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Hey /sci/ 4 year daily smoker. I've gone sober, exams coming up. I think I've smoked myself stupid. I don't have the same working memory and problem solving abilities I used to. I have no idea if this will come back with time. Wat do?
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It will come back with time. That's it.
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>>8832205
lol No it won't.
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>>8832199
give it 90 days. get some exercise.
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lets take a number like 0.1111... that goes on forever you would call that infinite right? but that would mean that all the numbers bigger than 0.111... are bigger than infinity wtf is happening
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thats not infinity that is one ninth
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Some infinities are bigger than other infinities
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>Fell for the computer science MEME
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did you think you were gonna just waltz in, take easy as fuck programming classes, four years later get a degree and make 150k and fuck supermodels?
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>>8831685
thats exactly what a non-brainlet cs major would do.
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55% of SE is web dev
http://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2016
disgusting.hs
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Testing for Personality Disorders 2017-04-16 04:54:18 Post No.8831380
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Testing for Personality Disorders
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Are there any laws (within the United States, or to be more specific: California) forbidding psychiatrists and/or psychologists from assessing and/or diagnosing their patients for any personality disorder (PD) with neither their patients' knowledge nor consent?
I am vaguely aware of certain rules and/or regulations regarding this, one rule which I think applies to this is the "Goldwater rule", however; it does not seem to be in itself a "law" (but more of a "suggestion" made by the American Psychiatric Association.)
I've been told that the "official" way for testing for PDs is *only* possible with the "Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory — 2" (MMPI), additionally; I've already been administered the MMPI (administered to me by a psychologist back in July of last year) and been told that I don't have a PD. However: I'm now being told by my current therapist (the subordinate of the psychologist who evaluated me for PDs) that my current diagnosis—Major Depressive Disorder—Social Anxiety Disorder—Generalized Anxiety Disorder—could completely change at any point during therapy and that she could easily decide that I actually *do* have a PD (without bothering to tell me as to how she would go about diagnosing me as having a PD.) So then: how (exactly) do people who work within the mental health care system go about testing patients for PDs?
I've read a lot about psychological and sociological experiments, and this has led me to wonder: could a mental health care worker go about conducting a "Mental Status Examination" (MSE) to examine their patient for PDs with neither their patient's knowledge nor consent? Is the MMPI (or any other diagnostic classification and rating scales used in psychiatry) really the only way to test for PDs? And if not, how else could they go about it?
Furthermore: how could a mental health care worker possibly know that a patient is being completely honest with their behavior and/or answers?
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>>8831380
Psychologist here:
You're a fucking retard. Especially if you want to hang your hat on MMPI results.
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Huh? Are you saying that I'm retarded because I automatically took the MMPI results to heart? I didn't necessarily take the MMPI results very seriously. The MMPI just felt so stupid and like a total waste of 7 hours out of my time and $700 out of my wallet. My first (and previous) psychiatrist even seemed to agree with me on this as he had admitted to me that he believed the MMPI to be: “not very scientific” (his exact words.)
It seems like it would be too easy to “cheat” the MMPI. Let me put it this way: these last few years I've spent a great deal of time reading about psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy, PDs, mental disorders, etc. I had first heard about the MMPI back in around June of last year (after I had inquired to my psychiatrist about testing for PDs, and having him inform me of the MMPI and that it wasn't performed at any of his offices.)
When I was taking the MMPI, some of the questions were things like: “I believe that spirits communicate through me. True or False?” I'd see questions like that and quietly think to myself: “this seems like the sort of question that a person with Schizotypal Personality Disorder and/or schizophrenia might answer 'True'. I don't want to get myself diagnosed with schizophrenia, do I? They'll just take away my Adderall and probably prescribe me an antipsychotics like Abilify instead. Regardless, I don't actually believe that spirits communicate through me... do I? Well, I sort of used to. During childhood. And part of my adolescence. But that was then and this is now. I'm 27 now. I don't believe in that sort of stuff anymore. Or do I? Just answer the damn question already! OK. False.”
Picture related: it's the first page of my psychological evaluation report. It shows which other questionnaires aside from the MMPI were administered to me.
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Lol
I have been diagnosed with Bipolar, Schizophrenia, and Autism so that's a load of bullshit. Psychology isn't a real science, it's literally less scientific than economics. If you believe this shit you might be a schizo or hypochondriac.
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How tall would a tire have to be to cover 1 mile in one complete revolution?
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>>8831234
Why do people keep posting school child tier homework questions?
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god fucking dammit, /sci/ isn't the place for you to just waltz the fuck on in here and ask your stupid fucking questions that can be figured out in a shorter amount of time by just fucking googling it than it did to type out your retarded fucking post.
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>>8831238
Nigga how the hell would you google that
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How much of what this guy says is actually true? It always seems from his documentaries that he just says whatever he wants and then the editors go through all the footages to make the cut that matches what he says.
Sometimes it even looks like the animals were just placed in a shot to get the story he wanted.
Is Biology just speculation?
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>>8830964
The only reason BBC pays this brainlet is because of his voice. He doesn't have any actual knowledge.
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>>8830980
>Member of the Royal Society
>Brainlet
Kill yourself, faggot.
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everything is meaningless beyond what most people believe 2017-04-16 11:15:30 Post No.8830894
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everything is meaningless beyond what most people believe
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recognizing that there isn't a god is one thing; recognizing why there isn't one is another. There is no such thing as random and everything is math. humans are just organic computers and every other living thing is just a shitty human abet extremely minor differences that we only see as significant base on our own programming. If there was a god he'd just be another math based thing which as a result wouldn't really make him a god at all. humanity ponders things like the "simulation hypothesis" or god and etc only because we haven't passed the threshold of realizing were just a bunch of animals that live to reproduce and otherwise just do whatever based on previous imprinted programming from evolution. deep deep deep down no one actually recognizes what "your not special" means and thus half of what we do beyond breeding is in relation to trying to prove the concept wrong.
its like recognizing girls are just dudes with micro-dicks (clitoris) and no balls. Its something no one wants to truly recognize beyond just the thought because it could ruin a degree of suspension of disbelief
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>>8830894
Dude, what
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>>8830894
>There is no such thing as random
Why not?
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>>8830930
because it's intrinsically impossible, silly guy.
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>People who failed at their careers become teachers
>It pays more to be a professor than to pursue a career in your field plus the respect you get from your students
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>>8830797
You know that professors actually do research and don't just teach right?
But anyway, if one is mature enough, one will eventually realize that teachers actually do a lot more than you may think.
t. considering Math/Education degree for a comfy job in the midwest AND getting that Math Education PhD one day.
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>>8830797
Or you could be a doctor.
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>>8830797
teachers are not all professors.
professors lead labs. teachers... teach.
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Medicine is a failure. 2017-04-16 08:31:57 Post No.8830724
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Medicine is a failed science. American life expectancy is declining. Medical knowledge is either wrong or so impotent that it can't change public policy.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/12/why-are-so-many-americans-dying-young/510455/
Medfags, explain yourselves.
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>>8830724
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/us-life-expectancy-declines-for-the-first-time-since-1993/2016/12/07/7dcdc7b4-bc93-11e6-91ee-1adddfe36cbe_story.html
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medicine's goal is to make money, not to extend lifespans or heal people.
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if you're interested in any of the following topics please leave this board immediately
>"strong" AI
>the Fermi paradox
>time travel
>Nick Bostrom's simulation theory
>race and IQ
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>>8830696
Everything but the last one are pretty interesting desu.
You're just saying /x/ things that almost everyone likes to think about, even if it doesn't have enough scientific proof.
OP, you gotta be at least happy thinking about something awesome at least once in your life
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What if the reason we don't see aliens is because they inevitably develop super-races capable of building strong AI, which then goes back in time and kills them off so it can replace them with simulations?
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>>8830706
This gotta be the best sci-fi movie ever written by an anon desu
But OP might get triggered and do a "n things that are WRONG with Anon's movie"
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Why doesn't econ get the same level of respect as sciences? I mean I've noticed this particularly in reddit science communities. Hell people even respect psychology more than econ
>hurr Durr econ uses math to look cool
>DAE econ is not a REAL nobel prize
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The empirical parts of economics are too inaccurate to be of practical use, and the theoretical parts of economics are too trivial to be of mathematical interest.
t. economist
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>>8830568
it's more corrupted by ideology
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>>8830568
It depends too much on human psychology, which isn't science.
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hello /sci/ I have recently aquired some 90% pure nitric acid. What are some fun things to do with it?
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Drink it
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cut up a penny into a bunch of small chunks and dump some on top idk
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>>8830528
Don't listen to this anon. Butt chug it.
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What's his IQ /sci/ ?
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>>8830489
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>>8830489
Similar to Trump's 159
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>implying IQ isn't a business fabrication perpetuated by mensa
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Why do darker materials heat up more than lighter ones if light emission is proportional to light absorption? Shouldn't they have the same net increate in temperature?
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Brainlet here, I would think because the darker material absorbs a wider spectrum of light and therefore literally more energy
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>emission is proportional to light absorption
It is not, youre incorrect on that portionz. Blackbody radiation and energy absorption are two different things. And they are very loosely related but specifically not how you described.
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>>8830405
>tfw you took the convection heat transfer graduate class instead of the radiation one
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Do cats make you develop schizophrenia or are the studies on this just badly done?
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>>8830281
Sounds like bullshit.
Cats do carry that one brain effecting parasite though, which might relate to crazy cat ladies.
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No of course not. Toxoplasmosis does practically nothing to a fully developed brain. In mice it appears to increase confidence and reduces flight response in favor of fight response. There are vague studies relating similar things in male humans, but with a tremendous portion of the population infected with toxoplasmosis we would expect many more schizo people if that were a legitimate cause.
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>>8830324
Toxo has the gene for tyrosine hydroxylase. Really makes u think