Richard Shaw
richardshaw.bsky.social
Richard Shaw
@richardshaw.bsky.social

Lecturer @ University of Glasgow, UK. Epidemiologist interested in mental-health and wellbeing, health inequalities, administrative data, education.

Trying to learn Italian and Spanish.

Public Health 35%
Psychology 21%
Today is #HobbitDay because Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were both born on September 22nd.

Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves.

Anyway it's a good day to come and boromir #Tolkien books. 📚

Do they not realise that most people are professors because people bring esteem to the University, not the other way round, and that removing titles from people is an obvious indicator of failing management?

Back near the top of this this thread @radostwaszkiewicz.bsky.social in my view had a good answer to your original question.

The subsequent discussion suggests that what you actually wanted to say and perhaps not fully aware of was something different.

The act of asking a question requires thoughts and words. How can we ask it if we are not aware of it?

"And I think it must exist regardless of whether we're even aware of it " How else am I supposed to interpret this phrase?

This assumes that there is objective truth just waiting to be discovered. That certainly doesn't exist in social science and by studying population health Epidemiology is in large part a social science.

An RQ that is mostly a function of the available data would be a particular bad cluster or latent class analysis.

A problem with the UK's political system is the middle earners who believe they are among the most oppressed people in the world.

In particular, people who forget that the UK is a high income country, and are conned into voting for people who will turn the UK into a low income country.
2. In recent years the tax burden has increased on high earners and decreased on middle earners.

We have a state as big as Denmark's but tax people on middle incomes lower than in the US. That flips when you get to higher middle earners - around £60k.

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2. In recent years the tax burden has increased on high earners and decreased on middle earners.

We have a state as big as Denmark's but tax people on middle incomes lower than in the US. That flips when you get to higher middle earners - around £60k.

I don't think an unconstrained RQ can exist. The reasons for that probably best explained by qualitative researchers or philosophers.

For most research the starting point is the data, to the point that there are funding calls to demonstrate that particular datasets can be used.

Along side the waste of unfunded projects there is also the waste of a project that fails after 6 months or so, and the Post Docs are left flogging a dead horse until the project ends.

We need to look at the entire research funding system as the current process has massive stakes (people's jobs) determined by an incredibly unreliable review system.

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Mrs B has a year-old entry-level laptop for occasional use. Probably a dual-core Intel with 8GB of RAM sold with Win 11. If it's not used for a month or so it can be crippled for at least an hour whilst everything tries to sync and update at once.

www.theregister.com/os-platforms...