Social Science - 31 October 2007

People seriously drive me nuts! Why can't people realize that every person is meant to be an individual and some are meant to be larger than others, some smaller....its no different than how some are meant to be dark, some light, some tall, some short, some male, some female, some smart, some not, blah blah blah....why do people base their self worth on being thin? Not everyone is meant to be thin. My friend's family drives me insane! At every holiday, they all sit around talking about losing weight. They won't even associate with the couple of chunkier people in the family and they ruin all the good food by substituting fat free ingredients until the food is not even recognizable. I thought you were SUPPOSED to eat good, fattening food at Thanksgiving! These people have gotten to the point that they can't even have a normal conversation with them without talking about diets and weight loss. Why can't people just enjoy life as it is and not strive for what it isn't?

2007-10-31 05:04:10 · 24 answers · asked by Cosmos 1 in Psychology

A friend of mine asked me: What will you feel when you killed another person? I answered: Depends on statistics. Then I realized, I have no idea on what fraction of people living today have actually killed.

Please say your sources.

2007-10-31 05:02:39 · 7 answers · asked by Tyrel Jonas M 1 in Anthropology

Whether it be swearing, smoking, drinking, overeating, drugs or just being late all the time...how do you stop doing what you know is wrong and do what would be right?

2007-10-31 04:51:26 · 5 answers · asked by Alee256 2 in Psychology

Taking the man's name in marriage is an American tradition similar to shaving the legs; it dies hard, and I understand why. But, don't feminists believe in maintaining identity, in equality? If a man would never in a million years take your name, why would you take his? Where do most women stand on this?

2007-10-31 04:42:33 · 26 answers · asked by Kinz 4 in Gender Studies

I live in a condo. There are four flats on my floor, and four doors. One door is near the staircase, and their doorbell is right above the stairs, just lift your hand and ring. My door is the furthest on the left, and the doorbell is on the left, on the wall, the furthest from the staircase. Yet everyone who comes up - Jehovah witnesses, peddlers with goods, marketing people, you name it, get up and straight to my door to ring the bell! Interestingly, once they rang mine, they do not bother with others and depart. Why don't they ring the most convenient door, the one near the staircase? Why mine?

2007-10-31 04:25:00 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

if people begin doing what she does, like cutting her hair, dressing like and taking up her hobbies. how is she affecting these people? thanks

2007-10-31 04:14:58 · 6 answers · asked by pookie 1 in Psychology

so i just moved to california from canada and i'm in gr.10 i'm having a really hard time adjusting to the new enviornment and making new friends all over again. it may sound stupid but i really really miss my friends, i was really really close to them it felt like their my sisters or something. anyways so it's a really hard transition and my grades are suffering, especially math i used to be excellent at math and now i can't even get passed a D. i feel really bad i just want to forget about everything and move on but it's always in my mind. do i have depression? what should i do..mentally??

thank you!

2007-10-31 04:11:18 · 12 answers · asked by curious 3 in Psychology

If youv had a eventfull year full of self harm, deaths, fighting, arguements, moving schools, and lots of other traumatic events...how can you get yourself to move on and stop being sad. And GET OVER IT. lol thanks. and i go out with my new friends who r great all the time. oh and school is private and i cant keep up with there work any suggestions? they might expell me for being dumb....
xxx

2007-10-31 04:10:51 · 4 answers · asked by Cimantha 1 in Psychology

being sad no matter what someone have

2007-10-31 04:09:18 · 9 answers · asked by autinfrancise 1 in Psychology

2007-10-31 04:06:26 · 3 answers · asked by babyface 1 in Economics

this is not helpful to impress others but it gives mostly negative results, the people do not give me proper respect, they immitate me as a joker. But i think i am not talking with others in a metured way.

2007-10-31 03:52:30 · 4 answers · asked by PRASANNA 1 in Psychology

sometimes i have dreams about things. like before i moved to tampa i had a dream about me working at jcpenny. and it took a year but i finally work hear. does it mean im physic? or just lucky. i have dreams about differnt things all the time and some come true and some dont. my latest dream was that me and my mom and my boyfriend went back to my home town in kansas, and we went to vist my dads old farm and we saw the house he built.

2007-10-31 03:46:57 · 4 answers · asked by focus_e_us360 1 in Dream Interpretation

2007-10-31 03:43:46 · 21 answers · asked by Spartacus 3 in Economics

2007-10-31 03:35:31 · 5 answers · asked by James 1 in Economics

2007-10-31 03:35:16 · 4 answers · asked by sheri 1 in Economics

I'm going to be a french maid. I'm a guy !!! TOO Cool ???

2007-10-31 03:20:14 · 15 answers · asked by Me 3 in Gender Studies

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_rap_percap-crime-rapes-per-capita

United States: 0.301318 rapes per 1,000 people.

That's around a 1 in 3,300 chance of being raped next year.

Next year you also have:

A 1 in 77 chance of being killed in any sort of transportation accident.

A 1 in 69 chance of being killed in any sort of non-transportation accident.

A 1 in 1,820 chance of dying of any sort of injury.

A 1 in 2,232 chance of fatally slipping in the bath or shower.

For women over 30, who seem to be the most vocal of all women about how they are worried about being raped, they make up 10% of that figure, so they have a 1 in 30,000 chance of being raped. That means they have a better chance of:

Being murdered (1 in 18,000) and Finding a four leafed clover on the first try (1 in 10,000).

Why are they not as vocal and concerned about this sort of thing, which will result in death and are far more probable, than they are about rape?

2007-10-31 03:05:24 · 22 answers · asked by Rio Madeira 3 in Gender Studies

2007-10-31 02:54:18 · 16 answers · asked by nonna 1 in Psychology

http://www.teethmovie.com/film.html

High school participant Dawn works hard at suppressing her budding sexuality by being the local chastity group's most active participant. Her task is made even more difficult by her bad boy step brother Brad's increasingly provocative behavior at home. A stranger to her own body, innocent Dawn discovers she has a toothed vagina when she becomes the object of violence. As she struggles to comprehend her anatomical uniqueness, Dawn experiences both the pitfalls and the power of being a living example of the vagina dentata myth.

What do you think of this movie?

2007-10-31 01:55:41 · 4 answers · asked by Rio Madeira 3 in Gender Studies

2007-10-31 01:51:11 · 6 answers · asked by manna eater 3 in Psychology

All I've been hearing on CNBC for the past 3 months is how the US economy is in a recession, how Europe and Japan and the rest of the world is growing and the US is not ... and today's GDP report was a whopping 3.9%??? WTF?

2007-10-31 01:45:18 · 2 answers · asked by KevinStud99 6 in Economics

2007-10-31 01:44:08 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Social Science

A CEO of a large pharmaceutical company would like to determine if he should be placing more money allotted in the budget next year for television advertising of a new drug marketed for controlling asthma. He wonders whether there is a strong relationship between the amount of money spent on television advertising for this new drug called XBC and the number of orders received. The manufacturing process of this drug is very difficult and requires stability so the CEO would prefer to generate a stable number of orders. The cost of advertising is always an important consideration in the phase I roll-out of a new drug. Data that have been collected over the past 20 months indicate the amount of money spent of television advertising and the number of orders received.
The use of linear regression is a critical tool for a manager's decision-making ability. Please carefully read the example below and try to answer the questions in terms of the problem context. The results are as follows:


Month Advertising Cost (thousands of dollars) Number of Orders
1 $55.93 4,102,000
2 70.62 3,893,000
3 79.58 5,299,000
4 58.67 4,130,000
5 69.18 4,367,000
6 70.14 4,111,000
7 73.37 3,923,000
8 68.88 4,935,000
9 82.99 5,276,000
10 75.23 4,654,000
11 71.38 4,398,000
12 52.90 2,967,000
13 61.27 3,999,000
14 79.19 4,345,000
15 60.03 3,934,000
16 78.21 4,653,000
17 93.77 5,625,000
18 62.53 3,978,000
19 88.76 4,999,000
20 92.64 5,834,000
a. Set up a scatter diagram and calculate the associated correlation coefficient. Discuss how strong you think the relationship is between the amount of money spent on television advertising and the number of orders received. Please use the Correlation procedures within Excel under Tools > Data Analysis. The Scatterplot can more easily be generated using the Chart procedure.
NOTE: If you do not have the Data Analysis option under Tools you must install it. You need to go to Tools select Add-ins and then choose the 2 data toolpak options. The original Excel CD will be required for this installation. It should take about a minute.
b. Assuming there is a statistically significant relationship, use the least squares method to find the regression equation to predict the advertising costs based on the number of orders received. Please use the regression procedure within Excel under Tools > Data Analysis to construct this equation.
c. Interpret the meaning of the slope, b1, in the regression equation.
d. Predict the monthly advertising cost when the number of orders is 4,999,000. (Hint: Be very careful with assigning the dependent variable for this problem)
e. Compute the coefficient of determination, r2, and interpret its meaning.
f. Compute the standard error of estimate, and interpret its meaning.

2007-10-31 00:58:01 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Economics

how is the tension in the middle east contributing to higher value of Euros, sterling, CAD..etc ?
Question Details: does the fear of short oil supplies have any influence on the exchange rate ?

2007-10-31 00:29:54 · 3 answers · asked by mfk_returns 2 in Economics

2007-10-31 00:25:55 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

Hit me once - Shame on you.
Hit me twice - Shame on me.

Why in the heck would any *ADULT* Man or Woman whose partner beats on them so much as ONCE - stay in that relationship?

I'm seeing so many questions posted about beaten wives, men who suffer DV from women and I cannot understand why any normal person doesn't just up and leave.

"He loves me" or "She loves me" just doesn't cut it - how do they love you? By commiting assualt? That seems like a strange kind of love to me.

Heck you were independent before you met your abusive partner weren't you? So what's keeping you?

Domestic Violence..Why don't they just LEAVE their abusive partner?

2007-10-31 00:20:47 · 16 answers · asked by Twilight 6 in Gender Studies

You can't eat it, you can't drink it...If the system collapses, and money becomes obsolete, farms become extinct, all water polluted, tell me how valuable gold will be again?

2007-10-31 00:20:45 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Economics

and what do you do when you're happy?

2007-10-31 00:13:03 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

possing the question is it your memory or a memory placed there by someone else. can you seperate the two.

2007-10-31 00:03:49 · 21 answers · asked by . 2 in Psychology