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Comment Way more stressful than you think.... (Score 2) 230

When in the field, a soldier gets stressed out - sure, however they get to use much of the innate stress mechanisms humans and animals have of fight or flight.

When sitting behind a computer screen in an air conditioned office - much of the stress is still there however there is no mechanism for management.

Just ask an air traffic controller if they think their job is easy - now compound that by actually having to kill people.

Personally - I think these guys probably don't need medals, they probably need lots of counselling.

Comment Your Solution to.. (Score 1) 386

The fact that so much of the world has so little understanding of science, that they feel the choice is between belief in religion and belief in science.

I'd much prefer a world where belief was protected over in one corner, and knowledge was protected over in the other - and the population as a whole understood the difference.

How would you realistically track our societies on this path ?

Comment Re:60-80% but I wish it were 0% (Score 1) 196

> This is something I don't understand.

Not everyone has the resources to live their life as they choose, those people are probably spending 60-80% of their time in front of a computer to earn money to eat or pay medical bills.

Just because you were lucky enough to have a good life, doesn't mean everyone is.

What I don't understand is how people see their sample size of one, and draw a line of obviousness through it.

Comment 5/15/60/15/5 Rule (Score 2) 248

You can automatically judge reviewers of large numbers of book by determining how well their reviews fall into a normal distribution.

That is - from a individual's subjective opinion, after reading 1000 books - should form a roughly normal distribution (the worst, the best etc).

So you weight a person's contribution to the overall score by their fit to the normal distribution on their own reviews and the number of reviews they have made.

A rough approximation for the purposes of a 5 star score is 1: 5%, 2: 15%, 3:60%, 4: 15%, 5: 5%. Of course these numbers could be adjusted to allow for equal numbers in each group if they wanted.

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