The Off Topic Topic

[Admiral Yi]

Not a good analogy but then neither is the day to day fear of Islamic extremism one.

I wasn't making an analogy.  I was pointing out an example of a different response to erroneous risk assessment.

[Barrister]

Even if we only count women killed by men they don't know, I'm pretty sure the number is greater than 40.

Though, of course, the relevant statistic for the answer to the question is probably the number of women who've felt endangered by men they don't know. And that is a pretty high number it seems.

I thought this was exactly the question that was being highlighted by the meme: the gap between perceived risk and actual risk.  For example when someone says they are terrified of jihadist terrorism many will point out that the number of attacks on American soil has been low.  Their perception is incorrect and therefore their fear is not justified.

So it's hard because you don't want to entirely dismiss perceived risk.  I mean yes the risk of jihadi terrorism is very small, but it's incredibly terrifying, so you don't dismiss it.

My son's school had a "lockdown" drill.  School shootings are incredibly rare in Canada (and most of the ones that have happened have been at post-secondary institutions).  My kid is much more likely to be in a car accident on his way to or from school then he is to be involved in a school shooting - but they do lockdown drills, not car accident drills.

So that's where the man vs bear comes in.  I mean yes, if you're a woman alone in the woods and you meet a man at random, the idea that man is going to attack you out of the blue is incredibly rare.  But I wouldn't want to just break out statistics and tell women they're wrong for feeling that way.

[Admiral Yi]

But I wouldn't want to just break out statistics and tell women they're wrong for feeling that way.

But as I pointed out we do seem comfortable doing that in other situations.  What justifies the difference?

[Barrister]

But I wouldn't want to just break out statistics and tell women they're wrong for feeling that way.

But as I pointed out we do seem comfortable doing that in other situations.  What justifies the difference?

Because it never helps.

If you're afraid of flying, does it help to tell you the statistics about how safe air travel is?  No it does not.

[Syt]

Ask not what your employer can do for you!

[Barrister]

You know there's a way to send that email that doesn't come off as quite so condescending... but that's not how that email was written.

[Sheilbh]

And yet, weirdly, it's among the least mad things I've read from LinkedIn

[HVC]

You know there's a way to send that email that doesn't come off as quite so condescending... but that's not how that email was written.

You can reword some of it, not sure how you pretty up "take a pay cut" though

[HVC]

And yet, weirdly, it's among the least mad things I've read from LinkedIn

LinkedIn is business Facebook, I hate it.

[Sheilbh]

And yet, weirdly, it's among the least mad things I've read from LinkedIn

LinkedIn is business Facebook, I hate it.

#Blessed

[Tamas]

And yet, weirdly, it's among the least mad things I've read from LinkedIn

LinkedIn is business Facebook, I hate it.

#Blessed

 

I love the difference between it and Facebook and how normal that they are different. Such a showcase of how fake and pretentious most people are at work.

[Savonarola]

LinkedIn is business Facebook, I hate it.

Linkedin has survived so long that it was business Friendster and business MySpace before it became business Facebook.

[Zanza]

[Josquius]

The number of people saying you have to play that game too...
It seems to be about the only site for getting professional level jobs these days though. Outside of some industries with their own specific sites anyway.

[Sheilbh]

The number of people saying you have to play that game too...
It seems to be about the only site for getting professional level jobs these days though. Outside of some industries with their own specific sites anyway.

Yeah I understand it's totally different for academia.

I should say the people I mainly see doing the whole LinkedIn influencer thing are recruiters.