Quickies
Quickies: The Pope on magic wands, statistical tests of harassment, and conflict in the secular movement
- Pope Francis takes a stand for evolution, against magic wands – From CriticalDragon1177.
- A natural A/B test of harassment – “Running these numbers through a statistical significance test confirms what should be obvious to anyone following Gamergate: with a 99.9% confidence level it is harder to be a woman than a man in the game industry, independent of what you say or do.” From Courtney.
- GamerGate anger at women all too real for game maker – “Death and rape threats I can deal with emotionally,” said Wu, the founder of Giant Spacekat, a company that makes games with female protagonists, and the host of a popular podcast. “What takes the biggest toll is when young girls write me and tell me they’re too scared to go into this field.”” From Buzz Parsec.
- Major Mike responds to the “Conflict in the Secular Movement” survey – A nice bit of satire for your Friday. From Amy.
- Cute Animal Friday! For a Halloween theme, first listen to these bat sounds. Then go revel in Cute Overload’s 24 hours of Halloween cute. And you can watch this video of an orphaned bat being nursed back to health.
Ah yes, more praise for Pope Fank n Furter. This time for simply repeating the stance that the church has taken for a long time, that the big bang theory and evolution are not at odds with the church’s special friend in the sky.
He also recently praised a convention of
charlatansI mean clergy who were trying to figure out how to disabuse the nemesis of The Big Guy™ from invading the bodies of the unwashed by abusing those bodies themselves. So moderation, it appears, is all relative, or maybe not since he didn’t weight in on Einstein’s theory. Got to keep that popey goodness somehow after all.From that ridiculous survey.
Is that a typo or the actual question?
If you “do not think diversity is a problem” why the fuck would you care if “the secular community is working hard to outreach minorities?”
Besides the horrendous use of outreach as a verb, they appear to only want the opinions of those who agree there is no problem.
That and their insistence that the only conflict in the community is over feminism really tips their hand; which slympitter wrote this survey anyway?
It’s a bit hypocritical of the Pope to say that God isn’t a magic wand when it comes to evolution yet the Pope turns around and endorses exorcism, which is surely a form of magic.
Is there something going on with the comment system?
I know I made the same point that Brooks made here with a link and everything but it has disappeared along with all of my replies from the last week or so.
Is it just me or has it happened to anyone else?
Yes, comments on Bad Chart Thursday are missing.
I could understand my attempts at humour being moderated – but Buzz and Melanie comments as well?
Yes, me too.
Yeah, my
amazing explicationhorribly misspelled tirade about vampire charts also disappeared.The vampires are peeved about Bad Chart Thursday which erroneously attributed the horrible chart to werewolves.
Our BCT comments disappeared through a tesseract or wormhole into the 5th dimension.
– on a futile quest to find the lost x axis…
I’m still having issues with comments. Just has one vanish. Poof, not in moderation, just gone.
Did I do something wrong?