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Three types of people in the world, paired by category

dailyzombie

#lmaaaooooooo #faves

fandomsandfangirlsandfeelsohmy

honestly why does Mr. Darcy, a man from the late 1700s and early 1800s, understand that an independent female is an awesome thing more than people from 2017? also he respects her decision to reject him?

thebestoftumbling

bookoisseur

I miss this show.

party-wok

the way he claps when he says HOT DAMN is what makes it.

aimee-b-loved

Brooklyn Nine Nine is a gift and I’m SO MAD for not watching sooner.

BTW, season 4 premieres September 20.

iloveyoualeclightwood

the best thing about this is still the fact that the “hot damn” was improvised and thats why they cut away so fast because everyone breaks

allisonpregler

Might be my favorite joke of the series

boneyardchamp

Your professor will not be happy with you if he says the Stanford Prison Experiment shows human nature and you say it shows the nature of white middle class college-aged boys.

Like he will not be happy at all.

cannon-fannon

For real though. That experiment. Scary shit.

hollowedskin

This reminds me of a discussion that I read once which said Lord of the Flies would have turned out a hell of a lot differently if it was a private school of young girls (who are expected to be responsible and selfless instead), or a public school where the children weren’t all from an inherently entitled, emotionally stunted social class (studies have shown that people in lower socioeconomic classes show more compassion for others). Or that the same premise with children raised in a different culture than the toxic and opressive British Empire and it’s emphasis on social hierarchy and personal wealth and status. And that what we perceive as the unchangable truth deep inside humanity because of things like Lord of the Flies and the Stanford Prison Experiment, is just the base truths about what happens when you remove any accountabilty controlling one social group with an overwhelming sense of entitlement and an inability to feel compassion.

lady-feral

I will always reblog this.

shinykari

I just wanna say that the Lord of the Flies was explicitly written about high-class private school boys to make this exact point. Golding wrote Lord of the Flies partially to refute an earlier novel about this same subject: The Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne. Golding thought it was absolutely absurd that a bunch of privileged little shits would set up some sort of utopia, so his book shows them NOT doing that.

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This is also generally true about most psychological experiments.

There’s an experiment called “The Ultimatum Game”. It goes something like this.

Subject A is given an amount of money (Say, $100).

Subject A must offer Subject B some percentage of that money.

If Subject B accepts Subject A’s offer, both get the agreed upon amount of money. If Subject B refuses, no one gets any money.

The most common result was believed to be that people favored 50/50 splits. Anything too low was rejected; people wanted fairness. This was believed to be universal.

And then a researcher went to Peru to do the experiment with members of the indigenous Machiguenga population, and was baffled to find that the results were totally different.

Because, to the Machiguenga, refusing any amount of free money (even an unfair amount) was considered crazy.

So the researcher took his work on the road (to 14 other ‘small scale’ societies and tribes) , and to his shock found the results varied wildly depending on where the test was done.

In fact, the “universal” result? Was an outlier.

And that’s the problem. 96% percent of test subjects for psychological research come from 12% of the population. Stuff that we consider to be universal facts of human nature… even things like optical illusions, just… aren’t.

You can read an article about it here. But the crux of it is that psychology is plagued with confirmation bias, and people are shaped more by their environment than we realize.

I feel so horrible today, even TV isn't cheering me up 😖😞

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see honestly i am the easiest person to impress because literally no one has ever really bought me flowers or taken me dancing or on a picnic or any of that romantic junk and i would just melt at any of it

youngsamberg

my favorite samberg meme is finding weird pictures of him deep in the internet with no context

please feel free to add your favorite no-context pics of sambags below

roy-kent

minim-calibre

lemonsharks

sakumi-enter-last-name-here

he did this on purpose

thechristopherescalante

Remind me to do photo shoots this random when I’m famous.

whenshewasmine

I freakin love this guy 😂😂

snowysauropteryx

Can you lick the science? An abbreviated list.

Genetics: Do not. Unless cheek swabs?

Chemistry: NO!!!!! DO NOT!!!!!!

Archaeology: Perhaps. But might be human bone.

Geology: Sometimes needed, sometimes dangerous

Psychology: Best not.

Physics: ????????? How??????

Zoology: In zoology, science licks you.

seananmcguire

Anthropology: Maybe ask first.

Herpetology: bad plan bad plan BAD PLAN

whisperwhisk

Sociology: Yes, if you have time and dedication and a willingness to piss a lot of people off.

Botany: You might hallucinate or die, OR it might be delicious

Computer Science: the tingle of electricity on your tongue is how you know it’s working

Epidemiology: FOR THE SAKE OF THE WORLD PLEASE DO NOT

carpebutts

Linguistics: Despite the name, please probably don’t.

son-of-rome

Engineering: Maybe, but it’ll probably taste like spreadsheets

thyrell

Software engineering: nothing else has made the code work so you might as well try it

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Neuroscience: that is someone’s brain. no. do not

deanspillowprincess

Marine biology: you can try, but you’ll probably just get a mouthful of seawater

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Library science: Sir, we already talked to you about this

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Astronomy: That’s a long tongue you must have.

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Poet and award-winning author, Maya Angelou.

Former Black Panther and activist, Angela Davis.

Harlem Renaissance poet and literary figure, Langston Hughes.

First Black woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for best actress, Dorothy Dandridge.

Superstar singer and dancer, Josephine Baker.

The man who helped break the color barrier in Major League Baseball, Jackie Robinson.

‘The fastest woman in the world,’ Wilma Rudolph.

Historian, sociologist and co-founder of the @NAACP, W.E.B DuBois.

“The first Black woman millionaire in America,” Madam CJ Walker.

Anti-lynching crusader and journalist, Ida B. Wells.

The first black model to appear on the cover of Vogue, Donyale Luna.

One of the most prolific and influential jazz singers of all-time, Billie Holiday.

The civil rights activist who helped ignite the Montgomery bus boycott, Rosa Parks.

Singer-songwriter who became known as the “Queen of Disco” in the ‘70s, Donna Summer.

Civil rights leader and minister Martin Luther King, Jr.

This is an amazing way to celebrate black excellence during Black History Month. Each one of the represented historical figures made a huge contribution to our future. Remembering these people, who changed the history and changed the world and honoring them in such a beautiful way is just miraculous. Never forget their bravery, their will to have equality for everyone in this country.