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Gravitiger
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re: Volleyball is a beautiful sport
Posted by Gravitiger on 1/17/26 at 4:53 pm to FootballFrenzy
Women's volleyball is more interesting than men's for a variety of reasons, but one is longer rallies and fewer service winners/errors.
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re: My 4yr old son pulled the ole okie doke at school and got in trouble.
Posted by Gravitiger on 1/17/26 at 3:51 pm to TigerintheNO
quote:This would be a huge licensing/compliance problem for the facility if true.
What kind of teacher leaves a room full of 4 year olds alone for that long?
re: Princewell Umanmielen: deadline drama?
Posted by Gravitiger on 1/17/26 at 7:55 am to Roscoe
quote:Sheesh, no tampering there...
He and his family told Clemson he’s had multiple discussions with Golding this week and OM was doubling his NIL offer
re: Japanese people aren't having sex. And nobody knows why
Posted by Gravitiger on 1/16/26 at 10:09 am to Penrod
quote:It’s literally not in their study. They didn't use any other data sources at all, nor did they claim to. This is just something a random journalist said while reporting on the study (or rather, your version of what a journalist said about a study--we're playing a serious game of telephone here). There was no correlation analysis reported at all.
That’s just saying they used primary sources of data rather than polling people themselves. Nothing wrong with that.
"Using primary sources of data rather than polling people themselves"--this is gobbledygook. There is no such thing as this. The survey results (in your words "polling people themselves") ARE the primary data.
Analyzing data gathered by other researchers is called secondary data analysis, and it’s its own whole methodological subfield. But that's not what happened here anyway.
You already got called out for not understanding what a statistical correlation is. Now you're just stringing together random research-related terms, trying to sound smart.
re: LSU is seeing surge in AI cheating allegations - Students could lose scholarships
Posted by Gravitiger on 1/16/26 at 10:06 am to jflsufan
quote:Do you trust your classmates? Social media is full of stories of law school students figuring out how (or paying relatively big bucks) to rig AI tools into their lockdown browsers even for exams.
I am in law school, and we have to sign the honor code every time we turn something in stating that we did not use generative AI.
re: Japanese people aren't having sex. And nobody knows why
Posted by Gravitiger on 1/14/26 at 7:27 am to Penrod
quote:That's not something from their study data, and not a statistical correlation they identified. It's also what the journalists reporting the research said, not the researchers themselves.
High income countries correlates with young adults having less sex.
re: Japanese people aren't having sex. And nobody knows why
Posted by Gravitiger on 1/14/26 at 6:58 am to Penrod
quote:"quantified results" is not a meaningful term in the research world.
They performed a study, with quantified results
quote:They did not identify any correlations. These are purely descriptive statistics, not inferential.
Every year there are thousands of studies that identify correlations without solving for causation. These studies are very useful in that they identify areas for further research.
My guess is the researchers have the follow up data, and are preparing it for another paper. They'll bump their H-index and tenure dossier with more, crappier articles, instead of just doing a great piece of research.
re: Japanese people aren't having sex. And nobody knows why
Posted by Gravitiger on 1/13/26 at 8:27 pm to Penrod
quote:I dunno. Not my field. You're asking a wholly different substantive research question. I was responding to a critique of the methods of another study.
Okay, so why is the birth rate so low here in the United States?
re: Japanese people aren't having sex. And nobody knows why
Posted by Gravitiger on 1/13/26 at 7:38 pm to Penrod
quote:You ask a follow-up question, or, if not possible in the context of the study, you do a new IRB and follow-up interviews, or even a whole new study. You don’t publish half-arse research when the answer to your question is just, "Huh, that's weird." Sometimes social science researchers (and peer reviewers and journal editors) are morons.
They did ask them, but what are you going to do with, “I just don’t want to”? That doesn’t explain it. Why don’t they want to?
re: Jennings woman arrested after unborn baby dies of OD
Posted by Gravitiger on 1/13/26 at 4:44 pm to Cosmo
quote:They told her not to take Tylenol, right?
Benoit had suffered from stomach pain, and used fentanyl/heroin to relieve the pain, authorities said.
re: Jennings woman arrested after unborn baby dies of OD
Posted by Gravitiger on 1/13/26 at 4:43 pm to Stexas
quote:Juries are obviously unpredictable, but I got a feeling that with decent voir dire, the good citizens of Jeff Davis Parish wouldn't have a problem putting this woman away.
DA will be afraid of the jury trial so she’ll plead to some BS and get a few years probation
re: So has LSU disbanded holistic admissions?
Posted by Gravitiger on 1/12/26 at 4:48 pm to Granola
quote:*except for athletes
Granola
Alabama banned holistic admissions
re: When The Police Have Pulled Someone Over...
Posted by Gravitiger on 1/12/26 at 8:08 am to Mizz-SEC
You're pulled over on the side of the road. Something dangerous could easily happen that would require you to move your vehicle to save your life (e.g., another bad driver). A cop disabling your vehicle while pulling it over is a terrible idea and a catalyst for much litigation.
re: The real reason for Indiana’s success: old school still works.
Posted by Gravitiger on 1/10/26 at 12:24 pm to Jacque Itchbad
quote:That seems doubtful, but more plausible. Basically would mean the average player has a fall birthday and is in his 5th-6th year of college (depending if held back at some point). I know we're in the last year of extra COVID eligibility for a lot of people.
If I remember correctly, 24 is the average age of their offense.
quote:I mean, yeah, the Heisman Trophy winner would probably retroactively be rated a 5*.
No 5 stars is sort of misleading.
No 5 stars out of high school.
This team does not lack talent & I would bet multiple 5 star rated players now.
re: The real reason for Indiana’s success: old school still works.
Posted by Gravitiger on 1/10/26 at 11:01 am to Tigertown in ATL
quote:That might be the average age of their OL or even their starters (though I doubt that). The average age of their roster is not 24. They have 40+ combined Fr-RSFr-So.
Average age of IU players. 23.8
This seems like a stat someone made up on the internet and is too hard to check/refute, so it's been taken less skeptically than it should.
re: What's the greatest "Age Gap" rivalry in sports history?
Posted by Gravitiger on 1/8/26 at 2:44 pm to Chastains
Would you consider an old money-new money rivalry like Man U and Man City or Yankees and Mets?
re: Why are all those northern Midwest/Great Lakes states so liberal?
Posted by Gravitiger on 1/8/26 at 12:16 pm to theliontamer
Look at a MN electoral map. The blue is MSP, Rochester, Winona, Duluth, and Mankato--all big cities or college towns. The rest is red. Of course, as my grandfather used to say, land doesn't vote--people do.
re: Would you get castrated if it meant you'd live longer?
Posted by Gravitiger on 1/8/26 at 12:04 pm to Shexter
No, I would not, but I did read a poster at the vet the other day that spayed and neutered animals live statistically significantly longer lives than non-spayed and -neutered ones do, so that checks out.
re: Christians OTOT: Would you be able to make an interfaith marriage work?
Posted by Gravitiger on 1/8/26 at 11:41 am to Jeb Busch Lite
One of the reasons my serious college girlfriend and I didn't work out was because she and her family were very Catholic, and I was not willing to commit to converting. I was willing to go to mass every week, raise our family Catholic, and remain open to the idea of conversion, but she wanted a hard commitment to it then and there. Her father had converted before marrying her mother, and her brother-in-law had also done it before marrying her sister, so it was kind of an expectation, I guess.
re: How the hell are people affording daycare
Posted by Gravitiger on 1/8/26 at 11:29 am to Howyouluhdat
quote:Not according to their website. They start at 1 year old. And my child would not be eligible for that class because he did not turn 1 before September 30. We would not be able to enroll him until he was nearly 2, per their admissions page. Also didn't see the current prices listed.
Yes they do.
re: How the hell are people affording daycare
Posted by Gravitiger on 1/8/26 at 11:28 am to WigSplitta22
quote:No, 1 extra helper per 1 full-time staffer.
4 extra helpers for 4 kids, so 5 people watching 4 toddlers and you wonder why you pay out the arse?
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