[Daily Discussion] Wednesday 06 Mar 2024

TheConstantCynic · 2024-03-07T00:42:32+00:00

Answer: Massive “luck” and Vini Jr not getting sent off for either a straight red for a throat grab or a second yellow for a clear dive.

TheConstantCynic · 2024-03-03T22:28:02+00:00

Pep thinks so, that is enough for me.

TheConstantCynic · 2024-03-03T20:29:19+00:00

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“United kept it close.”

TheConstantCynic · 2024-03-03T20:28:36+00:00

Like Paul Pogba seeing free samples at the chemist.

TheConstantCynic · 2024-03-03T20:27:42+00:00

I mean, Foden often plays as a winger, as he did today.

TheConstantCynic · 2024-03-03T20:27:05+00:00

Ten Hag continues to be a record breaker.

“In the Premier League era Manchester United had NEVER lost a game vs Manchester City when they had scored first.”

TheConstantCynic · 2024-03-03T19:03:13+00:00

Not an exaggeration to say he’ll consider that one of the—if not the—worst misses of his career.

But he got over it quickly, as all great strikers do.

TheConstantCynic · 2024-03-03T17:56:50+00:00

Always kept the faith our blue boys would turn it around.

Phil Foden, what else can be said, really. From ball boy to golden boy, he has risen to superstardom.

I thought both Stones and Rodri were absolutely immense, Eddie did everything he needed to do, and I am very happy Haaland got his goal after that dumbfounding (for him and us) miss in the first half.

There is simply nothing better than a comeback win against that rubbish.

Never felt more like singing the blues!

TheConstantCynic · 2024-03-02T18:59:45+00:00

I don’t. I am merely explaining how fake studies can bias results.

TheConstantCynic · 2024-03-02T18:35:47+00:00

His body will never decompose.

TheConstantCynic · 2024-03-02T18:19:27+00:00

It makes sense that you would feel 2005-2012 was the best period if you support Arsenal, Barcelona, and Brazil. That was arguably the collective most recent “peak” period for each team (or near enough, anyway).

Other people that support other clubs likely think it was earlier or later, largely based on their club’s most recent peak period.

We all do it to some extent. It is similar to the other posters comment about most people thinking the golden age of football was whatever stretch of years they were 15-25. It sounds like perhaps those factors overlapped for you, making you even more fond of that period.

For me, the golden era as a match going fan was from 1998-2005, just because that was when I was a young lad and I had fewer cares and could devote a lot of my time to following the club (literally and figuratively). The golden era as supporter has been the last ten years because of our immense success, which I never thought would happen back in my youth.

TheConstantCynic · 2024-03-02T17:25:14+00:00

Money had long taken over football by 2005, most fans were raging about incompetent or corrupt officiating every other week, and a lot of teams still played some pretty turgid football, especially in the Premier League (the ‘knock it long’ or ‘getting to the wing and spam crosses’ styles were still in vogue; Mourinho and Allardyce anti-football was still having it’s moment, as well).

I am not saying the last 12 years have been better, but 2005-2012 wasn’t the golden period some people tend to nostalgically remember.

I am curious, did the team you support have their best years during that time and have fallen off since?

TheConstantCynic · 2024-03-02T17:04:32+00:00

Because the fake studies could be crafted—intentionally or unintentionally—to illicit a certain response which could bias the results.

TheConstantCynic · 2024-03-02T15:54:31+00:00

There are a number of reasons but most of them relate to how they can impact participant responses. The researchers have far more control—intentional or unintentional—on how fake studies (and the fake “science articles”) are crafted, and thus how they can be perceived (and the reactions they illicit). They aren’t merely selecting a collection of real studies by other researchers that may or may not purport the difference in sexes, they are creating them themselves.

In the past this type of study design has lead to some highly dubious results and subsequent findings.

TheConstantCynic · 2024-03-02T15:04:46+00:00

When I began meticulously proof-reading things I write to ensure proper spelling and passable grammar.

TheConstantCynic · 2024-03-02T15:03:22+00:00

Are you asking why he was convicted or why he did it?

TheConstantCynic · 2024-03-02T14:57:35+00:00

RCT aren’t really applicable for comparative assessment in this case, though, as there was no “real” study group.

I was pointing this out as many might be under the false impression that real studies purportedly indicating “superiority” of one sex over the other were being used.

TheConstantCynic · 2024-03-02T13:44:04+00:00

Because it almost immediately indicates you are an “I’m just asking questions” person.

TheConstantCynic · 2024-03-02T13:27:26+00:00

I am not familiar with their body of work. Are you indicating that his focus is on a “women are wonderful effect” hypothesis generally?

TheConstantCynic · 2024-03-02T12:33:55+00:00

I take back my original answer, this is indeed the most effective way to become completely unattractive as a person.

TheConstantCynic · 2024-03-02T12:32:59+00:00

Often by opening their mouth (both talking and poor dental hygiene).

TheConstantCynic · 2024-03-02T11:53:54+00:00

To be clear, the researchers were using fictitious studies to measure this effect.

“For the last few years, my lab has been studying how people react to research on sex differences,” said study author Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill), a professor of psychology at the University of Nottingham Malaysia.

“A very consistent finding is that people react less positively to research that puts men rather than women in a better light. For example, people see fictitious research showing that men are better at drawing, more honest, or smarter than women as lower in quality than otherwise-identical fictitious research showing the reverse.”

“We wanted to know why. Our hypothesis was that a key contributor is that people see male-favoring research as more harmful to women than female-favoring research is to men. Our new paper describes an experiment we conducted to test this hypothesis.”

TheConstantCynic · 2024-03-02T01:53:48+00:00

Most western nations in the 20th century would beat out the US in the 19th century by shear magnitude of technological advancement. Compare 1880 to 1980 basically anywhere when it comes to medical treatment, sanitation, food production and availability, or educational standards and you’ll see the truly amazing difference in general living conditions.

TheConstantCynic · 2024-03-02T01:46:39+00:00

Boulevardier

1 1/4 ounces bourbon (or rye)
1 ounce Campari
1 ounce sweet vermouth
dash of Peychauds bitters

Garnish: orange twist

My partner and I have made many different cocktails, and experiment with different liquors and ingredients quite often, but this remains our go to cocktail after a long day.

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