immediately upon saying 'I do'. WOT. This entry was originally posted at https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2696697.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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