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Cake day: June 14th, 2023
  • RheingoldRiver@kbin.socialtoScience@kbin.social•Rare spotless baby giraffe born at Tennessee zoo needs a name
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    1 year ago

    Boaty McBoatFace was NOT a debacle. It was a once-in-a-generation opportunity to get kids interested in climate science with programs like “The diary of Boaty McBoatFace” or “Zoom call with a Boaty McBoatScientist” all around the world in classrooms. Hell, even in high school I would’ve taken an elective that was doing actual work if it was Boaty McBoatFace-themed*.

    *not to say that I’m young enough to have been in high school at the time, but that it would appeal to kids that old

    The debacle was that they were too stuck up to realize what a gift they’d been given and completely squandered it. Boaty McBoatFace was beautiful. For a couple days, the internet cared about science in the absence of technology.

  • RheingoldRiver@kbin.socialtoScience@kbin.social•Long-Term Regret and Satisfaction With Gender-Affirming Mastectomy
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    1 year ago

    Am I dumb or is this not saying what anyone here thinks it’s saying?

    Basically, it’s not just that 50% have no regret / good satisfaction, but in fact that for this 50% there is not even a hint of dissatisfaction or regret. That’s the news. The median isn’t 4 or 1, it’s 5. So 50% of people are absolute ends of the scale.

    But this abstract legit says NOTHING about the tail. So it could actually be that 20% of people have complete regret. Median without average is not that convincing in a case like this.

    I tried to read the full article but I think it’s too recent to be on scihub. And like hell I’m paying for this.