Bunnies have an instinct to clear "roots" and "vines" from their home. That leads to a lot of ruined phone "roots" and computer "vines" for sure.

My rabbit, a Japanese Harlequin named Cookie, spent the first three years of his life in a house with five cats. He owned that house. Throughout his life, he's met nine cats and all have been terrified of him. Bunnies can be fun, personality-filled companions, but they can be unholy terrors to anything they dislike.…

"As Ferris Jabr points out in the Scientific American, both our bodies and the foods we eat have evolved greatly in the last 2.6 million years."

This. Why is this so hard for people to understand? Really, I'm not talking about the diet here, I guess I'm ranting more about the pseudo-scientific justifications for things…

I wouldn't mind teaching them to write about both in an informed way. Confidence intervals are probably the thing I miss the most in news about polling surveys. Especially during the last election cycle, when confidence intervals were rarely mentioned and a lead well within the CI was a sign of certain victory.

Really? I'd love to read a blog, piece of news media, or internet discussion where people had a basic understanding of statistics. I was appreciating that this article was bucking that trend by saying that women were all different. Most of what I've been reading has been "Studies show that women love sex so that must…

It interests me that all of those threads hung around and basically painted a picture of women as "not moderation" and as every extreme at the same time. At least, that's the closest I can come to describing it. It reminds me of the psychoanalytic theory of women defined as "not-men."

I'm saddened by the study being turned into "all women want sex all the time." It appears that the worlds does not (and does not want to) understand aggregates and averages. Thanks for pointing out that there are things other than sex!

Also, is anyone else confused by the simultaneous stereotyping of women as…

You can, but a lot of people just do a summary handout. In most cases it's available on the conference database if most people want it, anyway. I think handing out the paper makes a lot of people feel like their chances of being plagiarized are higher.

I've submitted a 50 page paper and a 30 page paper. They're usually what you're working on at the time. For example, I submitted a 50 page paper to ASA this year, and at ASA I will discuss it with others, get feedback, and probably modify it in form to be a 25-30 page publishable article later. A lot of published…

I believe that's true. If I'm not mistaken, people in the US rank pretty low in terms of trust. I don't remember the research more than just the vague details, but they probably mentioned that since social psych tends to be aware of cultural context.

I don't believe that's true. I had to submit papers for both Population Association of America and American Sociological Association, and both were accepted. I've also cited conference papers multiple times from research databases. My university library includes a specific search function for conference papers.

You are right about that. There isn't a treatment and it usually does go away. I should have said, "He refused to admit he had HPV even though he was the only common denominator among several people in our social circle who had tested positive for it." We found out through his ex, and later from him, but he was rather…

I think you just described a substantial number of people I know who are aged 18-25 with the saying "think that life is just a game they have to beat everyone at." I tend to play most games cooperatively. :-P

I once had a male friend who gave HPV to several partners but wouldn't get treated for it because it didn't affect him, personally. Read: it didn't have a visible manifestation for him and cervical cancer wasn't his concern. While I agree parents need to be educated about the vaccination for HPV for boys and girls, it…

I actually have a book called "Economics as if People Mattered" sitting on my bookshelf; it focuses on how economics often avoids human problems entirely.

For me the altruism problem has always been the framing. It gets me when people use the "altruism doesn't exist because the altruist always benefits" argument because it usually implies that the only motivation possible is the benefit and not the altruism. It reminds me of the arguments that teachers should be paid…

Evolutionary psychology often focuses on personality and cognition as adaptations whereas sociobiology largely tries to explain social phenomena through a biological lens. Sociobiologists would be the ones who justify male-dominated social orders by saying that men are organically stronger than women, women have to…

Thankfully I only caught a small part of that presentation; I really got my understanding from my mentor and several other attendees who I spoke to. I got to that session pretty late (and happily so). She seemed to be implying that adult muscle mass, percentage body fat, and height were determined at birth and…

You're welcome! I'll have to listen to it; I always wonder why researchers don't touch on altruism more (aside from the repetition of the idea that altruism isn't real an people are only behaving in economic ways and trying to appear socially desirable). Being aware of how science is written and produced makes me…

He was also argued that selective processes work for women to get mates as well (but then he didn't touch on the rape hypothesis for women except to say rape by women was "very rare," thus dodging the point entirely). I got the impression that he didn't really understand evolution. One of his main arguments was that…