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thehedgehogboy · 5 days
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SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN dir. Stanley Donen + Gene Kelly 
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thehedgehogboy · 19 days
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season 2 spell like to charge reblog to cast
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thehedgehogboy · 19 days
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Happiness Will Come To You.
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thehedgehogboy · 26 days
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In case you lost it - a link to the eSIM donation guide. Even if you feel sick and powerless, you can at least do this. And even if you really, really can't donate, you can always at least share this and remind others.
https://gazaesims.com/esim-purchase-tutorial/
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thehedgehogboy · 1 month
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thehedgehogboy · 2 months
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where are the jobs for useless people who can't handle anything at all
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thehedgehogboy · 2 months
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Saw a post like this with negative outlook so I asked for it to be fixed
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thehedgehogboy · 1 year
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reblog if you're a fucked up creature 👍🏾
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thehedgehogboy · 1 year
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Please reblog for a bigger sample size 🤗
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thehedgehogboy · 1 year
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thehedgehogboy · 2 years
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I can’t for the life of me not get why the majority of the UK is not livid right now. People are starving on mass in our country in the middle of a crisis where billionaire CEOs of supermarket, energy, and oil companies are profiting millions, and I turn on the TV and BBC news is taking 6 hours to live stream Lizzie’s hearse going down a Scottish motorway. Fucking Hunger Games shit.
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thehedgehogboy · 2 years
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When she was alive it was all 'she's a figurehead and a symbol of constancy and a tourist attraction' to justify her existence
And then when she dies it's all 'she was a mother! A grandmother! You heartless bastards how could you laugh at the death of a fellow human!'
Like you can't have it both ways either she was a normal human like everybody else and thus did not deserve the ridiculous riches and political influence OR she was an important figurehead of the entrenched class system desperately clinging to the remains of her racist family's colonial empire the fall of whom we're allowed to fucking celebrate
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thehedgehogboy · 2 years
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ideally jk rowling will be next
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thehedgehogboy · 2 years
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A Lesson in Critical Thinking
It occurs to me that not everybody got particularly robust education (read: any) in how to think critically or apply problem-solving and data collection methods to day-to-day matters they may encounter in their lives. And while I'm no expert in this by any means, I do think I can shed some light on a thing or two.
Let's Say I Have an Observation
It could be anything, from a "fact" someone shared to a pattern I notice in the world -- what matters is it's something I want to verify. For a lighthearted example: I run a discord server, and three members whom I think most of us in the community would consider "cool peeps with their shit together" are polyamorous.
Faced with that observation, one might be tempted to make the claim, "Poly people have their shit together more than the rest of us." And you could even come up with some compelling rationalizations for that, such as, "the poly lifestyle requires so much more communication that people who live it also have better people skills" or hell, even, "living with multiple partners is the ideal state of being, and if we all did that we'd be happier and better-adjusted, too."
And, hey, maybe those things are true! But before we go about spreading that message, maybe we should take a step back and confirm it a bit, hmm?
Checking for Biases
The first thing I'll want to do is think about my claim and validate whether it really feels true and fits within what I generally know about the world:
Are those three people really as "with it" as they seem to be? Am I cherry-picking my evidence to support my conclusion?
Did I see that two people fit the pattern and so lumped in the third polyamorous user with them just to make my argument more compelling?
Might I have a vested interest in wanting this to be true? Does anything about me/my identity hinge on this worldview being correct?
it's important to be honest with yourself at this stage. Confirmation bias is something we can all fall into, and it doesn't make you a bad person -- but it DOES make your data unreliable!
Searching for More Cases
If the claim "polyamorous people are better communicators and more likely to have their shit together" is true, then we should be able to find more examples of it in the wild! Perhaps we should validate our claim by collecting some more data:
Can we survey a population -- say, a polyamory community online -- and capture some raw data? Could we come up with some kind of questionnaire that evaluates the "has-it-together-ness" of a person?
Can we even just informally ask around for other people's experiences? Anecdotes aren't data, but they can help you take a temperature of whether something might be worth investigating further.
Do we have any other experiences we can draw from that might help us validate the claim? Do we have counter-examples in mind who are polyamorous and *don't* have their shit together?
Has anybody ELSE noticed this phenomenon before? Are there studies about it? If so, do they seem well-done? Are the sources credible? (Evaluating a source is a whole other thing and a matter for another guide)
Obviously, a survey is the most scientifically rigorous option -- but you don't have to do a full-on study to validate every single thought and suspicion you have! Sometimes you discover a satisfactory explanation that somebody else has come up with. That's still better than running around espousing a claim you just made up or heard on the street without any further validation!
Eliminating Variables
Okay, so let's say you've acquired some data -- either scientifically collected or informally gathered. And let's say that data does indeed agree with our suspicion! From the results of our hypothetical survey, perhaps we've determined that polyamorous people are indeed more likely to have their shit together (by whatever metric we're judging that against).
Let's see if we can poke some holes in that.
Is there anything else that the people you surveyed have in common that might affect things? For example, if everybody happens to have a stable polycule, could it be that relationship stability is the real factor (as opposed to the number of partners?)
Is where you're finding these people affecting the results? Are people who are in certain types of communities more likely to respond in certain ways? How big was the sample size?
There's a reason why scientific studies eliminate variables, have control groups, and utilize a double-blind method!
The point of all of this is not to make any claims about polyamorous people, and it's not to tell you that you need to complete a scientific study to every thought that pops into your head. The point is to give you a framework for thinking critically about claims and observations. Mentally running through this process ("is my data accurate? am I biased? how could I validate this information? what other explanations might make sense?") might take just a few minutes once you've practiced it, and it can save you from falling for fake news, dangerous pseudoscience, propaganda, and so forth.
Now go out there and think critically!
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thehedgehogboy · 2 years
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everyone check out my totally original new band father father and our hit single "grain silo"
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thehedgehogboy · 2 years
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thehedgehogboy · 2 years
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