Sir Chinchilla's Random Stuff

1. Promise everything.

2. Piss off everyone.

3. Deliver nothing.

My country music heroes weren’t sellouts. They cared about Americans. The young, the elderly, education, small business, pro labor, national healthcare, anti-war and they said fuck you to the ultra wealthy and the establishment.

🇺🇸 Their values and their beliefs were 💯% contrary to the current crop of modern Maga sellout country pop singers.

the authors have developed a "phubbing scale" and demonstrated that it has strong correlation with the existing "maladaptive technology use" scale. from this, they conclude the "phubbing scale" is a valid and useful metric.

the "maladaptive technology use" scale, if you go and read that paper, has shown strong correlation with the "problematic smartphone application use" construct.

have you caught the problem yet? nowhere has it been proven that scoring high on any of this is actually bad for you.

> express annoyance with a common failing of academic writing in your field

asked students to volunteer to take a "screen-free challenge" where they didn't use electronic devices in class for a semester

recorded students' views on the challenge at the end of the course, and found that most of the students who participated had positive views while most of the students who didn't participate had negative views

completely ignored that this might just mean "people who thought something was a bad idea didn't do it", and instead concluded "the screen-free challenge leads to more positive views on the learning experience"