Study: The most conservative Republicans express lowest levels of speech complexity

PinkSlimeIsPeople · 2012-05-23T01:05:56.360635+00:00

As measured by the length of words and the length of sentences. Run on sentences are not a sign of intelligence, nor are ten-dollar-words. This is really a measure of obfuscation - educators use it to see if a student of a certain grade level can likely decode the passage, but it ignores COMPLETELY the ideas contained in a passage. This study is pretty meaningless. If you want to know how smart politicians are, you have to listen to them.

ghreddit · 10 days

This helped me understand.

2³ = 8

2² = 4

2¹ = 2

2⁰ = 1

2^-1 = 1/2

Each time you decrease the exponent by one, you are in effect dividing by X.

It makes sense that if moving from X³ (X * X * X) to X² (X * X) means dividing by X, that X¹ should mean dividing by X again. And X^-1 means dividing by X again, or 1/X. This is just a convention based on the relationship between X^2, X^3, X^4, etc. It would be possible to come up with a different convention, but this one works well and is quite useful.

spacebear · 2 months

My best guess is that you (and many other people) are enjoying the deep pressure sensation; crossing your legs puts pressure on nerve receptors deep in your joints and muscles, ones that don't often get much stimulation (particularly if you don't exercise a lot). This would fall under the heading of 'sensory integration'.

So the LI5 answer is "Because it makes your body feel good". Sometimes being five is very simple.

POTATO_IN_MY_ANUS · 2 months

I believe that this is the source, although it still has that mysterious blank square in the lower right corner.

ladybrightside · 2 months

They had this in an ice cream shop in Cape Verde in 2004... Didn't try it. It was bright blue there too.

DuncanCV · 3 months

Thanks! That was enough for me to find the source -- The Big Picture

DuncanCV · 3 months

I was actually hoping that the original would be a higher resolution.

DuncanCV · 3 months

There is no explanation for this baby. Sorry. You either like it or you don't.

audreyauden · 4 months

The article is poorly written and poorly thought out. But a great idea. Someone with access to a better interviewer should do this.

occupyfacebook · 4 months

"The Maunsell Forts were small fortified towers built in the Thames and Mersey estuaries during the Second World War to help defend the United Kingdom by deterring and reporting German air raids. The forts were decommissioned in the late 1950s and later used for other activities. One became the Principality of Sealand." -- Wikipedia

Link

DuncanCV · 5 months

The solution in the NY article is a bit extreme; that's why I linked this article instead. The main point in this article is that it is important that the politicians be talking about something real, rather than making stuff up. This article presents a good metric to use when talking about the problem. It may of course be found that there is no problem, but it would be foolish to try to make that determination when people don't have any clear idea what they are talking about. Something like this is a necessary basis for holding any debate.

DuncanCV · 5 months

I would have thought that the average household income would be rising steadily, as it becomes more and more common to have two wage-earners rather than one. Am I missing something?

jakash · 5 months

You are neurologically programmed to focus on the face; these pictures are sending your brain strong cues to look for a face, and then not providing it. So on some level, this may even be a sensory integration issue. On anther level it's just creepy because it suggests disfigurement, although you should get over that as soon as you see what's going on.

DuncanCV · 6 months

From this blog

RAA · 8 months

Airliner seats are also VERY carefully engineered for both safety and compactness. Your seat doesn't threaten you, but they do threaten the head of the person behind you.

DuncanCV

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