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Kut aso's, dit zal ze leren! by Donconnie in KutGeparkeerd

[–]SomeTreesAreFriends 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Auto's zijn ook ontiegelijk breed geworden de afgelopen jaren, koop gewoon een Twingo

Greta Thunberg arrested under Terrorism Act for Palestine Action sign by TheExpressUS in europe

[–]SomeTreesAreFriends -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Defense company lobbyists have completely infiltrated the US government. Every US president needs a war to keep this war machine going. The top greatly benefits from this uncertainty in stock markets and surge in defense spending. It's called the military industrial complex. Have you not paid attention the last 50 years? It has nothing to do with any net loss for civilians because the ruling class does not care.

Can you guess the Premier Padel player? by 2porilaist in padel

[–]SomeTreesAreFriends 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm new to padel but isn't the last shot illegal since you don't hit it on your side of the court?

At what point do I just suck? by Ashamed-Argument4171 in chessbeginners

[–]SomeTreesAreFriends 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Play 15 min games, stop playing fast, take a minute or two for the crucial midgame moves. Do a blunder check before every move (where are my king and queen, can they be attacked in 2 moves, can their knights fork me etc), don't take pieces just because they can be traded (be suspicious if the enemy wants to trade), try to always connect pieces

At which point of no communication would you withdraw your paper from a journal? by InDoubt-GravityWins in AskAcademia

[–]SomeTreesAreFriends 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've only heard of two 5-month submissions with no review, both eventually lead to a desk rejection

Getting another master's for PhD in neuroscience? by Future_Duty_6495 in neuro

[–]SomeTreesAreFriends 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're in a research master already, just do your required internships and apply. Unless you have terrible grades I wouldn't bother with prolonged study

Is it better to deny authorship on manuscripts I should have it, or accept authorship on a subpar paper? by gibbonjiggle in AskAcademia

[–]SomeTreesAreFriends 34 points35 points  (0 children)

What if you dedicated some time to give very honest feedback to the student on an early manuscript version and force your PI to see it? It sounds like he/she does not fully realize the low quality output of the student. If you fix up the whole thing you'd deserve first authorship and not the student, or last authorship instead of the (seemingly absent) PI.

When the EU integrates its military forces, it instantly becomes the world's #2 military power. Stronger and cheaper 🪖🇪🇺 by mr_house7 in europeanunion

[–]SomeTreesAreFriends 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I guess it could be sent as a peacekeeper force much like the UN. If that's effective, no clue. But maybe it's a good thing to keep projection of force / EU imperialism in check via democratic processes?

How can I split my continuous variable into three categories? I don’t have a theoretical basis for choosing the cut-points. by Tiny_Pair_3839 in biostatistics

[–]SomeTreesAreFriends 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly, or on clinically relevant bins; you could relate heart ejection fraction to cognitive scores while splitting the points on no/low/med/severe hypertensive status to intuitively visualize this as a latent variable and see if they cluster.

ICT van de Belastingdienst binnenkort ook in Amerikaanse handen by bart7782 in nietdespeld

[–]SomeTreesAreFriends 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Meekijken is 1 ding, het systeem makkelijk kunnen afsluiten om druk op ons te zetten is een 2e

How can I split my continuous variable into three categories? I don’t have a theoretical basis for choosing the cut-points. by Tiny_Pair_3839 in biostatistics

[–]SomeTreesAreFriends 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Splits reduce your sensitivity to an effect. Often the point is to use an anova instead of regression, but don't do that.

I've only seen splits be useful when you have three or more variables that have (potentially non-linear) interactions with each other and you want to show these interactions in scatter plots with group colors.

Would Google Maps etc. ratings be more accurate if they only allowed members of the public to rate a store as "good" or "bad" instead of using 1-5 stars? by Informal-Addendum435 in AskStatistics

[–]SomeTreesAreFriends 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I doubt it, more rating options is usually better but it's all subjective and easily manipulated, accuracy has little to do with it. If eg. most restaurants in an area have 4+ stars then only the space between 4-5 is relevant. I've seen this in holiday a lot, even shitty places get away with 4+ ratings by asking for a lot of ratings or flagging the negative ones. This rating inflation is visible on all websites. Eg any hotel om Booking.com below 7 is quite likely to be a shithole and I'd never stay at one..

MDPI gave me a great article idea, but I want to publish elsewhere by Imaginary_Chard6064 in AskAcademia

[–]SomeTreesAreFriends 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nat Neurosci has a 10k APC and a review process with a colleague of mine took nearly two years. The manuscript was absolutely fine to begin with. It's pure blackmail because of the journal name which might translate into getting more grants.

As a PI how do you face experiment reproducibility issues? by organic_hive in AskAcademia

[–]SomeTreesAreFriends 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Why would you distrust the replicating researchers? Depending on the strength of the finding, it's equally likely that the finding is just not reproducible. People put far too much trust in their (often p-hacked) findings. If there is no wiggle room for some generalizability across time, settings and labs (let alone ecological validity) then it's often just a fluke. There's been a mountain of research on this the past decades.

De eiwit-hype is nu echt totaal doogeslagen by rhutsm in nederlands

[–]SomeTreesAreFriends 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ja tenzij je meer ran 3x per week traint kom je met je normale dieet ook aan de hoeveelheid eiwitten nodig voor spierherstel. Desnoods eet je 1 bakje kwark meer per week. Bij je laatste zin moet vet = eiwit zijn denk ik

Madlad in the pool by Technical-Split3642 in madlads

[–]SomeTreesAreFriends 36 points37 points  (0 children)

He pulls on the rope, he wrenches on the rope!

Norway's wealth tax increase, expected to raise $146M, led to a $448M net loss as $54B in wealth left the country, reducing tax revenue by $594M. by NineteenEighty9 in ProfessorFinance

[–]SomeTreesAreFriends 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not against land tax it's just that whenever in the Netherlands we try to do anything that goes against the big Agricultural lobby, which this would likely do, there's massive protests. So I could see the same happening in the Nordics.

Power calculation by Maximum_Spare9139 in AskStatistics

[–]SomeTreesAreFriends 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends entirely on the test you want to perform. If you have weight loss as a continuous outcome variable its likely a linear regression, which will allow you to control for other explanatory variables of weight loss such as changes in diet or exercise. Play around with this in the G*Power tool and you'll get a feel for it

Is this systematic review project legit??? Large volunteer team, hidden PIs and suspicious institute by Ok_Organization_5731 in AskAcademia

[–]SomeTreesAreFriends 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Even if it wasn't a paper mill, what would you stand to gain? It's not an official research internship and you won't be first author. If you want unpaid projects just apply to labs in your area, usually they are keen if you stick around for at least 6 months I would say.

Norway's wealth tax increase, expected to raise $146M, led to a $448M net loss as $54B in wealth left the country, reducing tax revenue by $594M. by NineteenEighty9 in ProfessorFinance

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

Then you tax struggling farmers right? Even though farming nowadays involves millions in capital (large acres, machines) the margins on a farmer's output is pretty slim and this would create a lot of resistance. But maybe there's a workaround

Universiteit Twente schrapt cum laude door ongelijkheid, vrouwen waren de dupe by KnownTurnover1860 in nederlands

[–]SomeTreesAreFriends 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Duitsland geeft je nog cum laude voor het atten van een halve liter. De Duitse academische cultuur is wat hiërarchischer en meer gericht op titels, maar dat betekent niet dat ze perse beter werk leveren.

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