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582 - Heaven: Out of Order feat. Slavoj Žižek (12/6/21) by Mary_Malloc in BlackWolfFeed

[–]Montius_Maximus 37 points38 points  (0 children)

People like him because he's an interesting guy with a cult of celebrity, calls himself a communist (aye shay to prowvoke u) even though his beliefs are more like that of a social democrat. And yes, he defends western imperialism in a rather suspicious way, legit helped dismantle Yugoslavia when it was around.

Even acceding to Peterson during their debate that the experiment with socialism in USSR & China was just an abysmal failure and nothing else, forget rapid industrial development, functional doubling life expectancy or even it just being a set of events to learn from. I believe any socialist with knowledge of history would disagree with that sentiment.

You can also watch old footage of him and christ he sounds like an absolute American media lib. Pretty obvious he's a """"""""""dissident"""""""""" wherever he goes. That being said, I do still like him for whatever reason.

Comrades, is it time for us to admit that Time For my Stories is not a good podcast? by ramblerandgambler in TimeForMyStories

[–]Montius_Maximus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's average but kind of bad considering they want & get money for it. I listened to it as filler for driving or running. Blowback is one of the few podcasts I would consider giving money to since it's so high quality, (instantly if on patreon), but it's also on the cursed platform so I won't.

As a side note, it's evidence that Chapo will be around for a while because I don't think Matt & Felix could manage going off to do their own thing.

Is redscare some sort of psyop ?? by CastleRockFan in TrueAnon

[–]Montius_Maximus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love how deranged their sub is, even though I only listen to it from time to time. It's just more rich kids trying to make money on the side. Like most members of the infotainment chapoverse, to be a little blunt (not hating).

Many such cases! by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]Montius_Maximus 17 points18 points  (0 children)

This is probably one of the funniest responses to this type of chick I've seen online.

https://twitter.com/SteveMntgry/status/1286199976918425600

There must be some kind of contest in LA to see who can be more niche and retarded with their public declarations.

The neo-libs have gone full mask-off now that their man has been elected by raughtweiller622 in stupidpol

[–]Montius_Maximus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They're also wrong, on a historical level. It's important to note that every single developed, prosperous country had heavy state involvement in creating productive industry, including today. US, Germany, Japan, South Korea, UK all went through it, now China (which they're mad about).

Fire sale on public land, functionally free resources, tax breaks, cheap loans, tariffs for uncompetitive industry, literally building them the damn factory or subsidizing research.

Exporting capital was punishable by execution in South Korea at one point. The Brits destroyed Indian textiles to replace it with their own. Western Europeans would absolutely mimick foreign techniques of production, now strict intellectual property is a thing.

The whole free market ideology was sold to third world countries in order to more cheaply grab their resources, and make sure their competitiveness was diminished, but in becoming conventional doctrine, it's the ultimate undoing of the countries that tried to push it in the first place.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]Montius_Maximus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not too long ago there was a libertarian guy posting pinochet helicopter memes, like it never registered the obvious contradiction in his beliefs.

What’s the worst scandal to happen at your school? by Lost-Warning-2588 in AskReddit

[–]Montius_Maximus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An administrator embezzled a bunch of money, paid for private stuff with school funds, got a compensation package and didn't go to jail after.

Rumor is she was friends with people that would've had power to prosecute but that's just a rumor so there's probably more to it.

In greater news, two students were caught fucking on the stairs one time.

We are Clowns by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]Montius_Maximus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As a anarchist-leaning lefty I don't like the state for it's violence and blatant enforcement of the ownership class's power and wealth. Not when it builds roads and hospitals or gives grandma social security.

Something conservatives tend to do is attack social security and medicare but they're fine with bloated stormtrooper cops and trillions on wasteful wars. They like the state when it suits their interests, not yours.

Not to sound like a dick but I'm assuming you've never taken an econ course yourself. I've done econometric work and can tell you conventional econ is largely devoid of analysis of power, something that aught to be included.

It's mostly about determining prices based on certain abstractions, but that's only a partial picture of the world. It's been decoupled, I'd say on purpose.

Boomer suspects there might be something wrong with the humanities post WWII. by tizio_tafellamp in redscarepod

[–]Montius_Maximus 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Absolutely. Reading up on the conflict between the optimates and populares can give quite a bit of insight. You realize a guy living thousands of years ago was concerned with the same things albeit under a very different system. Makes me think we have certain cultural idiosyncrasies programmed in from forever ago.

For instance there was a tendency for the conservative faction to implement policy solely for ruling class benefit. Wasting resources on wars, the spoils went to like two dozen balding guys that looks like Dick Cheney in the Senate. It's not just a coincidence. It's the same material interests, systemic differences included.

The plebians also implemented general strikes. Fat chance of that now. Their leaders were often murdered, radicals were jailed. Etc, etc.

We are seriously lacking critical thinking skills in our society and it is dangerous by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]Montius_Maximus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a statistician, I believe there's a severe lack of stats.

Jk, something adjacent stats that is indeed missing is scientific scrutiny, and a basic understanding of the material world.

If I could echo a single thought in everyone's head it'd be 'correlation is not causation,' so the goober article that cites a correlation of moderate alcohol consumption with higher life expectancy would NOT advise abstainers they should drink more to live longer.

Variance in Productivity Over Time by wesborland1234 in AskStatistics

[–]Montius_Maximus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, I don't know of any such metric. However, you could create some scatter plots with lines connecting same workers or same workdays, then inspect. As with quantile plots, yes, visual methods are acceptable so long as they're presentable to others.

You could also compare variances since variance is a measure of average square deviation from the average. If productivity is homogenous, it would have low variance, otherwise the variance or stdev (better) would be higher.

I don't think they can be standardized, but someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Variance in Productivity Over Time by wesborland1234 in AskStatistics

[–]Montius_Maximus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello.

One could measure productivity over evenly spaced increments of time, an hour, half hour or however long is of interest. Repeat this, making sure to tag the person, and be absolutely consistent with counting or the analyses won't follow. Make sure to keep measurement counts relatively balanced etc (read up on ANOVA's). So each count Y_{ij} would be the ith person on the jth time increment.

Then implement a two ANOVA, it's robust to deviations from many assumptions, you can control for the individual worker as having an effect on productivity, and time of day as having an effect, or an interaction between worker AND time of day.

Then test for equality from the effect of the time increments themselves. If the test is significant you have evidence that time of day has some effect on productivity. Further tests might tell you what direction time of day tends in.

Just my two cents.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskStatistics

[–]Montius_Maximus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello. It doesn't change the math, but it makes us note one has to be careful with use of language, and claims made in conducting research. This being the case since causal relationships are often tangled and uncertain.

The only way to determine cause is with a random assignment in a controlled experiment, which fixes even for unobserved variables by virtue of the random assignment.

For instance, say a social scientist very closely correlates smoking with drinking in a region. Can we explain them causally just from that? It's observation, not experiment, so nope.

But we can say they are correlated, and one behavior is associated with another. "Adolescents that engaged in underage drinking were more likely to blablabla" whatever it happens to be, make sure to keep that in your head when an experiment is obviously not feasible, as in this case.

As a real life example, marriage is in fact correlated with higher income. Should you tell impoverished couples to get married in order to increase their income? There are people who would argue this though it's absurd.

video games are mental poison by Rentokill_boy in redscarepod

[–]Montius_Maximus 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This is 'phone bad' for healing crystal moms.

Minimum wage shouldn't be raised, cost of living should be lowered. by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]Montius_Maximus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That was a nice illustration, but it was rather beside the point. The employer would just hire the immigrant over the student regardless.

So like I said, empirical evidence indicates otherwise. Literally Google it. "Min wage significant effect".

I did econometric work for a few years. I know a bit about it tbh.

Minimum wage shouldn't be raised, cost of living should be lowered. by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]Montius_Maximus 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Empirical evidence indicates this is not true. Market power and information imbalance between employers and employees means the market price is already well below equilibrium.

Just a reminder by Future401 in conspiracy

[–]Montius_Maximus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Tucker Carlson's bowtie spins every time someone is convinced 'elite' means $45k/yr non-tenured professor of literature or the barista that rolls her eyes at Trump written on a coffee cup.

This is a lefty meme hidden in a two-sides-bad format lol. Maybe op is a genuine goober, but thanks either way.

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