#untestable

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

“God works in mysterious, unobservable, untestable, and unprovable ways.”

-- Clay Smith

Almost like he’s not even there.

#Clay Smith #mysterious ways #untestable #unobservable #imaginary #religion #religion is a mental illness

[huhl9yy93dqrwm]

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#disquietly #lacquered #inofficious #proteinaceous #overcooking #Goldrun #untestable #Inter-american #bobbles #niggardliness #contralti #Oona #alloeosis #precorrectly #Jo-Ann #paragenesis #descension #suppletory #alewife #Machen

[post-it-notes7]

oh my god???? when you said mir garlude tried to shatter dmk on her way out i thought you meant like a parting shot???? she was trying to actually kill him????

She might've gotten further, if no one had intervened.

Mir Falspar, despite his hostility towards most, has very strict principles that he holds himself to, as well as others. Those include enforcing the safety promised to the mirror GSA's recruits against outsiders, whether or not that includes facing ex-members, or defending those he normally dislikes.

(it's important to note this event took place before Mir Falspar's shattering, an incident that has since reframed parts of his thinking)

#post's rambles #mir falspar #mir garlude #post's doodle bin #the sword was rumored to cause severe damage to reflections #but was otherwise untested before mir garlude snatched it on her way out #she knew what might happen if she attacked dmk with it (but wasn't a hundred percent certain it would work)

[mylonelydreaming]

I just realized that both botw/totk zelink and alttp zelink grow crops of some kind, so now I'm imagining a rival farmers au where they fight it out over who has better produce

#zelink #alttp zelink seasoned farmers vs upstart botw zelink using new and untested scientific methods #goofy 1 am thoughts don't mind me #is farming one of those things that ties all the most romantic zelinks together #sksw zelink could have had a farm on the surface as well maybe? #something something plants thriving metaphor

[pbcornylius]

"They say you shouldn't bring a knife to a gunfight, but - just hear me out here - what if the knife was a 12 foot long superheated sword wielded by a 60 ton mech?"

Lancer: Melee Plus expands on Lancer's melee weapons by adding three new weapon types: Blades, Impacts, and Lances, with 3 new talents to match!

Lancer has 6 weapon types: CQB, Cannon, Launcher, Nexus, Rifle, and Melee. Ranged weapons get split into five distinct and flavorful categories, while swords, hammers, fists, spears, and broken bottles are all just Melee? It simply isn't fair, and with this supplement I intend to bring justice. All existing melee weapons have been given new types, bringing new flavorful and mechanical distinction between Lancer's wide array of slashing, bludgeoning, and piercing weapons.

Cover art by the illustrious Théotime Galmiche (Twitter) (Tumblr)

Grab it for free here on itch.io! Includes LCP.

I'm in the process of attempting to release new Lancer homebrew every month! Find everything else I've made here on my tumblr, or on my itch.io page! Help me keep my adhd in check

#lancerrpg #lancer rpg #lancer #march #it was supposed to be february but i couldnt bring myself to publish it untested #homebrew #ttrpg #release #melee plus

[yotsuba-to-fuck-this]

season 7 Thirteen was peak because she was lowkey an asshole. In season 4 and 5 the show didn't really know what to do with the crazy depressing backstory they'd given her so for a while she was more or less Cameron 2.0 but with 10% more sarcasm 50% less heterosexuality and 120% more emotional avoidance but then someone in that writer room realized that this girl's life is so shit, even House has GOT to tone it down a little on the contempt. Bc on any given day she's the one most likely to be having the Worst Fucking Time out of all of them. Dead mom. Euthanized brother. Life expectancy of a Christopher Nolan movie if she's lucky. Girlie was fistfighting demons every morning just to get to work and you could finally see it in her incredibly jaded beautiful sad blue eyes.

#gonna follow the trend of blogging about House md like the show didn't air more than 15 years ago #thirteen #remy hadley #house md #having house look mildly concerned everytime she spoke was nice touch #also that one scene where she breaks into house's flat find him injecting himself w dangerous untested drugs calls him a moron & leave >>>>

[arr-jim-lad]

im sorry but everyone freaking out and migrating to these new untested upstart social media platforms every time musk does something stupid is hilarious.

#doubly so when the said untested upstart social media platforms turn out to be highly questionable #jamble ramble

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: BAD CREE by Jessica Johns.

I've been looking forward to this one since just before the hardback release! I'm generally more of a paperback person, so I snatched it up on paperback release day.

#books #books of 2024 #book photography #my photography #bad cree #jessica johns #it feels like a Winter Book to me although i suspect that's mostly the leafless trees on the cover lol #and the black/white contrast of most of it #i have no idea if it's Actually Wintertime but i'm excited to find out lol #featuring mine own winter woods walk because we got a lot of snow a bit ago and it coincided with a nature center voyage!! #(generally more of a paperback person for untested authors i mean lmao) #(once i know for sure someone's a fave i'll spring for hardbacks immediately) #(if i'm not sure i will Wait) #(it's not like i don't have enough to read in the meantime...)

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Betsy Levy Paluck

Published: Dec 12, 2022

Betsy Levy Paluck is a professor of psychology and public and international affairs, and the deputy director of the Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science & Public Policy, at Princeton University.

In early June 2020, as Black Lives Matter protests flowered across the United States following the murder of George Floyd, businesses and other institutions rushed to enhance their diversity efforts. Chief diversity officer hires tripled among the largest publicly traded companies, enhancing diversity, equity and inclusion offerings for which U.S. companies paid an estimated $3.4 billion to outside firms that year.

What have we achieved with all this effort? In 2022, this question has special significance, as measures to increase diversity and racial equity have come under political attack, often by people who believe those shouldn’t be goals in the first place. But even among people who believe in the basic mission, common questions about diversity training have shifted from “Which training is best?” to “Is the training even a good idea?” and “Does the training have negative effects?”

The problem is that the real answer to all three of these questions is: We don’t know.

As a behavioral scientist who studies prejudice and behavior change, I can tell you that the situation really is that bad. Last year, my colleagues and I published a comprehensive review of the prejudice reduction literature. We included only program evaluations that used random assignment and control groups, as you would use to check the effectiveness and safety of a drug. Out of hundreds of studies evaluating prejudice reduction programming from the past decade, only two large studies tracked the effects of diversity training. Most diversity training evaluations look like customer satisfaction surveys (“How much did you appreciate this?”) or elementary school worksheets (“Tell me what you learned today about stereotyping”).

Since our review, despite the surge in diversity programming, there have been only a handful of additional studies. In sum, we don’t have good evidence for what works. We’re treating a pandemic of discrimination and racial and religious resentment with untested drugs.

Why don’t institutions evaluate their diversity training programs? Well, take one well-intentioned CEO for a large global corporation who almost got there in 2020. At the peak of the Floyd protests, this CEO sat for a listening session with employees, and in response commissioned more programming from his diversity team. The team hired a new company to train thousands of workers, using a documentary-film-based program that was highly creative but completely untested. After presenting our credentials and a proposal to the corporation’s diversity team, my graduate student and I worked pro bono for months to design a rigorous evaluation of the training.

Capturing the impact of a diversity training might sound impossible, but there are sophisticated ways to do so. One technique is to gradually roll out the program to randomly chosen divisions of the company, comparing trained vs. untrained workers while eventually providing it to everyone. You can track whether the training is followed by more hiring, promotion and retention of underrepresented workers; short of that, you can also measure the behaviors or perceptions of employees around those goals. You can measure how much minority and female employees are heard in meetings by tracking speech and chat contributions with online meeting software. You can also survey employees about racial or gender attitudes among their colleagues, rather than asking them to report their own biases.

We were all ready to roll out a randomized trial of the diversity training. But weeks away from the launch, our agreement with the company fell apart. We’ll never know exactly why the company shut it down, but the company’s lawyers told us that sharing company data was simply too sensitive. This was despite the fact that we agreed to use Princeton’s world-class data security system, to keep the company anonymous, and to report any changes observed as percentages (“a 5 percent increase in hiring women) instead of absolute numbers (“100 more Black employees hired”). Still, it wasn’t enough. The diversity training went ahead, eating up thousands of employee work hours without any clarity as to its effect.

Diversity training’s uncertain impact is a collective action problem on an enormous scale. The need is obvious: Pay inequities are rampant, companies face constant public relations crises in which non-White clientele are treated badly, and 51 percent of employees who recently quit their job cited a lack of belonging as a central reason. But CEOs don’t want to risk a lawsuit by sharing data, or to find out their training has failed. And diversity trainers selling untested programs might not want to risk negative results from a study.

Who can break this impasse? Someone in diversity management once told me that trainings happen when companies either “see the light or feel the fire” — that is, when leaders are either inspired or under pressure. Clearly, the project begins with the former group — or at least with the subset that wants results, not window dressing, and cares about whether resources are well used. But decision-makers should also realize that ignoring whether training works has political costs, too. Diversity training has become a political football, and companies should want to know whether it’s worth the pushback they might get.

Collective action problems require collective solutions. Studies that combine multiple corporations and trainings could shelter participants from legal and PR risks. My research team and other behavioral and social scientists are eagerly waiting to help design these kinds of trials. Because if we don’t study what works when it comes to diversity initiatives, we know what will almost surely follow: another crime of hate, followed by a surge in diversity trainings that might not help at all.

[Via: https://archive.ph/eDqdE]

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Call it what it is: Corporate Phrenology.

#Betsy Levy Paluck #diversity training #social phrenology #social homeopathy #corporate homeopathy #snake oil #pseudoscience #untestable #untested #wokeness as religion #cult of woke #woke #wokeism #woke activism #implicit bias #implicit association test #unconscious bias #religion is a mental illness

[buckttommy]

do you think Buck has a love child that he doesn’t know about from his womanizing days?

I don't think so but that would be fun and quite easy to explore, I'd think! If Buck/Tommy remains a thing, I can definitely see something like that cropping up—because it's one thing when it's Eddie/Chris, like. Tommy already knows Buck's place with them and he's okay with it. But it's an entirely different thing when your boyfriend discovers a secret child that is solely his to care for. Now, that would be really interesting.

#And I say it would be interesting as a BuckTommy storyline because we already know Eddie is ride or die for Buck through anything #but Buck/Tommy's relationship is so untested that to have something like this crop up #(even if it turns out to be nothing) #could be really fascinating. Hm! Much to think about. #tv: 911 #jack answers mail

[wigmund]

#titan submersible #titan #oceangate #titanic #it's tasteless but so is a group of rich assholes spending ridiculous sums to go underwater in an untested and noticeably unsafe craft #now coast guard and others have to risk safety trying to find and then fish their bodies out of the depths

[genderdotcom]

oooh yeah i've still got it (ability to draw halo armour mostly from memory)

#hello world #bg3 #so like i was trying to conceptualise what her role was in the very organised military hierarchy of zariels army. #hmmmmm shes some sort of specialised soldier that gets plopped into the fray when needed and is equipped with dangerous untested machinery- #- oh this is just project freelancer. #i'll dig up my thoughts on karlach-tex bodily autonomy parallels just you wait #my art #rvb

[llumimoon]

oh my god guys i forgot that i posted my first dndads fanart ON new years like that was my first Normal .... bc i was listening to atmod and drawing him when the new year turned over .... thats crazyyyy

#cal rambles #i had covid at the time lol bc SOMEONE brough their untested sick kid to the fsmily christmas party !!!! #anyways its neat this is like almost the exact time we got the paetron

[antisocialxconstruct]

I want to buy another i-dog......

#there's a bunch more on ebay than the last time I looked... #a lot of people sell them 'untested' or 'for parts' super cheap which could mean they're dead #but could also mean they just need their battery compartment cleaned #DO NOT use this information to buy all the cheap i-dogs that I want before I do. I'll cry

[ojo-rojo]

Self-Portrait as Bird or Bee

"I’ve built and burnt more

than a few nests,

there’s no reason to believe

I won’t do it again.

I wonder, if I start over, is there room

for you?  Or anyone who arrives

empty-handed, with nothing but an alibi

holding flesh to bone.

The snow retreats, then the ice.

Birds return and soon the moss

in all its careless green,

its erotic abundance

embarrassing the stone

that hosts it. When you turn

towards me, you turn towards

an untested theory,

much as the stone accepts

the blanket of new moss

without question, because this is about return,

and desire.  Or desire returned

in masquerade, in the form of a barren landscape

exploding, suddenly, with bees."

Leslie Shipman.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27653878

#Leslie Shipman #When you turn #towards me #you turn towards #an untested theory

[oysters-aint-for-me]

i can’t handle the strength of my feelings about good omens so i’ve reverted back to my lord of the rings era instead. vintage cringe

#peer reviewed cringe vs untested but promising cringe #lotr