[–] 5 points 2 months ago

As a Canadian, that's about right. If you don't have an immediate problem but go to the ER, it can be brutal. I've waited multiple hours in the ER before and my mom was there once with my uncle for I think longer than 12 hours.

However, if you do have an actual emergency then things are completely different. You get in instantly, you are treated extremely well and the medical practitioners you see will stop at nothing to help you. When there is no threat of cost, they do everything in their power to save you.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I said that mostly because we've had some recent incidents of people not from here coming to Montréal to do heinous shit like the incel shooter a few months back. I live in a predominantly north african neighbourhood, the support for Palistine here is strong. I'm also part of IJV, an anti Zionist jewish organization who's largest chapter is here in Montréal. I hate to see my city represented in things like this as it isn't who we are.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    From the looks of it, this is happening just outside city hall in the old port. That is a very tourist area, so I do wonder if this person is from put of town or not.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    We are still in the infancy of understanding things like ADHD and neuropharmacuticals. I'm a psychological researcher myself in a non clinical domain and let me tell you, we have only started really improving the way we do things in the last 10 years or so. Some of the experts in autism I know for example expect the landscape of how we understand these conditions is going to be radically different in the years to come.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Damn, I'm very similar and I guess I recently stumbled into meds for this as Im on Adderall and Effexor which is and SNRI which boost my neuroepinephrine. It somehow fixed my sleep so that works.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago

    You are correct, especially about personality. Personality is a very very complex multidimensional construct. The only way we can sort of say someone has a specific stable personality is through a statistical mechanism called latent profile analysis. Even then, that is for figuring out general profiles in the population, not the individual.

    What we typically do is look at either personality facets or profiles and do experiments to see how they moderate or mediate different effects such as job performance, well being, turnover intentions, etc.

    If you want to look at the best scientifically valid personality assessment I'd suggest the HEXACO. There is no bullshit astrology, it's all just psychology and math.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago

    Which isn't surprising to me. I personally am not a fan of cognitive ability testing because of that exact problem. There is too much adverse impact to justify it. A simple structural behavioural interview gets you about the same predictive power with far fewer drawbacks.

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