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Wow... Did he think that this was okay to say? What did he think the repercussions of this statement would be? How did this man get into office in the first place?  

Okay, I find this hilarious. 

It’s also interesting to me how something such as innocent as this can be over-discussed, over broadcasted to the point where it’s annoying. Hearing someone say, “Owie, Charlie bit my finger,” is no longer funny but causes millennials everywhere to cringe and wish their mothers would get off of YouTube.

It’s interesting to me how having to shed light on things that businesses would much rather sweep under the rug has the ability to get your message across and get you your desired outcome.

What always confused me about the ice bucket challenge was the fact that there was the act of dumping ice cold water over your head in the first place. I agree wholeheartedly with the cause of helping and donating to ALS. However, a bunch of middle schoolers dumping water on themselves for reasons unbeknownst to them the majority of the time never seemed to really spread knowledge about ALS or contribue to their cause. At least, that’s how it appeared in my hometown when this challenge was first created.

This reminds me of when UW Madison had students first sign up for Duo.

I feel like this is a reason why I would struggle with a telephone interview. I can never remember all of my options. Plus, recency effects are not in interviewers’ favor whatsoever. Or if they were going through a list of answers, I would probably listen until I heard a response close enough to what I would say then stop listening to the other responses, which is dangerous because one of the remaining choices could have been a more accurate response option, but I wouldn’t be listening to even hear it.

*I agree with the last one a lot. I always have the thought, “Do I realllllly need to answer this?” whenever someone calls me without prior scheduling. Honestly, even when I do schedule a phone call, I can feel my anxiety rising in anticipation of the dreaded call. Can’t they just email me?

Yeah... this definitely wouldn’t fit in anyone’s pocket. Especially a female’s pocket; those things can barely fit a cell phone from this day and age.

“Some professors report having been addressed by students, in person, not just in email, as “Hey Prof” or even, “Hey Teach,” a greeting that reminds me of a Ryan Gosling meme.”

Wow... I also agree with this statement. Messaging asynchronously allows a level of control over the conversation that isn’t offered in transient and synchronous communication. You aren’t offered the opportunity to sit and ponder what you want to say. You can be whoever you want to be in the space that that freedom allows. If I want to sound professional, I can tailor my words to come across as such;  happy instead of mad; petty instead of calm; disengaged instead of clingy. When communicating synchronously, I am whoever and whatever my first thought portrays. 

Effect sizes were actually taught it in my Psych 210 Statistics class. I would have to call that a win for UW-Madison’s psychology program. While I disliked the concept at first, it definitely comes into handy when deciding whether or not I truly want to put much weight in a researcher’s findings.

Honestly, I don’t feel like enough importance is being placed on how un-generalizable some studies are. Why do we give so much credit to studies that have completely homologous groups? The diversity within the human experience is so drastic that if you can’t find a difference between two groups that are extremely diverse, is the difference really significant enough to discuss? I am all for random assignment, but I am not for cherry-picking a specific population, finding a significant p-value, and then preaching about your results as though it applies to every human being in every nook and cranny on the planet. 

Also, I had to include the little boy holding the magnifying glass because meta-analysis is extremely important. Just because one study done by one team on one group of subjects gets a p-value less than .05 does NOT mean that everyone should get all excited about their results. Cutting through the junk and compiling the data to get larger sample sizes, more randomized populations, and a better idea of what the truth behind it all is... now that seems pretty important to me.

Did they ever have time to adapt? Or was their demise destined as soon as the world decided they didn’t want to let the music industry decide for them that they had to buy an entire album if they wanted to listen to one song. Once you give a community power, it’s quite hard to take that back, or “adapt” in any way that will ever take that power back. I believe this is why the recording industry managed to “win the battle but lose the war” after they squashed Napster only to be faced with numerous other giants like Spotify, Pandora, and Amazon.

This article talks about how students are paying more for their college education, while the education is getting poorer, only to graduate and fault on their loans. It’s sad to think that a college education is becoming the norm but it isn’t helping students succeed once they leave.

Further, the saying, “Spiral of Destruction” seems counter intuitive and like the companies could easily end their own demise by decreasing costs of textbooks. Their decrease in profits for the years that it takes for the amount of textbooks being purchased to rise can’t be much more than their current loss in profits from having to make up for the dropping numbers of sold textbooks due to their increasingly higher prices.