“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: […] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.” —Jonathan Swift

  • 2 posts
  • 21 comments
Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: July 25th, 2024
  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•Brought to you by the same people that told you not to believe everything you read on the internet and now only read click bait headlines from Fox or BreitbartEnglish
    12 hours

    Wikipedia used to be untrusted. Anyone can put anything there! Now teachers rather see wikipedia than AI bullshit.

    As a longtime contributor to Wikipedia, the teachers were categorically correct. 2000s Wikipedia was, broadly, a trashfire where citations were mostly an afterthought and there really weren’t standards. Some of the most bare minimum standards that make Wikipedia actually functional weren’t codified until c. 2006 and took easily over a decade to really take hold culturally. And unfortunately, the popularization of Wikipedia made the late 2000s pretty bad too; whereas the early 2000s were a largely benign wild west, the late ones saw a flood of near-unfiltered garbage that’s still being cleaned up today.

    I’d still say not to trust Wikipedia today and use its sources instead for anything even slightly consequential, but back in peak Wikipedia scare days, “use its sources” was very often a nonstarter.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Fortune 500 bosses demanding staff return to the office share one trait: Narcissism, research findsEnglish
    15 hours

    If you actually look at the evidence presented, they cite this 2019 meta-analysis in the Journal of Management: “Making CEO Narcissism Research Great [ew]: A Review and Meta-Analysis of CEO Narcissism”. On signature size, for which it found only two studies by nearly the exact same team, it remarked:

    Ham[, Seybert, and Wang] (2018) and Ham, Lang, Seybert, and Wang (2017) employed an alternative unobtrusive measure of CEO narcissism by measuring the size and contents of a CEO’s signature in SEC filings (2 of 42 articles). Their rationale posits that a larger signature represents the grandiose nature of a narcissist. To validate the measure, Ham et al. used student samples in a laboratory setting. While the main advantage of the measure is that it captures a behavior under the direct control of the CEO (i.e., his or her signature), the measure may not fully capture narcissism’s multifaceted nature. Ham et al. also provided external validation by correlating the measure with employee ratings of CEO narcissism, as obtained by O’Reilly et al. (2014). As this is a newer measure, it has seen limited use to date.

    I still see this as some absolute TikTok narcissist-whisperer shit and emblematic of the worst of the reproducibility crisis and conclusion-chasing in the social sciences – sincere respect for the social sciences though I may have.

    Edit: I will add that not Charles Ham, not Mark Lang, not Nicholas Seybert, and not Sean Wang are psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, or frankly fucking anything; they’re in business studies.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do doctors not seem to give a fuck about pain? Is this just an American doctor thing, or is it universal?English
    4 days

    see you’re still stalking me

    Yeah, sure pal. I think the last time I interacted with you was a few days ago when you were being a little pissbaby in a thread about Zohran Mamdani, and then god only knows before that. I found this thread naturally and only stopped at your comment for how insufferably stupid your anti-doctor spiel is. “It’s just hyperbole, bro. Baselessly claiming 2/3 of medical doctors are egotists who don’t care about helping others and trying to assign paper-thin logic to it is hyperbole.”

    The fact you’re calling this “stalking” shows you’re deeply unwell with abysmal judgment, but then so does most of what you put on Lemmy.

    Edit: Wait, I just realized: what do you mean “still haven’t learned”? Are you mistaking me for someone else?

You Should Know@lemmy.worldbyTheTechnician27@lemmy.world
5 days

YSK that the iOS app Go Map!! has access to StreetComplete's "quests"

English

Some background context (assuming you’re already roughly familiar with OpenStreetMap):

  • StreetComplete is an Android-exclusive app that acts as an extremely trimmed-down, gamified way to contribute to OpenStreetMap. You don’t contribute new structures, but rather you fill in details about existing ones.
  • It’ll ask you questions about existing structures like “How many levels does this building have?” or “What is the surface of this bike path?” These are called “quests”, and it’s expected (see: Bro Code, Division 6, Chapter 5, §32) that you’re either there in person surveying or have been there recently and absolutely know that you’re correct. The visual presentation is extremely smooth and beginner-friendly.
  • This is helpful not just to new users but to people who don’t ever want to get deep into editing the map. (It can also help regular contributors notice small details they accidentally missed in an area.) A bunch of non-power-users contributing small details goes a long way to making the map actually robust and arguably better than services like GMaps – instead of just something that a few privacy/FOSS advocates vocally use and giant corporations silently use.
  • Go Map!! is a robust editor for iOS, kind of like an analog of Vespucci on Android.

However, I learned that Go Map!! isn’t just a robust editor; you can also use it to contribute to StreetComplete’s index of quests.

Why YSK: if you or a friend has an iOS device, this is a great way to contribute to OpenStreetMap with a very streamlined UI that acts more like a game than it does mapping software. I didn’t know this before and would often only bring up StreetComplete and hope the other person has Android.

6