Notices by Michael Dekker (dekk@hachyderm.io)

@inthehands The word you’re looking for is incompetence. Never assume malice when incompetence is an available explanation. Quality survey construction is far more difficult and time consuming than most people imagine, and few can do it well. As others have noted, the poor survey wording likely arises out of student inexperience, and also student failure to use survey construction resources.

@aubilenon If comparing feet to miles I would use miles and report feet as 0, 0.0, or <0.1 miles depending.

@sjuvonen @inthehands @liferstate it’s happening https://press.coop/@seattletimes/112828042439391540

@inthehands it’s not so much about being taken in by a con. It’s more that the only leaders left promising we can go back are the con artists.

@inthehands I don’t fully accept the premise that we have fallen into a hole. Compared to 30 or even 15 years ago, USians at large are more likely to believe that Black Lives Matter, that transgender people are human, and the same sex relationships should be honored and celebrated. Following the metaphor, we’re halfway out of the hole. Some are scared of what’s on the outside and seek out beliefs and leaders that promise to bring us back to where we were.

@inthehands google has ~2 decades of tracking when businesses are open, right? Would be amazing to unlock some of that data for trend facts on this.

@inthehands Also the ridiculous tax and food stamps bias against healthy prepared foods in favor of unhealthy processed foods.

@inthehands I’ll need to le^H^H use this at work.

@inthehands we once had escaped horses that were eventually secured and everyone who assisted in the effort knew order had been restored except the local sheriff who had been dispatched after the matter was resolved. Communicating that a crisis is over can be tricky.

@inthehands One can suppose that the scope of the search extended through informal channels enough that it made sense to blast a found message to everyone nearby even if they weren’t involved in the search.

I’m not convinced Twitter actually deleted any of my data when I asked them to. At best it’s in a database with deleted = 1 flagged. I attempted to unlike every post I ever liked on Twitter before deleting. But I was limited to unliking the most recent X posts I had ever liked. Which means after I removed the like, Twitter still had a record that I had at some time liked that post.