#Social Research

[clov3rcat]

Hey guys, just looking for people to do my survey for a school project,, it only takes a few minutes, any responses/sharing would be appreciated!!!! <3

Theres a picture of a cat at the end if that helps....

#self improvement #self care #sadgirl #sad thoughts #poetry #feminism #school #social media #social anxiety #ur mom lol #self help #shakespeare #psychology #social research #culture #studying #studyblr #student #student life #study motivation #studyspo #cat #sad cats #lana del rey #aesthetic #sad boy #sad boi hours #suffering #gen z #gen z culture

[philosophybitmaps]

#philosophy #quotes #Hannah Arendt #Social Research #Arendt #thoughts #thinking #danger #ethics #morality #humanity

[youllbeokanyway]

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS!

Hi friends! I am currently conducting research for my Masters by Research in Anthropology and I need participants for my study. I'm looking for anyone and everyone over the age of 18 living in the UK. The research is about the social transmission of beliefs and involves watching and recreating a video about a ritual, playing some games, and having a brief discussion with the researcher (yours truly). Participation is no more than 30 minutes. Unfortunately I can't offer any financial compensation but I can offer you a copy of the final thesis (or a more succinct summary of the findings). Please share with anyone you think might be interested and please DM me if you would like to sign up so I can send you my email.

Thanks so much for reading and please do consider taking part :)

#research #anthropology #psychology #university #call for participants #social research #social study #student #evolutionary anthropology #social anthropology

[disgustedbyinjustice]

It’s been a day or two since i’ve really been on any social media other than the news and tiktok and it feels like were living in a dystopia and i’m driving myself crazy trying to figure out how we’re going to get out of this.

the government thinks that books are a greater danger to the LITERAL LIVES OF CHILDREN than guns are. trans kids are being exiled and targeted and they are more vulnerable than ever and i hate the feeling of even falling asleep when i feel like i could be doing more.

we should be storming the streets. making out voices heard. time after time after time we have seen that the voices of children and teenagers and young adults and god forbid, the adults that advocate for the younger generations have been blatantly ignored. they have been disregarded and tossed to the side even though the only people who know anything about what it’s like to experience a shooting or live in fear of going to school because they don’t know if they will walk out alive are the people that have experienced it. is that not enough? we are begging and it’s not enough?

the current system doesn’t care about us. not enough to value human life over a gun. not enough to CRITICALLY THINK about how our current way of dealing with guns is perpetuating a culture based on individual powerlessness, so the only remedy seemingly available is to buy a gun under the guise of being able to protect oneself, as if the presence of a gun itself doesn’t hold risks already.

how are we supposed to work towards change within a broken and corrupt system built on harmful ideologies? if restrictions and safety measures are not going to be passed, what do we do? how do we get people to care?

gun violence against women, accidental household gun violence, and even gun assisted suicide can ALL be mitigated by removing automatic weapons from the hands of civilians. NOT TO MENTION THE CHILDREN. i’d that isn’t worth it, what will be?

#anyway i’m mad and tired and can’t sleep and i can’t figure out what to do #i don’t know what to do anymore #social justice blog #end violence against women #queer rights #feminism #social research #gun control #gun control now

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The U.S. already has the highest maternal mortality rate among rich nations. A recent study by the Commonwealth Fund found that "although most are preventable, maternal deaths have been increasing in the United States since 2000."

"In 2018, there were 17 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births in the U.S.—a ratio more than double that of most other high-income countries," the study noted. "In contrast, the maternal mortality ratio was three per 100,000 or fewer in the Netherlands, Norway, and New Zealand."

Amanda Jean Stevenson, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder and the lead author of the new analysis, told the Denver Post on Thursday that "pregnancy shouldn't kill people—in fact, in other rich countries it very rarely does."

"The arithmetic truth our findings reveal is simple: reducing abortions increases maternal deaths," Stevenson and her colleagues write. "The additional maternal deaths we estimate here could be avoided if we help people get wanted abortions, if we make pregnancy and birth safer—particularly for Black people—and, of course, if we do not ban abortion in the first place."

Things we now know:

The increases in maternal mortality that result from conservative public policy and law are not even noticed by conservatives.  (My own guess: 95%+ of conservatives are pre-rational and pre-scientific in their psychological function and worldviews.  Evidence is secondary to belief.)

When maternal deaths are noticed they don’t matter.  These deaths are placed in the primitive mental category of ‘the way things are’, or the ‘natural’ - the mental classification that can’t conceptualize that much of the human world is created by us and subject to change by us and not just part of some immutable and necessary law of nature.

When maternal deaths are noticed and subjected to criticism conservatives will double-down and justify these deaths in the name of some imagined higher good like “limited government,” or the seldom stated but fervent belief that fetal life is more important than that of teenage girls or adult women.

Outlawing abortion is a form of structural femicide.  If we lived in a culturally more advanced society it would be ethically and intellectually unthinkable that we’d ever move toward an increased death rate for women for any reason.  

But, given the U.S.’s deeply flawed democracy, we’re now in a place where a poisonous religious minority holds illegitimate power.  Due to its benighted lifeworld, women will die needlessly as a result.  The lives of actual women disappear into the Christian conservative darkness and they don’t notice.

#abortion #social well-being statistics #social research #christian conservative death cult

[icarusxxrising]

Horrible fact of the day: Chevron just released a new boat fuel that WILL give you cancer.

Not "might", not "could", WILL. It has a cancer ratio of 1.3:1, as in, in a group of 10 people, 10 would contract CANCER.

(Edit: apparently some articles are now saying 1.4:1, and some are saying a little under that. Either way, the consensus seems to be anywhere between a 95-100+% of contracting cancer, with some expectations of this fuel not even needing a full lifetime of exposure for you to get Cancer.)

The EPA's safety limit is 1:1,000,000 as in 1 in a million people get cancer.

The EPA approved it anyways. I am not joking. The EPA approved a boat fuel that has a near 100% chance of giving someone cancer. It has such a good chance of giving someone cancer that if you DIDN'T get cancer YOU WOULD BE AN OUTLIER.

Fuck the oil industries.

Edit: If you find this (rightfully) horrifying, have you considered industrial sabotage? /hj

This isn't something we can vote away. This isn't something the rich are gonna apologize and make a 10 minute apology video for this. They don't care if you starve or wither in hospitals or get blown up in their wars.

If you don't know where to get started:

If you already know what to do, then it's time to do it. Participate in mutual aid, raise awareness in real life as well as online, participate in or train in self defense and emergency medical training classes.

#anarchy #chevron #fuel #oil #news #health #healthcare #cancer #research #anarchism #leftism #anarchist #leftist #communist #socialism #socialist #eco #green #earth

[ad-astra-per-aspera-1389]

if I did a set of polls as part of my research for a paper I'm writing, would y'all help me out and spread the polls around?

#theyre on how people view anonymity on the internet #science #science experiments #social research #ironic that i keep doing research related to psych despite being set on astro #the polls dont have to be cut and dry either #yell at me in the tags pls #polls #tumblr polls #internet culture

[crystalfireangel]

Hey! Fun fact! I just learned that apparently studies were done over the "DARE" and "Scared Straight" programs with the research finding that the programs did "not deter participants from future delinquency, participants were actually more likely to commit crimes than similar young people not participating in the program."

Can't say I'm completely surprised. Just thought it was very interesting that these particular tactics don't work. 🤔

#fun facts #social research #sociology #mental health #history

[spadesurvey]

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[tam--lin]

In light of increasing anti-trans and anti-abortion laws in the United States, I am once again humbly requesting you inform yourself about jury nullification, your ability as a juror to vote against convicting people being prosecuted under unjust laws. Nullification was instrumental in legalizing abortion in Canada - it informed jurors can use it to help protect healthcare workers and protesters in the US, too.

#I am not a lawyer so please do not ask me questions - I will simply google them as you might #but I do care about this so so much #genuinely: read about it. post about it on social media. tell your friends who have jury duty about it #especially those in 'red' states #it can be so powerful #tam.txt #jury nullification #I still want to get embroidered 'research jury nullification' sweatshirts made.....

[djiwastudies]

Apa Bedanya Ilmu Budaya dan Kajian Budaya?

Perpedaan ilmu budaya dan kajian budaya terletak pada deskrpsi, metode dan kajiannya. Kajian budaya melihat keseharian masyarakat, artefak budaya sebagai teks yang dapat dikaji seperti dalam media. Ilmu budaya mengkaji dalam lapisan budaya seperti artefak, perilaku atau sistem sosial dan nilai-nilai di dalamnya. Lebih lanjut dapat dibaca dalam tautan berikut:

#cultural studies #society #social research

[petermorwood]

More on pre-electricity lighting.

Interesting to see this one pop up again after nearly two years - courtesy of @dduane, too! :->

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After experiencing a couple more storm-related power cuts since my original post, as well as a couple of after-dark garden BBQs, I've come to the conclusion that C.J. Cherryh puts far too much emphasis on "how dark things were pre-electric light".

For one thing eyes adjust, dilating in dim light to gather whatever illumination is available. Okay, if there's none, there's none - but if there's some, human eyes can make use of it, some better or just faster than others. They're the ones with "good night vision".

Think, for instance, of how little you can see of your unlit bedroom just after you've turned off the lights, and how much more of it you can see if you wake up a couple of hours later.

There's also that business of feeling your way around, risking breaking your neck etc. People get used to their surroundings and, after a while, can feel their way around a familiar location even in total darkness with a fair amount of confidence.

Problems arise when Things Aren't Where They Should Be (or when New Things Arrive) and is when most trips, stumbles, hacked shins and stubbed toes happen, but usually - Lego bricks and upturned UK plugs aside - non-light domestic navigation is incident-free.

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Here are a couple of pics from one of those BBQs: one candle and a firepit early on, then the candle, firepit and an oil lamp much later, all much more obvious than DD's iPad screen.

Though I remain surprised at how well my phonecam was handling this low light, my own unassisted eyes were doing far better. For instance, that area between the table and the firepit wasn't such an impenetrable pool of darkness as it appears in the photo.

I see (hah!) no reason why those same Accustomed Eyes would have any more difficulty with candles or oil lamps as interior lighting, even without the mirrors or reflectors in my previous post.

With those, and with white interior walls, things would be even brighter. There's a reason why so many reconstructed period buildings in Folk Museums etc. are (authentically) whitewashed not just outside but inside as well. It was cheap, had disinfectant qualities, and was a reflective surface. Win, win and win.

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All right, there were no switches to turn on a light. But there was no need for what C.J. describes as stumbling about to reach the fire, because there were tinderboxes and, for many centuries before them, flint and steel. Since "firesteels" have been heraldic charges since the 1100s, the actual tool must have been in use for even longer.

Tinderboxes were fire-starter sets with flint, steel and "tinder" all packed into (surprise!) a box. The tinder was easily lit ignition material, often "charcloth", fabric baked in an airtight jar or tin which would now start to glow just from a spark.

They're mentioned in both "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings". Oddly enough, "Hobbit" mentions matches in a couple of places, but I suspect that's a carry-over from when it was just a children's story, not part of the main Legendarium.

Tinderboxes could be simple, just a basic flint-and-steel kit with some tinder for the sparks to fall on...

...or elaborate like this one, with a fancy striker, charcloth, kindling material and even wooden "spills" (long splinters) to transfer flame to a candle or the kindling...

This tinderbox even doubles as a candlestick, complete with a snuffer which would have been inside along with everything else.

Here's a close-up of the striker box with its inner and outer lids open:

What looks like a short pencil with an eraser is actually the striker. A bit of tinder or charcloth would have been pulled through that small hole in the outer lid, which was then closed.

There was a rough steel surface on the lid, and the striker was scraped along it, like so:

This was done for a TV show or film, so the tinder was probably made more flammable with, possibly, lighter fuel. That would be thoroughly appropriate, since a Zippo or similar lighter works on exactly the same principle.

A real-life version of any tinderbox would usually just produce glowing embers needing blown on to make a flame, which is shown sometimes in movies - especially as a will-it-light-or-won't-it? tension build - but is usually a bit slow and non-visual for screen work.

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There were even flintlock tinderboxes which worked with the same mechanism as those on firearms. Here's a pocket version:

Here are a couple of bedside versions, once again complete with a candlestick:

And here are three (for home defence?) with a spotlight candle lantern on one side and a double-trigger pistol on the other.

Pull one trigger to light the candle, pull the other trigger to fire the gun.

What could possibly go wrong? :-P

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Those pistol lanterns, magnified by lenses, weren't just to let their owner see what they were shooting at: they would also have dazzled whatever miscreant was sneaking around in the dark, irises dilated to make best use of available glimmer.

Swordsmen both good and bad knew this trick too, and various fight manuals taught how to manage a thumb-shuttered lamp encountered suddenly in a dark alley.

There's a sword-and-lantern combat in the 1973 "Three Musketeers" between Michael York (D'Artagnan) and Christopher Lee (Rochefort), which was a great idea.

Unfortunately it failed in execution because the "Hollywood Darkness" which let viewers see the action, wasn't dark enough to emphasise the hazards / advantages of snapping the lamps open and shut.

This TV screencap (can't get a better one, the DVD won't run in a computer drive) shows what I mean.

In fact, like the photos of the BBQ, this image - and entire fight - looks even brighter through "real eyes" than with the phonecam. Just as there can be too much dark in a night scene, there can also be too much light.

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One last thing I found when assembling pics for the post were Folding Candle-lanterns.

They were used from about the mid-1700s to the later 20th century (Swiss Army ca. 1978) as travel accessories and emergency equipment, and IMO - I've Made A Note - they'd fit right into a fantasy world whose tech level was able to make them.

The first and last are reproductions: this one is real, from about 1830.

The clear part was mica - a transparent mineral which can be split into thin flexible sheets - while others use horn / parchment, though both of these are translucent rather than transparent. Regardless, all were far less likely to break than glass.

One or two inner surfaces were usually tin, giving the lantern its own built-in reflector, and tech-level-wise, tin as a shiny or decorative finish has been used since Roman times.

I'm pretty sure that top-of-the-line models could also have been finished with their own matching, maybe even built-in, tinderboxes.

And if real ones didn't, fictional ones certainly could. :->

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Yet more period lighting stuff here, including flintlock alarm clocks (!)

#period lighting #tinderbox #too light too dark #social history #writer notes #research #period tech #sword vs lantern #c. j. cherryh

[reality-detective]

Dr. David Martin: If the WHO Pandemic Agreement passes in May, the WHO will gain the ability to "suspend all civil liberties", should it arbitrarily decide there's a "public health emergency" 🤔

#pay attention #educate yourselves #educate yourself #knowledge is power #reeducate yourself #reeducate yourselves #think about it #think for yourselves #think for yourself #do your homework #do some research #do your own research #ask yourself questions #question everything #the who #government corruption #socialism #you decide

[thejohnfleming]

How and why children are embarrassed by their eternally immature parents...

How and why children are embarrassed by their eternally immature parents…

The currently immature cover for my Apple MacBook… I have a creative chum with a good sense of humour.  Last week, her 11-year-old daughter told her reprovingly – though still affectionately – “You have such an immature sense of humour…”  Or she might just have said: “Mum, you are so immature…” At my age, memories, reality and imagined conversations have a tendency to overlap.  And why not?…

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#adulthood #childishness #children #embarrassing parents #humor #humour #immaturity #Jammie Dodgers #maturity #parents #PR #social research #statistics

[robertblog01]

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#social research #Medical course #Doctors #Education

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#iran #secularism #iran secularism #nonreligious #social research #research methodology