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Interview: Osric Chau
Osric Chau
"The SPNFamily is my favourite thing about Supernatural. They are the reason why the show is still going strong, they are the reason why the cast and crew care so much and it's a real give and take that I haven't really seen elsewhere"
– , Osric Chau - (Kevin Tran) on the SPNFamily.
Osric Chau, who plays the Prophet Kevin Tran on Supernatural, has been kind enough to answers some questions to Lucy (SpnUK) exclusively for the Supernatural wiki.
1 Joining the Supernatural Family
2 We need to talk about Kevin
3 On the set of Supernatural
4 Supernatural Conventions and Fancy dress
5 Supernatural watch and other activities
6 Star Struck
Joining the Supernatural Family
Lucy: Why do you think you were picked to play Kevin Tran on Supernatural and what drew you to the role in the first place?
Osric: That's something I would love to know myself. But let's look at some things I know for sure. For starters, my Supernatural audition was one I had prepared for more than any other audition up until that point in my career. I had spent $600 delaying a flight so that I could make the Supernatural audition to be in the room with Ben Edlund and Jim Michaels and I was going to go in as prepared as humanly possible. Secondly, I think I was the only guy in there with long hair and so Ben and I had something in common. I've never had it that long up until that point, and it wasn't so much as a choice of style, just that I had been too lazy to go to a barber or salon in a 2 year period since being bald. I didn't know too much about the show at that time (now I feel like I know too much), but Ben Edlund was directing my first episode and he created "The Tick" which I used to love watching as a kid and so he was one of the guys I really wanted to work with. I believe it was him and Sera Gamble who created Kevin Tran so for that I'll be ever grateful.
Lucy: Was it difficult to join an established series like Supernatural?
Osric: It was a little difficult at the start because you could tell right away how close everyone was. Being the outsider coming in to a set where everyone is joking around and playing so much, I had a hard time figuring out when they were being serious or when they were just messing with me. That being said, the cast and crew make up my favourite set that I've ever worked on, and the kindness and familiarity that I saw even after my first episode really makes it feel like I'm coming home every time I get the opportunity to come back on for another episode.
Lucy: Many people seem almost overwhelmed by the initial welcomes and reactions of the Supernatural fans; what has been your experience of joining the SPNFamily?
Osric: The SPNFamily is my favourite thing about Supernatural. They are the reason why the show is still going strong, they are the reason why the cast and crew care so much and it's a real give and take that I haven't really seen elsewhere. As an actor, I've always struggled with doing something that I felt made a difference. I think for a lot of other actors it's the same. Most roles and characters played by any actor are forgotten about and come up on a rare occasion even in our inner circles. But this show and the SPNFamily has really changed that for those that are lucky enough to be a character in this show. You make some of the smallest characters into something more. You've changed the lives for many of the actors on this show, myself included, and so to the SPNFamily I am ever grateful to you as well. And so my experiences with the SPNFamily has been overwhelmingly positive. I see so much talent in this fandom that I can't help but finding myself always trying to encourage people to do more, to collaborate with and to support each other in this fandom.
From Advanced Placement to Prophet
Lucy: What do you think of Kevin's transition from Advanced Placement Kevin to bad-ass prophet Kevin?
Osric: A Godsend! Not in the Supernatural literal sense.. but you know what I mean. Kevin Tran was on the verge of being the most stereotypical Asian character that I would have ever played. And instead he become the most layered character with the most depth that I ever played. Funny how much can change in one season. I loved the transition from season 7 to season 8. And I'm also very thankful that I had to shave my head for another project I did in the interim because I felt like the haircut and physical transformation really topped it off. I also feel that Kevin, is in a lot of ways the character that best represents the audience and the fandom. Thrust into that situation of course we'd freak out, but then given a year on our own, we wouldn't just give up and die, we pull together all our knowledge that we've accumulated in our lives from school and all our favourite genre shows and games and learn how to kick some demon ass.
Lucy: Which version of Kevin do you relate to the most?
Osric: The paranoid overstressed under slept and malnourished version. Not always but I try to keep myself in a work mode where that's all I do. It can be incredibly unhealthy, but is it ever productive! Kevin got it right, with so many people's lives at stake an extra hour of sleep could mean 10 lives. I tend to compare sleep with opportunities in that same way. Just like in Schindler's List, you don't want to wish that you could have done more so you just do it.
Lucy: Is there anything that you would like to see happen with/to Kevin's character in the future?
Osric: I would love for Kevin to transition into a hunter. He started off being constantly kidnapped and then stuck in hiding in different places for so long. If the next step could be out into the world with confidence from himself and his allies that he can make a bigger difference out in the field would be amazing. So that's the ego of the actor in my talking. For story, Sam and Dean are the hunters, and they're amazing at it. I don't think they need that much help in the field for that. They do however have allies for different situations. For Kevin, I would like to see him really explore the MoL bunker and be the expert there. Figure out all the equipment, be the guy that knows every room, all the secrets and knows the library by heart. Being the all knowing Janitor at the MoL bunker would be a cool job.
On the set of Supernatural
Lucy: Have you ever been prone to any of the infamous on set pranks?
Osric: Luckily no. They do like to push my buttons, but thankfully I'm not a primary target. Maybe cause I have had a few opportunities to be the guy holding the water devices. Though every time without fail, Jared has borrowed it and sprayed our A Cam operator (Brad Creasser) in the junk. Brad's a good sport, I wish every set had a Brad.
Lucy: What was Jared doing to put you off in the last lot of Outtakes?
Osric: He was reaching across from under the table to stroke my leg with his foot and he got my funny bone every time. This is what happens when Jared gets bored. The more lines the writers give him, the more he has to concentrate. The less they give him, the more he sees every object or person as a possible joke and chance to do something stupid. Anyone do that yet? Check the gag reels, I think it would be a good bet that those scenes aren't so Jared heavy.
Osric being filmed in the MOL bunker set
Lucy: What is it like filming in the awesome looking Men of Letters bunker set?
Osric: It's home now. Being that I'm always locked up somewhere, I never go on location anymore, so that place is pretty much home for me. It's growing now too and the place just envelops you when you're in it. After awhile it's easy to forget that you're on a set because now the doors that used to exit into the sound stage now exit to a hallway or another room. That's a beautiful monster of a set.
Lucy: Do you think you'll get to utilize any of your martial arts training on the show?
Osric: Probably not unless they include Kevin in one of the fun episodes that happens in a video game or some alternate reality. As much as I would love to do that in the show, that would really solidify the stereotype. With no hints prior, he just knew Kung Fu. So unless it's in a dream, probably not.
Jared posted a video of Osric flipping a giant truck tyre - with Jared providing some "helpful" commentary! Lucy: How many times can Jared push the Tyre over?
Osric: Well we can go on for awhile, it's all in the speed. I need to train up to beat him, but his record is 13 tire flips in a minute. The tire is 435lbs I think. His height really gives him a big advantage but he's slow to run around and reset. It's possible, but I need to get back to the shape I was when I was training full time to close the gap.
Supernatural Conventions and Fancy dress
Osric as Princess Bubblegum at Dallas Con 2013
Lucy: You have been to a few of the Supernatural conventions now; do you have a convention moment and/or fan moment that stands out for you the most?
Osric: Well Dallas Con 2013 I kind of went all out and dressed as Princess Bubblegum on a whim. The moment of regret as soon as I adjusted my crown and looked in the mirror for the first time was definitely one that I'll remember. I'll probably keep doing stuff like that, makes it more fun and I think it'll be a good way for me to set these milestones in my head for all the cons if I end up going to a lot of them one day.
"A10, that was when I tried to dress up like a Prophet/Hulk and just pulled random things together for it."
"Dallas 13, that was when I did Princess Bubblegum and made sure it was much better than the Prophet/Hulk, then I looked into the mirror and realized it was too good.."
Another one was at A10 in Birmingham when I first stepped out onto the stage. Never would I have expected that. Good memories of England, I wish I could have spent more time there with the attendees. Not to mention witnessing so many people meeting for the first time at these cons and becoming best friends, it's so awesome to be part of that in however small a capacity. Yea, my favourite thing about the cons is definitely seeing so many Supernatural fans meet and connect with each other.
Lucy: If you attend other conventions will you consider doing another competition like the Dallas fan-art contest that you arranged?
Dallas Con 2013 winning Fan-art by Haley Kline (WingedAvenger)
Osric: Yes! I was so surprised at how many people participated for the Dallas one. And for the winners of the Dallas contest, we had quite the adventure going to a dinner and then a haunted haunted house which freaked most of us out. I'll definitely be more organized next time and it's quite difficult to do since I'm new to the city too, but I think I might try to do another one for Burbank since I spend a lot of time there. Although doing these regional things are quite limiting. Ideally, I would love to do a worldwide contest, and just fly the winner to somewhere where we can hang out and just collaborate to do another project, maybe introducing them to some industry professionals that could help further their career. I want to encourage people to create things, to support the arts, and to support hard working people in general who might not have the resources to pursue a career in something they spent their entire lives loving. That'll take some more thoughts and resources but it's something I definitely want to do one day.
Lucy: You seem to enjoy dressing up...a lot! what is your most favorite fancy dress outfit that you have worn and is there anything that you really want to dress up as in future?
Osric: There must be a reason why thousands dress up for Comic Con right? To represent characters that you like from shows that you're a fan of. It's all in good fun! I used to go all out for Halloween with making gigantic bulky and impractical costumes made out of papier-mache and cardboard. Started with Spongebob squarepants, in grade 10, then a giant Mario bobble-head, then Kirby. Kirby I had to make twice cause the first one didn't fit through the door.. didn't think it through. Second one I needed a minivan to transport. And I went as a power ranger with a few from my martial arts class. First time wearing women's tights for that. Coach wasn't happy with that one.
Supernatural watch and other activities
Lucy: How far through the complete Supernatural watch through have you got?
Osric: Oh my.. Still the end of first season. But I will get to it! There's just so much I want to do and so little time. It's a goal that I've set for myself though, so I will complete it.
Lucy: What kind of activities do you do in your spare time (apart from watching Supernatural)?
Osric: I used to be a huge gamer. Now the only game I play is League of Legends. The bulk of my time currently is used to develop different projects with friends. I've done a good amount of short films with my roommate and we believe we have the right people to start to think about doing a first feature length film, but that starts with a good story and a lot of work to do between our regular work.
Lucy: What other projects are you working on, or plan to work on soon?
Osric: As I said earlier, my focus right now has been in script development. I write, collaborate with writers and develop other ideas with people to create as compelling of a script as we can. So once we get a few solid ones, we can start shopping it around and getting them made.
I do a lot of indie projects on the side as well. They're so much fun and I get to really be hands on and learn a lot. One project that I'm spearheading right now is a live action League of Legends short film. It's a game I love, through it I stay connected to a lot of my friends, and I also have a lot of friends at Riot Games, who makes LoL. So doing this made a lot of sense, and it's quite an ambitious project with what we want to do with it, but I have a good team together already with industry professionals all over Canada (SPN included) and the further we go, the more interest we've had for people wanting to see it and help us with it so it's been quite exciting for everyone involved. We're in preproduction now, designing the practical portions of the costumes. Production is slated for spring of 2014.
Osric filming with Jared and Jensen
Lucy: Have you been star struck recently, and if so by whom?
Osric: I haven't really ever gotten star struck. I didn't meet any stars when I was younger, and the first few that I met, the only thing I could think of was how different they were in real life than I thought they would be. Probably just J & J. Those two always impress me despite themselves. They're able to work the hours they do and still find time for family and everything else. Jensen's still the cool level headed guy that he probably was in season 1 who gives everyone the time of day to feel welcome. And Jared, as goofy as he is, has an incredible work ethic, and I really admire that in him. So there are days on set where I just wonder, how did they do that?
A huge thank you to the lovely Osric Chau for answering these questions for the fans!
Thanks also to his manager Andrew for helping to arrange the interview.
Thank you to all that helped with the question ideas.
E-mail Interview by Lucy (@SpnUK)
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E-mail Interview conducted 8th October 2013
We hope the SPNFamily has enjoyed this Interview. Please feel free to comment on here or to contact Osric by the social media links below.
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Dallas Con Fan-art contest winners
portrait of Kevin by Haley Kline (WingedAvenger)
beautifully crafted wooden chest by Marley Fraterman
hilarious animated musical number by Sara M
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An unstructured interview or non-directive interview is an interview in which questions are not prearranged. These non-directive interviews are considered to be the opposite of a structured interview which offers a set amount of standardized questions. The form of the unstructured interview varies widely, with some questions being prepared in advance in relation to a topic that the researcher or interviewer wishes to cover. They tend to be more informal and free flowing than a structured interview, much like an everyday conversation. Probing is seen to be the part of the research process that differentiates the in-depth, unstructured interview from an everyday conversation. This nature of conversation allows for spontaneity and for questions to develop during the course of the interview, which are based on the interviewees' responses. The chief feature of the unstructured interview is the idea of probe questions that are designed to be as open as possible. It is a qualitative research method and accordingly prioritizes validity and the depth of the interviewees' answers. One of the potential drawbacks is the loss of reliability, thereby making it more difficult to draw patterns among interviewees' responses in comparison to structured interviews. Unstructured interviews are used in a variety of fields and circumstances, ranging from research in social sciences, such as sociology, to college and job interviews. Fontana and Frey have identified three types of in depth, ethnographic, unstructured interviews - oral history, creative interviews (an unconventional interview in that it does not follow the rules of traditional interviewing), and post-modern interviews.
To achieve the level of depth and detail sought after using the method of the unstructured interview, the researcher or interviewer may choose main questions to focus on, probing questions and follow-up questions. A central idea or topic is typically chosen before beginning an unstructured interview. Because the interview is occurring as a way of collecting data, it is also typical for the interviewer to gather knowledge of his or her respondent, whether that is about their career, studies, or work, as a place to start and continue the conversation. While the unstructured interview does not always have all these features, these main topics or questions serve to provide the conversation's "skeleton"  Sometimes too much preparation is made when attempting to conduct an unstructured interview, and while not a negative method, such planning may lead to a semi-structured interview rather than an unstructured interview.
Although the method of the unstructured interview allows for social interaction and different modes of communication between the interviewer and interviewee, some maintain that it is important that interviewers resist the urge to agree, disagree, or give biased probes and encouragement to interviewees so that they do not potentially introduce biased topics. Interviewers must remember to minimize any form of bias within the conversation. This way, the interviewee is able to freely discuss the topic given or their work from their own point of view, typically something the researcher hopes for in their search for information. Others maintain that the interviewer may introduce encouraging nods, expressions and non-directive, neutral probes. From the participant, "They are generally very short, such as 'Why?' or 'Uh, huh' or 'That's interesting.' The non-directive interview originated in psychotherapy, intending to neutrally probe the respondent's deepest and most subjective feelings". These acknowledgments such as "yeah," "right," "great," "okay," and "mhm" show response or influence from the interviewee's answers can have on interviewer, not through contributions to the development of the topic but through minimal feedback. If these acknowledgements are not used then the conversation can be seen as problematic. However, at its extremes, these neutral probes may activate repressed feelings that the respondent may or may not know he or she had or was not willing to admit to him or herself originally before the conversation. Typically these probes uncover important issues and topics that can eventually guide future inquiries.
Silence, being the apparent opposite of speech, is sometimes used in the method of the unstructured or non-directive interview. It is often suggested that silences may often be seen as awkward and are an enduring feature of human interaction. During more organized and highly structured interviews, questions are given and answered one after another, typically transcribed with little or no silences evident in between the responses. Oftentimes, it is up to the interviewer to present their interviewing skills by making sure the conversation does not hold any silences. However, with the fact that the unstructured interview is more like an everyday conversation, silence or the use of silence can be observed as a very important aspect of a natural conversation and in fact current research suggests that being attentive to silences will tell us a lot about how knowledge is constructed. Typically silence is overlooked in qualitative research, keeping in mind that there are multiple meanings involved in the conversation involving the interplay between speech and silence, it can be seen as one of the best types of probes used in interviews. Silences are profoundly meaningful as they can signify a withholding or resistance, can reflect a cultural mode of self-representation, or may represent a topic or idea as unthinkable. Many see the possible utility of silence as a strategic device to enhance data collection, while others argue that silence can be seen to represent failure on the part of the interviewer to 'draw out' information from the respondent.
An unstructured interview allows for the interviewer to build better rapport with the interviewee due to its parallels with a normal conversation. Unstructured interviews can be particularly useful when asking about personal experiences. In an unstructured interview the interviewer is able to discover important information which did not seem relevant before the interview and the interviewer can ask the participant to go further into the new topic. For this reason they are often considered to be a better methodology for researching sensitive subjects, such as domestic violence, whereas structured interviews are often considered intimidating due to their formality and can often make the interviewee subject to social desirability bias, a tendency for participants to answer questions inaccurately to suit response that can be viewed favorably by others.
It is argued that the unstructured interview can sometimes be more valid than the highly structured interview. According to Gorden, more valid responses may be created by letting the respondent follow what he calls "the natural paths of free association". "The universe of discourse" varies from respondent to respondent so that the interviewer must change the question wording to meet the understanding of each individual participant. Another situation where the unstructured interview is said to be more valid than the structured interview is where the respondent is experiencing memory failure. The unstructured interview enables the interviewer to return to the same topic numerous times, allowing the interviewee is able to produce information with stimulated memory. With the interview being more like an everyday conversation, a safe and relaxed environment can be created within the space of the interview; unlike the highly structured interview where the respondent may feel stressed in its more hurried and formal environment and may not respond accurately if they feel the need to move on to the next question.
The in-depth non-directive interviewing method implies an egalitarian relationship between the interviewer and the interviewee. Rather than focusing on the interview as a method of data retrieval, it is the interviewee's unique account which is being sought and highly valued. Instead of entering into the conversation formally with structure where the interviewer holds power over the conversation and determines how it evolves, "the interviewer attempts to retrieve interviewee's world by understanding their perspective in a language that is natural to them". Ethnographic interviewing methods are a large example of how unstructured interviews can balance power relationships between the interviewer and interviewee. Ethnographic interviewing originated in studies of cultural anthropology, emphasizing on the quality of the relationship with respondents. Ethnographic interviews are normally conducted in the form of the unstructured interview with participants from a particular culture in which the interviewer or researcher wishes to obtain knowledge from. The key feature to this approach is that the "researcher is there to learn from the respondent rather than impose an external frame of reference, epitomized in Spradely's (1979: 34) representation of the researcher's posture as being that 'I want to know what you know in the way that you know it...Will you become my teacher and help me understand?'". Life history interviews can be seen as a form of the ethnographic interview using the unstructured interview approach as they often share emphases documenting the respondent's life, or an aspect of it that has developed over the life course.
Unstructured interviews are a lot more time consuming in comparison to other research methods. This is due because there are typically no prearranged questions asked during an unstructured interview and if there are questions prepared, they are open ended questions which prioritize elaborated answers. These "open ended questions can require the interview to transcribe a lengthy statement", making it difficult and it is problematic and elimination total in posivite attraction if the interviews are not broadcast unllimited in full in the whole world without them in general sporting events and re-proposing the complete interviews still in the world there is not yet a TV in the world that has done this to determine and enforce a set time for the unstructured interview to be conducted within. As a result, the unstructured interview is sometimes expensive and only feasible with small samples. With the fact that it is difficult to interview a large sample, this affects the data's generalizability and representativeness. However, current research shows there is a need to take up the unstructured interview regardless of how this research method takes to address unbalanced minority powers in research methods.
It is important to understand that bias or the use of bias during an interview from the researcher is an important aspect that greatly affects validity of the interview's gathered knowledge. Since the interview is more like an everyday conversation, some claim that there are opportunities for the interviewer's bias to be brought into discussion and to intervene than with the structured interview. Others maintain that "Although there is invariable potential for the interviewer bias in qualitative interviews, it is offset, at least to some extent, by the greater participation and involvement of the interviewer in the interaction aimed at reaching greater depth". While the unstructured interview can be seen to be unreliable due to the interviewer, bias can be easily be built into a highly structured interview. However, it is important to find where one stands with their bias, acknowledging their biases rather than trying to do away with it. The notion of bias is evident in that anything quantitative already holds bias and biases are already built into everyday form. "Although typical of the selection process, the research on interviews suggests that unstructured procedures are vulnerable to a variety of biases that can lower the quality of decisions," such as gathering information on an applicant's traits during a job interview and selecting applicants determined by their qualifications. Any interview can also be subject to stereotypes and discrimination. Newell and Rice suggest that many of the problems involved with predictive validity during interviews are due to interpersonal perception, the interpretation of the interviewee's personality or social identity. Race, gender, class, religion, [and forms of disabilities] are all aspects of society that feed into the development of our social identity, however these can also be factors which bias people's interpretations in an interview.
The outcome of unstructured interviews results in diverse types of information collected from interviewees who are asking different questions. While the data from an unstructured interview has more quality than that obtained from a structured interview, in the sense that the participant has more of an opportunity to say what they like freely, the data collected in unstructured interviews is also prone to digression and much of the data collected could be worthless. Some suggest that this limits the comparability of responses and the outcome is thereby a less systematic and comprehensive set of data which may make organization and analysis of the data difficult. The data gathered though unstructured interviews are difficulty to analyze because the kind of data obtained during the interview are unpredictable and open in nature, thereby making it hard to make comparisons across data.
Feminist researchers often use unstructured interviews as opposed to more structured interview in terms of research techniques because it attempts to eliminate power imbalances in the relationship between the interviewer and the interviewee. Some feminist researchers are influenced by the works of writer and researcher, Ann Oakley, who pioneered an interview methodology based on an anti-oppression framework. Oakley argues that the form of structured interviews positions the interviewee as a subordinate, which supports the masculine "paradigm of inquiry" and produces a "perfect interview" that is "morally indefensible". As an alternative, Oakley writes that "the best way to find out about someone else's lives is through non-hierarchical relationships where the interviewer is prepared to invest their own personal identity in the research relationship, answering questions and sharing knowledge". Oakley argues that interviews need to be conducted as equal relationships so that the research can lead to a retrieval of more fruitful and significant data. Together, Howard Becker and Oakley have argued that interviews should be more natural and more like an everyday conversation. Oakley argues that traditional guidelines contradict the aims of feminist research and that for a feminist interviewing women, the "use of prescribed interviewing practice is morally indefensible [and] general and irreconcilable contradictions at the heart of the textbook are exposed". This approach is viewed by many contemporary researchers as ethically responsible and it is very relevant in terms of developing research approaches that are grounded by the experience of in minorities. "Feminists have argued that the production of atomistic 'facts' and figures fracture people's lives" and letting others speak for themselves allows work to be produced which challenges stereotypes, oppression, and exploitation. Only one small part of experience is abstracted typically from structured interviews and questionnaires as the focus for attention as it is only "a simple matrix of standardized variables which is unable to convey an in-depth understanding of, feeling of, the people under the study". To break down imbalances of power within the relationships of the interviewer and the interviewee, the unstructured interview approach to research maximizes the ability to explore a full account of life experience. It can be seen that the principle belief of feminist research "must begin with an open-ended exploration of women's experiences, since only from that vantage point is it possible to see how their world is organized and the extent to which it differs from that of men". It is also important to note that this approach to research is used to explore life experience from those belonging to all other minority groups.
Distinguished British sociologist, feminist, and writer, Ann Oakley has written numerous academic works focusing on the lives and roles of women in society. Oakley is a well-known pioneer in the unstructured interview research approach directed towards qualitative research that challenges existing power imbalances within the relationships of the interviewer and the interviewee. Oakley sees both issues as interlinked or, as she puts it "no intimacy without reciprocity". In 1974, Oakley interviewed women twice before the birth of their children and then twice afterwards. Each woman was interviewed for around nine hours on average. The women also asked her questions during the interviews and Oakley responded as openly and honestly as she wished for them to respond. Oakley wanted the respondents to be collaborators in her research rather than just interviewees causing the women to become increasingly interested in the research and contacting her with any information they thought important after the interviews. Oakley as well used the unstructured interview approach to study women's experiences of both house work and maternity care. Oakley interviewed 40 women about how much housework they did and how they and their partners organised domestic work. Both unstructured interview studies "were aimed at raising awareness of women's experiences and of promoting policy changes - for example, Oakley called for domestic work to be recognized as 'work' and to be given an appropriate status in relation to paid employment". These are prime examples of the advantages of rapport and the depth of information even beyond the interview using the unstructured interview research approach.
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Dad encourages me to quit the job I got. Lol!
To be frank, the new info or rather whatever I found out regarding the contract isn't sitting too well with him. Anything that involves us coughing up a bond whether deducted from my paycheck or not is ridiculous. It borderlines scam. Unfortunately, we're not in a state to freely allow me to do whatever I want despite any repercussions. So I'd have to quit. But must make it look good so it doesn't seem to suss when I do quit.
One minute I was alright and the next, heart palpitation. Could feel my heart literally beating fast. Difficulty breathing. I could have faint except I'm usually not the type to. With all that, I had no choice but to bail! Even if I didn't wanted to, I don't know if something at that job might just trigger it again.
Then again, the past few days prior to that was pretty interesting too. Went through a Murphy's Law event on Xmas when my phone just mysteriously stopped working (like Vodafone could have just told me that they were going to port my number on Xmas itself, saving the trouble of fretting that much), laptop port dislocated itself, found out that I'm actually allergic to some sorta chili pepper that makes me break out in hives (another first btw!), was confessed to on Facebook (well not a bad thing though I felt bad for the guy. My first time receiving a confession on a social media besides MSN and Skype. Lawls! What's next? SMS? E-mail?) and just ... Just having all those.
Then learnt to play some car crashing ps2 game, learnt EHD Magic zombie style gameplay, and played RE: Dominion which is so much more fun! Must recommend Remy to get the game too. Definitely think he'd like the game!
Swarovski! It's a beautiful turquoise necklace! My favorite blue shade! Lol! Nobody really knows this but even though I mention I love all shades of blue, I'm most fond of the sea-blue color. Green-blue was always my favorite because of ... Sailormoon! Lawls! I know! You guys must be like, "Say whattttt???? I thought you boycotted Sailormoon already!"
*chuckles* Well prior to that, in my wee teen years, I used to try and figure out which Sailor Soldier had the closest birthday to mine. It was Sailor Uranus though I had hoped that it would have been Sailor Moon (Yes!!! Ssshhh). Anyway, Uranus loved Neptune. Sky meets sea. Me and mom? Except that would be a whole different equation. (Think Aquarius meets Pisces, water bearer pouring water for fishies) But yeah, it did influence me subconsciously to a degree.
Loving the necklace though. It's one of the most expansive jewelries that I own now, including the diamond pair of earrings that Mom gave me ages ago.
Hmm, I rambled, didn't I?


I've found a lot of helpful people on Etsy and, I did say in an erlier post I would introduce them to you. So, let me introduce one of the first people I met on Etsy – Shelby Healy.
Shelby is an artist originally from th UK now living in sunny Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands. She studied art and then textiles at university. Her love of pattern and colour is very evident in her work.
Some of my favourite pieces of her work can be found below.
These along with other prints, original paintings and mixed media pieces can be found in Shelby's Etsy shop.
Shelby helped raise awareness of my Etsy shop by including me in a "Treasury" which can be seen below.
Hello Shelby, my name is Adeola and your blog is very pretty and inspiring . ????
Thank you Sue! Now I know where your blog is I will be checking in regularly 😀 The best of luck to you and your beautiful creations!


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Honorary Doctorate 2019
- Educational assessment has a powerful effect upon people's lives
With it comes a great deal of responsibility. The effects of educational assessments upon learning, and what we can find out about learning from these assessments, are both important facets of this responsibility that have not received enough attention.
Professor Jo-Anne Baird, Director of Department of Education, the University of Oxford, is appointed Honorary Doctor at the University of Bergen 2019.
David Fisher,
By Margareth BarndonUpdated: 03.10.2019 (First published: 02.10.2019)
Jo-Anne Baird is an internationally renowned researcher in the field of educational assessment. Baird is Director of Department of Education at the University of Oxford and she has produced over 100 books, articles and reports on systemic issues in educational assessment. Baird works closely with policy matters, also having been Standing Adviser to the UK Parliament's House of Commons Education Select Committee.
"How do you feel about the appointment"?
"I am delighted that the University of Bergen has recognized my work with this Honorary Doctorate, following a nomination from the Faculty of Psychology".
"Do you find that the culture of the country plays an important role for how learning systems is practiced"?
"Much, though not all, of my own research has been on national examinations. Looking at the research literature, it would appear that assessment is all conducted the way that it is done in America, but that is not the case internationally. Many important examinations have different structures and processes, philosophical positions and expectations with regard to the relationship between assessment and learning. Our examination systems are still largely a province of the national and are deeply embedded in our cultural, historical and social contexts".
"How can we use technology to better align learning and assessment"?
"Technology holds exciting promises for the future of educational assessment, since it is possible to collect data on a much wider range of things than through paper and pencil exercises. There is greater potential for personalised learning and assessment with technological advances. However, there is urgent work to be done in this area. There is a real danger of technology sales pitch outstripping its educational capabilities and ethical foundations, as we have already seen dramatically with social media and politics".
"What is your impression of the Norwegian assessment policy"?
- Norway is the only country in the world that has embraced assessment for learning policy as part of its legal obligations. This is very encouraging for its emphasis upon child-centered education. Yet, at the same time, it has adopted national testing and there have been protests about how assessment data has been used. Both of these trends are international, but they are in opposition in some regards.
Highly influential in setting examination standards
Professor Jo-Anne Baird's work on standard setting practices has been highly influential on the process of setting examination standards in England, and her recent landmark work extended the analysis to examination boards internationally, showing that practices were highly contextualised. Baird continues to collaborate on research in Bergen as well as leading research programs in Oxford.
"For us, Jo-Anne Baird was an obvious choice. In addition to being an internationally renowned and highly respected researcher in a domain central to our field, she has made invaluable contributions to both the Department of Education and SLATE at the Faculty of Psychology, through her generosity, creativity and collaborative nature", says associate professor Astrid Tolo, Head of Department of Education.
Jo-Anne Baird
Professor at the University of Oxford
Director of Department of Education, University of Oxford
Psychologist and doctorate from the University of Strathclyde and the University of Reading
Former Standing Adviser to the UK Parliament's House of Commons Education Select Committee
2016: Professor II in the University of Bergen's Faculty of Psychology
Nominated to Honorary Doctor by The Department of Education, Faculty of Psychology and SLATE, University of Bergen
Guest lecture at UiB
Time: 14.10.2019 - 14.00–15.30
Place: Auditorium B, Sydneshaugen skole
Title: «Assessment paradigms»
On different forms of assessments in light of assessment paradigms. Baird will discuss the form that testing has taken in Norway, and whether this fits with Norwegian culture.
With Sigrid Blomeke, professor from CEMO, University of Oslo
Read more (in Norwegian)
Ten new honorary doctorates
Peter Gluckman, Peter Thomson, Toril Moi, Jo-Anne Baird, Bruce R. Zetter, Pippa Norris, Ragnhildur Helgadóttir, Anne Canteaut, Eamon Duffy and Lise Davidsen have been made honorary doctors of the University of Bergen.
The department conducts research within the fields of pedagogy and education, and the study programmes include teacher education, pedagogy, special education, and university pedagogy (staff development).
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Investigators have concluded that poor airmanship, notably the failure to recognise and correct an excessive bank after take-off, led to the loss of a Kenya Airways Boeing 737-800 in Cameroon three years ago.
The twin-jet departed Douala for Nairobi in darkness - without seeking or obtaining take-off clearance - on 5 May 2007.
After lifting off runway 12 the aircraft demonstrated a tendency to drift into a right bank, which was initially corrected by the captain who was the flying pilot.
Some 42sec after the 737 became airborne the captain called 'OK, command'. While this signalled the activation of the autopilot, the Cameroon Civil Aviation Authority's inquiry report states that the autopilot did not engage.
Even though there was no confirmation of the autopilot's activation - either from the first officer, the automatic annunciator, or the behaviour of the aircraft - the captain nevertheless behaved "as though the autopilot [was] effectively engaged".
Despite adjusting the heading selector and altimeter settings, the pilots failed to recognise, from the instrument panel, the aircraft's increasing bank to the right. This bank - about 11° at the time of the autopilot call - increased to 34° over the subsequent 40sec, before a 'bank angle' warning sounded in the cockpit.
The CCAA says that the captain appeared "unaware" of the bank. He expressed surprise at the alarm, and exacerbated the situation by first turning the control yoke to the right.
Instead of assessing the excessive bank, and executing procedures to recover to level flight, the captain became disorientated, activating the autopilot but making "confused movements" of the flight controls.
The right bank increased to 80° and, after reaching a height of about 2,900ft, the aircraft pitched nose-down, banking eventually to 115°.
Flight-data recorder information indicates that, at one point, the two pilots were providing conflicting inputs to the aircraft's control column: the first officer was turning the control yoke left, with nose-down, while the captain was turning it right, with nose-up.
While the first officer's actions were "corrective" and the captain's were "aggravating", the CCAA says the situation was "already beyond redemption". The jet's bank recovered to about 60° but, pitched down at 48°, it crashed into a mangrove swamp at nearly 290kt and disintegrated. There were no survivors among the 114 on board.
Flight KQ507 had been airborne for just 1min 42sec. The CCAA cites a "lack of rigour" in piloting and poor situational awareness, noting that the crew did not properly scan their instruments despite the lack of external visual references.
It adds that the pilots' "inadequate operational control" and failure to co-ordinate contributed to the accident.


Pre-auricular sinus - what is it?
My daughter has congenital pre-auricular sinuses (also called peri-auricular sinus). She has had a recent infection leading to abscess formation on the side of her face. Can you tell me more about this? What is the treatment for this condition? Which specialist surgical team is most appropriate; maxillofacial, ENT, plastic surgeons? Is it related to other medical conditions?
A pre-auricular sinus means a blind track or sinus that is located in front of the ear. It is a congenital abnormality whose origins can be traced back to an imperfect fusion of some of the elements that contribute to the formation of the pinna of the ear. The condition can be completely symptomless but symptoms often develop if infection enters the sinus, which can lead to abscess formation. This can predispose to recurrent infections, which can in turn predispose to ulcer formation in front of the ear. Pre-auricular sinuses can be present in front of one or both ears and can be associated with other abnormalities of the ears. An ENT specialist with a special interest in head and neck surgery would usually be involved in the assessment of the child. An essential element in that assessment would be to establish if the child's hearing were normal. If a child has not had any symptoms from a pre-auricular sinus and has no additional abnormalities the preferred option is to avoid surgery unless the abnormality is very disfiguring.


GMOs — okay for consumption? | Go Ask Alice!
GMOs — okay for consumption?
GMOs are controversial — and so, as you might have guessed, the pros and cons are continuously being debated. GMOs, or genetically modified organisms, are organisms in which the genetic material (DNA) has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally. GM foods are developed — and marketed — because there is some perceived advantage to either producers or consumers. Companies that produce GM foods believe that genetic modification can result in increased production of foods as well as crops that have higher nutritional value.
On the other hand, there are several arguments that GMOs are dangerous, both to humans and the environment. The main concerns about GMOs in relation to human health are the potential to cause allergic reactions, gene transfer to human bacteria and toxicity. No dedicated human experiments with GMOs have been conducted, but animal studies with different genetically modified crops have yielded worrisome results, including demonstrating that GMO consumption is linked with infertility, immune issues, insulin regulation problems and changes in vital organs including the liver, kidneys and gastrointestinal system.
There are also environmental concerns related to GM crops, including their potential effects on ecological systems and their stability in the environment. There is a risk that engineered genes could be introduced into wild populations, harming beneficial species and reducing biodiversity. As of now there has been no evidence that GMOs are a threat to human health, and over two billion acres of genetically modified crops have been cultivated. All GM foods currently available on the international market have undergone risk assessments to determine any impact they may have on human health or the environment.
GMOs remain a controversial issue and many large health organizations have yet to present a perspective on them. Ultimately, each GMO is different and needs to be individually studied and assessed. Keep your eyes and ears open as more information about GMOs becomes available.


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Clay Dugas Donates to the Family Services of Southeast Texas
We want to call your attention to a very important charity: The Family Services of Southeast Texas. For those who are unfamiliar with this organization, Family Services provides much needed safe housing and shelters to more than one thousand women and children every year. This charity does amazing, crucial work in the community, but like most charities it does so on a very tight budget.
Clay Dugas recently donated $10,000 to the charity to help with their on-going community service. The generous donation was made in honor of thirty-six year police veteran Bill Davis. Former police sergeant Davis investigated more than seven thousand child abuse cases in his long and varied career with the Beaumont Police Department. As someone who was so often on the frontline of these domestic abuse cases, Sgt. Davis experienced firsthand who crucial the work of Family Services of Southeast Texas really is.
In addition to the charitable donation Clay Dugas also appeared with Bill Davis on a news segment about Family Services. Both men spoke about the importance of spotlighting Family Services and the work that it does. Funding is a real problem for the charity and yet the possibility that it would be unable to continue its work is truly horrifying. That is why it is essential that everyday men and women help whenever they can. After all as Mr. Dugas points out it is up to the community to make sure that The Family Services keep going.
Check out the video below which features the news segment:
Clay Dugas Donates $10k to The Family Services of Southeast Texas
It is our hope that this news segment successfully calls attention to the important need for funding for The Family Services of Southeast Texas. Remember that any type of donation you can make will help this worthy cause keep going. In addition to providing shelter to battered women and children, Family Services also provides counseling services, education, and advocacy. It is their mission to strengthen and empower families, individuals and communities. They provided needed support for families and individuals who are experiencing a range of different crises including: stress, grief, marital difficulties, parenting challenges, and any number of other life events. For more information about Family Services of Southeast Texas please check out their website or call them at 409-833-2668.


The Mankin Barn is located on the former Keeline/4J Ranch outside Gillette, Wyoming. The barn was built for the Keeline brothers in 1908, and has served as a horse barn ever since. The Keeline brothers were reportedly some of the first people to bring cattle ranching in the Wyoming Territory north of the Platte River when they first arrived in 1877. Their strong influence in the ranching and herding industry resulted in a town near Lusk, Wyoming to be named after them.
The barn itself is significant as well. At 9,600 square feet and standing nearly 40 feet high, the Mankin Barn is purportedly the largest intact historic horse barn in the United States. It can house 40 Percheron workhorses and the loft can support 150 tons of hay. The barn also once served as a community center, hosting basketball games and dances. The barn features two stories, massive sliding doors on the east and west ends, and a distinctive "4J" brand in bright red on the front. It sits on a stacked stone foundation that has been reinforced in areas with concrete at a later date.
This building is not on the National Register for Historic Places, but the building is both historically and architecturally significant. The Keeline brothers who had the barn built were important contributors to the early development of ranching culture in Wyoming, important enough to have a town named for them. The building is one of the largest historic horse barns in America and remarkably still serves the same purpose as it did when it was built in 1908. The building is representative of longevity, resilience, and community.


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Q: sending data from model to controller in codeigniter 1.7.2 I am receiving $fb_data[uid] i.e Facebook UID from my model and I want to put this variable's value into my controller where the signup process is taking place
 passing fields in controller like this:
$sql_data = array('student_fname' => $student_fname, 'student_sname' => $student_sname, 'student_org' => $student_org, 'student_title' => $student_title, 'student_uid' => ?

I am confused how to insert the Facebook UID value here at my controller..

A: You need to have a function in your model which returns your $fb_data. In the controller you have (if not already done) to load the model
$this->load->model('model_name');

Then you can access your model function from the controller by calling
$this->model_name->function_name();

The section 'loading a model' in the CI documentation explains it again.

A: Do like this :
First create one method in controller :
Ex : In controller
function fbcontent() {
$this->load->model('your model name');
$content = $this->model_name->fbaction();
}

and In model
function fbaction(){
$sql_data = array('student_fname' => $student_fname, 'student_sname' => $student_sname, 'student_org' => $student_org, 'student_title' => $student_title, 'student_uid' => ?
return $sql_data;
}

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Home Car News Burning Cars Tesla Model S Catches Fire in Seattle
Tesla Model S Catches Fire in Seattle
A brand new 2014 Tesla Model S recently burst into flames in Seattle thus becoming the first Model S to face such a devastating fate.
As the following video shows, only the front end of the Tesla Model S suffered severe damage from the flames as firefighters were able to get the blaze under control. While it's currently unclear how the fire started, the driver says that they ran over a metal object on the road not long before much of the car was engulfed in flames. Thankfully, Tesla claims that no one was injured.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0kjI08n4fg[/youtube]
While no one was physically injured in the blaze, it did cause a widespread panic with Tesla's shares plunging on Wall Street. When coupled with claims of a stock downgrade from a Wall Street analyst, the value of Tesla Motors dropped by $600 million to around $22 billion.
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Arunjit Singh 3rd October 2013 At 10:24 pm
How does a value "drop" from 600 mil. to 22 bill. ?????
Brad Anderson 4th October 2013 At 7:00 am
It says dropped 'by' $600 million ;)


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Double Trouble: For Whom the Tol Bells: and What 2014 El Nino is that?
Sou | 1:58 AM Go to the first of 19 comments. Add a comment
For Whom the Tol Bells
Greg Laden asked on Twitter "is this the end of Tol? Shall he ask for whom the Bell ...".
It's really hard to resist making bad puns about tolling, isn't it, when you think of Richard Tol (if you've ever heard of him. If you haven't read on.) The remarkable thing is that the bell isn't Toling. Normally as soon as someone mentions Richard Tol's name "somewhere on the internet", up he pops, relishing the attention. Not this time however. Or not so far.
Collin Maessen of Real Skeptic has written a devastating take-down of Richard's latest swipe at the 97% consensus. You'd think he'd have given up by now wouldn't you. But he hasn't. Instead he's broadened out to misrepresenting not just the Cook13 97% study, but most of the other research papers that have gauged the level of scientific consensus that humans are causing global warming.
Collin didn't just write an article pointing out the abominable flaws in Richard's short article. He asked the authors of the papers that Richard mentioned what they thought of his paper. Each of them found atrocious errors. Just one example to whet your appetite, it was a comment by Peter Doran (of Doran and Zimmerman 2009), who noticed (as did everyone else), that Richard seems to think that "scientific consensus" studies should count the uninformed, inexpert opinion of any Tom, Martha or Zhou who's never ever darkened the door of a university, let alone done any climate science research. Peter said:
To pull out a few of the less expert groups and give them the same weight as our most expert group is a completely irresponsible use of our data. It would be like me having a medical team tell me I need surgery to remove a life-threatening malignant growth, but going to my local Starbucks to get the opinion of the team of baristas and giving both recommendations the same weight.
I mean, would you expect any old (or young) climate scientist to be able to pour a perfect heart or double leaf?
Go and read what Collin and the other authors have to say. Richard Tol is reaping what he sows.
If you need some background on Richard and his battle with consensus, he wrote lots about it here at HotWhopper, with lots more here.
What 2014 El Niño is that?
Every time Bob Tisdale writes an article about El Niño, like his latest one (archived here), he talks about the "2014-15" El Niño, and compares it to the 1997-98 El Niño. For example, today he wrote:
The 1997/98 El Niño was extremely strong, while the 2014/15 event was extremely weak and intermittent.
What event? The current El Nino started early this year and is expected to continue probably till next autumn, 2016. So the proper comparison will be 1997-98 and 2015-16.
I know that the Pacific got warm last year, however it takes more than a warm ocean to make an El Niño. The winds have to cooperate as well. They didn't do that last year. They did cooperate this year, and it's already the strongest event since 1997-98, and might surpass it.
The Bureau of Meteorology didn't declare any El Niño last year. It declared one on 12 May this year. BoM said back in March last year that an El Nino might be forming, but it never came to fruition. NOAA didn't declare an El Nino last year either. It declared one in March this year. (NOAA had El Niño on watch status from March 2014 through to February 2015, but didn't declare one until March this year.) It was reported that the Japan Meteorological Agency declared an El Niño last December. However, when I looked it was a very weak statement, with the added "the atmospheric conditions does not indicate clear features of El Niño events". Not something I'd be hanging my hat on.
One reason I can think of for Bob wanting to insist there was an El Niño last year is because it was the hottest year on record so far. And Bob thinks that global warming is caused by El Niño events. So if it was the hottest year on record, by Bob's logic, there must have been an El Niño event. (Or it could be because last year he wrote more than twenty articles about the 2014 El Niño that never was, and he wants to save face.)
Bob has started writing about a 2015-16 El Niño, and his charts are using the comparison of 2015-16 with 1997-98, so he doesn't need to keep talking about some non-existent 2014-15 El Niño.
By Sou at 1:58 AM
Labels: Bob Tisdale, Collin Maessen, El Niño, Peter Doran, Richard Tol
Millicent September 23, 2015 at 4:50 AM
I'd love to know how high the consensus is among scientists who do not have embarassing links to industry funded front groups.
numerobis September 23, 2015 at 8:29 AM
Tol is winning: many smart people are expending effort debunking his nonsense.
Cugel September 23, 2015 at 9:34 AM
Not that much effort, I'd have thought, and there's surely some enjoyment in it.
Didn't Tol suggest that the Cook13 team should have contacted the actual authors, before he realised they had? Did Tol himself contact the people whose studies he claimed to represent before publication? Yeah, right, that'll happen.
Tol seems to think he's Cool Hand Luke, winning by never staying down, but this is not Hollywood. This is a world where head trauma has repercussions.
Sou September 23, 2015 at 6:05 PM
Yes, I'd not say Richard was "winning". Every time he says something stupid it reminds people that there is indeed something like 97% of scientific experts in climate, who agree that humans are causing global warming.
Cook13 has been downloaded 385,188 times (as of this writing), which must be some sort of record for a scientific paper. Particularly one that was only published a couple of years ago.
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024024
cRR Kampen September 24, 2015 at 12:07 AM
I'd say Tol and his ilk are winning bigtime and losing the planet for all of us.
I concur entirely with numerobis' observation.
Expense of effort debunking Tol's nonsens is taking thuggery seriously and that is what the electorate sees.
You don't talk with thugs. You kick them out of sight.
You have to wonder what Tol is playing at? Is he playing the game of fabricating doubt, then letting confirmational bias do it's magic?
numerobis September 23, 2015 at 10:49 AM
From 1998–2008 he was an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Engineering and Public Policy
Oh my, we overlapped! I kept wanting to take courses over there because they did really interesting stuff with lifecycle analysis and other global warming related things (no, really!). What an opportunity I missed.
richardtol September 24, 2015 at 4:29 PM
Collin provides quite a spectacle, with people taking issue with their own research.
The Oreskes-Cook comparison is most clear-cut, because they used the same approach and even partly the same categorisation.
Oreskes finds 75% in agreement, 25% no position, and 0% disagreement.
Cook find 33% in agreement, 66% no position, and 1% disagreement.
How could anyone claim that Oreskes and Cook find the same thing?
Richard is so far gone that he's making up numbers. This is the equivalent of what he's done. Believe it!
Let's say someone were to take a survey of 100 people, and ask the questions:
Do you know of Richard Tol?
10 people said "yes" and 90 people said "Who is Richard Tol?"
The 10 people who said "yes", were then asked another question:
In your expert opinion, is Richard Tol a nincompoop?
And say the results were as follows:
7 people said "Yes, Richard Tol is a nincompoop"
3 people said "No, Richard Tol is not a nincompoop"
Now any disinterested party who followed logic and could do arithmetic would describe the results as follows:
Of the people who know of Richard Tol (let's call them the Tol experts), 70% are of the opinion that he is a nincompoop; and 30% are of the opinion he is not (they'd describe him another way).
Richard Tol, would look at the responses and argue till he's blue in the face that 97% of people agree that Richard Tol is a nincompoop.
All of which would support the opinion of 70% of the people who had sufficient expertise in Tolistry to provide an opinion on the matter, (and maybe the 30% who knew enough but would describe him otherwise, as well - there is insufficient information to judge the 30%).
Oh, and by the way. I don't think anyone is claiming the 100% agreement (Oreskes) and 97% agreement (Cook13) are exactly the same. Hard to argue that they are not in the same ballpark, however.
Richard, I do not believe you are actually stupid enough to think the "no position" percentage should be included. Please at least try to have a sensible engagement with the issues.
Don't be too sure about that. Remember, Richard went on an on for months, arguing that Cook13 might be flawed because the abstracts would have got tired from being read by two or more researchers.
Stupid is a very good description of that behaviour.
BTW Richard won't be engaging on this thread anymore. He's shown that he doesn't know how to behave. He might have to go to some denier den, if they'll have him. (He's a warmist, after all, who agrees that "The consensus is of course in the high nineties. No one ever said it was not. We don't need Cook's survey to tell us that." So he's probably persona non grata on most denier blogs, too.)
I claim that Oreskes and Cook find the same thing.
It is a survey, what is relevant is the ratio between agreement and disagreement.
Marco September 25, 2015 at 2:56 AM
In his comment and the associated figure and table, Tol has taken Oreskes' data and left the "no position" papers in for his calculation (thus yielding 75% consensus), but did NOT leave those in for Cook et al (thus yielding 97% consensus).
This just isn't gremlins anymore, but outright scientific misconduct. Deliberate unequal treatment of data points to create a desired endresult.
Or take Verheggen's study. In the sample selection phase, they decided that these are the people they want to ask. After having seen the answers, they decided that some are not worth listening to.
cRR Kampen September 24, 2015 at 5:50 PM
That is just a smear from just another climate revisionist fraud. You should take that back, Tol.
Richard is implying the decision about who is expert was arbitrary. It was not. It was based on publication history.
Richard is arguing the equivalent of "Joe Bloggs, the local electrician, is as expert in climate science as someone who has authored more than 50 papers and has been researching climate for 30 years".
I wouldn't even say Richard is desperate. I'd say he's gone over the edge. He's basically claiming that because he doesn't know how to tell the difference between a climate science expert and a non-expert, that no-one else can either. He's wrong.
Richard demands attention, and this silliness is the only way he gets any these days. His own work has suffered from gremlin attacks and worse. That's probably why he's seeking to deflect. It's not working too well though, is it.
I think permitting two comments from Richard here is more than generous, don't you? I'd normally allow people I've mentioned the courtesy of writing what comments they like, but Richard has shown that he doesn't deserve that courtesy. So no more.
CCHolley September 25, 2015 at 8:05 AM
Not an expert on Tol, but still think he's a nincompoop. Does that count for anything?
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You could add your opinion about him it to his Wikipedia page...
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