Hotter temperatures are linked to worse health issues for elderly or ill people and more violence/crime I think though - a general pattern prior to 'climate change' propaganda.
I guess at least some violence is simply a function of being outside and meeting people. Data points:
bad weather = slightly less violent crime: «Associations of average wind speed, daily precipitation, and daily snowfall with trauma and crime were far weaker and, when significant, nearly universally negative.» (source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26233631/)
lockdowns = less violent crime in most countries as far as I’ve seen
They also assume reduced performance is caused by reduced capacity, which would be a warranted assumption only if the test subject performed at or near full capacity most of the time.
Sheesh, I read that paragraph you linked. Wow. Is there an academic field whose focus is drawing ever-widening circles to capture all hypothetical bullseyes possible?? Cause if so, these researchers are masters.
Flesch-Kincaid scores depend on the sentence length, therefore they will be affected by the person writing down the speeches choosing between a period and a comma (or nothing). Consider, for example:
- «Stop. Abusing. Punctuation. Please»
- «Stop abusing punctuation, please»
How this sounds when spoken is a continuum, how it’s written down is a discrete choice.
Now, what could it have to do with temperature? One possibility: in summer, experienced secretaries go on vacation and are replaced by young interns. They’ve been told that «young people can’t do punctuation these days» and to compensate for that, they’re using as much of it as possible.
What I want to know is, does word salad = speech complexity (implying quality of political discourse)? Word salad is pretty complex, but it's totally the opposite of quality discourse.
Plus, they have speechwriters a lot of the time, so the variables for this one are just so incredibly vast that it is just another case of bad journalism, with Propaganda.
The night Lenin took control the Duma democracy passed a Constitution at last but as Lenin already had bought the electricians union with German Gold the Lights were turned off 😂
It might be the opposite – if politicians talked less, other might have more opportunities to say something; but the total length of speeches would matter more than their complexity.
This sounds like it could be shoehorned into an argument for cooking the politicians. Of course, they'd still be inedible, but...
That is a modest proposal I can get into.
+1 for the literary callback!
I’m not sure anyone else caught how Swift you were…
we might need some lions or tigers. They got good enough teeth to chew these old farts
Semi-related - there is seasonal variation in rates of violence and other things like suicide, but the pattern seems to be linked to sunlight change more than hotter temperature alone: https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/seasonal-variation-violence
Hotter temperatures are linked to worse health issues for elderly or ill people and more violence/crime I think though - a general pattern prior to 'climate change' propaganda.
More current link was connecting an old pattern to 'climate change' - search results: https://search.brave.com/search?q=violence+rates+showing+seasonal+variation+PubMed&source=desktop
I guess at least some violence is simply a function of being outside and meeting people. Data points:
bad weather = slightly less violent crime: «Associations of average wind speed, daily precipitation, and daily snowfall with trauma and crime were far weaker and, when significant, nearly universally negative.» (source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26233631/)
lockdowns = less violent crime in most countries as far as I’ve seen
Agree
“Summertime, the living is easier.” - Janis Joplin
Like the last one best.
How can outside heat affect speeches in an air conditioned room?
They have a few potential explanations in the second paragraph of the Discussion section (https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(24)01331-2#secsectitle0040) but those are quite a stretch.
They also assume reduced performance is caused by reduced capacity, which would be a warranted assumption only if the test subject performed at or near full capacity most of the time.
Sheesh, I read that paragraph you linked. Wow. Is there an academic field whose focus is drawing ever-widening circles to capture all hypothetical bullseyes possible?? Cause if so, these researchers are masters.
Exactly. Stupid is as stupid does, no matter the temperature
Thay could just have Shrillary come speak, that'll cool things off.
Funny and interesting! This data may suggest why indoctrination camps (aka school) is out during summer.
After performing immense mathematical and statistical analyses for over 200 years my research team has finally found the answer:
They shorten their speeches to finish it sooner so they can go outside and enjoy the sunny weather.
Or, this may be an artifact of experimental error or natural data variation.
Perhaps there is simply nothing to it…
Flesch-Kincaid scores depend on the sentence length, therefore they will be affected by the person writing down the speeches choosing between a period and a comma (or nothing). Consider, for example:
- «Stop. Abusing. Punctuation. Please»
- «Stop abusing punctuation, please»
How this sounds when spoken is a continuum, how it’s written down is a discrete choice.
Now, what could it have to do with temperature? One possibility: in summer, experienced secretaries go on vacation and are replaced by young interns. They’ve been told that «young people can’t do punctuation these days» and to compensate for that, they’re using as much of it as possible.
What I want to know is, does word salad = speech complexity (implying quality of political discourse)? Word salad is pretty complex, but it's totally the opposite of quality discourse.
Plus, they have speechwriters a lot of the time, so the variables for this one are just so incredibly vast that it is just another case of bad journalism, with Propaganda.
"go grill some cheese." LOL. Your commentary had me chuckling...
Absolutely total BS! Climate change is not real - it’s called weather. Thanks for the laugh
The night Lenin took control the Duma democracy passed a Constitution at last but as Lenin already had bought the electricians union with German Gold the Lights were turned off 😂
Excellent thesis.
Perfect definition for Platitude
It might be the opposite – if politicians talked less, other might have more opportunities to say something; but the total length of speeches would matter more than their complexity.