Dogs can distinguish between human fear and sadness?
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-21062.html
SABINE HOSSENFELDER
https://youtu.be/0XcEsuFs5Y8
VIDEO INTRO: The dumber you are, the more certain you are that you aren't. That's the
Dunning-Kruger effect, and it's been used to explain everything from bad politicians to the state of social media. Now psychologists have gone back to the biggest dataset we have and come out with the opposite conclusion. But there's a reason both sides can look at the same dots and see the opposite thing. Let's take a look.
VIDEO EXCERPT: But wait, how can it be that there are two different best fits to the same data cloud? It's because each of these curves is best in a different way. Loosely speaking, for the standard Dunning-Kruger, you minimize the deviation in the horizontal direction. For the new paper. in the vertical direction. You could instead take the mean of both, which would give you this line. And that tells you that the people who score least underrated themselves, whereas the people who score highest overrated themselves.
Still, how can it be that there are so many different ways to look at this data? Well, as a physicist, I'd say just look at the data. It basically doesn't have any correlation whatsoever. Why the hell are you fitting any straight line to this? This is why I give this paper as well as all previous papers on the topic a 10 out of 10 on the bullshit meter. These are all crappy data analyses. If you draw enough lines through the data, one will eventually confirm that everybody else is an idiot.
PAPER:
https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2028-00629-001.html
https://youtu.be/0XcEsuFs5Y8
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/0XcEsuFs5Y8
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c204d4z1gg8o
EXCERPTS: Prime Minister Andy Burnham has suggested that wealthier areas of the UK should house more asylum seekers. "We cannot have a situation where it's only the poorest communities in the country that receive all of the dispersal of refugees and asylum seekers," he told GB News on Tuesday.
His comments came in response to a question about protests which have taken place in the village of Piddington, Oxfordshire over plans to provide accommodation for asylum seekers on a nearby former military base. But shadow home secretary Chris Philp, responding to Burnham's comments, said: "We shouldn't be housing illegal immigrants anywhere – wealthy or not."
Labour has pledged to stop using asylum hotels, a costly form of accommodation that has become a focal point for anti-migrant protests.
The government has sought to house migrants at military sites across the country instead, announcing in June that it planned to open three more including the site in Bicester, Oxfordshire. The plans have prompted protests there, with residents of nearby Piddington voting to stage a symbolic referendum on leaving the UK.
[...] After winning the Makerfield by-election in June, Burnham promised to end "HMO Britain" and said he would change Britain's asylum accommodation system. HMOs, or houses in multiple occupation, have been widely used by government contractors to house asylum seekers, often in lower income, urban areas.
Last week, there were anti-immigration demonstrations in the town of Thetford, Norfolk, with protesters attempting to enter homes where they believed asylum seekers were living. In response to Burnham's interview, Philp reiterated the Conservatives' policy of leaving the European Convention on Human Rights in order to deport migrants to their country of origin or a safe third country... (MORE - details)
Police condemn PM: In an unprecedented letter, EVERY chief constable calls for PC Harper's killers not to be freed
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-1...llers.html
INTRO: Every police chief in the country has urged Andy Burnham to prevent the early release of PC Andrew Harper's killers.
In an unprecedented intervention, 50 police leaders - representing every force in the UK - united to condemn Labour's soft justice reforms, calling on the Prime Minister to scrap plans to set free Jessie Cole, Albert Bowers and thousands of other dangerous prisoners.
The National Police Chiefs Council released an extraordinary joint letter from heads of 48 UK police forces, the National Crime Agency and Jersey Police, condemning the plans, warning it 'risks undermining public safety, victim confidence and wider confidence in the criminal justice system'.
The signatories want Mr Burnham to explore 'every lawful option' to stop PC Harper's killers being freed, suggesting Government's plans to early release offenders are a betrayal of a law brought in his memory. The 28-year-old newlywed was killed in the line of duty in 2019 when he was dragged behind a car for more than a mile as he tried to stop three teenagers from stealing a quad bike in Sulhamstead, Berkshire.
His widow, Lissie, fought for Harper's Law - a mandatory life sentence for anyone who kills an emergency worker in the line of duty following outrage over the sentencing of his killers.
Cole and Bowers, who were 17-year-old passengers in the getaway car at the time, were sentenced to 13 years for manslaughter in 2020. The two thugs are among a wave of killers, rapists and violent criminals set to go free from September under Labour's soft justice prisoner release scheme... (MORE - details)
Burnham's jitters & waffling ... https://youtu.be/owq3d2QV5jI
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/owq3d2QV5jI
Woman assaulted by double murderer says nightmare became 'real life' when police let him attack again
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czjlwlkw1m4o
INTRO: A woman who was attacked by double murderer Simon Levy eight years ago has told the BBC the police made her nightmare "real life" by letting him go on to kill and attack more women. Laura, whose surname we are not using, said she had been trying to protect other women by reporting Levy in 2018, but feels betrayed by what he was later allowed to do after being released from jail.
Levy was convicted on Friday of murdering Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo and Sheryl Wilkins and raping another woman in London in 2025. He will be sentenced on Wednesday. He was also convicted earlier this year of sexually assaulting 11 other women, 10 of them on trains and the Tube in London between 2023 and 2025.
Police, prosecutors and the courts made a series of disastrous decisions that left Levy free. He went on to attack 14 more women before being taken off the streets, despite being a sex offender who was monitored by the Met Police.
Levy was a registered sex offender because he sexually assaulted Laura – and a separate victim - in summer 2018.
Laura says that Levy is "evil" and that his attack "completely changed my life". But she now realises that what she would "think about, dream about, have nightmares about was actually happening - he was actually still out preying on vulnerable women".
Waiving her anonymity, she said she had been trying to protect other women by ensuring that Levy was jailed. "I feel like when I reported it, I was doing the right thing and I thought I was doing it to protect other women. I feel absolutely devastated for all of those women that have been affected by him – and the families."
Laura says she feels let down by the whole criminal justice system including the Met Police, the courts and judges who bailed Levy, as well as the Crown Prosecution Service... (MORE - details)
Not a danger because he only had one eye ... https://youtu.be/U9M7SRz-vPo
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/U9M7SRz-vPo
Question: "Anyone who has studied physics will quickly see how fantastically successful mathematics is at describing the universe. The famous physicist Richard Feynman said in his book "the character of physical law" (pg.39):
'But what turns out to be true is that the more we investigate, the more laws we find, and the deeper we penetrate nature, the more this disease persists. Every one of our laws is a purely mathematical statement in rather complex and abstruse mathematics... It gets more and more abstruse and more and more difficult as we go on. Why? I have not the slightest idea...'
What does this imply about the nature of reality? And what can we say about this increasing complexity as we penetrate deeper?"
https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/que...e-universe
It seems to me that mathematics only works in physics to the degree that it formulates law-like predictable events in the universe based on its description of abstract quantitatively-interrelated patterns. But that's it. It doesn't apply to any sorts of events or aspects of reality that doesn't conform to some generalizable pattern of happening. It's like a map, which only represents the territory in terms of roads and cities and states and the distances between them but doesn't represent the territory in terms of its varying terrain or any of its geological or botanical or topographical features. For that we have travel brochures. Trying to understand reality based solely on mathematics is thus like trying to figure out who a person was based only on their skeleton:
"Remember that we sometimes demand explanations for the sake not of their content, but of their form. Our requirement is an architectural one; the explanation a kind of sham corbel that supports nothing."— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
