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Comment Psychological effect (Score 5, Insightful) 156

I think this has already been shown this is purely a psychological effect, i.e. the type of alcohol affects your mood in precisely the way you expect it to. A scientific study of the actual "real" effects would have done a proper double blind test and given the participants alcohol (or not) without being told what it was exactly instead of filling out a survey form.

Comment Re:Bad Advice from Stackoverflow? (Score 2) 236

Eh I should have preview my posted, tags got eaten:
Answer: Why in the world would you want to do that? Here do this (unhelpful thing that doesn't answer this question)

Answer: (Complete wrong buggy implementation)

#1 upvote: (Answer that technically works but completely pedestrian, not generalized, etc)

#2 upvote: (mostly the same as #1, but with an added glaring bug)

#4 or #5 most upvoted: (probably the right answer)

further down: (a number of technically correct but a completely stupid ways to solve the problem)

Stackoverflow is the best for people that sort of know what the answer should be and can separate the wheat from the chaff.

I often point to this on as a good canonical example. https://stackoverflow.com/ques...

Comment Bad Advice from Stackoverflow? (Score 1) 236

Well I never!

Canoncial example of a Stackoverflow exchange:

Answer: Why in the world would you want to do that? Here do this

Answer:

#1 upvote:

#2 upvote:

#4 or #5 most upvoted:

further down:

Stackoverflow is the best for people that sort of know what the answer should be and can separate the wheat from the chaff.

I often point to this on as a good canonical example. https://stackoverflow.com/ques...

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