Harvard: July 4th Parades Are Right-Wing

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Let me guess, the government funded this study. If so, which I would bet they did, I am infuriated. Why on earth are we giving money to universities to study ridiculous stuff like this??? :mad:
 
Holly3278 said:
Let me guess, the government funded this study. If so, which I would bet they did, I am infuriated. Why on earth are we giving money to universities to study ridiculous stuff like this??? :mad:
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Because studying why gorillas grind their teeth, do married couples start to look alike and if curvy hips in women denote intelligence studies have all been done. (note these are all real taxpayer funded studies).
 
When done before the age of 18, it increases the likelihood of a youth identifying as a Republican by at least 2 percent.
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It raises the likelihood that parade watchers will vote for a Republican candidate by 4 percent.
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It boosts the likelihood a reveler will vote by about 1 percent and increases the chances they’ll make a political contribution by 3 percent.
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Are these the best statistics the could get? 😃
 
SamH said:
Because studying why gorillas grind their teeth, do married couples start to look alike and if curvy hips in women denote intelligence studies have all been done. (note these are all real taxpayer funded studies).
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Your tax dollars at work…,
 
Holly3278 said:
Let me guess, the government funded this study. If so, which I would bet they did, I am infuriated. Why on earth are we giving money to universities to study ridiculous stuff like this??? :mad:
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It’s called publish or perish.🙂
 
mary_bobo said:
It’s called publish or perish.🙂
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There is quite a debate going on in the State of Texas right now about the amount o time & money Universitity professors spend doing research like this as opposing amount of t time they spend actually teaching. When a special committee appointed by the governor asked for records from state universities detailing the amount of time Professor spent in the classroom as opposed to doing “research” they stonewalled as long as they could and managed to get the head the committee fired.
 
estesbob said:
There is quite a debate going on in the State of Texas right now about the amount o time & money Universitity professors spend doing research like this as opposing amount of t time they spend actually teaching. When a special committee appointed by the governor asked for records from state universities detailing the amount of time Professor spent in the classroom as opposed to doing “research” they stonewalled as long as they could and managed to get the head the committee fired.
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WHOA!!!
 
estesbob said:
There is quite a debate going on in the State of Texas right now about the amount o time & money Universitity professors spend doing research like this as opposing amount of t time they spend actually teaching. When a special committee appointed by the governor asked for records from state universities detailing the amount of time Professor spent in the classroom as opposed to doing “research” they stonewalled as long as they could and managed to get the head the committee fired.
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It varies greatly from university to university. Reasearch faculty at my university have made various advances in opthemology and genetics these past couple years (I know because I see them advertised on the website every day) . There was also a ver interesting study by a psychology student about the relationship between religion and psychological well-being that was actually quite good. Most of our research though is in biomedical engineering. Another study I am somewhat involved in is looking at various medical conditions in orthodox Jews related to vitamin D and calcium deficiency as a result of wearing concealing clothing (Muslims often have the same problem) as well as finding suitable intervention methods in diet or in vitamin supplements, by an orthodox Jewish epidemiologist. We get federal funding for much of this research of course. Of course, there are those who would have everyone believe that most government funded research is useless and should be cut so something usefl can be done with it, like fund adventurist wars and build obsolete naval technology designed to keep a defunct state (the USSR) at bay. You know, useful things.
 
Raskolnikov said:
It varies greatly from university to university. Reasearch faculty at my university have made various advances in opthemology and genetics these past couple years (I know because I see them advertised on the website every day) . There was also a ver interesting study by a psychology student about the relationship between religion and psychological well-being that was actually quite good. Most of our research though is in biomedical engineering. Another study I am somewhat involved in is looking at various medical conditions in orthodox Jews related to vitamin D and calcium deficiency as a result of wearing concealing clothing (Muslims often have the same problem) as well as finding suitable intervention methods in diet or in vitamin supplements, by an orthodox Jewish epidemiologist. We get federal funding for much of this research of course. Of course, there are those who would have everyone believe that most government funded research is useless and should be cut so something usefl can be done with it, like fund adventurist wars and build obsolete naval technology designed to keep a defunct state (the USSR) at bay. You know, useful things.
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The debate focuses on whether the so-called flagship universities have become more interested in becoming an “elite” university than they are in educating the students. . It is a valid question-what is the primary purpose of the university, especiallya public one? With tuition costs skyrocketing students should ask why their professors aren’t spending more time in the classroom. six
 
Raskolnikov said:
Another study I am somewhat involved in is looking at various medical conditions in orthodox Jews related to vitamin D and calcium deficiency as a result of wearing concealing clothing (Muslims often have the same problem) as well as finding suitable intervention methods in diet or in vitamin supplements, by an orthodox Jewish epidemiologist.
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That would be interesting, to me.🙂

Maybe a possible study with Vitamin D deficiency and correlation to curly-light-bulbs usage?

We have evidence of it with regular florescent tubes.
 
estesbob said:
The debate focuses on whether the so-called flagship universities have become more interested in becoming an “elite” university than they are in educating the students. . It is a valid question-what is the primary purpose of the university, especiallya public one? With tuition costs skyrocketing students should ask why their professors aren’t spending more time in the classroom. six
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Well, there is a trade-off between research and education. Research I would argue is actually a very imporatant role of research univeristies (Liberal Arts universities of course are all about teaching as they don’t even have graduate schools). Also, research is a vital part of education. I’m pretty sure that most research that goes on at my college has students involved, usually multiple students, and often even undergrads, and research is probably the best way to learn (and usually students also get paid for it, so it helps pay tuition as well).

But I suppose you’re right, it is a problem getting the top scientists and scholars to actually teach in classrooms and spread the knowledge, rather than just have their grad students do it. Generally, the worst colleges in this respect are the big state schools (I have friends at Ohio State who didn’t have an actual professor until junior year). But smaller private (but also publically funded) colleges like the one I go to don’t have this problem so much.

Students who go to Ohio State should be forewarned that they won’t likely have many actual professors till they’re upperclassmen. Many of course mwould still rather go there than to a smaller school like mine (which, according to me at least, is more prestigious, but also more expensive) for a variety of reasons. It’s hard for big colleges like that to allocate resources and personnel in aneffective manner. And of course, every professor has his own reputation to think about. Professors don’t make names for themselves by being great teachers, but rather by publishing. Not quite the same motivations as high school teachers.
 
Harvard is absolutely right.

July 4th 1776, we adopted the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain.

Today’s liberals wish that day had never existed.

We would already have the NHS and all those great and wonderful things the Brits love so much. And modern day liberals wouldn’t have to work so hard.
 
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