Interesting Links for 11-06-2015

[andrewducker]

• I Didn’t Know I Was in an Abusive Relationship Since My Boyfriend Never Hit Me
  • (tags: abuse relationships viaJackie )
• This review does a good job of highlighting why I wasn't very taken with The Hydrogen Sonata (spoilers)
  • (tags: Books review IainBanks culture )
• Toddlers learn better when you make them giggle
  • (tags: children humor learning )
• Fake

Comments

Toddlers learn better when you make them giggle

[drdoug]

That's one of those studies that's not quite as clear as it sounds, and it would take more scrutiny of the (gated) full text than I have time for to really tease it out

RE: Toddlers learn better when you make them giggle

[andrewducker]

I do love it when kids are smarter than expected.

Re: Toddlers learn better when you make them giggle

[bohemiancoast]

They mention one confounder, which is that there might be a correlation between learning ability and joke-appreciating ability, but they don't mention the other confounder, which is that toddlers will do more for people they like. Feels like pretty weak research all round, though not as bad as this week's star "how did that get funded" -- turns out that if you feed babies a lot of different foods, they like new foods more. Who knew?

[kalimac]

I use my wife's surname on occasion, when she's the one who's the signed-up customer or in suchlike cases. I just don't bother to tell them I have a different name. She does likewise in reverse, mostly (she says) to keep us together on alphabetized lists for convention memberships and such. We're just a bit flexible.

[andrewducker]

I'm always Mr Port when I collect Julie's prescriptions from the local pharmacy :-)

[kalimac]

Precisely. Yes, that sort of thing.

[naath]

Names> I'm mostly astonished by the degree to which some people appear to be shocked/horrified if a couple decide to do anything other than "the normal thing". I firmly believe people should be able to do whatever they live with their names, to suit themselves, with only minimal restrictions such as "you may not change your name to something that is hate speech".

(By "some people" I include my Mother, bah etc.)

[andrewducker]

Yup. Why some people think that not only is it important, but that it's something they should bother other people about...

[a_pawson]

But....but......but.....but......it's tradition! It must always be done no matter how illogical or outdated it may be.

[cmcmck]

Quakers (amongst whose number I count myself) traditionally don't change name on marriage, although I did as the family name I bore as a maiden name wasn't my original family name for various reasons, if that makes any sense?

[momentsmusicaux]

I don't really get tribalism in sport (though admittedly, I don't get sport at all, and tribalism not that much either).

And I've heard one of the few football fans I know say of a game where her team trounced the other side, that it was boring -- so what makes a fun and exciting game is when it's close. That much I can understand.