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If you neglect to tell me what is on your mind, you forfeit the right to complain if I misinterpret you.

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Is trying to decide whether Trump is a fascist (or some other "ist") pure displacement activity? When an elephant is trampling your home do you really discuss whether it is Indian or African?

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Don't know why I call it Sledging but it seems right. A student reveals literally nothing about what they know/understand saying they are "confused". Are they hoping you will give them a 10 minute substitute for a 20 hour lecture course? If so, how has such a misguided hope ever arisen?

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I'm sure some of you know the Wimmer and Perner experiment but does anyone know if there is scale that measures higher order reasoning? How much of the problem with society is that participants just don't "get" it? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally%E...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Don't force reviewers (especially reviewers you have called for specialist methods skills like #abm) declare three massive subfields of your journal topic when setting up their reviewer accounts or you are just creating a stream of declines/non responses till infinity.

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Amendment to the Constitution: Since Trump clearly wants to be King, Congress can move to appoint him a Court Jester who will be allowed to lampoon him mercilessly and tell him he is being a fool entirely immune to any reprisal.

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#swingingsoc (political movements): www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Dj...

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Academic heuristics: No bootstrapping difficulties. If the data are missing nothing you can do will get it for you. Things like imputation have _very_ narrow technical capacity for value added and it is _not_ to "fill in" missing data.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Trump: A bulls****er in a china shop.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

A huge part of power is just not responding. Watching Kemi B dodging anything definite made me think we should have an AI feed analyser sounding a buzzer/updating a ticker on screen every time a politician dodges a question ... rather than make it the job of a journalist who won't get invited back.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Surreal. Students discuss articles you already covered in teaching (presumably an effort minimisation strategy) but fail to use the points you made. This combo actually makes saying something sensible _harder_ than analysing something I didn't already talk about from scratch. Wish I could mind read.

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Self destroying phrases: If you have to say "your voice matters", it probably doesn't. See also "your call is important to us" and "the government is committed to x".

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Today is Retraction Day, when we observe the anniversary of the retraction (Feb. 2, 2010) of the fraudulent paper that purported to show a link between vaccines and autism. 🧪#medsky

submitted 26 days ago • 47 comments

With some clearly defined exceptions, how do qualitative researchers manage to present themselves as an oppressed minority when it is always UG statistics teaching that is hardest to cover. Surely the token quant can't be oppressing _all_ of you ...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

WTAF? journalistsresource.org/home/researc...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Really struck by how some #abm papers are undermined by lack of research design (a set of relevant procedures to answer a clearly stated question): A gram of "why" is often worth a kilogram of "what".

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Challenge creep: Wittingly or unwittingly replacing an assignment with an easier one i. e. writing an essay on the general pros and cons of qualitative research rather than the pros and cons of a particular article.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Definition of solipsistic/entitled thinking. A student who claims they were "incorrectly" marked absent because they found themselves in an empty seminar room. Staff and students who were jointly in the right rooms at the right times might beg to differ. Lost but making record time?

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Do you think before social media and graphic editing daft but jolly stuff like this stayed in people's heads or was simply unthinkable:

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Another Tom Gauld goody:

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Logicians delight:

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I wonder if this is genuine. If so it is quite eye opening:

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

I have taken the resources that were in the budget and which you were probably saving for higher education Forgive me they were needed to feed the AI bubble and to dismantle the humanities

submitted 43 days ago • 21 comments

Love this:

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Calling research positivist as a critique is no more scholarly than calling the researcher "specky four eyes".

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

"A promised horse does not pull." (Russian Proverb.)

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Emerging language use. When students don't do what they are supposed to on my module, they earnestly explain that they are "prioritising" other modules. Firstly, the degree doesn't necessitate that. Secondly, I never observe the rush of focused activity implying that my module is getting its turn.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Just because you want customers to fit your call handling it doesn't mean they actually do. Try to get through with an (important) query about a closed account for example ...

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Has anybody considered the relationship between field and subfield? What happens if "focus groups for flower arranging" fails to capture what is already known in "methods" but nonetheless manages to say something useful that should be "conveyed back" to the mainstream but probably won't be?

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“If I be a queen and thou be a queen, who will bang the butter? PUNJABI (INDIA)” (Arnott, Stephen, comp., 2001, The Languid Goat is always Thin: The World’s Strangest Proverbs, London: Prion Books, unpaginated.)

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Of course Trump should really rename it The Gulf of Comprehension.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

#swingingsoc (poverty): www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxeT...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Institutional gaslighting: A policy that palpably doesn't serve its stated aims (maintaining academic quality) but is also easily compatible with a much less salubrious aim (getting bums on seats at any cost.)

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We are moving into an academic world where post review may be more important than review. Discuss. doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Enacted social science: The idea that claims about what social science can do are only cashed out in actual research. So, as published, most qualitative research is not "rich". This being so, stop writing about richness in the abstract and focus on demonstrating it in the concrete.

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Happy 2025! As well as innovations in becoming more civilised (leading) there is also data on "lagging": For example, at what point did it occur to the I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue radio show that a round in which a bunch of white men used cod Chinese accents to get a laugh wasn't a good idea.

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Xmas Social Media Detox Starts Here: See You All In 2025! Have a peaceful and restful holiday season.

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“La majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain." (Anatole France, Le Lys Rouge.)

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“Nixon’s oratory was like Liberace’s piano playing. It was like being buried under an avalanche of pork fat.” (James, Clive, 1993, Fame in the 20th Century, London: BBC Books, p. 136.)

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#swingingsoc (false consciousness): www.youtube.com/watch?v=pivL...

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#swingingsoc (social influence and normative regulation): www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjAH...

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Uh-oh:

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The test of someone being totally out of their depth is when the best advice you can give them "where they are" sounds savagely patronising: "If you keep failing assignments, have you considered attending teaching?"