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There is no legitimate reason to make an illegal move in chess though? There are reasons why a good doctor might intentionally explain things imprecisely to a patient.

I've never heard of a surgeon going to jail over a genuine mistake even if it did kill someone. I'm also not sure what that would accomplish - take away their license to practice m…

You don't need to sacrifice the rigor to have a more balanced community, at least not at the total size Caltech is. There's a large component of college admissions these days that …

Nah, sorry you had a shit college experience, but college is the place I made most of my close, lifelong friends. And had an awesome time. While also learning, they're not mutually…

I don't think it's purely an optics thing. College is a community not just school. Do you want all your social groups, living area, etc. to be 75+% male as a college student?

Fair enough, I knew they owned a lot of entertainment/media related companies but didn't realize they owned additional properties that weren't explicitly advertised as such. Though…

Disney uses an integrated account system now, if you sign up in order to buy park tickets or use the Disney world app you are probably clicking through a similar agreement anyway. …

Sure that overrides the disclaimer for the restaurant, and I'm inclined to agree with you there because every restaurant has some disclaimer like this that if enforced would make a…

This defense is absurd, but also there are no tickets for the mall and Disney doesn't own most of the stores/restaurants in the mall. The restaurant in question is a tenant and the…

No, though maybe there is a reasonable assumption they enforce more oversight on tenants than a typical mall would. They do publish the restaurant menu on their website (including …

Also Samsung has been innovating with hardware. I'm not the hugest fan of their flavor of Android but I absolutely love my flip phone and would not consider switching back to iOS o…

Obviously most scientists are not going to be interested in null results from adjacent subfields, but when it comes to specific questions of interest it is absolutely useful to kno…

It's meant for kids so parents would be the ones paying. Obviously they're trying to profit and it does seem a bit overpriced (though there are extra logistical costs for anything …

It's not just a corporate phenomenon. Academic research has increasingly shifted towards a goal of regularly churning out papers for the sake of getting publications, rather than b…

Don't grants still tie you to government pay structures? I know in biology most academic research labs may as well be government entities because that's the main way to get funding…

There's definitely a genetic component but it would be interesting if those environmental factors impacted prevalence or severity. Autoimmune disorders in general might be worse/mo…

Humans are actually born with blurry vision as the eye takes time to develop, so human learning starts with low resolution images. There is a theory that this is not really a limit…

Makes sense, it'd still be kinda harsh as a strict graduation requirement for EECS though wouldn't it? In biology I've seen a lot of more recent theses where a couple of the chapte…

That's certainly the systemic pressure. And it's hard to avoid having that approach as a postdoc. I think PhD students, especially in the first couple years, can benefit in the lon…

4 first author pubs? Maybe this is field dependent but that sounds like a pretty extreme requirement. The most I've seen formally required in my field is 1 first author peer review…

European PhD programs generally assume you already have a Masters in the subject so they skip most of the grad level courses and they typically don't do things like rotations eithe…

I doubt they had the right technology back then to actually investigate for physical brain trauma. Even today CTE diagnoses are made post mortem. And one can end up with CTE withou…

The music part is just scaling in a different way, but that's not the reason the iPhone is so successful. The leap from iPod to iPhone was definitely not just scaling.

Shark attacks isn't really p-hacking though, that's about misinterpreting/misrepresenting a real correlation. P-hacking is finding a fake correlation due to chance because you test…

Straight up fabrication is more common than we'd hope, but probably not systemically threatening. I'm much more concerned about how poorly replication goes even when authors are no…