Olives @olives@qoto.org

Religion isn't really an excuse for being a horrible person.

What do you think the fascists mutter to themselves? In the name of the censor, the fascist, and the holy algorithm? Amen. ?

"other scales"

An example of something which someone might use is a Likert scale, so that might be something like Strongly Disagree, Disagree, Neutral, Agree, and Strongly Agree. There are other kinds of scales though.

Given Mozilla's financial state, this is not a surprising decision.

Remember that there is qualitative and quantitative research.

Quantitative research involves collecting numerical data (things like yes / no and other scales can be encoded as numbers), often from large groups of people, and analysing that to figure out what the various variables describe.

Qualitative research delves into more subjective experiences in things like interviews (and textual data) and they involve smaller groups of people (analysing the data requires more resources which makes it harder to carry out studies with larger groups of people).

Mixed methods research does both.

That's a brief summary.

The home feed appears to have repeated the same post three times.

Jeanne doesn't appear to have spoken to a single newspaper, media outlet, or even a blog about her findings. This is a good example of how someone can fail at communications.

Jeanne also makes an error here about why things might happen. It is a *political* issue. It is not a *scientific* issue. Going back a decade, there is more than enough grounds to show that it does not drive crime. This is a *political argument*. While more science might be helpful, it doesn't necessarily change the politics.

Now, my profile doesn't load.

Time and space seems to be in a bit of chaos on this instance. Probably synchronizing.

I suppose it is time for someone to bust out the Anki and those other tools to learn an extra language or two to take advantage of the new functionality.

The update appears to have added two features. An option to pick what language a post should be tagged and a thing showing when someone signed up.

When a CAPTCHA asks whether you are human, is that discrimination against extra-terrestrials? Lol.

Brendan Eich was the same guy who created JavaScript in something like two weeks. In retrospect, that might be part of why JavaScript isn't a good language.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382465676_Reported_Consequences_of_the_Ban_on_Sex_Dolls_With_a_Childlike_Appearance_-_A_Content_Analysis_of_Affected_Persons'_Reports
Unsurprisingly, if a party with a name like the Party of Jesus Christ gets elected (what happened to keeping religion out of politics?), you might get morality based policies which are not based in science and violate human rights (although, "won't anyone please think of the children?"* would not be new rhetoric from politicians). Curiously, this country happens to have a branch of the notorious white savior fundamentalist group, IJM, and they come up more often than you'd think.

I haven't looked into this particular law though, so I don't know how it works in practice. I'm going by what Jeanne is saying here. Jeanne makes it sound disturbingly broad.

I haven't looked deeply into this but this feels like a likely forensic adjacent group (especially with the emphasis on whether it increases or decreases crime, and the author being a student in a forensic field), rather than a more representative sample which better represents the general population. Also, I don't think a representative sample (though that is one example she picked out) would use that identity. It concludes that the dolls reduce crime though.

https://qoto.org/@olives/113204617130506428 For my science based piece on such things (among other things like porn), there is this post.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children

@freemo https://git.qoto.org/explore There appear to be spammers on your Gitlab.

@freemo https://github.com/statping/statping Since the server seems to have eaten this post, I don't know if it reached you. Have you considered using some sort of status page (on a separate sub-domain?)? Here's an example of one.

Buggy update it seems.