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agentwhale007
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Posted: 14 September 2015 at 6:45pm |
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Hello.
You know me as Whale, as I have been posting here since I was in middle school. Now I'm a professor. Exactly 25% of my paid duties involve conducting scholarly research. In the year since I graduated with my doctorate, I tried doing the research that I thought would be impressive to other people. It was uninspired. It kinda sucked. I am tired of doing it. At some point over this summer, when I relaxed for the first time in at least a decade, I came to a conclusion. I was floating in a swimming pool after consuming a legitimate amount of Miller Lite. I came to the conclusion that I am a professor now. I can research literally anything I want to. I don't have to impress anyone anymore. Screw it, dude. I can indulge the things I am honestly interested in. Here's my research lineup for the next calendar year:
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tallen702
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Can any amount of a lite beer, especially Miller Lite, every really be considered legitimate? THAT my friend is a research topic that I think we all can find worthy. Glad you finally figured out that "working" for others instead of working for yourself (as in basing the value of your efforts off of what others think rather than what you think) isn't all it's cracked up to be. Have fun with your research! Also, I think you need to research how paintball + forum usage turns a bunch of misfit teenagers into successful upstanding young men. |
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Eville
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This is completely unacceptable.
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agentwhale007
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This is completely unacceptable. [/QUOTEI had a serious day buzz going yesterday.
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impulse418
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Day drinking and the only mistake you made was that? Impressive.
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Hairball!!!
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Since I don't have nearly the same sort of interest in the nitty gritty of journalism, this is probably the most interesting one to me. I find that portrayal of millennials is all over the place, from being accused of laziness and entitlement to knowing what's really important in life. I'm also pretty confused by the choice of defining a group of people by such a broad age range. Maybe just because I'm pretty close to the middle of that range, but I notice massive differences between 20 year olds, 25 year olds, 30 year olds, and 35 year olds. Hell, I noticed huge differences in overarching mentality and behavior between my high school class and the class behind mine, though not nearly as much between my high school class and the class ahead of mine. |
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Darur
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I really like this one. Reddit has a neat API that would make this task easier on your end as well. It might also be interesting to compare against other social media to adjust for demographics.
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usafpilot07
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Holy **edited**, Darur is alive
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Darur
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Opps, they found me
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agentwhale007
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Defining who Millennials even are is tricky, and there's a lot of nuance in the upper and lower fringes of it. I'm using the Newsweek definition, one that a lot of other academics tend to use, which is that you had to be between the ages of 10 and 20 when Sept. 11 happened.
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agentwhale007
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This one is actually a reverse study of two I did prior, which looked at what did get upvoted on /r/news and /r/worldnews. Someone actually just walked up to me at a conference where I was presenting one of the studies and asked "Hey why don't you look at the stuff that stays at 1 vote" and then walked off. I have no idea who they even were, but I remember they were from the University of Utah.
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usafpilot07
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I'd be interested in seeing how headlines have changed over the years (ie; if things are posed in controversial ways on purpose these days to gain attention, or if it has always been that way, it's in my imagination, etc)
I mean that about basically any headline as well, not just what made me think of it, but I say that because someone I know in law enforcement was chasing a violent fugitive, was shot at and later exchanged gunfire and killed the suspect. About as cut and dry as a n OIS can be, honestly A year later, headlines about the SBI/grand jury/etc decisions made it sound like it had been shrouded in controversy from the get go.
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impulse418
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There was a comment on Reddit, in which the person said he worked for companies to help up vote their own content and down vote others. Wish I saved it.
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Hairball!!!
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I'll find them, don't worry. |
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tallen702
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^ Holy crap, he's alive! (Well, I knew he was alive from FB, but still....)
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Benjichang
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Haha, yes. I've been feeling really nostalgic for some reason this week so I figured I'd see who was still around. It's crazy to think about all that's happened in life in general since I've been posting here.
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I am fairly certain that all of the really important discoveries have started out in a manner similar to this with the only differing factor being the adult beverage being consumed. |
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