A lot of the standards used are still from the 1940s. Which is baffling to me, be pediatric, natal, pregnancy research is stifled for the obvious reason of people don't want to risk their kids.

You can't "fail" an IQ test.

i trust my midwives over my drs most of the time, but when i was pregnant I had both.

It just depends on the doctor, but that's with anything medical TBH.

I wouldn't trust anyone, but I'm a cynical bastard, and I have access to all the scientific journals for free.

well it was nice talking with everyone I have to step out for a bit ! cheers

I liked my dr, but hospitals would have been a bad idea for me. Drs give me anxiety and so do hospitals so that would have stalled labor and possibly caused all kinds of things I did not want to happen. So I had a home birth with 2 skilled midwives who could do anything but an epi and a c section

@Catboi sorry I misspoke. My mate felt he had failed at I Q tests. I Q test were never designed for that purpose and are mostly being misapplied. They are a poor metric.

IQ tests aren't a poor metric.

They serve their purpose.

As we've moved standardized testing away from IQ tests educational quality has only been .... hurt by it.

The SAT used to be a form of IQ test, but it was changed in the 70's.

Now it's a knowledge test.

@Catboi sorry. Yes they were misspelled in his case. I studied up on IQ tests a while back and came to the conclusion they needed to be carefully intereprested. Out of my filed anyways. I an a engineer.

I'm just argumentative 😉

I'm an engineer too

a "software *engineer*" 🤣

Im just writing and popping in to see what yall are saying lol

@Catboi No you are right. I avoid the topic altogether with my mate. It sets him off.

Anybody know if the stream from tonight got taken down or if it's just processing?

probably processing

it's usually not ready so soon after for me.

Bummer I was going to listen while I clean up the kitchen.

I loathe you tube. Hope everyone ditches it soonest.

This week was pretty meh

I worked in the Bay for awhile and I hate everyone Big N

culture at all those companies is .. fucked

I was hoping they would weigh in on Epstien and Prince Andrew. That is a weird one. I am going full Matt on that. The media have already found him guilty. I am not so sure.

We're never going to hear more about the Epstein stuff

maybe there wasnt more to say on that? I thought he said something last week

it's like how we're never going to hear more about David Asimov

they supposedly recovered a bunch of evidence in safes from all his properties, but where'd it all go?

David Asimov .. just searched. That was news to me.

Yeah, Mueller has no problem letting criminals go free, unless they're actually innocent.

Epstien just got gangstered. Likely won't hear anything more.

YEah, and what do you think prevented David Asimov from going to prison for his entire life. Same circles of power.

But Prince Andrew is a scalp the Britsh would like to take.

never going to happen because it would expose everyone else he had evidence on

Epstein and all that evidence somehow just died, just like Strzok's text messages.

Prince Andrew will be crucified by a media trial. The ratings will be through the roof.

This is how you know when people say it's conspiracy theory land to say the media has it's own propaganda are ostriches.