#statstab #419 A Measurement Is a Choice and Stevens’ Scales of Measurement Do Not Help Make It: A Response to Chalmers
Thoughts: #418 convincing for not adopting ordinal α? This rebuttal may change your mind
#ordinal #likert #mesurement #psychometrics #cronbachalpha #reliability #testtheory #CTT #scales #debate #rebuttal
The reality of slavery: Rebutting Trump’s claims – The Hill
The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill.No, our museums cannot just ‘move on’ from slavery — Christmas shows us why
by Robert E. May, opinion contributor – 09/03/25 2:00 PM ET I was not surprised by President Trump’s Truth Social post that the Smithsonian and other American museums are excessively focused on “how bad slavery was.” Trump’s post is consistent with MAGA’s triumphalist insistence on eviscerating critical analyses of America’s problematic race relations and history from the nation’s schools, cultural institutions and mass media.Without endorsing racial bondage, his call encourages MAGA’s white supremacist elements and discourages efforts to address racial disparities relating to slavery’s long-term constraints on Black progress.
As someone who has long studied, taught and written about the American South and slavery, I am appalled. Trump’s position trivializes the injustices and horrors of enslavement, implying they barely merit mention within America’s historical narrative.
I propose, counterintuitively, to rebut Trump’s messaging by looking microscopically at the moment in the plantation calendar when slaves supposedly were treated best. By illuminating how horrific racial bondage was even when legend says enslavers were at their most humane, we can grasp the ahistorical absurdity of Trump’s position that museums move on.
That time was Christmas. There is a near-consensus that slaves were happiest, if you can say such a thing, over the holiday. Supposedly, starting Christmas Eve, slaves not only were excused from working for up to a week, but masters put whips aside, gave them amazingly generous presents, threw them sumptuous feasts and dances, and allowed them to marry and travel anywhere nearby they wanted.
The trouble is this stereotype derives largely from memoirs of post-Civil War “Lost Cause” southern writers who reimagined slave holidays to justify southern secession and the Confederacy. Such writings overlooked the vast profits accruing to slaveholders from coerced labor and sometimes claimed that slaves had it better than masters and lacked interest in freedom.
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#2025 #America #Christmas #DonaldTrump #Education #Health #History #Libraries #LibraryOfCongress #Opinion #Politics #Reading #Rebuttal #Resistance #Science #Slavery #Slaves #SmithsonianInstitution #SmithsonianMuseums #Trump #TrumpAdministration #TrumpSClaims #UnitedStates
Apple's paper on Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) is making waves like a toddler in a kiddie pool 🏊♂️. Enter #Claude #Opus, the coauthor whose appearance is as questionable as the paper's arguments 🤡. This #rebuttal is the intellectual equivalent of trying to fix a flat tire with a kazoo. 🎺🚗
https://victoramartinez.com/posts/why-claudes-comment-paper-is-a-poor-rebuttal/ #Apple #LRMs #tech #news #humor #HackerNews #ngated
Why Claude's Comment Paper Is a Poor Rebuttal
https://victoramartinez.com/posts/why-claudes-comment-paper-is-a-poor-rebuttal/
#HackerNews #Comment #Paper #Poor #Rebuttal #Commentary #Critique #HackerNews
Amidst a storm of chaos and insanity, a ray of hope from Democrat Senator Elissa Slotkin
#rebuttal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP2s7kWJfd0
🎉 Buckle up, folks! The article screams "rebuttal" louder than a toddler denied candy, insisting the #NIH is being "slashed" rather than "reformed." 🤔 Because clearly, nuanced #debate is best carried out with the subtlety of a brick through a window. 🔨💥
https://www.sensible-med.com/p/the-nih-is-being-slashed-and-burned #HackerNews #Rebuttal #Reform #Slashed #HackerNews #ngated
"Wikipedia is not a good source."
"What would be a good source, then?"
"I don't know. Googling it?"
This pattern is so common that I suspect most people who say this don't even know Google Scholar exists, let alone have actually tried to read a paper.
I'm 100% convinced that "Wikipedia is untrustworthy" is only ever brought up to win an argument, because usually it's a pretty good source without having to spend days on research.
#MediaCompetence #GoogleScholar #Wikipedia #Research #Rebuttal
#VicePresident #KamalaHarris #attacked #MAGA #misogyny head-on in ‘#CallHerDaddy’ #interview.
The #Democratic #presidential #hopeful’s #appearance on the popular podcast was a clear #rebuttal to #DonaldTrump and the #MAGA #movement. And the #DemocraticParty #Nominee for #President pulled no punches.
#Student #Dem Who Went #Viral at #Harris #CampaignRally #Confronts #Farright #Extremist #CharlieKirk at #DNC
“You’re an anti-#patriotic, anti-#constitutional #person #crashing our #party because you tried to #obstruct #democracy” Kirk turned to #transphobia for his #lame #excuse for a #rebuttal.
👀 The Daily Show host Jon #Stewart on #Monday highlighted one of the #weirder moments from Sen. Katie #Britt’s (R-Ala.) widely #mocked #rebuttal to President Joe #Biden’s #StateOfTheUnion address that he felt “didn’t get as much attention” as it #should have done.
“Who #smiles when they say the line ‘#steeped in the #blood of #patriots’?” he asked.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jon-stewart-katie-britt_n_65efed36e4b032e17a834b60
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Journalist Jonathan Katz says Katie Britt’s story about child sex abuse ‘out-and-out lie’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/09/journalist-accuses-katie-britt-child-sex-abuse-story
Journalist Jonathan Katz exposes Katie Britt as a huge liar.
#KatieBritt #SOTU #Rebuttal #GOP
https://www.tiktok.com/@katzonearth/video/7344090454985624862?_r=1&_t=8kWZ6ESNNQl
Katie Britt's SOTU Rebuttal, Behind The Scenes
‘What the Hell Am I Watching’: #Republicans #Torch Their #Own #SOTU Rebuttal
#Alabama Sen. #KatieBritt was #panned after delivering the most #bizarre #StateoftheUnion #rebuttal in recent memory
This #satire is a spot on #rebuttal to the #xenophobic #maga speech by that birdbrain last night #funny #clever #haha #TrumpIsACriminal
#Biden2024
Link from birdshite
https://twitter.com/heathergtv/status/1766000534388101434?s=46&t=PpGHm7kcFgbPdH5cnSxcMw
I wasn't 100% sure I heard right till I found the full text. But YES, she misquoted Martin Luther King, Jr. She said this:
"We draw courage from those who bent the moral arc of the universe."
(Actual quote: "...the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.")
Was it deliberate or merely incompetent on the speechwriter's part?
@Paragone Sodom and Gomorrah was about inhospitality, sexual abuse of guests, and rampant injustice that sounds a lot like the America of today.
What it was not about, was gay people engaged in loving relationship with each other. Love, and consensual Intimacy, can never be considered wickedness.
The reasons listed were Wickedness: The cities were described as being filled with wickedness and evil deeds.
— #Spirituality #Religion #Rebuttal (1/3)
What is Sarah going on about? She has no point. #rebuttal
