Interesting Links for 05-04-2023

[andrewducker]

1. There's no evidence that any ethnic group is responsible for child sexual exploitation, but that won't stop the Tories from blaming Pakistanis

(tags:racism Conservatives children abuse )

2. Raising an autistic child for 12 years has shown me all the ways neurotypical people are flawed

(tags:autism children society )

3. Conservatives continue to agree that housing in the UK is broken. And then not do anything about it.

(tags:Conservatives housing uk epicfail )

4. Frequently shouting at, isolating, and physically punishing young children made it 1.5 times more likely that a child would be at high risk of developing poor mental health by age nine

(tags:children mentalhealth parenting abuse )

5. People Are More Prone to Believe in God than Identify as Religious. Western Europe is the least-religious part of the world

(tags:religion belief polls )

6. Grooming gangs and ethnicity: What does the evidence say?

(tags:ethnicity children rape abuse uk )

7. Driverless bus service goes live in Scotland in world first (will still have a safety driver aboard, and someone to assist people).

(tags:scotland buses driving automation )

8. Catan creator, board game pioneer Klaus Teuber dead at 70

(tags:games SettlersOfCatan obituary )

9. People who live beyond 100 have a better immune system than average

(tags:immune_system age )

10. A Toxic Time Bomb Is Ticking in the Arctic

(tags:environment pollution arctic doom )

11. Conflict in Israel and Gaza: What do Jews in the UK think?

(tags:israel Jews uk )

12. Very! Bad! Volume! Controls!

(tags:design ux music funny )

13. Key lessons from the quest design of The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077

(tags:design games )

14. Why people sometimes feel a 'presence' in an empty room

(tags:psychology hallucinations )

15. The Rule of Three - how organisations change as they grow

(tags:business organisation psychology )

16. Apparently the EHRC doesn't understand how book clubs work

(tags:books bigotry gender UK wtf )

17. Using AI to describe logos and then recreate them from that yields some lovely results (I think Twitter is my favourite)

(tags:logo ai design )

18. More games should use "Overkill"

(tags:games death design )

Comments

[mtbc]

(3): I've often wondered if it's time for more new towns. Except, we don't seem to do anything big and bold any more, and I wonder if they still end up just straining transport links into where more of the actual jobs are. I suppose at least Cumbernauld has motorway into Glasgow, etc. Where we've looked in recent months, there's also something of a shortage of family high-density housing nearer the jobs, e.g., a large fraction of central flats are more typically two-bedroom eighty-square-metre affairs, gets a bit tight when one has a couple of kids.

(16): WTF.

[adrian_turtle]

I love those volume controls based on game theory. I can't decide if the one based on curling is my favorite, or the one based on pong. Or maybe the yahtzee one is better.

[cmcmck]

This might be of interest.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65181018

Depressing or what?

[andrewducker]

Yup, that was what #16 was about.

I very much doubt they'll get anywhere with it, but I do very-much wish they'd fuck off.

[wildeabandon]

I do find it weird that these people who claim to be so terrified of men in women's spaces want to force me into them.

[andrewducker]

It is totally ridiculous (and awful)

[cmcmck]

And me into your space (see userpic and I'm all of 5'6" tall so I'm going to feel SO safe there).......

[mellowtigger]

#5 Rule Of Three
I've never seen the idea presented so succinctly. That webpage really is excellent. :) I can see exactly what problems my last employer was facing in that list.

[andrewducker]

I'm glad it's useful!

[channelpenguin]

I'd noticed time and again the problems with getting over about 21/22 but that page is the full deal! Awesome!

[hairyears]

Has anyone got a non-paywalled link for 2?

[andrewducker]

Archive.ph is your friend.

5 - religiosity and age

[wildeabandon]

I was really surprised to see that younger people are more religious globally, to the extent that when I saw it in the opening commentary I thought it must be a typo, until I scrolled down to look at the graphs.

Re: 5 - religiosity and age

[andrewducker]

I hadn't spotted that. And I also find it unexpected. I wonder what's going on there! Are there parts of the world which are religious and are having lots of children?

Re: 5 - religiosity and age

[doubtingmichael]

I was surprised by that too. After thinking about it, I think "high religious levels" and "lower life expectancy" tend to go together, and both are (in part) caused by poverty. I don't think it's "the next generation is more religious than the last one".

[doubtingmichael]

15: Interesting, but I'm not sure it's really a "power of three" thing. I think it's more accurate to say "if your entity changes its size by a factor of three, its organisation must change". But for some organisations, it may be the change from twelve people to thirty-six.

16: The EHRC understand very little these days, and aren't interested in understanding.

[andrewducker]

I'm sure that "powers of 3" isn't an exact match or anything like that. But as a general approximation it seems to work tolerably well enough.

[doubtingmichael]

What I was trying to say is that they've got the scaling factor right, but it's actually possible to encounter a boundary at any time. I'm quibbling, really.

[andrewducker]

I agree with your quibble, while thinking that the current formulation gets the general point across well.