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Ten Hag wants Maguire to replicate England form at United
Journalist can see West Ham signing off on major new transfer
Chris Sutton says Ange will drop in-form Celtic player against Rangers
Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag said centre back Harry Maguire had a really good World Cup and urged him to replicate his England form at the club when the Premier League restarts.
Maguire lost his first-team spot for United in August but the 29-year-old started every game for England in Qatar, where they were knocked out in the quarterfinals by France.
"It's clear he is good enough to play at the highest level," Ten Hag said at United's training camp in Spain.
"He had a period in Manchester where he performed badly and then, of course, there are difficulties. For England, he has good games almost all the time.
"We want him to bring that back to Manchester with him so he can bring it on the pitch for United.
"I think he had a really good World Cup. He was really consistent. When he is playing with his confidence like now, he is a massively important player for us and that is what everyone expects."
United return to action on December 21 with a home League Cup tie against Burnley before hosting Nottingham Forest in the league on December 27.
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"They are not against modernization, they are not against Technology, but they don't want to use byproducts of the Technology.
" In a country like America, where technology is major chunk of our livelihood, this community has a simplistic approach to life. From using Alpacas in the Farmland to make quality wool, to Horse Buggies for commute, to 8th grade education to sustain livelihood because that's all they need, to using Solar Panels and Propane Gases in their home instead of electricity , to believing in helping each other as a community, a tour to Lancaster is a must if you traveling down to Pennsylvania. Of course Philadelphia is a big city but to understand the basics of life,a little bit of Amish insights are what all of us may need in a otherwise hectic lives. The question is in today's date, can we give up the comforts of life, to enjoy what once was part of each of us.The only way to become Amish in this modern world is to start praying and in the next life you can be born in amish family. 50 years ago there was not much to give up, so for us its almost impossible to go back today.
The buggies Amish use vs. Cars we use!
On days, when travel gets expensive within US by renting a car, I take Taketours (you will find me mentioning them in my future posts too). Do check them out, they have these amazing set of tours for like everywhere. For folks who want to invite their parents to US to cover major sites, bus tours by them are great option. So on one of the long weekends in April, we decided to take Taketours of 2 days for Jersey City -Princeton - Lancaster - Philadelphia - Washington that was for $74 / person including one night stay which was far more reasonable than we could have had done by our own. In US if you own a car, you can skip insurance when renting because its covered already, however if you don't own one, renting a car with insurance can get you anywhere between $120-125/day which is expensive. Stays are usually in the range of $60-100 for budget accommodation. Talking of which, every time I take these tours, It reminds of how convenient they are but also reminds me that I have to diligently follow their time and itinerary.
Traveling within US by your own can get a little expensive from one city to another plus some of the locations do not even have local connectivity or if they do they are super expensive, unless that city is very close or you own a car. Talking of which, I did not find US to be extremely backpacker friendly like Europe - I found that ever since I moved here, sharing cost with significant other/friend cuts down the cost and that is why you see me traveling most with my partner. Believe me I have stayed in a hostel here, and it was not great! And a lot of people question me, don't you travel solo anymore, I would love to, but the places that my hearts with, costs me more if I travel just solo. I still don't have a driving license so I keep on browsing bus rates/routes and since I am in New York, the most I could travel solo would be Washington, Boston and Philadelphia or Fly to Florida. Although I would love to experience Ithaca (NY), Acadia National Park etc,Denver the local transport is a hassle. For all countries I have been to, I have never faced this dilemma if I can be left alone on road and here that can happen if you don't find a local transport! Hence these tours come handy. Plus my visa is due renewal so I cannot travel any where else than US for the next 6 months. Anyways, let's talk a little bit about Amish Village and why you'd love to visit them.
Amish traces its history during European religious reformation. The history of the Amish church began with a schism in Switzerland within a group of Swiss and Alsatian Anabaptists in 1693 led by Jakob Amman. He believed Mennonites was too liberal and so he decided to leave Mennonites and start his own practice in 1693. The reason they call themselves Amish is because of this leaders last name. Starting in the early 18th century many of the Amish migrated to US. Right now in Lancaster county there are 35000 Amish and they are divided into more than 200 Church Districts , with each Church District having about 20-30 families. They do not build Church buildings, they hold their services at home. In their Services they separate men from women. There are 31 states of Amish Settlement in US + in Canada.
Amish Homes & Lifestyle - What are they like?
Our tour began with us sitting separately as male and female on benches in one of the rooms of Amish Home as she explained how it happens in Services. The house that we were on tour was build in 1805 and in 1955 it was open to public and became a museum. This home had electricity for our convenience although any Amish home would not have one! There are two things that in an Amish Settlement would never use - they don't use electricity and they don't use cars!
1)As we browsed through the home,we were told to notice how any of the walls does not have any Family Picture/Photo. Amish also use old Testament and according to Bible it is said to not grieveth any images, so they don't take pictures. We were cautioned on to not take picture if we get excited seeing an Amish, because this was not the zoo we were in, we have to respect their culture as well. What they have in their home is something like this where everyone's name and their birthday's are hung up on the wall.
2)In Amish homes - there are no electricity.The reason why they don't use electricity is because they believe to live in the world not of the world (as in electricity comes a byproduct from the cable grids) . They don't use Computer and TV because they believe that way they would have direct contact with outside world 24*7 . Every family hence would have lights run on the same mechanism, they have propane gas tanks with it. They use other source of energy because its needed- three way to power - they use propane gas, they use batteries and batteries are charges by generators and generators are run by people, and they use Solar power. From that angle we are far behind Amish people. They don't want to follow the pace of the world, they want to have their own time. And that are not against modernization or technology but are against the use of byproducts of the technology.
3)Any guesses to how many wives they have? They believe in monogamy and have just one husband and one wife. Since they don't use birth control that is why they have so many children. They are not allowed to divorce, but they can remarry. Wen can they remarry ? When their spouse passed away after an year of mourning and grieving they can remarry.
4)The mirror that we saw in one of the room was for men and for shaving. Women rarely use mirrors, only on occasions when she has to fix her bun.Amish men also do not have mustaches. This tradition stems back to the early days of the Amish when wearing elaborate mustaches was common among those in the military. In their early days, the Amish and other Mennonites in Europe were often persecuted by these groups. In addition to that, the Amish, being a pacifist group, didn't want to associate themselves with those who waged war,(as the soldiers had mustaches) so strictly forbid their members from growing mustaches. It isn't until the Amish man gets married that he will stop shaving his beard and allow it to grow up, with beards being a mark of an Amish male having become a man.
6)The next stop was our visit to the Boy's room. If your a boy, it does not matter, if you are one year old or 101, they use only colors of Black and White. They wear long pants years around only in Black even during the summer time and those will have no zippers, no belts , only suspenders and buttons!
7)An amish believes that even if you are a super rich amish, it doesn't matter, after you pass, everyone gets same kind of coffin.The length vary depending on the height of the person but the style is the same. They bury very close to each other to preserve land so this allows them to do that. They don't use any images not any decorations of flowers / flags etc. They don't have their birthdates written on the coffin because they are christian and as per them, the day is celebrated is the day you pass is the day you return to father in the heaven or eternity thats the day to celebrate. So is always the date the person passed away listed - not necessarily their birthday - for example,Sara lived 51 years 1 month and 2 days and why? And 2 days are written why? The 2 days are written because it reminds everybody we are here temporarily nothing is a big deal. 8)We are all English in their eyes and they don't live in village just by themselves but with other English People. So along with Horse buggies run by Amish you would see lots of cars in the area run by English people.
9) Amish don't encourage Higher Education. They educate their kids only until 8th grade.The reason because their purpose of life is to follow the teaching of Bible. So even if you never read a bible you could guess right? Do you think bible will tell us to go get a PHD? No. Do u think bible says be a doctor be a lawyer be the president of the country. No. thats why they don't need higher education. They have school with one class - thats why they are called one house school classroom. every one from 1st grade to 8th grade goes to the same classroom whose teacher is unmarried amish young girl whose qualification is also till 8th grade so she doesn't hv to go to college doesn't hv to get certified all she has to do is go through training for a few weeks and go to experienced teacher and ask for tips n suggestions. After she gets married in her early twenty she will retire for raising her family.They teach in school their first language is pennsylvania dutch even though english is taught at school. So what is pennsylvania dutch ? It is a German dialect mixed with english they don't even use these kind of languages in Germany right now. In School, they teach, Things they learn they can use it life. Basic common sense and basic simple life. 10) The unemployment rate for an Amish is 0. As they grow up, their parents will give them freedom, not freedom as in go to another country and travel but they still stay with the family in the evening but if they want to go to movie theatre they can if they want to go bowling they can. If they want to go to their English neighbor and watch tv they can even if they are not encouraged to do those things but they are given freedom thats why they don't baptize their kids. They only baptize adults, they want them to experience the English world and then make their own mind to decide if they want to become member of the church. If they decide they want to become member of the church then they have to give all those things once they are baptized they can only marry to the ones who are baptized. Even if they are given a choice at a young age, most people prefer to stay Amish and why? Because their family value is very strong , they have strong faith in God and they have the spirit of the community they help each other like in 2014 when an Amish barn caught fire and burner down the foundation was build by the village the very next day.
11) Amish are not stupid people because they don't have higher education , so its important for us to be considerate towards them. They make great business man and women by working hard, farmers and work that requires hard work like carpentry, shoe making etc. Our tour guide told us, one of her Amish Business friend, only takes calls on Thursday 7-7:30pm. As we ventured into the farmlands, we saw Alpacas. Alpacas are camels long distance cousins, they are from south America.They are raised here for their wool - As Alpaca wool is more softer and is more expensive than sheep.
12) They do not have ID as Driver License. Because they do not need one. Nor a passport, because they do not need to fly. Their identity is SSN number in US. The horse buggies also have to follow traffic rules and they have scooters too for community but they do not use Bicycles. The reason why they don't use bicycle is because when bicycle was invented they believed that it would take their kids far away from home. As the world evolved, they are surrounded by english people so before their kids learn how to use Horse and Buggy they should have a way to go from one place to another,otherwise walking will take a long time. Scooters are Bicycle without seats so when you use scooters, it allows you to use your own strength and it discourages you to go too far away.
13) They are American citizens so they have family doctors and dentists and they have their own health Plan. They also have their own banks.
14) What I also love about Amish Village is you always get the purest of food in their stores. They do not mess us ingrediants and use basic ingrediants to make things sans preservatives so they are always fresh. Some of the things that I love bringing back is their honey, lemonade, ice cream, soaps, cream. You name it!
15) Even though the tour was just for about an hour, it took us to deep insights on a community residing in US, so different from us and thats a surprise for me! Next - a blogpost on Phily , Washington and New York! :) Stay tuned folks.


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Renewable Energy in India
By Abd Allah / May 15, 2020 January 10, 2021 / 3 minutes of reading
One of the largest energy projects on the globe is in India!
Specifically South India.
2.5 million solar panels.
The total output is 648 MW of power.
574 Inverter to convert DC to AC.
More than 6000 km of cable carrier.
More than 150 high-pressure electrical transformers.
Area:10 square kilometers.
Energy issue has become a major concern in today's world. With the population increasing day by day energy consumption is expected to be increased by 15,280 TWh in 2040. India is fighting with the issue for some time now and it has made progress towards energy contained India.
The government's ambitions to achieve targets of green energy make it more attractive for both domestic and foreign investors. According to IBEF, it is expected that it will get up to 480 billion investments in the coming four years. Along with this government of India has increased its target to 225 GW renewable energy capacity by the year 2022.
India is at advantage of achieving the goals it set for itself:
Sunlight is available in India throughout the year because of which renewable energy source is always available.
It is the world's fourth most attractive renewable energy market.
Renewable energy minister Raj Kumar Singh has recently talked about Narendra Modi's announcement of having $%) GW of renewable energy by 2030. Singh also invited investors to invest money in India's renewables since it has potential because of the energy demand here. He further said that the energy demand grows here at the rate of 7, 8, or 9%.
Although we all have hopes of India achieving its targeted renewables, there are still some factors due to which it might not be able to do the same. The questions started to rise from last year when modules and solar cells slowed down the pace of solar capacity addition.
Andhra Pradesh's decision of renegotiating wind projectors and tariffs of solar along with other issues has put renewable energy into its worst place recently.
With everything going as investors thought it would, they have become concerned about the current environment of renewables in energy sectors. CRISIL in its recent report published that India might not be able to have 60 GW of wind capacity and 100 GW of solar capacity even by the year 2024. The government did not agree with the report and said not only it will achieve its target but it will also exceed it.
The problem for solar energy developers remains the same as it was years ago. The main issue is unlimited dues from utilities. According to CEA data, distribution companies owed Rs 9,736 crore to renewable power producers. India's largest solar power developer Acme Solar Holdings is waiting for Rs 210 crore payment from Andhra Pradesh and Rs 386 crore from Telangana state. According to the vice-chairman of Acme Shashi Shekhar, there is a great loss in the return of the capital due to delay in payments.
The government is trying its best to take India to its next level in renewable energy. But the issues of utilities and payments do not seem to get out of the way. If no solutions are found to the issues India's clean energy targets will not be achieved and will be left just that.
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THE BLK LT$ Shares A Stripped Down Cover Of Janet Jackson's 'That's The Way Love Goes'
Ken Hamm
July 8, 2019 | 11:00 am
Andreena Martin, the artist formerly known as Andreena Mill and now known as THE BLK LT$ (pronounced The Black Lotus), is a star on the rise. Did you keep up with all that? The artist, no matter what you call her, comes with a resume that features work with Drake, DMX and Future. A pupil of Drake's producers BOi-1DA and Noah "40" Shebib, she is standing on the shoulders of giants. In fact, for her first single, "That Janet Joint," she decided to cover a song by one of the biggest giants in the music industry, Janet Jackson. Ms. Jackson if you're nasty.
"That Janet Joint," which seems like a really interesting way to refer to Jackson's 1993 hit "That's The Way Love Goes," kind of works. Produced by Frank "Nitty" Pimental and inspired by Kris Kollin's arrangement for the track, THE BLK LT$ has slowed things down a bit, stripping away the funky sample of James Brown's "Papa Don't Take No Mess." Instead, "That Janet Joint" features a stark sound bed that ebbs and flows between light, atmospheric and bass-heavy, bouncy synths. The sound is like getting a Janet Jackson song by way of DAWN. Meanwhile, the singer's poppy vocals play well against the staccato drumming and bass of the production.
Yeah, we're apprehensive about anyone touching Janet, and so was Andreena. "This song is one of my all-time favorites from Janet Jackson," says THE BLK LT$. "So when we started working on it, I really didn't know if I had the guts to do it. Completing the song with Frankie was great." Overall, the outcome is a nice update on the classic cut.
"That Janet Joint" is the first track from THE BLK LT$'s upcoming project, Joints: The Smoke Sessions, where she'll reimagine other classic R&B joints. We don't have the tracklist or a release date just yet, but when we know, you'll know. Until then, let us know what you think of THE BLK LT$'s update on this classic Janet joint.
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At Last We Meet . . .
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She had beaten Lord Waterbeetle at the Macrocheira Falls and forced him to give name to his accomplices. She had beaten the hundred hands of Lady Centipede in that stinking basement lair and taken from her the key to Fortress Rotting Log. There she had overcome, through force of will, the once-proud Kabutomushi. At times he seemed almost ready to die, as though he was prepared to give up his life so that he might atone for his past. From his carapace, she took the map. This map that led her to where she stood now, blade in hand, her mind clear, the final page of her destiny about to be written.
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Vito Colucci, ROGUE TOWN, and McHenry County
Submitted by Paul Scharff on Wednesday, 18 September 2013One Comment
Vito Colucci PI
Xổ số miền bắc trực tiếpI want to tell you about a guy named Vito Colucci. I met Vito two weekends ago at Mob Con in Las Vegas. However, I knew who he was prior to this event. We have a couple of mutual friends, but I wanted to say "Hi" to him because I just finished his book ROGUE TOWN. I was able to relate a lot of his book to what goes on McHenry County today.
Xổ số miền bắc trực tiếpI knew Vito could relate a lot to what has, and is still going on in McHenry County. Vito started his career as a young police officer in the early 70's in Stamford Connecticut. Before you make the same assumptions that I did about Stamford, that it sounds like a tranquil place without any kind of corruption, think where it is geographically to New Jersey, and New York. It was on the take and that is what McHenry County is, on the take. When Vito started to work for the Stamford Police Department, he was quickly promoted to working in plain clothes. While working in plain clothes, he winds up learning that everything that was criminal was protected by the Stamford Police. Everything is up for grabs; special favors, bribes, gambling, bookies, juice loans, connected people getting government jobs, and lots of drugs. The New York families all shun drugs but they participated in trafficking them. Vito was finding out that the cops at the Stamford Police Station was connected to the Gambino and Genovese crime families. He even finds out that many of his bosses are part of the ring. What does this sound like?
Xổ số miền bắc trực tiếpMcHenry County Sheriff Keith Nygren and Deputy Scott Milliman during better times.
If you answered "Home," you got that right. Home, McHenry County. We need to look at these things for what they are and call them as we see them. I have traced Sheriff Hendle to the Chicago Outfit. You can look at my FOIA Appeal and start reading on page 11Xổ số miền bắc trực tiếp. We have the current Sheriff, Keith Nygren, that was alleged by his former right hand man Deputy Scott Milliman, that Milliman was tapped by Sheriff Nygren to kill a judge, and a coroner's candidate. Milliman has stated that the sheriff was running illegal aliens from Mexico to McHenry, taking bribes, ticket fixing, etc … We have Undersheriff Andrew Zinke that told a person of interest that he was a subject in a joint operation being conducted by the DEA and McHenry County Sheriff's office. Brian Goode and his Rita Corporation in Crystal Lake was involved in an investigation of trafficking 60 tons of marijuana over a ten month period. The Rita Corporation is the same address that Zinke uses for his campaign headquarters for the 2014 sheriff election. You had the Ethics Commission decide that a very political email, sent from Undersheriff's government computer during government time, was not a
Undersheriff Andrew Zinke and the Rita Corporation on RT 31
Xổ số miền bắc trực tiếppolitical email sent from a government computer during government time. The explanation provided, none. None was made publically anyway and the citizen that brought this valid complaint, Cal Skinner, was almost punished with a $5,000 fine. Are you starting to see what I see?
Vito would be able to tell you what happens in environments like this. Your law enforcement will breed a culture of promoting those that do the dirty work, and punishing those that don't go along to get along. Illegal activity like gambling, prostitution, book making and drug trafficking will be protected by those that are networked into the regime. Deals will be made with organized crime, drug dealers, and street gangs. The government entities that are supposed to be for the people, will be for the regime. Transactions legal on the face are filled with kick backs that are paid back to the regime. Job positions given as favors, or given to those that will push the agenda of the regime. Not to mention, people get hurt, some even get killed. Does this work for you?
Vito Colucci and Paul Scharff at Mob Con in Las Vegas September 7th, 2013
Draw the comparisons, what do you see? I see what we have. A sheriff's department more gangster than good. A sheriff's department that spends quite a bit of the tax payers money hiding their dirt and punishing those that try to spotlight it. I see political fixing in the government, and we should expect the same in the judiciary as well. Our home is on the take! It is not working for the people and it is getting fleeced by the corrupt few. If you don't think that we are under siege take another look, it's not that hard to see.
Vito since rooting out the corruption of Stamford, has become a nationally known PI (Private Investigator) working on some of the high profile cases in the country. Vito is a regular commentator on various news programs including: Fox News, MSNBC, Catherine Crier/Court TV, Star Jones, Glenn Beck, Nancy Grace, Larry King, CNN Headline News, and The Bill O'Reilly Show. He also hosts a nationally syndicated radio show called Crime Time. I was his guest this past Sunday Night and you can listen to the show.
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Duncan Mchenry says:
The Mafia and corruption is entrenched in the Mchenry County Government system. Custody cases have been fixed. There are men women and children that live without their family's everyday, because a custody case was fixed. And then, there are those that have not been allowed visitation with their child or children because the Judges favored the parent who paid a bribe. Some children will prevail despite everything that has happened to them, but they will be forever changed. Others will survive and they will be adversely affected by their situations for the rest of their lives. Some of the parents of these children committed suicide, and others became dysfunctional because of the loss of their children. And yes, there are others who moved on with their lives, even though their children are not far from their thoughts. I thank God everyday that things played out in the courtroom, in such a way, that I still have my child. The fix was in and the FBI intervened to assist me in my case.
Individuals have been wrongfully arrested, convicted, and even incarcerated.
Xổ số miền bắc trực tiếp Today, individuals sit in jail and or prison, because of a wrongful arrests and wrongful convictions in Mchenry County. Even if they are cleared and exonerated, they will live with the stigma of being falsely arrested for the rest of their lives. If it can happen to Gary Gauger, it can happen to anyone. Civil law suits have also been fixed.
Xổ số miền bắc trực tiếpThen there are the murders in Mchenry County. Many people actually lost their lives because they knew too much. Take a look at the Beth Bentley case. Her husband is a lawyer in Mchenry County. He moved his love interest into his home shortly after Beth disappeared. He quickly and promptly got rid of all of Beth belongings after her disappearance.
Sixty tons of Marijuana has been shipped into Rita Corporation in a 10 month period. Even though Brian Goode, the owners of Rita Corporation and Undersheriff Andy Zinke have denied this, they are lying. The DEA tracked the shipments from Mexico to the loading docks of Rita Corporation.
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Life is never the same when a woman comes home from war. For the thousands of female veterans who have seen firsthand the horrors of combat, it is not so easy to move on past memories. Even women of strong faith find dark and terrifying times test their beliefs.
Beyond the obvious physical wounds are dark, invisible ones they will remember for the rest of their lives. Sexual abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder affect a high percentage of women who served in war zones.
"There were times when I prayed God would take me in my sleep," Maj. Leslie Haines said. "I became spiritually dead." A military police officer, Haines had back-to-back deployments.
First she was sent to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, which she called a "morally depleting experience" caused by her experience of witnessing the appalling abuse of prisoners of war. She recounts being cornered by a major who raged at her because she wouldn't do something she considered wrong. "It wasn't like I could pick up my ball and go home." A month later, she was sent to Iraq.
She lasted one week in her old job before fleeing to Indiana, not because she had ever been there, but because her grandparents had once lived there and she thought she could find refuge. Haines had no goal, no plans.
Eventually, she found herself in a Lutheran seminary where she was ordained a deacon. She now directs Lutheran Military Veterans and Families Ministries in Fort Wayne, Ind., which creates programs for returning soldiers and their families. Along the way, she discovered the Victory Noll Sisters and adopted them as her "grand-nuns." Through them, she found her future and healed her past. Sr. Rita Musante, her spiritual director and staunch supporter, along with 99-year-old Sr. Callista Ley and others in the convent, embraced the hurting soldier and provided a safe place.
The convent also embraced Haines' ministry, giving her unused space at the Victory Noll motherhouse in Huntington, Ind., to hold marriage and family retreats.
As this article was being written, Haines sat at Ley's bedside as she faded from life.
One outgrowth of military equality is the opportunity for women to be fully involved as combat soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, there is a price to pay. Women soldiers are armed and loaded with the same 60 pounds of equipment men carry into battle. Because of a lack of facilities in battlefield conditions, females often do not drink sufficient fluids, become dehydrated and suffer kidney damage.
Master Sgt. Trish Bunting, an Air Force public affairs photographer, first went to Iraq shortly after the U.S. invasion. She traveled around the country for six months, telling the stories of airmen stationed there, documenting foot patrols. "I have to say those were the most challenging for me. When you go outside the wire, you are completely geared up." In addition to the possibility of ambushes, Bunting was explicit about another part of her experience.
Bunting, a member of the Military Council of Catholic Women, said, "I thought my faith was good when I deployed," but until she got to Iraq she hadn't seen the "true colors of my faith." Meeting Iraqis face to face, Bunting discovered her deep respect for them. "I saw their entire existence as putting God first in everything. They believe that all of their possessions are because God willed it.
Bunting's new certainty allowed her mind to be at ease and to focus on her mission. Now stationed in San Antonio, she says she knows she was meant, for whatever reason, to go through a crisis of faith and come out of it with a clear vision.
Carolyn Schapper enlisted in the Army to learn a foreign language and establish more credibility as a woman in the national security field. Her goal was to work with the National Security Agency in Washington.
Schapper served with the Army National Guard in military intelligence from 2002 to 2008. When the Iraq war began, she was already a sergeant based in Salinas, Calif., and had earned a master's degree in international relations. She still wasn't prepared for the life she would lead in Bayji, Iraq.
Schapper went on approximately 200 combat patrols and was one of the first women with "boots on the ground" in the area. Her primary job was to talk to the locals and get a sense of what was going on.
Being a female on a small infantry base is still unusual. Schapper shared bathrooms and showers with men and was the only female who lived in a house with 20 men. "I stood out like a sore thumb on base," she said.
As the only Catholic on her team, Schapper said her faith was tested on more than one occasion. A visiting priest made it to the base only once a month. She laughs when she remembers how once she served the wine and had to finish what was left in the chalice. "I got a buzz after being deprived of alcohol for so long." The men she served with were usually too embarrassed to sing the hymns, so Schapper often was a soloist.
One thing that tested the soldier and made her feel isolated in her beliefs was the prayer circles most of her team went into before a mission. She never participated. "To me, these prayer circles before a mission were almost insulting to the Iraqi people. We had gone into their country and were asking for protection from them?
In the transition time after deployment, Schapper said she felt "how foreign home seemed." She used the services of the Department of Veterans Affairs for help with adjustment issues. She also joined the online community of Grace After Fire (www.graceafterfire.org), a female veterans' support site started by Kayla Williams. Schapper met Williams in Washington, where they both live. "I did blog anonymously soon after I came home regarding what I was going through. ... Being able to say exactly what I was feeling to a faceless audience that understood and supported me without question was probably the biggest help in my transition," Schapper said.
Judy Gross also wrote two other pieces for NCR on military issues.
And on military families: Keeping the home fires burning.


A few days ago, Lucia wondered about the identity of the five 'skeptic' blogs to whom that Lewandowsky had sent out his survey.
However, a Charles Hanich (who turns out to be an assistant to Lewandowsky) had sent me a link to the survey (which I disregarded). It was quickly determined that Junk Science had, in fact, posted a link to the survey (sent to them by Hanich) but with heavy caveats (contrary to Lewandowsky's claim that no skeptic blogs had posted the link). Since Lewandowsky's name was connected to the survey in announcements at Deltoid and Hot Topic, it seems evident that the survey was sent to anti-skeptic blogs under a different cover letter.
Yesterday, I was contacted by a third blogger who had also received (and responded to) Hanich's letter. The blogger was not considered at Lucia's thread as a candidate recipient. No one thought of him because he believes that increased CO2 causes temperature increases and that it is an important and relevant problem.
The third "skeptic" blog is …. Pielke Jr.
Pielke Jr obviously doesn't have a particularly high regard for Peter Gleick, Gavin Schmidt and Michael Mann, but these are positions that one can reasonably hold without being a "skeptic" who obsessively yelps and who disregards satellite records.
Most people reading the above sentence from Lewandowsky's article probably took this to mean that multiple responses from the same IP address were eliminated. But watch the pea in light of Pielke's correspondence with Hanich.
I am a research officer at the University of Western Australia, and I am seeking your assistance with a web-based survey of attitudes towards climate science (and other sciences) and skepticism. The survey has been approved by the University's ethics committee and carries no risks for participants.
Completion should take less than 10 minutes and all data will be analyzed anonymously and without monitoring or identifying individual responses. We collect no personal identifying information, save for age and gender.
I would greatly appreciate it if you could perhaps post the link below, which goes directly to the survey, on your blog, so that your readers could participate if they chose to do so. We do not ask you to endorse the survey in any way, simply to make it available to your readers.
Thank you very much for your assistance and do not hesitate to contact me for further information.
Can you tell me a bit more about the study and the research design?
the rationale behind the survey is to draw linkages between attitudes to climate science and other scientific propositions (eg HIV/AIDS) and to look at what scepticism might mean (in terms of endorsing a variety of propositions made in the media). In addition, we consider people's life satisfaction and their attitudes towards market economies, both of which are known to be important determinants of how people respond to messages relating to conservation and so on.
The study consists of about 40 questions / statements, most of which are provided with one-of-four selections of the type: strongly disagree – disagree – agree – strongly agree.
For details of the questions, you are most welcome to check out the link. The answers are not recorded in the database until the final "Save-and Exit" button is clicked.
I thank you for your prompt response and should you require further clarification, please don't hesitate to contact me again.
Thanks. I am unclear about how posting on a blog helps your purposes, as you will get anonymous, perhaps repeated replies. I have seen various efforts to query opinions via online surveys fail to be methodologically rigorous, so that is the basis for my query.
The Whitehead paper is not particularly helpful as it deals with online medical questionnaires (as opposed to purporting to survey skeptics at anti-skeptic blogs.) Hanich's justification for turning off the duplicate-IP function at kwiksurveys is to-say-the-least strained. My impression is that most skeptics operate from their own computers; missing a few skeptics who share a computer is a pretty small price. And why would he be trying to accommodate respondents from their own laboratory? What business do they have filling out the survey in the first place? I wonder how many responses came from his own university? And how many of the fake responses?
A major motivation for participants to respond multiple times is to see a range of possible feedback (e.g., how their personality scores would look if they answered the questions differently). Therefore, our first strategy was to give participants a direct link to all of the possible feedback options to allow them to satisfy their curiosity. Our second strategy was to identify repeat responders using the Internet protocol (IP) addresses that the Web server logs with each completed questionnaire. A single IP address can be associated with multiple responses submitted during a single session, such as by individuals taking the test again but changing their answers to see how the feedback changes.
Thus, we eliminated repeated responses from the same individual at a single IP address. To avoid eliminating responses from different individuals using the same computer (e.g., roommates or people using public computer labs), we matched consecutive responses from the same IP address on several key demographic characteristics (e.g., gender, age, ethnicity) and when such a match was detected, we retained only the first response. Johnson (2001) offers another solution for detecting repeat responders: He suggests comparing the entire set of item responses in consecutive entries to identify duplicate or near-duplicate entries.
Some repeat responses could remain in the sample even after taking these steps to eliminate them. For example, participants might revisit the questionnaire to see whether their scores change over time. Thus, our third strategy was to add a question asking participants whether they had completed the questionnaire before. Only 3.4% responded that they had completed the questionnaire before. Most important, analyses showed that repeat responding (as identified by the question) did not change the findings in Srivastava et al.'s (2003) study on personality development. When repeat responding is of great concern, researchers can always take additional precautions such as requiring participants to provide a valid email address where they receive authorization to complete the questionnaire (Johnson, 2001).
As in Hanich's letter to Pielke, Gosling et al 2004 consider survey methods which do not automatically reject multiple responses from the same IP address (for a similar reason, people in the same lab.) They cited a suggestion to check for duplicate (or near-duplicate) responses to detect repeat respondents.
My interpretation (and it is only an interpretation, since the description is not conclusive) is that Lewandowsky accepted multiple responses from the same IP address as long as there was a slight variation in any answer. For example, the answers from the two scam responses who agreed with every conspiracy were nearly identical, but varied on a couple of questions. As I interpret the methodology, because the two answers were not item-for-item identical, they would be accepted even if they came from the same IP address. No need for complicated hiding behind proxy servers as long as one or two answers were varied.
I re-iterate that this is an interpretation of the methodological description and it is possible that the algorithm operated differently. Lewandowsky could easily clarify this issue without providing the actual IP addresses. It is trivial to assign a unique ID number for each unique IP address so that this phenomenon could be analysed.
UPDATE: Marc Morano received an email from Hanich on Sep 23 and did not respond to Hanich.
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It would be really easy for Professsor Lewandosky to post the frequencies of responses and a detailed description of the methodology used in the study. The fact that he hasn't speaks volumes. He's playing a game. I think the intent of the game is to influence local politics. I think the ramifications of the survey will subside quickly as more flaws in it are revealed.
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Steve, if it wasn't for you I wouldn't have known that the Lewandowsky Scam included confusion of mainstream skeptics with the much small number who refuse to believe that the satellite records show any warming or that CO2 is in any way responsible. Yet for the organisers of this survey Pielke Jr is also a skeptic and his blog is a skeptic blog. Thank you for unveiling this. The inconsistent disregard for even the first level of useful distinction has one positive side-effect – a kind of unity between those of us who accept that temperature has been rising but have become the targets of the same smear machine.
Curiously, public response to the paper has provided a perfect real-life illustration of the very cognitive processes at the center of the research.
We are being gamed, not just the survey.
Written before reading Thomas Fuller, by the way.
Roy Spencer has discovered he was one of the recipients of Hanrich emails, doesn't remenber it, and assumes he ignored it.
One more to go. I think Jo Nova is going to do an update.
At its best this approach is an awful way to collect data for scientific purposes , is used not becasue its good but because its cheap , quick and can spread a lot of dung fast and wide . And this effort is very far from being at its best , the fact that different survey were used for different web sites on its own should kill this off. While once again you see the 'professionals' of climate science, in their published work , failing to match the academic standards expected of undergraduates completing an essay.
shows a distinct lack of understanding of the principle of counterbalancing.
Counterbalancing is a method of avoiding confounding among variables. What he does not seem to realize is that, in this case, he induces such confounding of questionnaire with the web site from which the subject self-selects. Given the range of stridency in the sampled web sites it is not unreasonable that this would be reflected in the specific sample from each site. So rather than supposedly accommodating a possible problem, he in fact creates a new analytic situation which becomes virtually uncorrectable.
It is somewhat surprising that he seems to have chosen not to provide any statistics on the size of the samples from the various blogs, nor has he apparently done even the most elementary checks to see how their results might differ.
Roman, his counterbalancing argument would be more convincing if there had been order randomization within the anti-skeptic blogs. Thus far, we have two versions sent to the skeptic blogs and two versions to the anti-skeptic blogs.
Roman, I've now collected the links for all known contacts.
If counterbalancing is important (and for this survey, there are so many defects, that it's low on the list), then Lewandowsky should not have done what he did.
Marc Morano is the fifth blog. Marc Morano received an email from Hanich on Sep 23 and did not respond to Hanich.
Weren't they going public with results by September 23? If so, that seems more than a coincidence.
Did they confuse Jr with Sr?
This outrage over the research methods seems somewhat contrived. Lewandosky posted the survey on science blogs, whether or not the blogs are identified as skeptical or not seems irrelevant. The implication seems to be that "real" skeptics can only be found on skeptical blogs and that Lewandowsky knowingly avoided those sites for fear of getting answers from these "legitimate" skeptics; nonsense. The truth, I'm afraid is much simpler. The majority of global warming deniers and "skeptics" are right wing anti-government conspiracy nuts with very little interest in science or facts. This is pretty evident from the anecdotal evidence alone. Spend some time on any website or blog discussing the "science" of global warming and you'll quickly conclude the majority in the denial camp are morons. That said, I would agree that there are legitimate skeptics like Dr. Muller who in the past have expressed valid concerns regarding data collection and interpretation, but I would be confident in asserting that they are in the very small minority.
No, he didn't make up the data, and it's legitimate to criticize his methods of collection, but to suggest a larger conspiracy seems, well, paranoid and frankly only lends support to his original point that the majority of people in the denial of climate science tend to be somewhat predisposed to conpiracy ideas.
Having worked in technical R&D for 25 years, and thus developed a pretty good nose for real "science", I am confident in asserting that you haven't got clue what you're talking about.
Having spent almost 17 years reading the research and scientific evidence behind global warming I can assure you I know exactly what I'm talking about. I've witnessed for years while "self-identified skeptics" have provided very little in the way of evidence or peer reviewed literature to support their positions on climate science. In fact, all they ever seem capable of doing is shouting from the sidelines and hurling baseless accusations. Dr. Muller is only a recent example of a high profile "skeptic" who criticized from the sidelines only to spend 2 years of research to arrive at basically the same conclusion everyone else in the scientific community had already arrived at years earlier. While I agree that skepticism is healthy and criticism is good when merited, that is not what the community of people in denial of the scientific facts around AGW are engaged in. Instead they use ad hominem attacks and innuendo to attack a scientist with very little evidence or knowledge of the facts.
Having spent almost 17 years reading the research and scientific evidence behind global warming I can assure you I know exactly what I'm talking about.
Instead they use ad hominem attacks and innuendo to attack a scientist with very little evidence or knowledge of the facts.
By all means, explain the facts to us. Have you read the paper yourself? Was the sampling done in a scientifically justifiable manner? Did the samples represent a proper cross-section of the skeptic population? Did you understand the factor analyses? How different were the extracted latent factor scores from the simple averages of the naively 1-to-4-scaled answers? Did you understand the Structural-equation model results? Did they quantify the character of the purported relationships between the various factors beyond the calculation of some simple correlations? And how exactly were the "consensus responses binned into 9 categories with approximately equal numbers"? Perhaps you could enlighten us.
The end result is that the entire exercise is drivel produced for the purpose of attacking those of us who would like to see honest scientific effort instead of cobbled-up papers with predetermined conclusions.
How about addressing the issues at hand here?
For the record here is Lewandosky's paper in case you didn't actually take the time to read it yourself before chiming in.
It is a screwed up study that should have been peer rejected, not peer approved.
And it sounds like adults at this university wish to discuss his childish and immature anti-scientific behavior furhter.
OK this study was botched. But surely Hanich intended the "such as" to refer to the first part of the sentence and not the last.
There are plenty of undeniable flaws in this study. But it's difficult to believe that the authors were so incompetent as to allow themselves, the surveyors, or their associates to complete the survey. Perhaps you believe that intended to manipulate the results? Then why would Hanich admit to such a thing to a supposed skeptic blogger?
There's room for benefit of the doubt on this one, IMO.
As for Paul, as I read his post I began to understand the point about morons on these scientific blogs.
DGH. Please don't misconstrue my point about morons as anything but a point about morons.
Is that correct? If so, then Lewandowsky can stop inquiring about whether he can release the names of the sites to which hehis assistant sent the link.
Although why the presumed confidentiality of email *replies*, is relevant to whether he could release this information, has always been beyond me.
Clearly much grant money has been wasted in the pursuit of very little value.
That magnum opus was published when Lewandowsky was at University of Oklahoma – where David Karoly, another Australian recently discussed at CA, was formerly at.
And while at U Oklahoma received an AMOCO (as in American Oil COmpany) award for "Superior Teaching" in 1993!
It would be interesting to know if any survey sent to skeptic blogs matches the surveys sent to warmist blogs. Currently the distribution seems somewhat skewed although it isn't definitive.
Thanks for filling in the remain three skeptic surveys Steve.
From the updated list of known different surveys, and seeing none in common between skeptic and warmist, I'm willing to go out on a very sturdy limb and say the different surveys were not distributed to sites by random selection, but instead targeted according to suspected beliefs of the majority of commenters at the sites. IMO astoundingly poor methodology.
The warmist blogs were contacted first by Lewandowsky himself who sent two versions. The skeptic blogs were contacted much later by Lewandowsky's research assistant Hanich sending two different versions.
I conjecture that there was a realisation late in the piece that a survey on the views of skeptics could have no credibility if no attempt were made to contact skeptic blogs, and so a late a belated attempt was made to add some.
There is no need in this case to imagine that the version disparity was the result of malicious design when we have a much simpler explanation. Namely that this was a simple botch up, with Hanich sending different versions in error.
The botch up explanation is consistent with the overall quality of the research.
Lewandowski was already on record as associating sceptics – whom he proposed to survey – with belief in conspiracy theories. Did he disclose this to the ethics committee? Would they have approved the survey if he had?
Since the survey has come to light, Lewandowski has been smearing sceptics right, left and centre. How does that constitute "no risk to participants"?
Steve, is your post title a reference to the surreal novel 'The Third Policeman' by Flann O'Brien? I hope so!
I wish I could say so. An Irish friend of mine was a big fan of Flann OBrien. A LeCarre allusion would be more my style. I like the way that Tinker, Tailor and Hon Schoolboy start with small characters and slight disturbances in the cosmos.
How about Graham Greene's "The Third Man"?
Surely you understand that this was provided as an example and not as an indication that they were submiting responses from their lab to their own survey.
Steve: maybe, maybe not. They've done every other goofy permutation.
This, however, will block legitimate use of the same computer, such as in our laboratory, where numerous participants use the same PCs.
1. The rather ludicrous presumption inherent in the thought that an "example" was required.
2. His use of the word "participants" is at the very least odd; particularly in the context of a purported explanation of their survey methodology – if it was not, in fact, intended to indicate that people in their lab would be (or had been) "participating" in the survey.
a) The fact that "Lewandowsky went out of his way to accommodate multiple respondents from the same IP address" when it was clearly the least methodologically sound option available to him.
b) Lewandowsky's apparent misreading of Gosling et al, 2004.
How sad, though, that in this day and age the noble toilers in Hanich's lab are obliged to share the use of the same PC. Perhaps the grants received in support of this "research" could have been put to better use through the acquisition of PCs for all, rather than in such a shoddy and blatant exercise in "scientivism".
Given what what we have learned over the years from Steve's blogs and elsewhere, perhaps I should not be surprised if it turns out that in fact people from their own lab participated in their own survey. Maybe I was too naive in assuming this as an impossibility, scientific method and all that.
You're presuming that Lew is capable of writing intelligibly. I don't see any evidence for that.
Lewandowsky will surely consider this a Conspiracy Theory.
Whilst finding the Lewandowsky paper a grotesque abuse of scientific process I'd have to disagree with the suspicions cast here about the single IP address issue. Many organisations — universities, Internet cafés, and, for example, the entire UK National Health Service — pass traffic to the Internet through a gateway which conceals the internal network addresses using the Network Address Translation protocol (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cheshire-nat-pmp-05).
Thus, an external website (for example the survey site) would perceive a connection from any computer within these organisations as having the same IP address — that of the gateway. Consequently, using single IP address filtering is a poor way of detecting multiple form entries since it excludes different people in the same organisation from participating.
Actually, almost any method (e.g. using cookies or requiring a valid email address) can be gamed which makes the kind of internal consistency checking which Steve has highlighted an obligatory part of processing such surveys. However, if the headline has been written in advance of the actual survey — which it clearly was in this case — who cares if the methodology has any rigour.
OK, here's one for you statisticians: I am currently reading "Indiscrete Thoughts" by Gian-Carlo Rota. Early on he writes about William Feller ("His name was neither William nor Feller."), who proposed that "in multiple choice exams, students should be asked to mark one wrong answer, rather than to guess the right one." So, what if, in this "survey", Lewandowsky had asked responders to do analogously with their answers. Would such a protocol prevent scamming? Would it make scamming easier to detect? INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW.
Johnson's intent is apparently to deal with someone who is clicking "Submit" several times on the same survey. This is not the same as Lewandowsky's "duplicate responses from any IP number" description. Lewandowsky's lack of mentioning a consecutive frame implies that most people at the same institution/ISP (same IP address) who have identical opinions will be ignored by his survey.
Either Lewandowsky did not follow Johnson's solution, or Lewandowsky did not clearly describe his procedure.
You are reading too much into the PCs in our lab use the same IP address. He is not trying to make things easier for people in his lab to fill out the survey, just giving an example of different people having the same IP address.
IP blocking isn't necessarily a great way of screening surveys. Lots of institutions reallocate IP addresses or pass data through a proxy server and so seem to have the same IP address – students in a university library for instance. For large ISPs (eg AOL or mobile providers), IP addresses can be re-used and reallocated. Even in a regular household running off a shared wi-fi connection, a family interested in a topic may have several individuals complete the same survey, but each give different answers.
For 'open' surveys (where there is no element of pre-selection such as an invite and ID to control who completes the survey) there will always be problems with people trying to game the survey so results always need some provisos about quality.
So a more sophisticated survey researcher will first look at other indications such as the time taken to complete the survey, key-pressing patterns, inconsistencies, answers to open ended questions and will build in check elements to catch people answering in unlikely manners. If these match an IP check and check on time of completion will be done as a further test. If an IP address does surveys in rapid succession this might be another indicator.
But far bigger than the IP issue is that the sample is a convenience sample and so of unknown representativeness of the population in question. Convenience samples may be enough for a 'quick-and-dirty' commercial project where cost and speed balance the importance of accuracy, but I'd be surprised if any full academic journals would consider any surveys that don't have some element of EPSEM (equal probability of selection), and some element of pre-testing to validate the questionnaire before it goes live. At the very least we would need a full description of how the convenience sample was achieved – where and how – and how the sample was tested for reliabilty (eg hold-outs, cross-checks against existing data, back-checking by recontacting). Daily newspapers may publish cheap surveys done for PR purposes, but academic journals really shouldn't.
Far worse than being a "convenience sample", which might be ok for some topics, it is a sample of highly motivated people on a highly contentious topic. It is not a sample of gmail users or Amazon customers, but of those who frequent blogs where open combat and ad homs are the norm (speaking of the blogs where the survey was in fact filled out). And this sample is far more likely than readers of People magazine to try to spam the survey to help their cause. The idea that trolls could be ignored is stunningly naive.
Seems to me the non-response of skeptic blogs proves a point that Lewandowsky is loathe to support: skeptics are… skeptical. We don't have time for conspiracy theories, junk email and the like.
When you get us curious enough to dig in, we actually dig in. We don't accept the status quo at face value. We look beneath the surface hype.
But to get us started requires a lot more than a junk email in the in-box, particularly for an obviously junk-science survey.
Compare this methodology with a professional survey organization: they carefully preselect randomized participants, and intentionally contact each one to obtain the best possible information.
Such silliness. And to further prove the point, the MSM is quick to accept this junk-science result. Thus further proving the need for skepticism.
And to further prove the point, the MSM is quick to accept this junk-science result.
I think the intent of the game is to influence local politics.
Not the greatest feather in the cap for my home city I have to admit.
I think we know that Steve McIntyre and the JunkScience site were offered one flavour of survey so I would assume that the other skeptic sites were at least offered the others to mix this up. Is this what happened? This seems a hard to manage randomising technique that can't be controlled for. Were attempts made to control for balancing the counterbalancing over the cohorts* of "pro-science" and "skeptic" targets?
Moderator Response: You are basically spot on. We used different question orders in different versions of the survey, distributing the different links across blogs in a quasi-random manner. This practice is so standard that we did not explicitly mention it in a Method section for a paper that had to fit within 4000 words.
Pea-thimble time, note he doesn't give the actual date the surveys were sent, just the year. Were the Sceptic blogs sent the surveys later than the alarmist blogs to provide a cover for the fact that he only ever intended to use alarmist blogs?
All the satellite record shows is a small amount of warming over 30 odd years and hints at some sort of cycle. It says nothing about cause.It says nothing about future catastrophe. It says nothing about the surface record.
The hill up to my local town is as steep as the pitch of my roof but I'm sceptical that they are connected by anything other than coincidence.
I am afraid it is not possible to randomize questions. In June 2012 KwikSurveys was attacked and suffered multiple outages and data loss which resulted in the company closing and the website being shut down. In July, we (now the current owners) decided to purchase the domain name and branding. We had no choice but to very quickly replace the existing system with our own. The home page design and documentation is being updated now.
They also used to offer IP tracking, but no longer do so – only the option to turn on or off – "take survey once" controls.
As I understand it randomization and counter-balancing in survey design are two distinct processes. Randomization is just that – mixing up the questions. In case of KwikSurveys appears they only randomized by page.
In questionnaire design, a method of controlling for acquiescence response set by wording a test so that an affirmative answer is scored in the direction of the attribute being measured in half of the questions and in the opposite direction in the rest.
As far as I can observe counter-balancing would be manually accomplished by grouping questions to balance any order effects. There is no indication I've seen that that was done.
That said – and randomization or counterbalancing should be done in a random fashion, meaning respondents within the same group receive different versions. Here it is pretty clear different groups received different versions – which is not random at all.
The work that most clearly recognizes this problem is that of Knauper and Schwarz (2004), who have argued that item order may change the subject's responses greatly, and that this effect may interact strongly with both subject variables and the topic chosen for investigation. They observed that in a survey asking whether divorce should be easier to obtain, large changes resulted from rearranging the response alternatives slightly. These were 'easier', more difficult', or 'stay as it is now.' When 'more difficult' was presented as the last rather than the second alternative, agreement with this choice rose from 33% to 68% among subjects over 70, whereas the change in order had essentially no effect on young adult subjects (Schuman & Presser, 1981; Schwarz & Knauper, 2000). Conversely, in a survey asking whether access to abortion should be available on demand, a change in item-order had no effect among seniors but changed the level of agreement among younger adults by 20%. The magnitude and complexity of these effects (involving a three-way interaction in the above example) suggest that further exploration of this topic is desirable.
Without seeing the actual question oer in each version it is impossible to say what order effects may be in play. That is another apparent failing – and certainly something that should be addressed.
For the record, I think, notwithstanding the poorly structured questions, this survey overall and the questions asked were simple enough that there would not likely be an order effect. It still should have been addressed in the paper.
I think you are probably right and any order effect would be negligible, however the fact they considered a counterbalancing procedure was covered by the process of generating the 4 different surveys would confirm they must have thought there was some sort of order effect. Otherwise they would have sent the same survey out to all.
There is great deal of talk of "irony" that this study should be criticized only by skeptics – the concept of irony being bent into a horseshoe shape to suit some people's needs! I think the real irony is that psychologists designed this study and that the nature of the bias that would affect the thinking process of psychologists can clearly be seen by the "counterbalancing" method they used. I can't see any explanation for the inadequacy of it other than at best mere window dressing.
I think asking if the study authors were suffering from bias is the sort of critique psychologists should accept. The title alone gives a big clue this study has biasing issues because – unless they later say they meant it as a joke – it has nothing but headline grabbing appeal – it alludes to the weakest part of the study as if that was all that mattered to their predisposed mind-set.
Does the Order of Questionnaire Items Change Subjects' Responses?
I really don't understand why Anthony Watts wasn't contacted. If I was looking for the loony end of scepticism his would be the first place I looked.
While I often go to WUWT, it has a very light moderation and a higher tolerance for nutters than I personally could muster.
However going to WUWT could result in a really high turnout if Anthony endorsed it. Which would likely swamp all other results — including all the bogus skydragon ones. Maybe that's Lewandowsky they didn't go to him.
Oh dear, now I am engaging in conspiracy theories! I must be one of those moon-landing deniers!
I have no theories. I have many questions.
Professor Lewandowsky, when will you post a topline summary wit frequencies?
I'm interested in your theory of counterbalancing. It normally refers to having half the Likert questions order preference with highest preference at the top of the scale and half at the bottom. You apparently mean something different. What do you think it is?
When will we be able to view the different iterations of the survey?
When will we be able to see how many respondents filled out each version?
Why would you send invitations to bloggers to post the survey without attaching your name to it?
Why would you discuss the objectives of a survey with potential respondents while the survey was still in the field?
Why do you not attach numbers of respondents, as is customary, to your discussion of results in your paper?
Are you aware that your study essentially focuses on respondents who failed a rare items test and whose responses would normally be excluded from collected data? Or do you actually think that people who believe there was more than one reason the U.S. invaded Iraq are highly likely to believe that the U.S. faked a moon landing?
Why did you exclude 5 questions from your analysis? What were the questions and what did the data show for these questions?
The article has screen shots of the full survey he took. His survey started the same as first questions as HKMKNF_991e2415 (so it probably was that).
Questions 1-5 from KMKNI_9a13984, "Satisfaction with life scale" SWLS questions, appear in the same order as questions 28-32 on his survey on their own page. I would hazard a guess the survey variations may just depend on the positioning of these SWLS questions as L makes mention of them as being some sort of benchmark in his paper.
You can find the original SWLS ED DIENER, ROBERT A. EMMONS, RANDY J. LAR.SEM, and SHARON GRIFFIN paper if you Google.
I can't see anything about using it for counterbalancing it seems a pretty arbitrary way to do it, but I'm just guessing.
Steve, he zapped your most recent comment. I hope you saved it.
The "skeptic" community of bloggers joined together when you made the claim they had been contacted and did not reply, and each searched extensively for contact from you.
You failed to note that it was an assistant that sent these emails making that search more difficult. And that by all appearances, at least some of these emails from your assistant contained no reference or association with you – again making their search essentially impossible.
When it became apparent you did not send the email, they all searched more broadly, including on the uwa.edu.au domain and several did find emails from your assistant and so noted.
In like of your withholding the names of the skeptic sites you say you contacted, the group continued to search and try to identify who might have been recipients of your 5 emails. This was a needle in a haystack approach, thanks to your silence on the issue.
Over the last weekend the 3rd and 4th site found evidence of your assistants emails, and they were so noted earlier today at Steve McIntyre's Climate Audit.
Followed shortly thereafter by your release here of the 5 sites you contacted.
You deserve no apologies, and your arrogance is misplaced. This information should have been included in the paper. You could and should have obtained ethics permission if you felt it necessary two years ago. You forced a large amount of effort on many "skeptic" site operators, by withholding these names.
If you felt input from skeptic sites users was important, and frankly – as your entire premise was regarding skeptics attitudes about science – I can not understand why you felt it not highly important to gain data FROM skeptics, then you or your staff should have made a more concerted effort, to at least keep contacting until you made sure they had the information on the survey. If they then had turned you down you might have had a leg to stand on.
From what it appears we know Junk Science acknowledged receipt of your email and DID post your link. So your claim no skeptic site participated is false.
We also appear to know that Pielke Jr. has found emails that he did receive the original email, and did correspond, but subsequently decided not to participate.
You only submitted to 5 skeptic sites vs 8 known pro-AGW sites, all of whom posted the survey link.
We also know that pro-AGW sites were contacted it appears almost a month before you sent emails to the skeptic sites. In fact, we know you were already publicly discussing both the data/results, and the number of responses (N=1100) prior to or at same time you finally sent the emails to skeptic sites.
No professional publicly discusses survey data and results while the survey is underway. Your public presentation shows you had received virtually all the responses you eventually used and had already analyzed it, and that the attempt to contact skeptic sites came at or after the same time – by all appearances an after thought.
That you did not attempt to engage the skeptic community near the beginning of the survey, and that you or your staff made little or no effective effort to affirmatively insure that each of the skeptic sites DID receive your messages seems highly suspect.
Last, to your claim of "counter balancing." Counter balancing, according to most readings, is more sophisticated – and important – than mere randomization. Counter balancing is as I understand it, to manage questions to balance and such order effect, where the answer to one question may effect subsequent answers.
Randomization blindly mixes the questions, which may be some help, but does little, except by chance, regarding order effect.
You say you used 4 different survey versions with different question order within pages. Presumably you might have addressed order effect thru counter-balancing, but we cannot know that as you have not included copies of each survey within the data – making any review impossible.
Even given the benefit of the doubt, that you did a wonderful job of counter-balancing, you admit however, that you pretty much completely negated any value by your "quasi-random" distribution of the different versions.
Thru the "crowd sourced" research of the blogging community, and no thanks to you or your paper, we appear to know that there was no true random distribution. The "pro-AGW" sites received 2 of the versions exclusively, and the "skeptic" sites were offered the other 2 versions.
As you claim no skeptic sites responded, which we can largely confirm by your public statements at the time – where you identified N=1100 on appx same date you sent skeptic site emails, we can surmise then that essentially all responses were from 2 of the 4 versions.
I personally think randomization and counter balance were unlikely to have significantly skewed results here – however that is a laymans common sense perspective. Your job as a professional is to use the industr standards and show that order effect was or was not an issue, and if so how you addressed it.
I, and I think many others, would like responses to these questions. They are legitimate, and in general respectfully submitted, despite the arrogance and derision you have displayed towards those you disagree with.
Regardless of what we might like, professional ethics and standards indicate a response is required.
Perhaps this will help clarify. A few weeks ago I was emailed by Joanne Nova who asked if I had been contacted by a Stephen Lewandowsky about a climate survey.
When Steve McIntyre returned from a long time away I read his post (hoping it would be about his London talk). It was a post about this topic, with Nova's email relatively fresh I put 2 + 2 together and searched my email for Hanich and found the exchange that Steve has now posted. I sent it to Joanne and Steve upon finding it.
I am not following this issue (sorry) and have never heard of Lewandowsky. What I know does not whet my appetite for learning more.
Roger, you're right to want to know about Steve's London talk. It seemed to me, as a neophyte on WG2, like a tour de force on climate and extreme events. If you had been sitting next to me I'm sure I would have learned a great deal more.
Having formally studied survey methodology (at Master's level), conducted surveys for a living, and dealt with ethics committees – I did a lot of work with people with disabilities – my flabber is gasted.
All open online surveys are junk. Trying to track duplicates, gamers, jokesters and all the rest is just putting lipstick on the pig. The bedrock of a survey is in the formulation of the questions and the selection of participants. On both of these, this survey would have failed a first year undergraduate course.
It would be perfectly reasonable to conduct a proper survey about the relationship between people's political or personal views and their opinions on AGW, or CAGW. But, that is not what this sloppy and inherently biased exercise was about. Indeed, it is difficult to find a single aspect of this 'survey' which is defensible, from soup to nuts.
That just about sums it up. Thanks johanna. I'd also add that there's no indication in his methodology section about how the quaire was validated, whether it provided test/retest and internal consistency, or how you can apply a scalar response to complex non-linear questions. In my view it falls into the category of a tabloid newspaper "survey" e.g. "Should aggressive beggars be repatriated: 'Yes'/'No'".
My opinion of the quality of Psychology journals just dropped several notches.
This is the only other survey with the UID appended.
Unfortunately it doesn't work in the wayback machine. I did note a couple comments at Bickmore's site complaining they couldn't complete the survey. Maybe that survey has been scraped.
Maybe someone has to take the survey to generate a UID, in which case neither Pielke or Spencer initiated their survey.
Once again, it's not what they do, it's that they can get away with it. This story has penetrated the outer edges of main stream media, being reported in the Huffington Post, the Blaze, and on MSNBC's website. Mann, Gleick, and Lewandowsky can act with impunity because they are given the mantle of credibility by the media and academia. It's maddening.
got to feel sorry for them really – obviously a massively underfunded lab where people doing internet based research are having to share desktop computers.
Well, at least Lewandowsky is half honest when he says, "the rationale behind the survey is to draw linkages between attitudes to climate science and other scientific propositions (eg HIV/AIDS)…" He states, maybe unintentionally, that the intent is, "to draw linkages" rather than for instance, 'investigate the possibility that there might be linkages…' Got to give credit where credit is due, that's pretty bold, or maybe its just his subconscious leaking through.
On the other hand Lewandosky's statement, "…attitudes to… …other scientific propositions (eg HIV/AIDS)…" is well beyond obtuse and smacks of dissembling. It, in my opinion, is a deliberate attempt to conceal the real focus of the study which is to 'create' a linkage between climate change 'skepticism' and belief in paranoid, pseudo-scientific conspiracy theories. Here, Lewandowsky is trying to 'game' Pielke the Younger – not going to work. Exactly how stupid does Lewandowsky think Dr. Pielke is?
And, he wonders why nobody on the skeptic side, gets associated with the skeptic side or wishes to maintain their professional reputation wants to play with him.
It does have to hurt though, that so many of the bloggers he attempted to hustle into his survey didn't even notice him.
When you took the survey did you believe that the survey was a valid and scientific attempt to study the issue?
c] if b, did you care?


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Uncontested and unchallenged, the Nintendo Switch had been ruling the handheld gaming console market for close to 4 years now. So it's only natural for the community to get excited over the announcement of a new contender, especially since they are already associated with the brand for close to two decades.
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One of the greatest reasons why the Stem Deck became so popular is the specs. It packs a custom AMD APU – which contains both the AMD RDNA 2 GPU with 8 CUs and the quad-core / eight-thread Zen 2 CPU in a single unit. In terms of memory, the Steam Deck comes with 16GB LPDDR5 RAM.
The demand for Steam Deck surpassed the expectations of Valve by a sizable margin, mainly because the specs outrun Nintendo's four-year-old Arm-based Nvidia Tegra X1 chipset. According to content creator Tyler McVicker, Valve is supposedly pivoting their interests into Steam Deck and subsequent games suited to the platform as they get ready for shipping the device in February 2022.
Will there be Steam exclusive games in the future?
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Good news for gamers, though, as according to the reports from a user in China (through Tom's Hardware) with access to a development kit, the Steam Deck delivered close to 60fps in quite a few games. Although the numbers don't 100% represent the device's final performance, it's something to look forward to in the future. Here is a list of the games and their subsequent benchmarks:
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MIDTOWN, Manhattan (WABC) -- If you thought the massive Manhattan residential towers at 432 Park Avenue or One57 stood out in New York City's skyline, just wait until "The Big Bend" takes shape.
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