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In the best of times, our days are numbered, anyway. And it would be a crime against Nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were presumably designed in the first place, and which the gravest statesmen and the hoarsest politicians hope to make available to all men in the end: I mean the opportunity to do good work, to fall in love, to enjoy friends, to sit under trees, to read, to hit a ball and bounce the baby.Tags: None
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Interesting article, thanks. It'll be interesting to see a follow-up now that QuesTec is installed at every stadium.
ETA: Never mind.Last edited by DMT; 09-09-2011, 01:10 PM.If DMT didn't exist we would have to invent it. There has to be a weirdest thing. Once we have the concept weird, there has to be a weirdest thing. And DMT is simply it.
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Bullshit is everywhere. - George Carlin (& Jon Stewart)
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That research is bunk. Brian Mills and a few of his colleagues did much more extensive and better modeled research than that and did not find any racial effect. Their research is yet to be published, so I can't link to it, but Phil Birnbaum has some good critiques of the problems with the Hamermesh study at his blog.
In a nutshell, the problem is that if you're going to study umpires, you have to adjust for the pitchers they saw. If you don't, your conclusions are flawed."Jesus said to them, 'Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you.'"
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