A social pseudoscientist seeks an optimum compromise of his preference. A social scientist seeks to clarify terms so that people choose wisely, and trade wiseley.
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-20 12:51:00 UTC
Theme: Grammar
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Communicating in Person, vs In Writing
—I am amazed by how much better my work is conveyed in conversation than by writing. Or is that just my delusion?–
[I]t’s just a lot easier to tailor a conversation to an individual’s points of reference than it is to imagined points of reference.This is one of the reasons novelists write for someone they know, and it’s why I write on Facebook – so I have some idea who I am talking to.
Otherwise we tend to write either to ourselves in an inconsistent moods, or to chaos with inconsistent voice
Everyone tells me that I am much better in person but it’s only because I can listen for a frame of reference and target it. -
Communicating in Person, vs In Writing
—I am amazed by how much better my work is conveyed in conversation than by writing. Or is that just my delusion?–
[I]t’s just a lot easier to tailor a conversation to an individual’s points of reference than it is to imagined points of reference.This is one of the reasons novelists write for someone they know, and it’s why I write on Facebook – so I have some idea who I am talking to.
Otherwise we tend to write either to ourselves in an inconsistent moods, or to chaos with inconsistent voice
Everyone tells me that I am much better in person but it’s only because I can listen for a frame of reference and target it. -
WHY DO CONSERVATIVES TALK THAT WAY? Conservatives speak in a manner that exercis
WHY DO CONSERVATIVES TALK THAT WAY?
Conservatives speak in a manner that exercises and makes obvious the categorical imperative “If everyone did this then this would happen”. We call this speaking hyperbolically, but for conservatives, it’s the entire point of public speech: giving warning.
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-17 10:07:00 UTC
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Nor can you remember how to construct a grammatically correct sentence
Nor can you remember how to construct a grammatically correct sentence.
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-16 07:22:34 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/765448653091835904
Reply addressees: @MikaPeltokorpi @phallicmanic @mmurraypolitics @dmataconis
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into a respectable science, were distracted by applying cantor’s set theory to l
into a respectable science, were distracted by applying cantor’s set theory to language.
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-15 18:18:38 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/765251366352748544
Reply addressees: @JaimelHemphill @pdamra @mmurraypolitics
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@curtdoolittle @pdamra @dmataconis @mmurraypolitics Don’t worry- We’re too evolved to treat you like your ancestors treated us.
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Is that sentence intended to be in English, or some ghetto pidgin that I haven’t
Is that sentence intended to be in English, or some ghetto pidgin that I haven’t heard of? 😉
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-15 15:08:41 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/765203564113395712
Reply addressees: @Hkroemer821 @CookPolitical @dmataconis
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Reading/Writing, Arith./Accounting/Algebra/Geometry/Statistics, Grammar/Logic/Te
Reading/Writing, Arith./Accounting/Algebra/Geometry/Statistics, Grammar/Logic/Testimony/Rhetoric, Micro-econ/History/Art-History.
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-15 13:21:30 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/765176592050126848
Reply addressees: @Heritage
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The results are in: No, Common Core is not adequately preparing students for college. https://t.co/Q2HAZ2dyfy
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WORDS MATTER If you give people a language for expressing their intuitions they
WORDS MATTER
If you give people a language for expressing their intuitions they will seem a lot smarter.
Because they are.
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-13 07:40:00 UTC
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DO YOU CONSTRUCT ARGUMENTS?
http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2015/07/27/a-hierarchy-of-argumentative-structures/HOW DO YOU CONSTRUCT ARGUMENTS?
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-11 14:50:00 UTC