Have been lurking for a few years now; did the survey and most of the extra questions.
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For most of my life I’ve been poor. So when a menu includes calories I tend to maximize calories per dollar. Maybe people like me are cancelling out people on diets.
Outside restaurant settings I maximize calories per dollar when choosing a staple starch (rice/pasta/flour/potatoes) and then ignore calories completely and maximize tastiness per dollar with the rest of my budget (tomatoes usually win).
I realized I was a bad test subject when they had me play the Ultimatum Game and I thought, “Naively I’d want to offer $1 out of $10, but I read about a study that says most people won’t accept less than $3. OK, I’ll offer $3.”
Psych students and habitual test subjects (I lived on psych studies for about a year) are even worse than Westerners in general.
Actually Useful Horoscopes contains very few actual predictions. It’s pretty much all generic good advice like “You should be sure to change your passwords now and then” or “Set a good precedent for yourself today.”
Regarding the original post, I don’t see how reading a useful self-fulfilling prediction involves irrational thought.
Killing adult healthy-minded humans (who want to live) is obviously much worse than killing non-sapient human infants. But historically attempts to single out a group of humans to assign moral value to have turned out badly, so we try not to do that.
In a gender-skewed environment it’s best not to say anything that emphasizes someone’s gender. The stereotype threat alone would tend to reduce me to awkward mumbling. And your first reading is certainly the only one I would have come up with in realtime.
Submitter C’s story has lowered the already-low probability that I will ever attend a LW meetup.
Making people perform a social task is not the same as teaching a social skill. If the skill involved isn’t taught, or is just too hard, then the solutions of “make them teach” or “make them do highly social extracurriculars” or “make them do group work” are straight-up punishment for success and make the “bored as hell” option look pretty attractive.
I am reminded of this column. Summary:
I wish to dispel the notion that women are “more emotional.” I don’t think we are. I think that the emotions women stereotypically express are what men call “emotions,” and the emotions that men typically express are somehow considered by men to be something else.
Hallucinations are a highly salient symptom of schizophrenia, but are neither necessary nor sufficient. I am confident that, like a lot of religious beliefs, this kind of deliberate self-deception would be unlikely to contribute to psychosis.
Actually, the DSM does have an exception for “culturally accepted” or “non-bizarre” delusions. It’s pretty subjective and I imagine in practice the exceptions granted are mostly religious in nature, but there’s definitely a level of acceptance past which the DSM wouldn’t consider having a tulpa to be a disorder at all.
Furthermore, hallucinations are neither necessary or sufficient for a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Disorganized thought, “word salad”, and flat affect are just as important, and a major disruption to the patient’s life must also be demonstrated.
Your intuitive reasoning is flawed. People get shorter with age (vertebral disks flatten, posture gets worse as muscles weaken).
I’ve seen a number of disputes of fact on this matter. It’s likely that these aren’t usually true rejections of gay marriage, but I doubt all the people who express these concerns are straight-out lying. This article seems sincere for example.
People agree that gay marriage will increase the number of same-sex couples raising children. Is having a pair of opposite-sex caretakers crucial for a child’s well-being?
Will allowing gay marriage increase the prevalence of open marriages?
Will allowing gay marriage increase STD prevalence?
Will allowing gay marriage decrease the rate of marriage overall?
Fair enough, if I had an imaginary friend I wouldn’t want to report it to a shrink. I got hung up on technicalities and the point I should have been focusing on is whether entertaining one specific delusion is likely to result in other symptoms of schizophrenia that are more directly harmful.
Related: chicken feet are also about $2/lb at my store, but yield many times more broth than a similar amount of meat or bones. It’s also much tastier than canned broth, and you can make it very strong and store it compactly in the freezer for a long time. And you get to chase your roommate around with a terrifying scaly dinosaur foot whose claws open and close as you pull on the tendons.
Some butchers will give away soup bones for free as well.
Usually I simmer it until there’s no flavor left in the feet and they’re not worth eating. Occasionally I add soy sauce, ginger, and spices, shorten the cooking time, and eat a few. The texture is very interesting but all the little bones make it take a lot of effort so I may not bother again.
Getting to “know” a person, and sharing a social network with them, raises the cost to them of harming me. They would lose my good will, which could easily be more valuable in the long run than the contents of the bag. I could also harm their reputation by telling others about their crime, possibly costing them other friendships. There is also a filtering process in which evidence that people are likely to treat me badly leads to me not bothering to get to know them better.
Some cotton fabrics shrink in the wash and stretch when worn. I have a pair of jeans that is quite uncomfortably tight immediately after washing, somewhat tight the day after, and fits reasonably until the next wash. Your body may not be what is changing here.
Might work well for masochists, for whom the pain will give the same immediacy without the conditioning you’re concerned about. Maybe I should try it when I next encounter a real-life trolley problem.
I took both of those too, and for openness I got 74th percentile on the one you linked and 9th percentile on the one in the survey.