@BenBrocka Oh, ok, somewhat annoying. Also the notification sound here :¬o thought something had happened to my laptop at first.
@BenBrocka The world should get more organised.
@BenBrocka I always hated Harvard Refrances, unlike Hyperlinks, they seem designed to be inaccessible and confusing.
I've got a question btw, I may or may not try and make it into a question on the site. I'm just going to open it up to the room for now and see if anyone knows anything more about it.
@BenBrocka I love thease XKCD's btw. Many seem to be based on the power association like this one is, to great effect.
There is behaviour I'm looking for information about, below are two examples of it in people, although the 2nd example is from fiction.
Featured on the TV show QI. "Jumping Frenchmen of Maine" refers to various symptoms, one of thease is that they "obey any command given suddenly", there is also the suggestion that unexpectedness is factor too, it seems to be to do with the startle reflex although information on the startle reflex in related conditions (that arn't that related) don't seem to provide much information. Do any other disorders or similar have this symptom? Is there more inform…
Finding and citing references is easily my least favorite part of research. The DOI set up is supposed to make it easier but the scientific community has been woefully slow in adapting to the internet and even worse in providing a good user experience for finding,citing and reading articles
hence currently the best one can usually hope for is a free PDF on a site that Google Scholar manages to find...
@alan2here hyperlinks are great but they break. Our reference guidelines (and APA's) are put together so that regardless of any (non-DOI) hyperlink, a reader can find a referenced article
Consider this question:
Do porn and other remotely perceived entertainments work because of Mirror Neurons?
This touches on a very controversial topic in Cog Sci, the idea of mirror neurons.
Many pop-science books and magazines sensationalize mirror neurons, due to their parsimonious explanati...
Does anyone have an answer to my QI question btw, or comments of how to phrase it as a question other than just going though it with a comb and correcting confusingly workeded bits and typos, which I plan to do anyway. I don't really want to trawl all the tourettes stuff again for refrances and the such because it's not really relevent.
@BenBrocka Theres a TED talk on it, it can't be that Controversial. TED talk makes it offical :¬P
@alan2here Sounds interesting, post a specific question if you can and give a little backgronud to what it is. you probably won't get much response in the chatroom on a weekend
In fact I'm about to head off myself, nice chatting with you though. I look forward to the question :)
@BenBrocka Somewhat. The :¬P is that I'm joking about TED Talks being infallible. Although I do consider TED talks to be reliable, accesable, acurate, morally in the right directionsm generally excelent.
Ok, thanks for that. I had a bit of troubble with my last question you see. I'm going to try then on the main site with a question.
Unfortunately thanks to Old MEdia accessible news often equates with an astounding lack of scientific rigor or outright incorrect interpretations of results. I've been too lazy to check out TED talks directly so far so I can't speak as to their specific accuracy
@alan2here I'll try and look over it tomorrow and I'll let you know how it can be improved if there's a problem
There is behaviour I'm looking for information about, below are two examples of this behaviour, although the 2nd example is from fiction.
Featured on the TV show QI. "Jumping Frenchmen of Maine" refers to various symptoms, one of thease is that they "obey any command given suddenly", there is al...
@StevenJeuris I'd like to know ones that are inaccurate and why. I've just had to delete paragraphs of text about why I think it's so great as to not be too fanboy :¬P
@ArtemKaznatcheev I know thats not what you meant :¬P And abstraction can be nice, however, if cells were also taught like this, they could be understood in a few weeks, instead of a few years.
@JoshGitlin Well, feel free to post a reply to my new question, not about dreams this time.
@JoshGitlin Just lots of work at DMU, but I've some time to spend here.
@ArtemKaznatcheev I'd aprove of more detail too tbh, it's still a big step forward from other things. While were on it -> khanacademy.org/exercisedashboard
From Skeptics Stackexchange:
Often hypnotism is accomplished by convincing an audience member to
play along, or by selecting out someone who is suggestible. Can an
average person be involuntarily hypnotised?
Update: Let us assume that the situation is as follows. A man is
willing t...
@alan2here I don't know, the normal introduction of cells in middle school is easy enough to grasp if you pay attention. Cells aren't extremely complex unless you get into the hundreds of minor details
@JoshGitlin lack of research effort, fairly general question since he's not asking based on any information from research, and hypnosis is quite well understood to be a voluntary phenomenon in psychology
@StevenJeuris Depends how you define "against your will", you're able to do things "against your will" in the same way you can ever do something against your will. Arguably everything is either willfully done or done unconciously or due to automated processes like breathing
@StevenJeuris it's true though, if you initiate an action it is by definition by your will. Hypnosis would have to be a state without ability to willfully decide to do things
even with a gun to your head you voluntarily do everything you do, you can just as easily get yourself shot. It's a matter of pressure to perform an action, not an actual loss of will
IMO the question can be answered...I just wasn't going to bother to put together a comprehensive answer for such a question when "read the damn wikipedia" should really suffice
@BenBrocka In that case, let's just keep the down votes as an indication of that. Your comment already mentions it lacks proper research. Closing might not be necessary if somebody feels like answering it.
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@JoshGitlin Hmm 'moot' might not be the correct word, and I see I misinterpreted you. :) I read it like this "get out of beta much sooner .... so that we can get more users".
We were told for a couple months either "we want it to catch on more in the UX community" (we're on page 2 on the Google results for UX or user experience) or "not enough users/stats" which was BS because we beat the metrics
It's been addressed before, the "chat" link which either shows up or doesn't show up in the top bar is confusing. (hardly surprising)
I suggest the following:
Always show the "chat" link.
Always show the "blog" link (when the SE site has a blog).
Highlight the blog link instead of putting "new...
"I that case, never put it in the top link. It's not an issue whether it's hard to find. The issue is it's inconsistent and confusing. I learned I was able to find it there, and afterwards it's no longer there ... that's the problem." .. got 4 up votes. :) More than the actual feature-request.
The "help this site grow" thing seems to replace it entirely. IT should really just push down the chat box.
I swear if this damn ipad doesn't restore properly...
I really wonder what was gonig through their brains when Apple decided the only way to stop syncing iOS apps to a PC would be to $%^ing delete everything from your iPad
Browsing through the longest beta period sites, like Personal Finance, I noticed not a single one actually had 15 questions per day. Even for our Launched Sites 15 questions per day is fairly uncommon.
Is the 15 questions per day really a fair metric to judge sites on? Of the top betas none of t...
When evaluating how well a given Area 51 site in public beta is doing, it's helpful to compare to other Area 51 sites that have launched. I think a useful metric to see would be how long each site that has now launched was in beta for prior to launch. This should be trivial to add:
This would ...
^^^ Prime example of why I love Meta. Such hideous drawings are quite unbecoming of a mod, but as "The Unhandled Exception" I can post those and get mass upvotes
@StevenJeuris I think we should close the question. If a question is bad and does not comply with our standard of initial research then we should make it know by voting to close, in order to discourage others from asking such questions. I will go vote to close on that question as off-topic.
@ArtemKaznatcheev Thanks for the feedback, I'll see whether there is any official guideline on this. Technically the question can be answered, and it's just low quality. I see how you can interpret it to be off-topic, as it's too broad and this site expects a narrower scope. Although generally off-topic is used in a sense that it doesn't relate to the area of expertise this site is about, so I'm not really convinced it is that suitable.
@BenBrocka The hundreds of minor details, the crooks of how the atomic mechanism was what I was thinking in this case, although a nice 3D interactive diagram like in the video that could be set to levels of detail would be nice, even when just used on a large scale to circle, label and describe key systems. I supose it's a way of thinking about how to make otherwise complex things accessable while potentially keeping the complexity I partically like.
@JoshGitlin I'd like to know the answer to this as well, we could help up-vote it a bit.
There is behaviour I'm looking for information about, below are two examples of this behaviour, although the 2nd example is from fiction.
The first example is featured on the TV show QI, "Jumping Frenchmen of Maine" refers to various symptoms, one is that those affected "obey any command given s...
Is anyone who is thinking the two examples are really different here. I don't agree, especially since there are no answers yet, but if you can convince me then I'd apreceate the opertunity to imporove the question.
@StevenJeuris I would think low quality is not a specific enough reason for a close, they should give more detail.
Organic, self replicating computer, like a non-synthetic rep-rap, but better.
Could whoever that was re-send the invite? I seem to have messed it up.
A science net on Khan Academy would help loads. You could just point people towards it and let them spend a few days getting up to A level\pre-degree level.
@StevenJeuris at cstheory we close below-level questions as off-topic, because the scope of the site was defined as research-level, so non-research level is outside the scope. A similar thing can be done for CogSci, if the scope is questions not answerable by an obvious wikipedia search, then a question that is answered by wikipedia would be not in scope and thus off-topic.
However, the reason we all have individual ability to cast close-votes is so that we can express our opinion on what is the topic on our own
thus, if most people disagree with me, it is fine, the question will just remain open with only 1 close-vote from me.
@StevenJeuris I obviously didn't mean it as a hard guideline. The guideline I would follow is to not allow questions that are at the level of introductory psych courses.
yeah, I agreee... the real reason I want to close that question
is no-effort
but I deem no-effort as off-topic
I guess you deem it as NARQ
I am just following the conventions of SE I am most used to
but if we decide to deem no-effort questions as NARQ on this SE, then that is also fine with me
I just don't like the idea of keeping no-effort questions open
even with down-votes
because they will get answers, and people will continue to ask no-effort questions
which will reduce the quality of the site
especially since no-effort questions usually come from one-time users who don't care about the rep consequences of being downvotes (and really, there are no rep consequences, since a downvotes does so much less than an upvote)
@ArtemKaznatcheev Whathever we deem it as, we should be consistent about it. I have noticed users get confused quickly about why a question got closed, even when the close reason says so. It randomly being closed either NARQ or off-topic doesn't help.
The problem with your definition of off-topic is it is bound to one moment in time. A user might have encountered other similar questions which weren't off-topic.
@ArtemKaznatcheev Thanks for all the input, I've linked to this discussion in the mod room so they will definitely read this as well. Meanwhile, consider putting down your thoughts in more detail on meta?
I just closed this question because it had 3 close votes and 4 downvotes. If anyone wants to discuss my reasoning here, please contact me in here or better yet, ask on our Meta site.
From Skeptics Stackexchange:
Often hypnotism is accomplished by convincing an audience member to
play along, or by selecting out someone who is suggestible. Can an
average person be involuntarily hypnotised?
Update: Let us assume that the situation is as follows. A man is
willing t...
an upvote is not suppose to indicate "I like this topic" it is suppose to indicate that you think this is a well researched, well asked, well scoped question
What are the works/papers/results/theories any expert in cognitive science should know, even if they're outside his/her specific field of expertise?
One paper/theory per answer please, and state why do you find this work important to know (and ideally, not just because it has lots of citations, ...
This question was closed. I'd like to request for it to be reopened. I added a paragraph to explain why I don't consider it to be convincingly answered.
This question was never convincingly answered. Of the two answers, one
was a philosophical discussion of what involuntary means and the ot...
I am about to go AFK again (weekends are bad for me) but I will read any conversion you have with him while I am gone. And I will be available to chat again starting tomorrow
@casebash If you would like to discuss the closing of your question, please join us in chat
@alan2here Done! I'll check back later and see what is discussed
Consider this question:
Do porn and other remotely perceived entertainments work because of Mirror Neurons?
This touches on a very controversial topic in Cog Sci, the idea of mirror neurons.
Many pop-science books and magazines sensationalize mirror neurons, due to their parsimonious explanati...
From Skeptics Stackexchange:
Often hypnotism is accomplished by convincing an audience member to
play along, or by selecting out someone who is suggestible. Can an
average person be involuntarily hypnotised?
Update: Let us assume that the situation is as follows. A man is
willing t...
Should answers, which allegedly lack references be "decorated" with following header?
This post does not cite any references or sources.
Please help improve this answer by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be down-voted or removed.
It's been addressed before, the "chat" link which either shows up or doesn't show up in the top bar is confusing. (hardly surprising)
I suggest the following:
Always show the "chat" link.
Always show the "blog" link (when the SE site has a blog).
Highlight the blog link instead of putting "new...
When evaluating how well a given Area 51 site in public beta is doing, it's helpful to compare to other Area 51 sites that have launched. I think a useful metric to see would be how long each site that has now launched was in beta for prior to launch. This should be trivial to add:
This would ...
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