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Quantum Mechanic posted:The distribution being skewed doesn't suddenly make the mode random. It changes its position relative to the mean and median, yes. That's actually one of the ways you can quantify and measure skew. Being able to do that presupposes you know the distribution or at least both the median and mean. But if all someone tells you is "the average is this" then you are screwed. This is why if someone is telling you something about the average value in a distribution; you have no idea whether that value is typical of an expected outcome or not. At least with the median result you know two things- what the median is and the fact that half the sample was higher and half lower.
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hooman posted:Before you make any arguments about economy of scale, most of the universities costs aren't from building new buildings, they mostly have the infrastructure already there from 1992. It's about teaching aids, lecturers, labs, tutors, demonstrators which while yes can have some economy of scales, when you nearly double your student population poo poo gets hosed really fast. In my experience from talking to lecturers/course coordinators for the last 5.5 years at my uni, a lot of the funding goes into research. Like, a disproportionate amount. BA students are shafted with this, with a huge amount of their fees going to research (not even related to their field),and a tiny amount going into the actual teaching of the course. A couple years ago the number of actual teaching weeks in a lot of my writing classes were reduced because they didn't have the funding to hire tutors for every week, so in a 13 week semester (not including exams/swot vac) there were 10 weeks in which we could get through that content. This semester, we haven't had class for the past two weeks in one of my courses, because the coordinator was asked to reduce teaching by one week. So while I think that research funding is very important, it'd also be nice if a good amount of my fees were to go to actually educating me. I'm not sure if that would change in response to an increase in direct funding from the government, but I'd hope so. e: the funding model doesn't apply to all unis, just UQ, and other unis is trying to claw back their international rankings by pumping money into research. The Before Times fucked around with this message at 08:30 on Jun 4, 2014 |
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Mr Chips posted:The VC of UWA (who is paid >2x as much as his counterpart at Oxford) had this to say about it: You probably need new buildings when you have a 90% increase in student numbers TBH. I mean you're doubling the number of classes required. So I may be wrong about the costs. I haven't looked into it. I probably should.
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The percentage results from these Fairfax polls are comedic http://www.smh.com.au/polls/federal-politics/political-opinion/blocking-the-budget-20140604-39i51.html#poll (ends in 35min) http://www.smh.com.au/polls/federal-politics/liberal-party-leadership-20140602-39dox.html
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Ler posted:The percentage results from these Fairfax polls are comedic Inanimate Carbon Rod for PM.
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# ? Jun 4, 2014 08:31 |
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Ugh I don't know what I want to happen because if Abbott got kicked out it'd be loving great because it couldn't happen to someone who deserved it more, but then Turnbull is presenting an unhated face for the Liberals and his neoliberal poo poo will probably get through without the general populace giving a poo poo.
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http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/global-site-plans-grid/249701/real-density-versus-experienced-density-paris-le-de-france-france http://www.treehugger.com/urban-design/density-mind-beholder.html People here seem to enjoy density chat, so I'll post this. The best quote comes from the paraphrasing in the Treehugger article. quote:the denser, closer old buildings felt a lot less oppressive and dense than the towers, even though they were in fact significantly denser. It's how you pack them in, not how high you build,
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# ? Jun 4, 2014 08:42 |
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Turnbull is loving scary nowadays, I used to think he was a Labor turncoat but over the years I just realized he tends to hide his conservative agenda through big words and his radio voice.
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hooman posted:You probably need new buildings when you have a 90% increase in student numbers TBH. I mean you're doubling the number of classes required. So I may be wrong about the costs. I haven't looked into it. I probably should. Don't get me wrong, if you looks at any uni's annual reports the bulk of the spending is on staff costs, both teaching and research. But they do have a prediliction for 'big' construction projects, especially the G8 unis. This seems especially short sighted with the increase in flexible course delivery options.
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quote:30 per cent of university graduates to be out of work after finishing degree These are the governments own numbers so they can't even argue that this is academic manipulation.
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Mr Chips posted:The VC of UWA (who is paid >2x as much as his counterpart at Oxford) had this to say about it: I read his statement too, there is no criticism of the government anywhere which is not surprising given he's a non-academic beancounter with links to Abbott/The Liberals...
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# ? Jun 4, 2014 09:06 |
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How easy or hard would it be for a government to change HECS so that everyone with a debt is forced to pay regardless of income? (From a legalisation/legal perspective not public popularity one)
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ABC posted:Budget: Double-dealing Liberal power plays gave birth to contentious fuel excise E: Also, lol. Doctor Spaceman fucked around with this message at 09:27 on Jun 4, 2014 |
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Captain Pissweak posted:Ugh I don't know what I want to happen because if Abbott got kicked out it'd be loving great because it couldn't happen to someone who deserved it more, but then Turnbull is presenting an unhated face for the Liberals and his neoliberal poo poo will probably get through without the general populace giving a poo poo. Don't worry. The Liberal Party, state or federal, will remain a fuckin shambles no matter who's at the helm. Same applies to Labor.
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# ? Jun 4, 2014 09:18 |
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I did a webinar today for tax issues in the next financial year. The amount of things that are "Well the government wants to do this, but nothings passed, so we have no idea" was wonderful.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Jesus Christ ABC, you can use more than one sentence in a loving paragraph. While I fully accept my posts are unreadable, I always sub edit media quotes so they resemble properly composed paragraphs. It isn't that hard really.
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Cartoon posted:While I fully accept my posts are unreadable, I always sub edit media quotes so they resemble properly composed paragraphs. It isn't that hard really. Yeah, for me that time. They've probably done some study on it for mobile viewing or whatever. E: Fixed. Doctor Spaceman fucked around with this message at 09:32 on Jun 4, 2014 |
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Ragingsheep posted:How easy or hard would it be for a government to change HECS so that everyone with a debt is forced to pay regardless of income? (From a legalisation/legal perspective not public popularity one) I think it would be a matter of amending the legislation. So you'd have to pass a bill through the lower house and the senate, which actually kind of does make it a public popularity issue because you wouldn't vote for that bill if you wanted to get re-elected. The actual legality of changing the loan terms is debatable but from a practical perspective, it'd be just about as easy as amending any other part of the legislation (such as the rate at which the debt is indexed).
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# ? Jun 4, 2014 09:26 |
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Is there like a maximum IQ to join the Nationals?
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# ? Jun 4, 2014 09:27 |
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Ragingsheep posted:How easy or hard would it be for a government to change HECS so that everyone with a debt is forced to pay regardless of income? (From a legalisation/legal perspective not public popularity one)
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Is there like a maximum IQ to join the Nationals? Yeah but you've disqualified yourself by successfully typing that sentence. CATTASTIC fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Jun 4, 2014 |
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EggchatWSJ posted:Australia Targets Alleged Attempt to Manipulate Egg Prices
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Is there like a maximum IQ to join the Nationals? Your IQ isn't allowed to exceed the number of tractors you own.
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# ? Jun 4, 2014 09:40 |
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Mr Chips posted:How could someone with no money/income be forced to pay it off? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debtors%27_prison
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Mr Chips posted:How could someone with no money/income be forced to pay it off? Sell themselves into slavery.
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Mr Chips posted:How could someone with no money/income be forced to pay it off? If you turn it into a real debt the possibilities for collection agencies are endless. That's why everyone should be making GBS threads their loving pants right now. Don't think 1 step ahead to index rates and $7 co-pays, think 3 to 4 steps ahead to private debts and co-pay increases at the same rate as HECS increased over the years.
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Shunkymonky posted:I did a webinar today for tax issues in the next financial year. The amount of things that are "Well the government wants to do this, but nothings passed, so we have no idea" was wonderful. All my discussions with Centrelink are basically this too. There are a lot of people very concerned about a lot of things and they can't really give much other advice than "Who the gently caress knows (but you're probably fukt)".
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Kat Delacour posted:If you turn it into a real debt the possibilities for collection agencies are endless. Actually, if you look at a worst case scenario here (unemployed, no real assets) it's pretty hard for them to do anything but bankrupt you..which does nothing since you've got gently caress all anyway and are living on benefits (which cannot be collected by a debt collection agency, with the exception if you owe Centrelink in the event of which they can and will take money out of your benefits). They COULD try to sue you for it, but since you're on benefits it's unlikely as they won't be able to recoup anything from you due to you being a total poor. It's when you have actual income and assets debt collection agencies drool because they can sink their teeth into those and get some decent money out of you.
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hooman posted:Before you make any arguments about economy of scale, most of the universities costs aren't from building new buildings, they mostly have the infrastructure already there from 1992. It's about teaching aids, lecturers, labs, tutors, demonstrators which while yes can have some economy of scales, when you nearly double your student population poo poo gets hosed really fast. Anecdote incoming Last semester I tutored a first year engineering course with over 1100 students, the largest subject I've ever tutored. This raised an intersting issue. How do you lecture to 1100 students? We don't even have a lecture theatre big enough, so the cohort was divided into two and an identical lecture was given twice each week. So now the lecturers schedule has just doubled. Yay productivity! That's to say nothing of marking 1100 pieces of assessment every couple of weeks, and 1100 exams twice a semester. I'm not sure what my point is here except that cutting funding to education is dumb. Foundry Dancer fucked around with this message at 11:06 on Jun 4, 2014 |
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Foundry Dancer posted:Anecdote incoming When I did 1st year engineering at Monash they booked more students into lecture timeslots than the capacity of the largest lecture theatre they had. By about 100. The lecturer claimed it was because "there is so many dropouts in the first couple weeks" but it was still a problem til at least mid-late semester E: this is in 2006
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simmyb posted:When I did 1st year engineering at Monash they booked more students into lecture timeslots than the capacity of the largest lecture theatre they had. Alternatively, have live video links between theatres. Flinders were doing this almost a decade ago.
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# ? Jun 4, 2014 11:28 |
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lol of course the US would still have Debtors' Prisons.
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# ? Jun 4, 2014 11:33 |
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Record lectures then no one will show up to class. Problem solved.
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Record lectures then no one will show up to class. Problem solved. Actually, Uni of New England did a study on this and it improved student retention throughout the semester. Somewhat surprisingly, uni academics are very resistant to evidence based teaching (I've had flaming rows with ones that teach things like evidence based medicine but who didn't want to see if making lecture recordings available improved student learning).
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# ? Jun 4, 2014 11:45 |
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So, something awful was mentioned in another news.com.au article today. quote:The Slenderman myth is not new. It was created during 2009 on the SomethingAwful web forum as an experiment in the creation of folklore-like images through photo manipulation.
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Oh crap we missed the apology on the ABC
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I'm sure there's a dog fucker joke to be made there.
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Is there like a maximum IQ to join the Nationals? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l2doxjnn3Y Joh - Never forget.
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in the miso soup posted:I'm sure there's a dog fucker joke to be made there.
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Friendly Jordies owning bones in case anybody hasn't seen it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG-x9DewByY
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