TGIF

[conuly]

I have never heard of tea pets before and now I really want one.

Humorous Units of Measurement

What Dinosaur Poop Tells Us About Ancient Life

Lol.

How Do Sodas in Outdoor Vending Machines Not Freeze in Winter?

The Behind-the-Scenes Quest to Find Mister Rogers’s Signature Cardigans

The Pen Pal Who Changed a President

Can fake tortoise shells teach ravens to stop devouring soft-shelled juveniles?

How lawmakers are upending the California lifestyle to fight a housing shortage

The Young Jewish Woman Who Blew Up Nazis

The sexist myths that won't die

Scientists Designed a Drug for Just One Patient. Her Name Is Mila.

Barred From Removing Their Confederate Monuments, Cities Try Adding Context

Rising old used car prices help push poor Americans over the edge (PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION. This is a heavily urbanized nation! We can make it work!)

As Sea Levels Rise, So Do Ghost Forests

Money Is the Oxygen on Which the Fire of Global Warming Burns

What the LAPD recruitment ad on Breitbart says about the department’s history

Uber, Lyft Drivers Routinely Cancel Black, LGBTQ Riders, Study Finds

Women All Over the Country Are Suing Police for Failing to Test Their Rape Kits

Stark Lessons From Wall Street’s #MeToo Moment

Restoring felon voting rights a 'mess' in battleground Florida

Haiti and the failed promise of US aid

The transported: Kashmiri prisoners sent far from home

The Danger of Abandoning Our Partners

Civilians Flee As Turkish Forces Strike Kurds In Northern Syria

Methanol poisoning: Death by ignorance and taboo

Comments

[greghousesgf]

a lot of women don't even GET PMS, ffs!
also I don't know where this study was conducted but around here a lot of the uber drivers are Black, plus a lot of my friends are either Black or GLBT (or both) and they use uber all the time and haven't had anyone cancel on them.

[conuly]

Have you asked them if it's ever happened, or have they told you it's never happened?

[greghousesgf]

both.

[conuly]

Glad to hear it. But you do know that your experience (and theirs) is not universal, right? I mean, that's like me saying I've never been in a forest fire, therefore those folks in CA ought to just buck up because they never happen.

[greghousesgf]

I'm certainly not saying it's universal, I'm only telling you what they told me and I know them well enough to be sure they wouldn't say that if it hadn't been their experience (in some cases I was with them so it was also my experience and absolutely no one could mistake me for Black although I'm frequently mistaken for lesbian)

[siderea]

You seem to feel very strongly about the findings of this study being wrong. Why is that?

[greghousesgf]

I'm not. I'm just saying my friends and I had entirely different experiences. I also want to know where this happened.

[siderea]

You keep insisting "my friends and my experience contradicts these findings." Obviously you could have instead concluded that your and your friends' experiences were anecdote, in the face of the data generated by a rigorous study, and that you and your friends were lucky, not representative, but you didn't. Instead you keep proffering your and your friends personal experience as evidence of some significance. Which is a curious choice. I'm asking why you made it.

[greghousesgf]

Your use of the word "anecdote" seems to imply that you think somebody's not being honest.

[siderea]

Sure it does. Meanwhile, back at the discussion we were having, you were going to explain why you feel so strongly about this, that you are attempting so insistently to invalidate the findings.

And then maybe you could explain why you keep saying that curious thing about "just wanting to know where"?

Given that it says where the study was conducted at the very start of the article, which I'm sure you also read before commenting on.

And, while we're at it, perhaps we could discuss one of the things I found most interesting about the article, how the study protocol they used would surface patterns of discrimination that wouldn't be possible for individual riders to have known about, one way or the other. I find that just fascinating. Don't you?