Social Science - 4 December 2007

I love the idea...do you believe it? Why six degrees? What is the proof?

2007-12-04 12:58:24 · 13 answers · asked by Terence W 2 in Sociology

We are to discuss the history of abortions. I didn't know this but women were having abortions long before it was legalized. Aside from clothes hangers do you know some of the ways women would abort their fetuses? Is it true that they used ginger?

2007-12-04 12:56:52 · 5 answers · asked by little lamb 4 in Sociology

All over youtube there are lots of videos on the conspiracy involving the WTC building crash, and i would like to replicate my own mini science expiriment to come to my own conclusion of what really happend(in my perspective) of the WTC incident. Yet i'm stuck in quicksand because i'm running out of ideas, i'm not sure how i could tackle my problem to reinact the accident( for smart brains out there a fake reinactment)... so how could i procede to complete the expiriment to be as accurate as possible... Please so information telling me what to believe or not....

2007-12-04 12:29:16 · 2 answers · asked by Fritz J 3 in Psychology

I'm trying to look for studies on this (mainly I'm wondering about in an academic setting, i.e at school), and of most of them cost $. From what I've seen, the results are varied. Any experts out there?

2007-12-04 11:59:10 · 1 answers · asked by Spooky Donkey 4 in Psychology

I my post which received 24 stars at least before deletion was removed under these grounds. So I shall put what I suspect about what is going on into here, as it appears the YA policy is to delete the message so as not to make waves.

Is Posting a link Yahoos own Suggestion Board now a violation of CG?

Message to Customer Care follows:

Please confirm.

In any case, the seriousness of the issue being raised cannot be overstated.

When trolls create proxy accounts to post content which breaches community guidelines in order to use higher level accounts to report those violations, this effectively creates Top Reporters from nothing, who then run amok through the forums randomly targeting people they do not like.

Point gaming for reporters. A far more serious problem than people awarding themselves best answers. Only yahoo know who these people are, and of course those hideously abusing the system while customer care instead target a suggestion in a forum that is a victim to this ins

2007-12-04 11:55:11 · 10 answers · asked by Twilight 6 in Gender Studies

Go on let it all out it can be absolutly anything.

2007-12-04 11:52:16 · 20 answers · asked by Amy H 6 in Psychology

...resulting in the final emergence of Homo Sapiens?

i.e. Homo ergaster, 1.9 million BP
Homo erectus, 1.7 million BP
Homo antecessor, 0.8 million BP
Homo heidelbergensis, 0.6 million BP
Homo idaltu, 0.2 million BP

That is, since there was a time when several varieties of Homonin roamed Africa simultaneously, and were not exceptionally different in apearance...

Interbreeding could have been a major cause for an accelerated rate of mutations, many of which were successful...

What say you?

2007-12-04 11:47:53 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Anthropology

2007-12-04 11:43:13 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Economics

2007-12-04 11:30:08 · 32 answers · asked by NoName 2 in Dream Interpretation

okay so i have been recently sick as i almost got food poisoning , when i was younger i was a hyperchondriac , well know i find myself very stressed , over tired, and come close to having anxiety attacks, so last week i start get palpetations i beleive they are called , i was brought to the hospital and had a ekg done , bloodwork and urine sample , the tests showed nothing , and said i was healthy as can be , now the doctor said some people just live with these palpetations , i also have been having a tiny bit of chest pains that are more like quick little sharp feelings but they do not last , now people have been telling me this is all being caused by stress , and nothing to do with my heart because the tests would have showed it , so my main 2 questions are 1) is this true, can stress cause these symptoms and will the go away? 2) how do you deal with it ?

2007-12-04 11:28:04 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

I couldnt find someone to interview in my surrounding area..

What is a typical day in your line of work?

How did you get started in this field?

What is your specific background and experience?

What entry-level jobs are best for learning as much as possible in this field?

What salary can one expect at entry level? After 5 years?

What is the typical career path for advancement? And how much education is required to enter the field?

What training, education, skills do I need to enter into the field?

What do you like best about your work? Least?

How many hours a week do you usually work?

What other occupations are closely related to this one?

What type of changes are occurring in the field?

What is the employment outlook in this field in the future?

How would they describe the working environment/culture?

What general advice would you have for someone considering this field of work?

2007-12-04 11:18:38 · 1 answers · asked by BeautifullOne23 1 in Psychology

2007-12-04 11:17:14 · 15 answers · asked by Rivergirl 3 in Gender Studies

2007-12-04 11:14:41 · 5 answers · asked by King Diamond 2 in Psychology

If the woman is healthy and all?

2007-12-04 11:12:47 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Gender Studies

Or 'stonewalling', 'eggshells'...?

2007-12-04 11:10:01 · 1 answers · asked by littleblanket 4 in Psychology

...If he is the victim? If so, would there be any circumstances where he'd be to blame?
Could it possibly be because of the way he might be dressed or the way he might act towards other men or women for that matter?
I don't think any man would be to blame for being raped under any circumstances, so I'd like to know why apparently some people think women ask for it by the way they act or dress?

2007-12-04 11:08:04 · 26 answers · asked by Shivers 6 in Gender Studies

2007-12-04 11:05:31 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

Alright, this dream was very weird.

Basically my friend had this electric dirtbike that went kind of fast, it was blue.
And i rode it around in the forest behind my house, and in the dream his girlfriend was having an affair with me.

2007-12-04 10:55:04 · 25 answers · asked by Hagi 1 in Dream Interpretation

Whenever my boyfriend and I get a little serious he always brutally murders the mood by pouncing on me and tickling me to death. Why does he do that?

2007-12-04 10:54:38 · 4 answers · asked by Not A 3 in Psychology

Young chimpanzees have an extraordinary memory that is far better than that of adult humans, a Japanese study said Tuesday.
"The capacity of the brain is limited. Perhaps humans gave up older skills in order to acquire new skills, such as languages," Matsuzawa told Japanese media.

"Maybe the same is true as youngsters become adults," he said, noting that chimps' memory capability declined with age.

The young chimps are considered to have "eidetic imagery," or the capability to retain an accurate, detailed image of a complex scene or pattern.

In the multiyear study, the team looked at three pairs of chimpanzees -- three mothers and their offspring born in 2000 -- and tested them against nine human university students.

The apes were taught the order of single-digit Hindu-Arabic numerals and then tested on how they could remember them when displayed in random combinations.

The team flashed the numbers "1" through "9" on a screen at various time intervals -- 0.65 seconds, 0.43 seconds and 0.21 seconds.

The numbers were then replaced by blank squares and the subjects were asked to use the touch-screen to mark the original order.

The young chimpanzees performed better than the university students in both speed and accuracy even when they are interrupted by loud noises, the study said.

"Humans were slower than all of the three young chimpanzees in the response," it said. "In general, the performance of the three young chimpanzees was better than that of the three mothers."

The study is the latest confirming the high intelligence of chimpanzees, who are among humans' closest relatives.

Washoe, a chimp who could communicate 250 words in sign language and was considered the first animal to crack the language barrier with humans, died at age 42 in October in the United States.

2007-12-04 10:34:29 · 7 answers · asked by pia 1 in Anthropology

there is a high school in my area taht specializes in science in math. i may attend that school but to apply i have to write an essay on why I want to go there. a question asks what i plan on accomplishing at the school and after school and I would really like to be a psychologist. i was wondering if psychology is a type of sceince and if that would be included in the cirriculum at the school.
sorry for the spelling and grammar mistakes i was in a rush.

2007-12-04 10:29:12 · 7 answers · asked by Sharlette C 4 in Psychology

2007-12-04 10:23:25 · 2 answers · asked by knowing-helps! 1 in Psychology

2007-12-04 10:18:41 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

My girlfriend is trying to FORCE me to sit down in the bathroom. I'm a MAN and im not going to have my gf control my life. So why do women "try" to make the man sit down in the bathroom?

2007-12-04 10:09:18 · 21 answers · asked by Shan Patridge 2 in Gender Studies

I never really thought I was gay until people teased me about at school.

Out of curosity, I checked out a gay porn site when I was 14 just to see if it turned me on.

Well before I knew it, I was addicted to gay porn and thus eventually concluded I was gay.

Is it possible my exposure to the glorified imagery and presentation of homosexuals having sex and being happy caused me to want to become one and thus identify as one?

2007-12-04 10:00:58 · 5 answers · asked by Shy Guy 1 in Psychology

I dreamt I was at a telephone box with a long queue of people behind me and I had a handfull of american coins but i didnt know which amount was which {im australian} ,the cost of a call was '86' cents? On the back of each coin was a holographic advertisement kind of like halographic stickers they had in the 80's?/?

[I can recall my dreams easily,read in them and remember them in detail.]

2007-12-04 09:57:57 · 3 answers · asked by rusalka 3 in Dream Interpretation

Why do I miss a guy that is clearly incompatible with me?

2007-12-04 09:56:47 · 13 answers · asked by Melissa 1 in Psychology

2007-12-04 09:56:30 · 9 answers · asked by hieatthouse 3 in Psychology

2007-12-04 09:45:55 · 7 answers · asked by the kevinator 2 in Other - Social Science

enforce property rights.

fix prices and wages.

set the ground rules for the operation of private enterprise.

enforce contracts.

multiple choice

2007-12-04 09:30:57 · 4 answers · asked by shanipooh2004 1 in Economics