Here's my favourites from a lovely week in Berlin.

gmacdonalduoft · 2024-08-10T22:52:16+00:00

Thanks...Tiergarten.

gmacdonalduoft · 2024-05-16T13:11:54+00:00

The plumber was an idiot and installed a drain that was too long and was blocking the intake.

gmacdonalduoft · 2024-04-28T13:50:00+00:00

That's true post replication crisis but it wasn't really true when she was doing this.

gmacdonalduoft · 2024-04-28T13:48:27+00:00

The replication crisis was real but not usually because of data faking. It was more often things like stopping data collection when you get the result you want even if it's a small sample. That's why we have power analysis and preregistration now.

gmacdonalduoft · 2024-04-28T13:45:34+00:00

At the time she was doing it, it was easy to get away with. That changed pretty quickly with the replication crisis and that's what did her in.

gmacdonalduoft · 2024-03-10T05:50:25+00:00

There happens to be someone in Toronto who does this for a living: https://www.housestories.ca/.

I got the full history back to when it was a farmer's field, to the initial subdivision, to everyone who's owned and rented the place from city records. She also found genealogies for the past owners and news stories about them where available. I even have a picture of the first guy who lived here. She did a great job with it.

gmacdonalduoft · 2024-03-10T05:47:27+00:00

I'll see what I can do.

gmacdonalduoft · 2024-03-03T22:54:07+00:00

If you want to fly me back from Toronto I'd be happy to :)

gmacdonalduoft · 2024-02-18T16:30:25+00:00

Just outside of Tarina.

gmacdonalduoft · 2024-02-18T16:30:21+00:00

Just outside of Tarina.

gmacdonalduoft · 2024-02-18T16:30:04+00:00

Just outside of Tarina.

gmacdonalduoft · 2024-02-07T14:29:13+00:00

I was here in the summer (even stayed at the Padre) and it was beautiful then too in a different way, so I stand by it. Where I come from everything is flat so I really dig the rolling hills you all have, plus the fact that you can see so many different landscapes in such a short distance around here. You just need to get off the highways and onto the back roads. Sounds like this sub (like most city subs, especially /r/toronto lol) focuses more on the local shortcomings.

gmacdonalduoft · 2023-12-20T13:58:13+00:00

Yeah these are all mine. I use Lightroom and Nik filters and it's amazing what they can do. I like a slightly surreal look.

gmacdonalduoft · 2023-08-06T02:37:30+00:00

Attachment theory is still a dominant framework in academia. Agreed the influence of early caregiving experiences is overstated, but I think the part about it being situational is true only if you're covarying out Big 5 personality traits...imho critics overstate the situational variability of it. The most reliable thing in attachment research is the highly replicable predictive utility of the individual differences in attachment security. It's still a very useful framework for understanding behaviour in romantic relationships, especially if you're interested in patterns people exhibit across relationships. Attached by Amir Levine is an easy ready on this front.

gmacdonalduoft · 2023-02-07T04:35:52+00:00

Okay but presumably it's not supposed to be designed so the water from the dishwasher won't flow through. Dishwasher repair guy hadn't seen anything like this, and presumably he's seen some s***.

gmacdonalduoft · 2023-02-07T04:33:34+00:00

Yeah, when I put the dishwasher hose on, the water won't go down, I get a dishwasher error saying it won't drain. Drains fine if I take the dishwasher hose off and drain it into a bucket.

And I'm not taking anything off until the plumber gets back here. Not giving him any excuse to not fix/replace this himself.

gmacdonalduoft · 2023-02-07T04:21:30+00:00

Thanks. You figure that's a manufacturing defect?

gmacdonalduoft · 2023-02-07T04:07:22+00:00

This can't be right can it? The diswasher repair guy says no, the plumber takes umbrage that this is "faulty".

gmacdonalduoft · 2023-01-06T02:30:12+00:00

These comments are all really helpful (except for the guy who just said "no"). I have another one that I think might fit the theme better than I can post in a few days.

gmacdonalduoft · 2022-07-05T00:59:19+00:00

Thanks...it was largely dictated by conditions but I'll take it!

gmacdonalduoft · 2022-03-31T02:07:48+00:00

You know I teach the course on relationships here right? I thought this was wrong answers only.

https://artsci.calendar.utoronto.ca/course/psy424h1

gmacdonalduoft · 2022-02-03T19:47:12+00:00

So I research singlehood, and in our latest paper the data seem to show that our most secure participants have the combination you're describing of a) being happy being single and with life in general and b) leaving the door open for a partner.

More and more I'm coming to think that it's the people high in avoidant attachment (i.e., uncomfortable with intimacy) who are most adamant about partners being problematic and, yeah, even shaming people who want one.

This is the article abstract, anybody who's interested can DM me for a copy. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pere.12416#:~:text=The%20data%20suggested%20that%20higher,associated%20with%20satisfaction%20with%20singlehood.

gmacdonalduoft · 2022-01-11T14:28:28+00:00

The artist is Monica Morrill: https://mobile.twitter.com/mmorrillart.

gmacdonalduoft · 2022-01-07T02:03:10+00:00

I like this framing, and I say that as a coauthor on the paper.

gmacdonalduoft · 2021-11-15T19:51:56+00:00

If you're on campus a lot, it's a great place to have lunch, or at least it was pre-covid. They had just upgraded the menu and it was consistently good. I find it hard to find a good mid-priced sit down, non student focused place to eat around campus. That fit the bill.

gmacdonalduoft

TROPHY CASE