arteteco @arteteco@qoto.org

@dantheclamman Man I don't know, please tell me!

@amerika

I see. Thanks, but I'm not a scientist, I'm basically an overgrown teen-ager with self-esteem problems trying to get by by doing lame wordpress websites and painting walls for way too little, and I too often find myself easying my difficulties with this world by getting involved in toxic relationships and playing some music. Turns out I'm not that good at that, either.

There you have it, I figured if you want to do some ad hominem attack you should get a more comprehensive picture

@mystik @TradeMinister @freemo @manarock

@amerika
Sorry "You".. who?

@mystik @TradeMinister @freemo @manarock

@TradeMinister
That book is in my to read list since a long time... never had the time to dive into the bell curve. Was just looking for a source for this single statement

@mystik @amerika @freemo @manarock

@amerika

This already happened a long time ago. Science it's too much of a rebel to fit in any propaganda because, as it seems, world and reality don't give a single fuck of what we human think

@mystik @TradeMinister @freemo @manarock

@amerika

Not really. Cultivar is only used for plants and is intended for plants that underwent an artificial selection for human use. They do not have to have significant genetic diversity as the term has a very applied meaning, so you jest need the phenotype to be different to give the "cultivar" status.

Subspecies is more general, you don't usually use it for artificially selected organisms.

There is a lot of debate on where to set the line, and the last word is by convention always the one of the ICZN (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature)

This as far as science is involved. "Race", for example, is not a valid taxonomic group, as it's mainly use for applied zootechnical reasons (such as milk cows, or egg hens, even selected dogs), and shouldn't be used outside of that field

@mystik @TradeMinister @freemo @manarock

@freemo @design_RG Hi people, has been a while since I heard from both of ya. How is it going? How are things from a mod pov?
I go daily to check in the pending accounts, but I never see anythng. Are you really quick, or we implemented some automation?

I'm not checking on the reports much, I'm just taking care of the ordinary maintenance and users of nextcloud basically, but let me know if you need some help with something.

hope you are having a great one!

@paleobiologist@fosstodon.org what is this?? I'm reading about it right now, looks awesome!

@paleobiologist@fosstodon.org you can create a torrent for him and seed it, or split it into 4 files and send them with telegram, for example

@amerika @mystik @TradeMinister @freemo @manarock

do you have a source for it? I'm not in the psychology field, so I am not very up to date with researches

@likho ahaahahah, I promise this was not the intention!

@khird here of course you don't have correct distances: USA is not that far from Mexico! They are just correct **inside** the country

@khird you can have a projection where distances between pair of point are correct, but in order to do that you have to abandon the shape.
To get the real size you can do many things, not sure what they did here, but you could for example use the mercatore projection, which is a cylindrical one, and make it tangent to the area you are considering, than move to the next one. We usually have it tangent to the equator, that is why is not much distorted over there.
It's like having a series of local projections, instead of a global one

Hope it makes sense, I don't usually talk about this stuff in English =D

@freemo

I think the Mercatore projection we oftentime use, that distorts the areas far from the equator, can give a wildly wrong idea of the size of Africa. Africa is huge.

I'll attach a video demonstrating the real size of countries, when we remove the UTM distortion

@manarock @amerika @TradeMinister

@freemo

If I can chip my humble 50 satoshis on this, African people have way higher genetic diversity than the rest of humankind, not having experienced the bottleneck from getting out of Africa.
It's easier, therefore, to find higher diversity of problems too, and the sampling can wildly affect the results of any research. Talking about "black people" or Africans is really like putting together all the rest of humankind, papuasians, native americans, latins, australian aborigenal people etc, and say "see, they have this and that".

My main point is, we can't talk about "African people" as a group and pretend it makes sense.

This is something that until more recent genetic discovery was not well known, so a lot of studies even from a recent past have a huge bias in that sense

@manarock @amerika @TradeMinister

@TradeMinister

One scientist was wrong, happens all the time and it's not a bug: it's a feature of the scientific method.

The replication crises regards a series of studies, you can read more about it on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
@amerika @freemo

@TradeMinister

As freemo, I've also seen it mainly in psychology, never heard of it outside that field. It makes sense, it's complex and young and in my opinion still lacks a strong paradigm to guide it.

There is no relation to ethnicity, race, gender or whatever involved, afaik, just some experiments giving different results now than before

Another important matter is that society changes, and people change, so while with biology or geology you will rarely have this kind of troubles, many psychological mechanisms are very much related on the culture and quickly change with it, making the experiments hard to verify.

To be sure, is not a fraud, it's mostly an epistemological problem, ie a problem of the methods

@amerika @freemo

@amerika I'm not sure, I don't think I know enough about the US to speak, either by statistics or by personal experience. From the biased internet view, US seems more "ideologist" than most countries I know, arguing a lot about principles. If the matter was what works and what not, I'd see very different political debates, more based on science and facts

@freemo

@freemo Oh, I see now, makes sense. I don't have a rich future ahead of me, it seems =D
I think in the US you people are more attuned to that kind of entrepreneurship and personal economic growth, which is something I appreciate and I should learn from.

To be sure, as long as I have the basics and a bit more I'm alright, I'm not complaining, was just playing with my mind 😁