This is called dysphagia when it becomes a problem.

Would you mark this as nsfw, please? Her ports are all showing!

There’s certainly a lot to discuss, relative to experimental design and ethics. Peer review and good design hopefully minimize the clearly undesirable scenarios you describe as well as other subtle sources of error.

I was really just trying to explain what we’re looking at on op’s graph.

My limited knowledge on this subject: The z-score is how many standard deviations you are from the mean.

In statistical analysis, things are often evaluated against a p (probability) of 0.05 (or 5%), which also corresponds to a z-score of 1.96 (or roughly 2).

So, when you’re looking at your data, things with a z score >2 or <2 would correspond to findings that are “statistically significant,” in that you’re at least 95% sure that your findings aren’t due to random chance.

As others here have pointed out, z-scores closer to 0 would correspond to findings where they couldn’t be confident that whatever was being tested was any different than the control, akin to a boring paper which wouldn’t be published. “We tried some stuff but idk, didn’t seem to make a difference.” But it could also make for an interesting paper, “We tried putting healing crystals above cancer patients but it didn’t seem to make any difference.”

I remember hearing years ago how the M1 Abrams was a battlefield domination machine that could only be killed by another M1. That was clearly propaganda. Those overweight, overpriced pieces of shit got lit the fuck up after being shipped to Ukraine.

Here’s hoping a democratic socialist turns out to be more progressive than your standard “not actually liberal” democrat.

Definitely has a botlike throwaway account name.

Its because most people only care about their comfort and convenience right now and in the very near future.

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

• Carl Sagan

In the videos I’ve seen there are usually at least 5 ice guys with body armor and at least a couple have rifles. Good luck against that with your little pew-pew.

I think they just peered over the edge and were convinced when they saw sphincter after sphincter.

It sounds like gog is pretty great, with their DRM free software.

I’m generally indifferent towards steam but I’m under the impression that they’ve contributed a lot to the recent developments in Linux gaming compatibility, and this has removed a pretty big hurdle for people who want to move away from windows, and I just think that’s swell.

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if a creepy stranger walks in on you while you’re changing, this doesn’t mean that you should simply let them watch you change from now on. If anything, you should get a lock on your door to prevent it from happening again.

This is more like a chart of, “does being smart help you stay above the poverty line?”

I’d like to add that librewolf is a great privacy focused browser based on Firefox.

Also, it seems to have been written by an arrogant 19 year old. Everyone knows what a cornucopia is.

I’d say the silliness seen here goes hand-in-hand with curiosity and intelligence, which makes them clever and effective hunters. This type of derpiness also earns them a rent free spot in monkey houses. So, dumb as it may seem, this is actually a very fit behavior.

It’s wise to question motives but in this case I get the feeling they’re the good guys.

It’s obviously not him but the guy sounds slightly like Tom Green.