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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 8-11-2011

Nov 08, 2011 11:00

Now _this_ is an email disclaimer
(tags: legal email funny )
The Kardashian - a new measure of time.
(tags: time funny )
Do women enjoy shopping more than men? (the offered explanation is, of course, pants.)
(tags: shopping gender )
Young foreign spouses ban revoked. Huzzah for the Supreme Court/Human Rights.
(tags: humanrights law uk marriage ( Read more... )

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Comments 23

Can head shape determine chances of business success? Phrenology's back, yeah! meaningrequired November 8 2011, 11:30:15 UTC

The problem I have with Phrenology and that other ology which relates face to personality/criminology is that they were interesting ideas many years ago, but they didn't have the science then to properly investigate and test them. So, some guy came up with what he thought was right and obviously it was a load of rubbish so now we reject these theories as humor and rubbish.

However, now we know more about the brain, there might be something in it, but it's going to take a lot to overcome to ridicule and disbelief. I know there is quite a lot of research emerging currently that our face can actually relate a lot of information about our hormones and thus our personality. It is limited as psychology is so very young, but it is developing, as you can see with the Guardian's report.

Do women enjoy shopping more than men? (the offered explanation is, of course, pants.) meaningrequired November 8 2011, 11:32:56 UTC

I love shopping in Borderlands, much more than you do. I think I'm more sensitive to the intermittent reward of finding something awesome 1/50 times I check. It's probably also learned, from a lifetime of games.

I hate real life shopping, although it is a lot easier now most places have websites which allow me to pick what I want to try on, or examine when I visit in RL. Amazon takes care of everything else.

Re: Do women enjoy shopping more than men? (the offered explanation is, of course, pants.) andrewducker November 8 2011, 12:43:10 UTC

The Borerlands shops rarely had anything in them that I wanted at lower levels. At higher levels I got more interested because they had different mods in different places.

I do like shopping, but only for things I care about. Clothes shopping sites don't do much for me :->

Re: Do women enjoy shopping more than men? (the offered explanation is, of course, pants.) meaningrequired November 8 2011, 13:17:17 UTC

Maybe that's because you can find clothes that fit easily.

Re: Do women enjoy shopping more than men? (the offered explanation is, of course, pants.) andrewducker November 8 2011, 13:32:42 UTC

Possibly. If people are enjoying shopping because it provides intermittent positive reward, then it will be more addictive if only a small proportion of the items looked at fit the requirements.

Which would explain why I like t-shirt shopping :->

Thread 8

cartesiandaemon November 8 2011, 12:37:53 UTC

"Now _this_ is an email disclaimer"

ROFL.

"the offered explanation is, of course, pants."

Yeah, there's a lot of nonsese. Although (with a depressing low bar) it's still better than I might have expected: the journalist rejects the apprarently spurious speculation, and the subheading, while a bit sensationalist, actually refers to what facts there are rather than someone else's innaccurate gloss on them.

The actual facts seem to be:

* An unnamed and uncited "online discount [clothes?] shopping website" did a survey, discovering what certain percentages of women said about their shopping pattenrs
* The proportions are obviously meaningless since there's no suggestion the sample was representative (and it probably wasn't).
* However, the suggestion that some proportion of people feel like this is fairly plausible.
* There is an implied assumption that men don't clothes shop like that. That seems likely true, but is also completely unstated, let alone cited ( ... )

andrewducker November 8 2011, 12:42:02 UTC

Making it about generic clothes shopping is almost certainly going to reflect gender differences. If they'd asked people about shopping for books they might have got a different response.

autopope November 8 2011, 13:35:34 UTC

Before you applaud the government for overturning the young foreign spouses entry ban, read this.

andrewducker November 8 2011, 13:38:46 UTC

I'm not sure I see the connection. The change isn't going to make it legal to have an 8-year-old bride in the UK.

grapefruitzzz November 8 2011, 13:54:26 UTC

NOOOO! NOW WE'RE AT RISK OF AN INVASION BY UNDERGROUND YORKSHIRE TROLLS! THOSE CAVES WERE THERE FOR A REASON! DOOOOOM!