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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-30-2007, 06:58 AM
Replies: 39
Views: 826
Posted By Alex-db
Re: Averaging Grades

I think this is seriously worrying for any real teacher, but if she is a vocational instrument teacher, not an educator, then I think its OK.

I wouldn't be too worried if a boxing instructor...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-30-2007, 06:49 AM
Replies: 106
Views: 1,224
Posted By Alex-db
Re: Is Neo-Atheism The Way to Go? [Poll]

We should treat people with traditional religious beliefs in the same way we treat people with traditional racist beliefs.

That doesn't exclude being civil, but it does include being vocal and...
Forum: Brick and Mortar 11-29-2007, 09:08 AM
Replies: 59
Views: 1,237
Posted By Alex-db
Re: management argue

1500 has to be right because the all-in rules protect players against colluders reopening the betting for paltry amounts.

If you allow players to complete the bet, then they could complete the...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-26-2007, 11:45 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 243
Posted By Alex-db
Re: Derren Brown

His best two shows are The Heist and Messiah. Less magic, more psychology/documentary.
Forum: News, Views, and Gossip 11-23-2007, 12:20 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 165
Posted By Alex-db
Re: Online Poker Regulations

If they had that rule then noone who liked online poker would work in the industry, which would be disasterous.
Forum: Health and Fitness 11-23-2007, 10:58 AM
Replies: 32
Views: 351
Posted By Alex-db
Re: Terrible VO2Max, any suggestions?

Yesterday ran continuously 30mins at 8kph, thats only the 5th run so that may help motivate someone else in similar state of unfitness (motivated me).

It now feels more like a warm-up run than the...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-23-2007, 10:31 AM
Replies: 134
Views: 1,454
Posted By Alex-db
Re: relationship between SAT scores and intelligence?

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Creativity, social skills, ability to handle stress, outside the box thinking, leadership ability, empathy, openness, senso-motoric ability,spatial awareness, courage/ability to control...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-23-2007, 07:05 AM
Replies: 134
Views: 1,454
Posted By Alex-db
Re: relationship between SAT scores and intelligence?

Everyone intuitively knows what "intelligence" means.

If classes of students of any age are asked to rank each other according to their natural view of "intelligence" it will correlate incredibly...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-19-2007, 06:59 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 266
Posted By Alex-db
Re: The Brain Transplant Argument

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If you take out the processor of your computer, is the rest of your computer no longer still your computer? If you put that processor in another computer is it now the previous computer...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-16-2007, 08:00 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 201
Posted By Alex-db
Re: bible questionsIs

I thought that Moses heading down to the bottom of the field with his tent, telling all the others that noone was to go up to his tent or see him in it, and that he spent hours in there talking to...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-15-2007, 09:25 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 269
Posted By Alex-db
Re: Social Darwinism and Morals

American lives are 50 times less valuable??

2 times maybe...
Forum: Poker Theory 11-09-2007, 08:03 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 264
Posted By Alex-db
Re: For people who think running it twice changes EV

Absolute easiest solution is to tell people to imagine running the river all 43 times.
Forum: Health and Fitness 11-09-2007, 06:25 AM
Replies: 32
Views: 351
Posted By Alex-db
Re: Terrible VO2Max, any suggestions?

Maybe it was screwed up, or innacurate, but I am clearly very unfit.

It didn't seem like such an accurate process and was calculated with rulers on graphs rather than anything more advanced.

It...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-08-2007, 12:44 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 129
Posted By Alex-db
Re: Is This True? Why or Why not?

I have been really awkward about saying "bless you" ever since I was a child and felt embarassed (and potentially offended) that people might think I believed a religion. For the same reason, I have...
Forum: Health and Fitness 11-08-2007, 11:24 AM
Replies: 32
Views: 351
Posted By Alex-db
Re: Terrible VO2Max, any suggestions?

Good article, thanks, it feels like a very intuitive explanation of how the exercise felt. (I hadn't heard of lactate threshold before.)

It does look (and feel) like the specific problem is a...
Forum: Health and Fitness 11-08-2007, 10:36 AM
Replies: 32
Views: 351
Posted By Alex-db
Re: Terrible VO2Max, any suggestions?

Started today; decided to do 30 mins on a treadmill, as far as I could without making myself too uncomfortable.

A mixture of walking at 7kph and jogging at 8kph and I covered about 3.75km.
...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-08-2007, 06:55 AM
Replies: 109
Views: 695
Posted By Alex-db
Re: Atheism Intelligence Correlations - The Strongest Argument for Atheism

thesnowman22,

I think you just added a vote in favour of the atheists position /images/graemlins/wink.gif

Basically, each sentence contains something that is factually wrong or spurious at...
Forum: Health and Fitness 11-08-2007, 06:28 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 419
Posted By Alex-db
Re: a couple of questions about running

Maybe you would need to change the backback for a 20ltr rucksack designed for activity (probably including a waist strap?), google product search and they look fairly smart too, I guess fashion would...
Forum: Health and Fitness 11-08-2007, 06:21 AM
Replies: 32
Views: 351
Posted By Alex-db
Re: Terrible VO2Max, any suggestions?

Ty, the main points I was looking for is whether to do an HIIT type thing for 10 mins, or go for 25 or 40 mins however low the intensity, sound like the latter is probably more appropriate.

I...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-07-2007, 12:13 PM
Replies: 109
Views: 695
Posted By Alex-db
Re: Atheism Intelligence Correlations - The Strongest Argument for Ath

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A non omnipotent intelligent designer of some sort, who had something to do with the big bang, the laws of physics, and perhaps even the existence of consciousness, is...
Forum: Health and Fitness 11-07-2007, 12:06 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 351
Posted By Alex-db
Re: Terrible VO2Max, any suggestions?

It was a service at the gym I joined: Body fat test with skin-fold calipers, flexibilty measuments, press up count, sit up count, lung capacity by blowing in a fan-tube thing, then a process on an...
Forum: Health and Fitness 11-07-2007, 06:29 AM
Replies: 32
Views: 351
Posted By Alex-db
Terrible VO2Max, any suggestions?

I just got a fitness test done, with the following results. In square brackets is how they told me the figures compared to the averages, I don't know too much about the units or specific meanings:
...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-06-2007, 09:57 AM
Replies: 109
Views: 695
Posted By Alex-db
Re: Atheism Intelligence Correlations - The Strongest Argument for Atheism

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I think the strongest single argument for atheism (yes I know the burden of proof is on the theists, that's not relevant) is the fact that there is a high correlation between...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-06-2007, 09:54 AM
Replies: 109
Views: 695
Posted By Alex-db
Re: Atheism Intelligence Correlations - The Strongest Argument for Atheism

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Moreover, I would be willing to wager that if it were possible to ascertain the total number of people that are 2 standard deviations from the mean (which I think is the definition of...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-06-2007, 06:53 AM
Replies: 35
Views: 165
Posted By Alex-db
Re: A More Realistic Fred And Ginger Problem

I have never met anyone like Ginger, so I'm sceptical if its possible she exists. I can't see how she would struggle with concepts and be able to anticipate proofs: they seem like such closely linked...
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