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[–] 21 points 1 year ago

Was going to read this article, then realised I'm a man.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    @maniacalmanicmania TL;DR;)

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    since His Lordship's ADHD diagnosis he's stopped fighting himself and now chiefly audiobooks. His "reading" intake has upped significantly.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Yes, it means could be the same, not are the same. It does mean they are confident (95% confident, I assume, I'm not clicking through to the study) that the rates are different for men and women in Gen X

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    It does mean they are confident that the rates are different for men and women in Gen X

    Umm, surely not? If the confidence intervals overlap it means that they are not confident that the rates are different, doesn't it? Of course, it also does not mean that they can say they are confident that the reading rates are the same.

    So the statistically sound way of saying it is that the null hypothesis is that reading rates are the same, and their study has failed to reject the null hypothesis.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    If you want to be precise, overlapping intervals mean that we lack evidence to assert that the means are statistically different for our chosen confidence level. This is often simplified to the statement that they are statistically the same.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago
    [–] 5 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I read 23 books so far this year. I'm doing my part.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Read 100 last year and at 25 now this year. Lower now since no longer have a job that let's me read.

    But I have listen to 25 so far of audiobooks, which is beating last years count of 24 total.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    What have you read if you don't mind telling us.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago
    1. Ralph Lister's Skyhold series - Really great fun
    2. Devoured all of Honor Harrington by David Weber in about 3 months. It was all I could do not to just start them again I wanted more!
    3. Kevin J Anderson's Hidden Empire series. A really interesting concept of an antagonist alien species. I liked them.
    4. Julie Kagawa's Talon books - a fun bit of Urban Fantasy about dragons that shape shift into human form and try to live among us. I'm probably not its target demographic (but I like middle school and teen books more than I'm probably meant to), but I'd read these again.
    5. Currently reading Naomi Novik's Telemere series and I'm 100% hooked. It's more dragons, but this time set in the Napolionic wars.
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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That Everything is Tuberculosis is on my wishlist. How was it?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I stopped going to the library to read physical books because I am too lazy to travel. I do read magazines and reseach papers off libgen tho

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I read way more ebooks than paper books. The convenience, portability, low light control, and text size manipulation are big wins with ebooks over paper. There's also simply tons of ebooks available from public libraries.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I'm something of an audio book guy, so I can "read" while also doing mindless household chores like folding laundry or loading the dishwasher.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This is where I've ended up apart from the articles I read and the very very occasional ebook. The only issue I have is sometimes I can't handle the narrators style or voice and so I can't get into the book, even if I really want to.

    Also if the book is set in Sydney, Australia maybe hire a local of the country to narrate it Amazon. FFS who wants to listen to a yank narrating an Australian character.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Where do you get audiobooks? I've only once tried to listen to an audiobook since giving up on Audible (because Amazon is fucking evil, and somehow Audible manages to add on its own layer of evil on top of that of its parent company), and I ended up with a copy that seemed to just randomly skip large parts of the text. Not an abridged copy, it would just skip paragraphs at a time, with no way to keep up on the story. That was a copy through my library.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    We need to bring back playboy!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I'm reading right now. Ohh, you mean books? I plead the fifth.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    A lot of Australians (and this is an Australian Lemmy instance) might not know what you mean.

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