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nomen agentis

Dec 21, 2015 15:58

I'm not saying that model is right for us, but my favourite answers here are well referenced

nomen agentis

Dec 21, 2015 15:57

Health and skeptics both have a relatively strictly enforced referencing requirement. If you make a claim in an answer that is material to the conclusion, youve got to provide a reference for it

nomen agentis

Dec 21, 2015 15:54

Pat, that is exactly why I offered a bounty on that question. I was disappointed with the quality of the other answers and knew that thode authors prefer to not use references

nomen agentis

Dec 18, 2015 23:21

Daubert standard

The Daubert standard provides a rule of evidence regarding the admissibility of expert witnesses' testimony during United States federal legal proceedings. Pursuant to this standard, a party may raise a Daubert motion, which is a special case of motion in limine raised before or during trial to exclude the presentation of unqualified evidence to the jury. The Daubert trilogy refers to the three United States Supreme Court cases that articulated the Daubert standard: Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, which held in 1993 that Rule 702 of the Federal Rules of Evidence did not incorporate the...

nomen agentis

Dec 18, 2015 22:33

Okay thanks. For some reason, Dale's answers often seem snarky to me. I'll ignore it.

nomen agentis

Dec 18, 2015 20:38

I think this version is much more polite

nomen agentis

Dec 18, 2015 20:37

As if the question author should have known that the two situations are analogous

nomen agentis

Dec 18, 2015 20:37

Seems like the only purpose of the first three sentences is to be condescending

nomen agentis

Dec 18, 2015 20:36

A: Can a person be sued retroactively for copyright infringement?

If you commit a robbery but then return the money, can you be prosecuted? Yes. Similarly, if you breach copyright and then stop, can you be prosecuted? Yes, however, you will probably not be because: Your offence may not have been noticed by the copyright holder, and/or The damages they woul...

nomen agentis

Dec 17, 2015 20:22

not going to change what the correct answer to a question is, or how I contribute

nomen agentis

Dec 17, 2015 20:22

i don't understand why it matters at all what licence stackexchange uses

nomen agentis

Dec 17, 2015 20:21

what a mess: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/271080/…

Hub of Reason

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nomen agentis

Dec 21, 2015 15:45

Or sciencebasedmedicine.org/placebo-effects-revisited

nomen agentis

Dec 21, 2015 15:43

Its like no one has read this or this

nomen agentis

Dec 17, 2015 16:46

nature.com/index.html

nomen agentis

Dec 17, 2015 16:46

nejm.org

nomen agentis

Dec 17, 2015 16:46

Also:

nomen agentis

Dec 17, 2015 16:45

(obviously, i don't consider these "objectively" intelligent, but I enjoy them, and find them to have a low number of errors)

nomen agentis

Dec 17, 2015 16:38

newyorker.com

nomen agentis

Dec 17, 2015 16:36

theness.com/neurologicablog

nomen agentis

Dec 17, 2015 16:36

Here are some:

nomen agentis

Dec 17, 2015 16:36

Or are you just looking for some intelligent content online?

nomen agentis

Dec 17, 2015 16:27

Are you asking if the error rate in the spelling and grammar of mainstream news articles has increased?

nomen agentis

Dec 11, 2015 18:03

I'm not quite sure what the legal point is to that though...

nomen agentis

Dec 11, 2015 17:27

The reason this comes up in this argument is because for any racial admission preference to be constitutional there needs to be a compelling interest. U of Texas argues that the compelling interest is increased diversity, but these briefs argue that this method of increasing diversity can ultimately have negative effects.

nomen agentis

Dec 11, 2015 17:21

> In “competition mismatch”, students receiving
large preferences are at a competitive
disadvantage, tend to receive lower grades,
and become academically discouraged, which
can lead to switching to a less competitive field
of study or dropping out of school. A common
example of “competition mismatch” occurs in
the sciences at selective schools.19 Students
with an interest in science who are admitted
to a very competitive school via a large
preference tend to drop out of the sciences at a
much higher rate than do otherwise similar

nomen agentis

Dec 11, 2015 17:21

The typical claim is:

nomen agentis

Dec 11, 2015 17:21

scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/…

nomen agentis

Dec 11, 2015 17:20

scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/…

nomen agentis

Dec 11, 2015 17:20

scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/…

nomen agentis

Dec 11, 2015 17:20

FYI, these are the three amicus briefs that put forward the argument relating to how the lowering of academic admission standards in order to admit more minority candidates could result in a counter-intuitive effect... an increasing mismatch across all-tiers of schools between the academic capability of the minority admissions and the mean academic capability at the school

nomen agentis

Dec 11, 2015 15:26

Seems more careful in attribution now

nomen agentis

Dec 11, 2015 15:26

Okay. Tried to fix things up!

nomen agentis

Dec 11, 2015 15:01

He says maybe... Maybe... And that it "doesn't stand to reason that..."

nomen agentis

Dec 11, 2015 15:00

He says those things but in the context of a hypothetical or at least simply assuming the position of one of the briefs

nomen agentis

Dec 11, 2015 15:00

In the question about black scientists, Vice says that "Scalia contends..." Which if you read the transcript you can see he doesnt

Discussion on answer by Oddthinking: …

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nomen agentis

Dec 16, 2015 05:58

I think nutrition science would be a fine drop-in replacement

nomen agentis

Dec 16, 2015 05:57

Yeah, no need to be defensive... the usage was just confusing/jarring to me.

nomen agentis

Dec 16, 2015 04:41

Whether a food is harmful would be just nutrition science, or toxicology,

nomen agentis

Dec 16, 2015 04:39

Not meaning to pile on... just giving different organiziations' different wordings

nomen agentis

Dec 16, 2015 04:38

> Epidemiological research helps us to understand how many people have a disease or disorder, if those numbers are changing, and how the disorder affects our society and our economy.

nomen agentis

Dec 16, 2015 04:38

nidcd.nih.gov/health/statistics/Pages/epidemiology.aspx

nomen agentis

Dec 16, 2015 04:36

> Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of health problems in specified populations and the application of this study to control health problems.

nomen agentis

Dec 16, 2015 04:36

cdc.gov/EXCITE/epidemiology.html

nomen agentis

Dec 16, 2015 04:36

> Epidemiology is the study of how often diseases occur in different groups of people and why.

nomen agentis

Dec 16, 2015 04:36

bmj.com/about-bmj/resources-readers/publications/…

nomen agentis

Dec 16, 2015 04:21

And: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza#Epidemiology