mjmooney Posted August 12, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted August 12, 2015 I was the classic 'good at arts and social sciences, utterly crap at science and maths' kid at school. I was always (and still am) interested in science, and I've read a shitload of 'popular science' books, but it has to be explained in language; the minute I see an equation it's game over. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjaacckk91 Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 I think the biggest problem science has, is a lot of people think of science as the industry or research, the labs and the boffins. People don't realise how much science they see on a day to day basis and how much they already know and just ignore because its 'normal' everyday life,. Science programmes(generally) concentrate on watering down the big issues, or the 'cool something is on fire' science without really explaining it, just saying something like x reacts with x and energy and bang awesome wow. I understand that that kind of tv can get people into science or change the way you think of things and that is great. But the most impressive things for me when I was studying chemistry was just being able to see the fundamentals(which tv largely ignores because its 'boring') come alive in the real world. Chemistry is almost everything around you ffs, its just that most people ignore it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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gharperr Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 (edited) i dont get those who who are so against using stats in football. Some people just totally dismiss any post which uses stats. Its used as evidence to back up a point. And the "i prefer to use my eyes to make my opinions", as if the person who is using stats doesn't watch football and is just going off only stats. Do people not realise how stubborn the human mind is? Humans have such a selective memory and will just remember times when a player did something which reinforce their opinion and quickly forgot the times it dont. If youre a complete stat-hater. why? i really dont get it Edited August 16, 2015 by gharperr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PongRiddims Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 i dont get those who who are so against using stats in football. Some people just totally dismiss any post which uses stats. Its used as evidence to back up a point. And the "i prefer to use my eyes to make my opinions", as if the person who is using stats doesn't watch football and is just going off only stats. Do people not realise how stubborn the human mind is? Humans have such a selective memory and will just remember times when a player did something which reinforce their opinion and quickly forgot the times it dont. If youre a complete stat-hater. why? i really dont get it Stats are my bread and butter, so seeing them used in football is like a wet dream to me. But I don't understand 'soccernomics', that a player can be valued by a number of completed crosses in comparison to another player. I realise it's more complex than that but as much comes from a players personality and tenacity as it does from ability. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 i dont get those who who are so against using stats in football. Some people just totally dismiss any post which uses stats. Its used as evidence to back up a point. And the "i prefer to use my eyes to make my opinions", as if the person who is using stats doesn't watch football and is just going off only stats. Do people not realise how stubborn the human mind is? Humans have such a selective memory and will just remember times when a player did something which reinforce their opinion and quickly forgot the times it dont. If youre a complete stat-hater. why? i really dont get it You need a balance. I don't get people that hide behind stats without actually watching the game or the player with their own eyes. There are too many variables in football that can skew a pure stats based approach. An example is the Benteke v Yorke thread and which was a better player for Villa? Stats point to Benteke... yet the vast majority of fans who actually saw both play will say Yorke was better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted August 16, 2015 Administrator Share Posted August 16, 2015 Humans have such a selective memory and will just remember times when a player did something which reinforce their opinion and quickly forgot the times it dont. It's called a cognitive bias. In this case confirmation bias. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Stevo985 Posted October 12, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted October 12, 2015 The activity of just sitting and listening to music.Music is always a background thing for me. I like music, I listen to a lot of it.But I would never just sit down specifically to listen to music, and do nothing else. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 i listen to it in bed, if the missus goes to bed about 10pm and theres nothing on tv i'll go to bed as well, spend half an hour on youtube and then an hour on spotifylisten to albums on spotify through headphones while at work too 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted October 12, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted October 12, 2015 See the latter I get. I do that too sometimes. But it's background stuff.I'd never do the former. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted October 12, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted October 12, 2015 I can sit down and listen to a song I dont like, just because it's a good recording<--- Beyond help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 The activity of just sitting and listening to music. Music is always a background thing for me. I like music, I listen to a lot of it. But I would never just sit down specifically to listen to music, and do nothing else. Increasingly, it is becoming a mystery to me as to why people, myself included, actually listen to music. It seems that the more music I possess the less I listen to it and now that I have 60gb on an MP3 player, I can never listen to anything all the way through because I am always thinking there must be something better than this. The old tyranny of too many choices. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 i dont get those who who are so against using stats in football. Some people just totally dismiss any post which uses stats. Its used as evidence to back up a point.And the "i prefer to use my eyes to make my opinions", as if the person who is using stats doesn't watch football and is just going off only stats. Do people not realise how stubborn the human mind is? Humans have such a selective memory and will just remember times when a player did something which reinforce their opinion and quickly forgot the times it dont. If youre a complete stat-hater. why? i really dont get itStats are my bread and butter, so seeing them used in football is like a wet dream to me. But I don't understand 'soccernomics', that a player can be valued by a number of completed crosses in comparison to another player. I realise it's more complex than that but as much comes from a players personality and tenacity as it does from ability.It's a load of horseshit, as Liverpool have demonstrated by signing dud after dud based off of data. Stats in football is fine, but as any good statistician will tell you, your data needs to pass the 'eyeball test' and not just a statistical test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post chrisp65 Posted October 12, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted October 12, 2015 The activity of just sitting and listening to music.Music is always a background thing for me. I like music, I listen to a lot of it.But I would never just sit down specifically to listen to music, and do nothing else.** nerd alert **I've spent the last three evenings cutting up acoustic dampening drum pads to isolate speakers and to make a new turntable mat. I've altered the height of my tonearm, I've also acquired a new cartridge and other bits n bobs. I've booked a day's leave on Wednesday, to sit at home with the house empty, and listen for what difference any of that may or may not make. It's important to have the optimum set up when listening to Saturday Night Holocaust by The Dead Kennedys. So I'm perfectly happy to listen to music as a specific thing. Unless it could be argued I'm actually dicking about with tat - and listening to the result more than the music?But I get your point - it would be rare for me to just sit and watch a tv programme and not be doing something else at the same time. I'd consider anything on TV, a film or boxset on netflix, a dvd etc., to be the ultimate disposable leisure time. I'd almost always double up and do something else at the same time. Like sit on an exercise bike and do 20km, or cut up Ikea cork coasters to fill out the recess in my tt platter. oh, and p.s. I've just remembered that I also do a 300 mile round trip once a month to listen to music on someone else's stereo! 'cos he's got quite a good stereo. It's a little club of people that meet up to sit and listen to other's records. We don't touch each other or anything. Just take it in turns to make tea, and play records whilst swapping cables, valves 'n' shit around pretending it made a difference. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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