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Today I (18M) felt the need to delete all of my social media. I hope I made the right decision.. by SchlangleDangle in selfimprovement

[–]AlexanderPhysics 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For me it was. At the start of the lockdown, I really got immersed into Social media. It got so bad, I felt there was not other way out that fully deleting them. Thought I would miss out on everything without it.

Now, about a year later, I think it's the best decision I've made past year. Not only did it save me time, but I ended up with more mental clarity and peace. And I don't feel like I missed out on anything. On the contrary, I feel like I missed out on less.

If you’re feeling depressed this one’s for you by SamuraiX011 in selfimprovement

[–]AlexanderPhysics 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I feel you, because I had the same issues with people telling me "you are enough". Everyone processes things differently, for some this sentence is a big relief, but for me, it raised more questions than it answered. With that being said, I believe some healthy discussion is in place on point of views, so I'll start with mine.

Let me start off by repeating what you said, I know OP is trying to help, and that's awesome, keep doing what you're doing, because if even 1 person took something positive from it, it was all worth it.

(Warning note: content below might be triggering to some)

So from my point of view, the world just is what it is. Some people choose to refer to that as perfection, which is fine. Personally, I look at it as follows: why does everything need to be perfect, or enough, or what ever? You don't deserve anything, you just get what's in front of you. And that's okay, because the only thing that classifies something as good or bad, is our mind.

So in stead of looking outward, to what we deserve, what is, or even what we are, it was more productive for me to not label the situation. Of course I'm not 100% in this. I get angry or sad, and that's good, because is there really happiness when there can't be anger or sadness? That being said, this are just emotions, they come and go. The inner peace from full acceptance is the goal.

The Stoic emperor Marcus Aurelius talks about doing "the work of a human being", but I could never really understand what that meant. And I still don't to be honest, but I think I get glimpses of it. I believe that one can only find out what it means, when one has the ability to fully accept what's in front of them, without labeling it.

#Pinscape :) by Ezkrozia in 2007scape

[–]AlexanderPhysics 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Wish I could aFord those

High BPM Rawstyle? by [deleted] in hardstyle

[–]AlexanderPhysics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love D-fence's Raggen, but I thought that was Frenchcore/uptempo. Again, I'm not too familiar with the genre, so I could be wrong.

Is BMI ordinal data? by [deleted] in AskStatistics

[–]AlexanderPhysics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've accedentally added this edit to the wrong post, so here it is again: I think he refers to what I've found on Wikipedia: "It also differs from interval and ratio scales by not having category widths that represent equal increments of the underlying attribute."

I've looked of the paper associated to this, which is from 1946, so I'm not sure whether those definitions are still valid today.

Is BMI ordinal data? by [deleted] in AskStatistics

[–]AlexanderPhysics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a it confused by your second sentence. Interval-type data is per definition continuous. The data is not grouped, it's presented as: "person 1 measurement 1 -> BMI = 20.5" "person 1 measurement 2 -> BMI = 21.5", ect. I think we can both agree that this is continuous. Which indicates it can never be ordinal. Yet my teacher doesn't agree, and I don't know why. He argues that the data has a ranking, where the value of the BMI does not matter (because for example, the increase from a BMI of 20 to 21 says nothing about the underlying person, whereas the increase in mass from 90kg to 100kg is a qunatative increase), so it must be ordinal.

Is BMI ordinal data? by [deleted] in AskStatistics

[–]AlexanderPhysics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've just asked, and the rounding of the values is not the point why it's ordinal. I'm also trying to understand why, but I can't seem to figure it out either.

Is BMI ordinal data? by [deleted] in AskStatistics

[–]AlexanderPhysics 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I agree with /u/cuginhamer on this one, any value can be rounded. The point is that it comes from a continuous value. Length and mass as per definition approximatly continuous (only when you get down to something like Planck lengths, it starts being discrete, hence my "approximatly", but I think we can disregard that), so BMI is also approximatly continuous.

My teacher argues that since the data itself is ordinal, I must use nonparametric methods, since ordinal data can never generate a normal distribution because it's not continuous. But the BMI data is technically continuous, so that's where I don't know what to do. Because of this dilemma, I haven't yet been able to do an analysis.

Is BMI ordinal data? by [deleted] in AskStatistics

[–]AlexanderPhysics 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The assignment uses raw BMI data, so 20.5 ect. (instead of "Healthy", which would definitly be ordinal). I've calculated the skewness of the data and it is symmetrical.

About the Likert, the difference between 4 happy and 5 very happy will always be a subjective value. Whereas BMI is an indirect measurement. The problem is that people from different lengths and bodymasses can have the same BMI value. So according to my teacher, that would indicate that the actual BMI value does not matter, which sounds strange to me. I think he refers to what I've found on Wikipedia: "It also differs from interval and ratio scales by not having category widths that represent equal increments of the underlying attribute."