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Boing
Jul 12, 2005

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Alecto posted:

I just posted this in the EU thread, but I'll post it here too.

I made an excel spreadsheet that uses UK polling and turnout to calculate how the regional seats will be distributed, which some of you may be interested in. The eligible voters are from the ONS's 2012 electoral roll, the vote share is the 5-10 likelihood to vote from the latest Comres poll and the turnout % is from 2009's election. Sometimes there's a draw in which case all parties involved get the seat, simply adding 0.1% onto one or two parties' share should fix it. Northern Ireland not included because I was really only interested in the national parties.

It's astounding how many people will vote for a party that has basically no policies at all

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Jul 12, 2005

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twoot posted:



Dudley Conservative leaflet.

What, those? They're just some unrelated boxes behind some numbers. Nobody ever said it was a graph :smug:

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Jul 12, 2005

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Darth Walrus posted:

Global Sustainability Institute says we're going to be out of domestic oil and gas in five years.

If (as I suspect) they factored in shale gas, things might get a bit awkward for the pro-fracking proponents.

They usually don't factor shale gas into reports like these, since it's mostly inaccessible without fracking. If anything, pro-fracking proponents will use this as an excuse to frack more.

But they don't seem to know what they're on about based on their methodology, since they're just dividing known reserves by current consumption. As if consumption isn't steadily growing or anything. The actual figure is probably less than five years, unless we frack.

(but yes, build nuclear)

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Jul 12, 2005

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baka kaba posted:

Playing devil's advocate a second, is there any research that points to memory and accurate recollection of events improving after 48 hours, when the subject has undergone extreme stress or is in a state of shock? I know memory goes to pot very rapidly after the event, but I didn't want to just assume that holds for extreme situations where decompressing might actually help. (I'm guessing it still makes things worse)

I do work on memory psych and witness testimony and there's no evidence to this effect. The forgetting curve for accurate recall can be steep or shallow situationally but it always goes down.

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Jul 12, 2005

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Except it's just the European Parliament elections and so doesn't matter

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