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Nothing going on.
- Article: U.S. Births Hint at Bias for Boys in Some Asians [NY Times].
- Article: Too Poor to Make the News [NY Times].
- Article: How Much Student Debt Is Too Much? [NY Times].
- Article: Facebook and Divorce: Airing the Dirty Laundry [Time].
- Article: Have a Purpose in Life? You Might Live Longer [health.com].
- Article: When Young Men Are Scarce, They're More Likely To Play The Field Than To Propose [Science Daily].
3 Choices; Pick 2
Sample problems:
- Good quality, on time, within budget. Context is work project.
- Sleep, work, social. Context is college life.
- Strong christian, nice, socially desirable [1]. Context is a relationship with someone.
- Zerg, Terran, Protoss. Context is your races in a 2 on 2 Brood War multi-player game.
Such is life that you can't have everything. So, for #1, I would rather the project be of good quality and on time and not within budget. For #3, I would rather have a relationship with somebody that is nice and socially desirable but not a strong Christian. Yeah, I'm part of the majority that does not reward strong Christianity and punishes lack of physical attractiveness.
What would you pick? And if you want to answer but don't want to be publicly lynched, email / IM your answer and I will write an anonymous comment (except that it communicates your gender). In case it wasn't obvious, I'm most interested in #3.
[1] Let's define terms.
- How to define "Strong christian" ? Let's use George Barna's fairly technical definition of evangelical as found here [barna], under heading "survey methology", 3rd paragraph.
- How to define "nice" ? Let's say it's stuff like kind, generous, gracious, patient. Notice that the definition of "Christian" does not have any causal relationship to being "nice".
- Finally, how to define "socially desirable" ? Let us say a socially desirable girl is one you find physically attractive and a socially desirable guy is somebody you can emotionally connect with. So, a socially undesirable girl is one you don't find physically attractive and a socially undesirable guy is one who you can't connect emotionally.
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