What I want to know is how a paper like this even gets published. Their sample size was 139 students from the University of Missouri. Anyone who thinks that sample size can constitute external validity is deranged.

You mean like a junior varsity team? Most schools already have that.

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I like her because she gave us this.

I think being appreciative for what opportunities this country has given you and being patriotic are two different things, especially when you could probably get the same opportunities in say Canada or England.

Eh, I'm on the opposite end. I think anyone who doesn't jump up and down and scream when they find out their biggest dreams are coming true probably has some emotional repression issues. The camera has nothing to do with it.

Those were sincere. I watched the whole thing and the girls explained that their parents tricked them and told them all that they were being videoed for something else.

Patriotism makes me uncomfortable because I just don't get it. Why should I be attached to this country just because it's the one I live and grew up in? Especially when said country has marginalized my ancestors since its founding.

I really hope that anti-paparazzi bill pass. Paparazzi photographers have no respect for children, and it is absolutely despicable.

For the alcohol/drugs/food regulation versus abortion regulation: It's not a double standard because the "standard" doesn't refer to the existence of regulations, it refers to the outcome of those regulations. In the former, regulation leads to positive outcomes (healthier people), but in the latter, regulation leads…

Yeah, I know. I was more rebuffing the OP's implication that it's sleep deprivation instead of OCD. Sleep deprivation augmenting anxiety problems is probably a more likely scenario, along with the sense of paranoia that comes with having to take care of an especially fragile being. I don't have a child, but I remember…

Not really. If you're sleep deprived, you're more likely to forget to do important tasks, but the intrusive thoughts come along with OCD aren't "I need to check again because I forgot if I did it" they're "I need to check again because I just need to make sure"

That's not what I'm implying at all, and I'm not sure how you extrapolated to that. It sounds more like you already had that idea in your mind. I used "academic" in the same sense that you would use "athletic" or any other profession/area of expertise.

Uhhh, did you mean for that reply to go to me? Because I have no idea what you're talking about.

Uhh... rich people? Haha. I just had to pick up my bosses favorite pair of jeans from the cleaners a few days ago.

I'm not entirely sure that first paragraph makes sense.

The burden of proof is on the accused to demonstrate that they sought and received consent before continuing.

I'm pretty sure my driving phobia stems from a crazy driving teacher I had in high school who thought the appropriate way to teach teens how to drive was to lean over the console and steer for me. I ended up getting my license, but I haven't driven since, and I don't plan to. You worded the control issue perfectly. I…

I'm not sure why I thought you'd take that figuratively instead of literally... But yes I know, and that was a lazy argument.

Sex under duress is assault. I can concede that most countries' law haven't caught up to that yet, but it doesn't make it less true.