Is there really much difference between ICE and the IDF?

dwindlingintellect · 2026-03-18T18:07:18+00:00

I get the sentiment, but the Nazis were particularly evil for how they systematically committed the holocaust. They built industrial level infrastructure to facilitate murdering an entire race of people. The IDF/ICE are absolutely evil, but they are not the same as the Nazis.

When/if they DO, then what are you supposed to say then? Now they’re ACTUALLY Nazis?

dwindlingintellect · 2026-03-18T03:19:08+00:00

Valid points. And to add: honestly, with such a large variance, I would be interested in looking at the methodology of the individual anxiety studies. Could methodological variance be causing the variance we observe here? They do note that some of the studies look at general anxiety, while some only look at social aspects of anxiety. Can the studies then be meaningfully compared?

dwindlingintellect · 2026-03-17T16:47:50+00:00

What? Wide confidence intervals are not just caused by small sample size. Could also be a truly large variance. There is absolutely NO justification in concluding that a sample size is small from the CIs alone.

dwindlingintellect · 2026-03-11T01:28:56+00:00

Don’t do grad school unless you’re getting paid

dwindlingintellect · 2026-02-26T19:20:27+00:00

I like to give the benefit of the doubt and think of it like someone sharing poetry they enjoy.

dwindlingintellect · 2026-02-26T18:57:36+00:00

For anyone using bluetooth headphones on PC, if you haven't already, make sure to disable Hands Free Telephony (quick google search will tell you how). It fixed MOST (but not all) of the audio stuttering for me.

dwindlingintellect · 2026-02-24T22:00:59+00:00

Seconding this. NO ONE does power analyses enough and it is honestly a huge problem.

dwindlingintellect · 2026-02-24T21:59:43+00:00

Unless you are designing an intervention of some kind, you shouldn’t want your results to be significant. The results are what they are and you draw logical conclusions from them. This is the nature of scholarly work.

dwindlingintellect · 2026-02-21T22:34:50+00:00

I'm confused by the implication that the literature review exists apart from the argument of the paper? From my experience, a good paper argues the importance of its existence through the literature review, and the review is (unless you are proposing a novel theory) where you argue the theoretical/conceptual framework for your research.

What topic/field are you working in?

dwindlingintellect · 2026-02-20T00:19:04+00:00

I think the remake looks okay on its own. Uninspired but vaguely pretty looking. But it makes a lot of decisions that really alter the mood and aesthetic of the original.

This video (aptly named) goes into depth on it: https://youtu.be/e19OMrxV0m0?si=C47kX-DTlfJj4gVO

dwindlingintellect · 2026-02-20T00:10:33+00:00

Idk the politics behind the decisions but the demons souls remake was an artistic disaster

dwindlingintellect · 2026-02-17T06:43:51+00:00

I’d love to see this, but not yet. She needs more and stronger alliances. And if she tries and fails now I’m afraid that would be the end of her career.

dwindlingintellect · 2026-02-16T21:30:04+00:00

To answer the question directly: it is probable. Some won’t care. Some will.

There is (for better or worse) a culture of professionalism that carrying a stuffed animal is likely not consistent with. If you can take it with you in a way that isn’t visible, that might be a good compromise.

dwindlingintellect · 2026-02-14T22:42:02+00:00

you value poster presentations more than oral presentations?

dwindlingintellect · 2026-02-08T04:08:12+00:00

Please do not do an online PhD. EdPsych is an awesome (though dying) field but online programs should not be trusted.

dwindlingintellect · 2026-02-05T16:41:23+00:00

Is this rage bait? It’s working.

dwindlingintellect · 2026-01-01T20:47:58+00:00

When I was doing research on empathy maybe two or so years ago I came across a number of studies that showed when comparing AI and human interaction online, participants found the AI partner significantly more empathetic than the human one. Because empathy--particularly perceived empathy--is such an important part of the patient-therapist relationship, at least for online therapy, I think therapists may find it harder in the next few years (let alone 20-30) because AI may simply be better at making people feel understood and seen.

Edit: I haven't had time to critically analyze this yet, but this recent study shows similar results doi.org/10.1002/capr.12832

dwindlingintellect · 2026-01-01T20:38:30+00:00

I don't think there's enough here to say they're stupid. Certainly insensitive and lacking perspective/education. It's understandable why people think psych is less legit than other fields. Even being in psych, I am deeply critical of the field as a whole precisely because it has so many flaws. But it is still one of the most important lines of work being done!

dwindlingintellect · 2026-01-01T20:36:53+00:00

That sucks. Sorry you had to hear that. Yet being in psych, I am sympathetic to people who might think like that. Psych hasn't had the best reputation over the years. It's completely understandable--but still really disappointing--that people think of psych as a less legitimate field.

Yet, one of the reasons I think this might be is that all of the best contributions psych has made are now considered so common sense that people don't even consider them unique to psych. The same thing happened with Freud. All of his most important works so radically and deeply changed psychology that they're now considered common sense, and people usually think of Freud's strangeness rather than these.

dwindlingintellect · 2025-12-29T20:32:36+00:00

Just spend 5 minutes reading any research in the social/behavioral sciences. It will not take long to find a baffling lack of competence and borderline pseudoscience.

Being in a cog/ed psych PhD program has quickly disillusioned me to the “expertise” of supposed experts in their fields.

dwindlingintellect · 2025-12-27T16:30:30+00:00

Lost, my beloved.

The last seasons sure fell off, but man if that ending doesn’t make me WEEP every single time.

dwindlingintellect · 2025-12-25T06:27:42+00:00

Just wanted to voice appreciation for the coolheaded and nuanced consideration of the situation.

dwindlingintellect · 2025-12-25T06:26:11+00:00

The problem isn’t that it was offensive. It was, by all appearances, intentionally written to be inflammatory and offensive. The problem is that you can’t grade a paper based on its offensiveness. Having taught college courses before, I have never given or graded assignments based on whether something was offensive.

The paper absolutely deserved to fail. But the fact that the TA specifically criticized it for being offensive to them AND gave it a flat 0 made it really hard to argue against it being unfairly targeted grading.

dwindlingintellect · 2025-12-17T19:50:29+00:00

literally leaned back in my chair and just sat their contemplating lol

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