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Friday, April 4, 2008 at 12:21 PM ABM, what's your major? These are some easy assignments... —acm323 |
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Friday, April 4, 2008 at 12:23 PM communication studies, but I'm switching back to business. However I'm getting a minor in speech communication.
It is an easy assignment, but everyone I talked to doesn't want to self-disclose.
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Friday, April 4, 2008 at 1:39 PM i get in arguements with my right hand often —000 |
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Friday, April 4, 2008 at 2:03 PM I've known my husband since 1978 and we've been married almost 25 years and we've only had three arguments. —pookie |
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Friday, April 4, 2008 at 3:02 PM lol communication studies "Conflicts" implies some kind of major, recurring problem, the kind that people aren't going to be willing to disclose. Everyone has fights, but they're often about something stupid, like Panic Room or forgetting to turn off the oven. —TortillaFactory |
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Friday, April 4, 2008 at 4:25 PM
Edited Friday, April 4, 2008 at 4:26 PM Comm majors are open with their private life. Most of the students in my class self-disclose everything about their boyfriends, girlfriends..kids etc. Most of the comm classes expect students to participate in every class meeting, and also self-disclose in interpersonal, and family classes. I don't think I'm going to find anyone since everyone I talked to thinks this assignment is stupid, so I'm just gonna make a story up. I've listened to plenty of loveline relationship problems, and thanks to Dr. Drew I've got the solutions. Now the only problem is to convince my group mates that I actually interviewed people. —adams_babymomma |
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Friday, April 4, 2008 at 4:28 PM you should be in one of my creative writing classes. they are like therapy sessions. —mandee |
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Friday, April 4, 2008 at 6:35 PM I yelled at my wife yesterday. Think Swayzie in Red Dawn yelling "don't cry! and that's about what it was. She needed to man up. —bguirk |
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Friday, April 4, 2008 at 11:31 PM I'm very empathic. Now shut the fuck up. —bguirk |
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Saturday, April 5, 2008 at 10:35 AM "what Gibb category would you say you fit in?" —adams_babymomma i think i'm in the barry gibb category —pookie |
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Saturday, April 5, 2008 at 10:35 AM
Edited Saturday, April 5, 2008 at 10:36 AM
This is the problem with most social sciences - they create frameworks were there doesn't really need to be one. Concepts are useful if they do one or more of three things: explain, predict, and guide. That's why I'm a huge fan of social psych and the applied versions (Sales techniques, The Game ect.) It seems like the only flavor with predictive abilities. I've taken a ton of social science and a lot of the prediction it claims to make has all of these constraints on the study situation they're testing that don't map out to real life very well. —bguirk |
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Saturday, April 5, 2008 at 6:48 PM We did this exercise once during UW orientation where we had to pick from a list of groups our first, second, and third preferences for who we would hang out with. It was like nerds, artists, etc. except they didn't use derogatory terms like "nerd." Anyway, turns out that just me and one guy had picked nerd as our #1 choice and he looked like a Tolkien dwarf. Seriously, everything but the beard, even the long curly hair. He said about two words to me and then clammed up. Social science indicated that we had something in common, yet we couldn't have been more different! I guess is the point I'm trying to make here. —TortillaFactory |
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Saturday, April 5, 2008 at 7:19 PM He said about two words to me and then clammed up. Social science indicated that we had something in common, yet we couldn't have been more different! I guess is the point I'm trying to make here. Couple of things: 1. Yeah but still.
2. How do you know he was soooo different from you if he didn't speak?
3. Prediction is not preordination. Predictions are often wrong.
4. I do work with algorithms that are supposed to be matching and predictive (think Match.com or Netflix) and I'm part of a team that's trying to win a prize for it. Matching on just one factor is a pretty crappy. Matching on multiple factors is much better.
5. I've told this story before 'round these parts, but I once did a computer date through my dorm, had one of the highest matches of the group, got matched with an incredibly hot chick, but she turned out to be mormon which was a deal breaker for both of us. —bguirk |
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