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Reblogged miasketches

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Reblogged gaymolegaming
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btc-official-deactivated2024071

last week i woke up from one of the most fucked up nightmares ive ever had with that middle panel burned into my brain. like the exact wording and the exact apartment and the exact squidward. i feel like if i didnt make it real something bad wouldve happened. anyway todays upload is spunchbob comic oc

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Reblogged meow-moment
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I've always written everything by hand before typing. Staring at a blank word document doesn't inspire the words to come.

But a blank paper and a blue pen and the words come at a steady pace.

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There's a pretty damning commentary on this paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1517235/full

In short:

  • they didn't actually measure changes in learning; they measured theta waves which don't have a clear link to learning
  • They evaluated adults, not children
  • They didn't have participants do any encoding activities; they were mindlessly typing the same thing over and over
  • They didn't allow participants to actually type; they had them 'type' with one finger of their right hand, when there's plenty of evidence that using both hands while encoding information leads to increased brain activity.
  • They couldn't see what they were typing (no visual feedback), so any error-correction processes the brain would usually run were impaired
  • The handwriting part of the experiment was completely normal and representative of using handwriting to record information.
  • They didn't actually report the raw data or conduct any statistical analysis for the two parts of the experiment individually; only the differences between the two groups.

Honestly, that is....shockingly bad. Like I'm surprised this passed peer review and it makes me wonder about the journal. Of course educational science is a joke of a field anyway with little scientific rigour over the last 50 years, so maybe that's not surprising. But this sure as hell sounds like this researcher walked into this project already convinced that handwriting is better for children's learning than typing and screens, and then rigged an experiment to support that bias. If I were the editor I would retract the paper, not just include a link to the commentary.

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For each trial, participants were instructed to either (a) write in cursive with their right hand the presented word with a digital pen directly on the screen, or (b) type the presented word using the right index finger on the keyboard. Before each trial, the instruction write or type appeared before one of the target words appeared, and the participants were given 25 s to either write by hand or type the word multiple times, separated by a space. EEG data were recorded only during the first 5 s of each trial. To prevent artifacts produced by head and eye movements caused by shifting gaze between the screen and the keyboard, typed words did not appear on the screen while the participant was typewriting.

lmao wow

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Why are people not reading these parts. Like they're reblogging posts that have criticism of a paper and saying "This is why I always use notebooks!" Trust me, if you can't even bother to fully read something you're gonna say you agree with, be it an entire paper or a freaking tumblr post, you are not smarter than anyone just because you use pen and paper.

I'm not even against the idea that writing is better for your brain than typing, but this experiment is objectively bad and does not prove anything.

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Beating a dead horse reblogging this post a third time but generally speaking anytime you see a headline about a study proclaiming that the good ol' traditional way of doing [thing] is better for your brain and makes you smarter and cooler and doing it with newer technological tools doesn't Activate Your Brain™ as much and makes you dumber and lazier that should start ringing your alarm bells to go check if there's Some Bullshit going on with the methodological design, because this such a common type of "someone clearly went into this with their mind already made up about the results they wanted and deliberately designed the study to support those preconceptions" study.

Like it's something you should always be doing, but especially for stuff like this, and *especially* if the conclussion just so happens to play nicely into the confirmation bias that old method = more effort = good.

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Reblogged acekoral
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there r so many emojis i always stumble across something like 🗜 and i think who the HELL would ever use this emoji. and then i think abt some guy who probably works w those things all the time n hes so happy he can use this emoji. and im happy for him

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My dad has started using them regularly in conversations to make the underrepresented emojis feel included, which is very cute in theory, but it means I get texts like:

Anyways this is the only correct way to use emojis have a very 🪔 day

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reminds me of this interaction I had with my parents

they were in the same room and apparently when they got my explanation text my dad threw his phone down and said “how the FUCK does she expect me to know that”

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Reblogged toskarin
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must feel good as fuck to curse a prince for being rude to you while you were larping as an old woman for no reason