@pedant Yes, you’re right!

Although, there are interesting arguments about this.

For instance, in citations, many systems just use the first-name initial so you can’t tell if the paper or article is by a man or a woman. Some argue that’s best, as it eliminates the bias (proven by data) that women are cited less than men.

But on the other hand,…[Read more]

@notime  I did love seeing Venusian Aikido put to such a good, simple use, and so effectively.

@pedant Good grief — I did that?!  NO more wine at bed-time!

@pedant

😂

@craig  @nearlysane  @pedant  Something I came across in the NYT Magazine section a couple of weeks ago about “The Good Place”:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/04/magazine/good-place-michael-schur-philosophy.html?fbclid=IwAR0avBkFnWqcGpb_dk4wv0Jz8gRpVWhRBWR3qz_Iz39XFhIVw-VNOCEmm1c

My name is Ichabod, and I am addicted.  People lov…[Read more]

@pedant @mudlark

Too much morphine clearly, “it’s on film”

Really? The bit where I said “aspirin?? shit!” except it was ibuprofen.

Christ, it IS on film: and that’s obviously quite embarrassing.  Particularly now.

As you were.

@bluequeakpip.

Mm? Yes, I had heard of that issue -with eyewitnesses.

@pedant

Anecdote is not the singular of evidence.

Well, yes, see, because you can call it “anecdote” or a “story.” And either way the issue/anecdote/thing that happened DID actually happen. Did I write down everything that was said? Yes. Did I repeat it to another who wrote it also? Yes.

And….

Was it even on film? YES. The store caught it.…[Read more]

@pedant and @thane16

Indeed. But also read up on the various ways that the legal profession and historians (to name two of the areas that use eye witness accounts) have developed to cross check such accounts.

@pedant re the green police box – sorry, yes, I think all of us Sheffield/South Yorkshire Whovians are a bit over-excited at the moment about the local references and prone to miss the joke or the subtext!  We’ll settle down in a bit, honest.

@mudlark @pedant

You’re right, it’s an anti-inflammatory.  I got that quite wrong.

Stories are important. Why else vlog a Diabetes story?

@pedant

Cheers for that. A slightly unconvincing explanation to my mind (are they really the sort of thing 12 would be carrying about? Maybe they would.) But at least it shows that Chibbers is cleaning up after himself (narratively speaking) a bit more these days.

On a rewatch of both episodes, I have to say I quite like the focus on a more…[Read more]

@pedant  The one in town IS green!

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g186364-d213579-Reviews-Police_Box-Sheffield_South_Yorkshire_England.html

@geoffers Re the sunglasses, those definitely weren’t 12’s shades (sonic or otherwise), were they…  Judging by the style Audrey Hepburn was a more plausible previous owner – but how did t…[Read more]

This seemed a middle-of-the-road story to me, much as “Smile” was last season, though that story having fewer major characters meant that it could focus more on refining the Doctor-new companion dynamic.  Doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy it, but I do think it would help if BBC America would, at least for the premiere airing, drop the commercials.  T…[Read more]

@miapatrick

“So I’m going to end with the fact that I like the idea of a secret hidden from the Doctor’s memories” — it was time lord tech that erased clara from 12’s mind, i’d love it if they somehow tinkered with his memory long before that… perhaps when they gifted him that huge dose of regenerations, on trenzalore?

“a big bad that kno…[Read more]

@pedant (soz, this is really the last post): if personal experience is the beginning of discourse and if discourse leads to group discussion and if THAT discussion leads to the decision to create surveys, or further study and if that study then leads to even more experiences listed in say, one place or many places then “stories” are the back-bone…[Read more]

@pedant

Thankyou. It looks like a top book and obviously very necessary (the “very” is the funny part. I hear at school things like “very unique, very very clever, really pregnant….LOL)

And I have a lot to learn. I keep forgetting “thank you” is not one word.

Mum would of said: “yee-hah”

Thank you.  🙂

PS; I believe some students in the…[Read more]

@pedant

Clarity didn’t happen did it?

What was meant, I reckon (but now I can’t ask her) was:

• read the packet
• know what’s in it
• most Doctors believe aspirin is pretty good
• some Doctors don’t like aspirin (probably those who haven’t kept up with the research)…..so
• keep up with the research
• read the literature and know from which a…

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@mudlark thank you Ms Mudlark. I appreciate it.

@pedant  Blimey:

We need, say:

multiple examples (really?)
that are representative of the population and chosen at random
in which the experimenter is blind to the selection (OMG, seriously?)
And in the case where the sample is people, the people are also blind (so don’t know if they are ge…

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@bluesqueakpip,@pedant: re medipods – I did notice how Graham was waking Ryan up and thought it was interesting that he seemed to have recovered sooner than his grandson. (I’m reading it as that for Graham, Ryan is his grandson, whatever Ryan’s thoughts on the matter). This might just be to emphasise this dynamic, but he’d recovered quickly enough…[Read more]

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