My loverly phone is in the shop, having decided it no longer liked having its screen tapped. I'm not entirely sure how I'll cope, and a period of mourning may follow ...

In the meantime I've fired up my old phone on a PAYG basis - 07930 300 152

Well, that was bracing ( Read more... )

We've got a new computer, and I was hoping to be able to swap our old hard-drive in, as it's got all our music and such on it. However, the new computer is saying it's a dynamic drive and it doesn't like them (or at least XP doesn't). It will convert it to a basic drive so it can use it, but would delete all the data on the hard drive in the ( Read more... )

Right. Gerulf Reiger (he of the "biseuxal men don't exist" article) has sent me his original data, which is pretty sound of him, all things considered, although I did somewhat hint that if he didn't I'd put in an ethics complaints against him to the American Psychological Association. It's in a pretty odd format, but I'll see if I can put it into ( Read more... )

I've had a look at the original article about bisexual men "being a myth". Let's state upfront that it couldn't prove any such thing, just to get that out of the way. Gerulf was kind enough to email me a copy of his draft article, which I think shows admirable openess.

( Further geeking about psychology under here )

I was interested in following up this, and emailed Prof Michael Bailey to ask for direction to the actual study. For some reason, I seem to have lost faith in media reporting of scientific studies. He pointed me in the direction of one Gerulf Reiger, who actually authored the article. Prof Bailey was most probably just his supervisor. I googled ( Read more... )

Just thought I'd put out for more public consideration a certain point which came out of discussion with Liz last night. We were discussing the nature of science versus pseudoscience and the fact that there are many intelligent scientists who are also young-earth creationists and seem not to feel any contradiction there.

( You may or may not wish to read the entirety of this, so I've hidden it. So there )

I need to build a database. There, you see - not a terribly interesting topic. I need it for work and it's quite important in my plans for the overall treatment of our patients - so there's a good reason for it, as promised ( Read more... )

( The saga continues )

Returned home from work to be greeted by the cats, as per usual.

"Hiya, Delirium."

"Hiya, Wimsey."

"Hiya, Delirium."

Um.

( How Delirium manages to be in two places at once )