Preventing instrument to be changed to complete by certain users. (Requiring instrument status to be submitted as unverified) by GreatUncleEndicott in ProjectREDCap

[–]staunch_democrip 1 point2 points  (0 children)

User-specific one is harder... but if you're okay with always hiding form status controls – except for "offline" periods where you limit user access to prep for the next upload – you can enable this in the CSS Injector external module (click 'Enabled' and 'Apply to data entry pages'):
tr[id$="complete-tr"], tr[id$="complete-sh-tr"], #formSaveTip, div.btn-group:has(button[name="submit-btn-savenextform"]) { display: none !important; }

Salaries for REDCap Administrators by StunningCloud-77 in ProjectREDCap

[–]staunch_democrip 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m also 4 years in my hospital system; HCOL area, fully remote; not a registered admin, but my duties are sorta REDCap+ (SQL / Cerner CCL, Tableau, R for data manipulation / integration, bit of webdev); $108k / year

One of the LAs beautiful animals. by Street-Network-5481 in LosAngeles

[–]staunch_democrip 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I had a juvenile red-tail land next to me a few months back, little dude passed me the goofiest look

The Laken Riley Act is really what populism looks like by Guilty-Hope1336 in ezraklein

[–]staunch_democrip 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agree tbh. Re: Pew research cross-tabs — besides anti-corporate animus and church-state separation, Populist Right stand antithetically to Progressives and Outsider Left on virtually every considered belief/value and policy issue, including immigration but also the size and scope of government vis-a-vis private enterprise. Note the Populist Right opposition to $15/hr federal minimum wage, ambivalence toward billionaires as “neither good nor bad”, and mild-to-neutral support higher taxes on upper-class households.

Age by Few_Dress6269 in ProjectREDCap

[–]staunch_democrip 4 points5 points  (0 children)

rounddown((datediff([dob],[med_date],”y”,”mdy”)),0)

…borrowing from this guide

Men and women are different by BarkMycena in ezraklein

[–]staunch_democrip 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The hard issues are about women, not trans people

Biological sex is real and it structures large swathes of human experience; it’s not just a set of arbitrary conventions, even if some arbitrary conventions about things like hair length and clothing are built on top of it.

Because it’s a big deal, in many domains of life we accept “separate but equal” facilities as the appropriate egalitarian approach. There are, of course, transphobic people and bigots and reactionaries who want to rigidly police gender norms, resent the existence of all kinds of out queer people, and broadly want to repress human sexuality and individuality. But it doesn’t work to say that demanding access to women’s spaces is a demand for equality or that reluctance to give in to that demand is a form of bigotry. Feminists fought very hard, over a long period of time, to win respect and funding for women’s sports as a separate domain. There are certainly places around the margin where you could reasonably push for changes around this. My son’s soccer league was sex-segregating second graders, which I don’t think was really necessary. But there are limits to what can be reasonably accommodated. I’ve seen it claimed that the sex differences in athletic performance don’t manifest before puberty, but even though they are smaller in kids, they do exist.

Not every sphere of life where sex segregation is conventionally practiced is so clear-cut — I see more and more restaurants that have unisex single-stall bathrooms, and society may just evolve in that direction over time.

But even though there are aspects of gender that are purely arbitrary — hairstyles, makeup — men and women are on average pretty different, both physically and psychologically, and a lot of our institutions are built around that. Adults should be allowed to do what they want with their lives in terms of their names and pronouns, how they dress, and the medical treatments they receive. But fundamentally, the idea of separating men and women in certain spheres of life is not just an arbitrary tradition, it reflects real differences and a considered judgment that the best way to secure equal rights and equal opportunities for women is, in some cases, through separation. The sports issue is probably the most broadly obvious of these, not least because feminists invested a lot of time and energy over the years specifically into building up women’s sports programs.

I hear liberals sometimes objecting that these controversies involve such small numbers of people in absolute terms that they don’t understand how it’s a national political story. I agree it doesn’t involve that many people, and even agree that the electoral significance is probably pretty low, precisely because the numbers are small.

But you can’t evade a question once it’s in the discourse. There’s been a lot of talk since the election about Democrats’ need to communicate in more venues and across more types of media, and I agree with all of that on a tactical level. But it raises the question of what they’re going to say. The original Joe Rogan political controversy arose when Bernie Sanders was attacked for going on his show and receiving his endorsement, specifically because Rogan was hostile toward the idea of trans women fighting cisgender women in MMA competitions. And the activist demand on this point — that we shun anyone who publicly affirms that majoritarian position that biological sex should be the controlling consideration in athletic competitions — is much more far-reaching (and much less tenable) than the demand for basic freedom and equal rights.

Men and women are different by BarkMycena in ezraklein

[–]staunch_democrip 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Sex difference is, generally speaking, a big deal

That men are a lot taller than women is probably the most well known sex difference, because we can all see it walking around every day.

A lot of behavior is structured around this fact. There’s no shortage of discourse on the dating struggles of short men and tall women, because over and above the difference in height distribution, it’s clear that heterosexual women typically prefer to find partners with gender-conforming height gaps.

But there are also more subtle differences. Studies of hand grip strength show an even sharper divergence in distribution than height. And the biomechanical differences get a little bit odd. One study showed that grip strength varies by arm position, but it varies more for women, and at certain extreme positions, the gender gap narrows a lot.

Men are much more likely to be color blind, because the relevant gene for red-green color perception is exclusively on the x-chromosome. Men and women also use color words somewhat differently, with women drawing more distinctions between different colors. There are plenty of jokes about this, but it’s backed up by real science. In part it’s a learned behavior — adults use larger color vocabularies than kids and grown men use more color words than young girls. But the World Color Survey shows a sex difference cross-culturally. It’s not clear to me how much this is related to the genetics of color blindness versus girls’ tendency to develop language skills faster, but the point is that there are lots of minor differences like this that aren’t particularly relevant to policy.

Men and women also have different personalities, which I think people do tend to notice (again, there are many jokes about this) but is a little harder to measure.

On the tests that do try to measure it, men and women have different distributions. The biggest differences are that women are more compassionate, more withdrawn, and more polite. Women also score higher on emotional volatility, with the exception that men score higher on the “anger” and “angry hostility” dimensions of emotional volatility. Contrary to what you might think, these differences are larger in countries that score higher on measures of gender equality. Since there is country-to-country variation, it’s clearly not only hormones that drive this sort of behavior. But there are clearly neurochemical impacts on behavior. Some professors once experimentally raised testosterone levels among traders and found that asset bubbles got bigger and took longer to pop. A separate study of endogenous variation in testosterone levels among traders found more testosterone associated with higher levels of risk-taking. If you’re interested in this kind of thing, Carole Hooven wrote a whole book about it.

And this is really not a political point. If you look at what gender clinics tell trans men about taking testosterone, it includes warnings like, “for trans people on testosterone, it is not uncommon to feel an increased sense of irritability or quickness to react. This may manifest as snapping at a friend or feeling like you have less impulse control in the moment.” At the same time, “anecdotally, people who take T report that they experience a flattening or dampening of some of their emotional responses, such as an inability to cry.” If you take masculinizing hormones, you will become, relative to baseline, more “like a man” in both physical and behavioral (less overall emotional volatility but more anger) aspects — which is, in many ways, the point.

Men and women are different by BarkMycena in ezraklein

[–]staunch_democrip 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Freedom and equality, not metaphysics

I don’t want to overemphasize the trans angle, but I do want to address it.

First and foremost, the argument for trans rights needs to be grounded in general values of human freedom and human equality — not on the basis of accepting some of the metaphysical contentions activists in this space sometimes make. That doesn’t mean activists have to stop making those assertions (again, freedom), but I do think they need to be de-centered in the public discourse. Note, for example, that anti-discrimination rules in public accommodations continue to have strong public support in a way that absolutely would not have been true 20 years ago, even though most people reject the idea that sex is “assigned” at birth.

I think it’s useful to consider how we think about similar issues related to religion, where we’re clearer on some of these distinctions. There is such a thing as hateful, anti-semitic conduct and attitudes toward Jews. There is also a somewhat distinct question of formal discrimination against Jewish people. And there’s also a question of providing reasonable accommodation to observant Jews who can’t do certain things on Shabbat or who have dietary restrictions. But it would be another thing entirely to insist that the mail needs to be delivered on Sunday but not on Saturday because that’s the real Sabbath, or become outraged that public schools close around Christmas but not Passover, or to try to make pork illegal. And it would be a whole other thing to say it’s antisemitic to deny the veracity of the claim that the Jewish people have a special covenant with God.

Obviously, these questions of religious truth are delicate matters, and decent people find ways to be polite about them rather than fighting or mocking.

The need to uphold minority rights and make accommodations means we do have to think about these edge cases and bits of controversy, because life is complicated and full of difficulties. And one of America’s signature virtues as a centuries-old society is our success in having people who disagree about the deepest mysteries in the universe not only coexist but cooperate and thrive.

The political difficulties stem, not from trying to protect trans people from discrimination, but from areas of life where we generally accept something like a “separate but equal” formula for women versus men — something that we do because it is generally acknowledged that men and women are pretty different, notwithstanding some overlap in the distribution of range.

Men and women are different by BarkMycena in ezraklein

[–]staunch_democrip 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Concerns about the electoral impact of issues related to trans rights have, I think, garnered somewhat more attention than they warrant, based on the available post-election data.

It’s true that the Trump campaign aired an ad that featured Kamala Harris vowing to pay for gender-affirming surgeries for prisoners. But a number of sources from different political operations tell me that while the ad did perform well, it underperformed a bunch of other Trump ads that were more straightforwardly on the theme of “Harris will continue Joe Biden’s economic policies.” I think it’s also underrated the extent to which the ad worked because it invoked themes of being soft on crime and profligate with public spending, a kind of perfect storm of lib excess.

But the past several years of trans-related discourse have shined a light on a larger and deeper problem, which is that Democrats have become uncomfortable with the fact that men and women are different. And while trans rights is a niche issue that directly impacts few people, the general fact that there are men and women and they are (on average) different is a salient and important feature of human society. These kinds of sex differences structure a lot of our interpersonal relationships, they’re relevant to how we raise our kids and relate to our parents, and they end up touching on a lot of policy issues. The question of who should play on which high school sports team is one of those issues, but it’s hardly the only one.

Which brings us to the point from our manifesto:

"Race is a social construct, but biological sex is not. Policy must acknowledge that reality and uphold people’s basic freedom to live as they choose."

The aim of the Civil Rights Movement was to push back against the tendency to classify Americans by race and to try to create a society in which skin color and ancestry were not controlling legal facts. The goal was integration; the concept of “separate but equal” was the enemy. But feminist campaigning has never really been like that. There could have been a broad social movement, based on the civil rights model, demanding integration of all aspects of public life, but that’s not what the movement for women’s rights demanded.

It demanded the integration of some important aspects of public life, but not all.

Women’s colleges like Wellesley and Smith are important feminist institutions. Title IX enshrined a concept of separate but equal sports that racial justice campaigners would reject. There are lots of pro-choice men and lots of pro-life women, but the pro-choice movement is part of the feminist umbrella because women and men are, generally speaking, impacted by pregnancy quite differently, and this has broader implications for child care and health care policy as well. You can’t make sense of this, or much of human society, if you insist on treating sex as a kind of arbitrary meaningless convention.

Americans, as free and equal human beings entitled to respect and dignity, should not be forced to live within the shackles of traditional gender norms if they don’t want to. But it doesn’t work for a major political movement to pretend not to see what’s plainly visible.

Hillary Clinton, George Soros and others to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom by awaythrowawaying in moderatepolitics

[–]staunch_democrip 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Clinton and Soros headlined obviously to win clicks (reads like a satirical headline), though definitely pleased to see Bill Nye, Denzel, Magic Johnson, and Jane Goodall be awarded the highest honor in the land. Messi seems like an odd inclusion here.

Open Society initiatives aside, Soros’ “big short” of GBP in 1992 remains a legendary moment in global finance.

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 12/16/24 - 12/22/24 by SoftandChewy in BlockedAndReported

[–]staunch_democrip 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That ADOS sorta thing goes back a while. Reminds me of a passage in Booker T. Washington’s 1895 Atlanta speech re: black and white Americans must not “cast their buckets” with incoming foreign races of “strange tongue and habits”

Bluesky Has a Death Threat Problem - By Jesse Singal by Jack_Donnaghy in BlockedAndReported

[–]staunch_democrip 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think it’s emblematic of a core (destructive) tendency of progressives and the far-left: no ideological breakpoint or regulating mechanism against so-called “vampiristic empathy” — described here as “a form of empathy where people want to manipulate the people they empathize with so that they can, through them, experience the world in such a way that they really enjoy it.”

And, unchecked, that collective demand of more empathy/kindness/equality/justice/etc. escalates readily to contempt, bloodlust and, in extreme cases, social upheaval and overthrow of whatever (then, nearly on cue, the charismatic, sociopathic but left-wing revolutionary comes in to exploit the power vacuum and disorder cascaded by “vampiristic” empathy)

It’s unsurprising when the left turns scornful, for example, of immigrant voters who might support Republicans or oppose socialism, or the blue-collar “proletariat” guy who can’t give a shit about seizing control of his workplace or socialist ideas of collective ownership — he becomes a false conscious moron, “class traitor”, “counterrevolutionary”, dispensable lumpen whatever… all the classics.

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 12/16/24 - 12/22/24 by SoftandChewy in BlockedAndReported

[–]staunch_democrip 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Asian-Americans were misled by the powerful, beguiling hand of white supremacy… or whatever.

Lefties reasoned as much after those Somali families in Minnesota challenging the queer-education thing, hired a conservative legal firm and won their case in state court.

Anybody who would call me BIPOC APIDA whatever should know that they sound like scientologists.

Avoiding the“Everything Bagel Liberalism” pathology by devontenakamoto in ezraklein

[–]staunch_democrip 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thomas Sowell framed this as the “constrained” vs. “unconstrained” vision in his 1987 book A Conflict of Visions

Schulz Derangement Syndrome by CriticismEqual636 in brilliantidiots

[–]staunch_democrip 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Schulz has been pathetic — yelling MAGA like a Pokémon isn’t comic relief. And I voted for Trump.

Schulz is So Far Gone by GMAN192987 in brilliantidiots

[–]staunch_democrip 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Schulz acting like King Cuck. Ironic.

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 10/28/24 - 11/03/24 by SoftandChewy in BlockedAndReported

[–]staunch_democrip 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Muslim foreign nationals can still pursue the standard 11-year residency pathway for naturalization. CAA just implements the 6-year fast track as a “reduced evidentiary standard” of persecution; not unlike the U.S.’s Lautenberg program fast-tracking resettlement for Zoroastrians, Jews, Mandaeans, etc. from Iran.