Just read this in Nassim Nicholas Taleb book The Black Swan:

> Note the unsurprising, but very consequential fact that people with Asperger syndrome are highly averse to ambiguity.

(The excerpt is here)

How true is this, what do you think?

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 48%. (I'm a bot)

> Dogs trained using aversive stimuli, which involve punishments for incorrect behavior, show evidence of higher stress levels compared to dogs trained with reward-based methods, according to a study publishing December 16 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Ana Catarina Vieira de Castro from the Universidade do Porto, Portugal, and colleagues.

> The researchers observed the behavior of 92 companion dogs from 7 dog training schools in Portugal that use either aversive methods, reward methods, and mixed methods.

> Dogs trained using aversive and mixed methods displayed more stress-related behaviors, such as crouching and yelping, and showed greater increases in cortisol levels after training than dogs trained with rewards.

> Previous survey-based studies and anecdotal evidence has suggested that punishment-based training techniques may reduce animal welfare, but the authors state that this study is the first systematic investigation of how different training methods influence welfare both during training and in other contexts.

> The authors add: "This is the first large scale study of companion dogs in a real training setting, using the types of training methods typically applied in dog training schools and data collected by the research team. The results suggest that the use of aversive training methods, especially in high proportions, should be avoided because of their negative impact on dog welfare."

> Citation: Vieira de Castro AC, Fuchs D, Morello GM, Pastur S, de Sousa L, Olsson IAS Does training method matter? Evidence for the negative impact of aversive-based methods on companion dog welfare.

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I started thinking about this after that post from a few days ago talking about things that don’t necessarily make someone asexual, and after reading a journal article which challenged the idea of asexuality as an essential identity but instead a performed one (not an expert in sexuality studies, but I got the gist.) Have I been too preoccupied with trying to see if I match a certain mold?

I’ve read the FAQ page dozens of times over, and still can’t determine definitively if any of those descriptions apply to me. The main problem is recognizing what counts as sexual attraction or not. It's enormously difficult to prove that I haven’t experienced sexual attraction. (I think the best way to describe myself is that if I do experience sexual attraction it’s likely to be towards people I may not have a strong connection towards, while I develop only strong feelings of romantic/aesthetic attraction towards people I do connect with (based on my past strong crushes in school, which is as far as I’ve ever been in terms of romance), sort of like reverse demisexuality.) But now I know that it might not be helpful to approach issues of sexuality in such a rigid ‘scientific’ way.

I’ll admit that my preoccupation with finding a specific, rigid label for myself was because it’s easier to digest and understand than accepting fluid/ambiguous identity. All I'm able to know is that, regardless of whether I feel sexual attraction 1) I don’t want sex to be part of my life--this might again, just be a personal choice and not related to my sexuality 2) I don’t feel sexually repressed: my choice not to have sex doesn’t feel like an injury or disorder that needs to be fixed, I still believe that I’d be happier without sex. Knowing that I’m asexual would give a better sense of closure to my sex-averse feelings, and make it easier to communicate to others based on an identity why I don’t want to engage in sex. Now, how should I come to terms with not fitting a clear label, or that I might actually just be a sex-averse allo? If I don't end up fitting the asexual label, can I still rely on aces for navigating similar experiences of non-sexuality? (I'm also just curious for my own info if there are communities for sex-free allos.)

tl;dr: Chuck has Specific Phobia, Natural Environment type with comorbid obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. The former explains his aversion to electricity with the latter explaining his response to becoming afflicted with this condition. I don't think he has panic disorder, delusional disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder or somatic symptom disorder. I explain why,

I'm writing this as much for myself as I am for all of you. Like most on this sub, I'm a self-proclaimed diehard fan of BCS. As a clinical psychologist, I've thought a lot about Chuck McGill from a psychiatric and psychological perspective. Suffice to say, I've had a lot of thoughts about what's really going on with him and want to organize them in somewhat of a coherent and linear way. I've seen many on this sub ask, "what does he have?" I'm going to share my two cents here because (and I know this sounds arrogant) I haven't really found a psychodiagnostic analysis I really like when it comes to Chuck. So here is my way-too-long psychodiagnostic evaluation. Please note that I'm sticking with mainly a diagnostic evaluation here, although there are many, many other factors outside the diagnostic system that are critical to understand Chuck's mental health.

A Word on The Diagnostic Classification System

Before I offer my diagnostic impressions of Chuck, it is worth reviewing the current thinking regarding our mental disorder classification system. When discussing diagnoses with patients, I almost always start by saying, "mental health diagnoses do a half-decent job at describing a problem area, and they do a shitty job at describing a human being." To me, this means that while a diagnostic label has some utility (e.g., guiding treatment approaches, etc.), they are not without their limitations. Many psychologists and psychiatrists out there are dissatisfied with the categorical model used throughout the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM, 5th Edition). Many, myself included, advocate for a more dimensional approach to understanding mental disorders. A dimensional approach takes into account the belief that mental illness is not black-and-white (i.e., either you have it or you don't), but rather should be viewed on continuum encompassing normal ranges of traits to clinical elevated levels of certain traits/symptoms. So my point is that Chuck's diagnoses, whatever they may be, are grossly insufficient in truly understanding Chuck as a per

Like most fiction, JRPGs love having some source of drama for the main characters relate to their parents. Dead, absent, killed early on in the story to motivate the hero or set up their arc, evil, not exactly evil but in some way adversarial; there are so many ways you can do these tropes. And every human character has to have parents, and even most non-human characters will probably have them or something analogous a parent, so these tropes are pretty tempting to use and easy to set up - hence why they're so common.

So what are some JRPG heroes (main or supporting) who avert these tropes altogether? They have two living parents, whom they are on good terms with, ideally they are biological parents as well, and these parents appear as characters in the story.

For example, in the Trails of Cold Steel games, with regards to the original Class VII: there is only one character who fits this description unambiguously. And that is (major spoilers for Cold Steel 2 and vague ones for 3) >!Gaius Worzel. All of the other 10 students, and Sara, have at least one parent who is dead, absent, or antagonistic. Rean can ambiguously count, but his parents are adoptive and he has a complicated relationship with them at first, and both of his biological parents follow the tropes I mentioned.!<.

New Class VII (spoilers for Cold Steel III) >!is quite a bit luckier in this regard; both Kurt and Juna have good parents!<.

Another aversion I can think of is in Tales of the Abyss where >!neither of Luke's parents were bad. Then again, Luke in some ways saw Van as a father figure.!<

These are some setting-agnostic conditions which could manifest from birth (a la The Omen) or at one point in the life of a person possessed by a fiend or other similar malevolent entity might. The idea here is to make it ambiguous enough that it could be attributed to anything else other than demons, or seem like mere coincidences.

They may work for NPCs or PCs, who may or may not be aware of what’s up.

1. Their sleep is unusually restless, as they thrash around in their beds. They might wake up drenched in sweat.
2. Everyone outside their bloodline they meet ends up dying one day later, either from violence, freak accidents, or sudden, wasting diseases. They may be spared under particular conditions. Alternatively, well-liked and respectable people they come across are found responsible for monstrous, heinous crimes, thus deflecting attention/heat from them.
3. A certain type of being or person (ex: men, women, elderly, children) present sudden, overpowering aversion and hatred to them as a gut reaction. They might antagonize them to the point of vicious arguments or even physical violence. Alternatively, they might be completely enthralled by them.
4. All traces of the person’s past seem to have been lost to time: their childhood home is ruined, their school and previous workplace(s) closed down long ago and their respective facilities were maybe demolished or destroyed in a fire or similar disaster. Any acquaintances (who may be long dead or moved far away) simply blanked them out of memory, and can’t recognize or recall at all.
5. They seem to appear (or maybe apparate) near anyone who mentions their name above whisper-volume.
6. Things like household items and tools tend to break down when held by them or when they are nearby, leading people to believe they are really clumsy, or just “jinxed”.
7. They regulate their entire lives around a certain number, which might give one the impression they have a bad case of OCD. For instance, they could be always the first or fourth or sixth person of a group to arrive in a certain location, they always wake up at one specific hour. Their choice of clothing or decoration may be related to that one number. It might be completely unintentional.
8. Any sexual relations that could lead to pregnancy will have it as their outcome, regardless of fertility issues or contraceptive measures.
9. A subtle yet noticeable physical change: their eyes might have gone from blue to hazel or green, and vice-versa, maybe their

#2021 Childfree Subreddit Survey

##1. Introduction

Once a year, this subreddit hosts a survey in order to get to know the community a little bit and in order to answer questions that are frequently asked here. Earlier this summer, several thousand of you participated in the 2021 Subreddit Demographic Survey. Only those participants who meet our wiki definition of being childfree's results were recorded and analysed.

Of these people, multiple areas of your life were reviewed. They are separated as follows:

• Child Status
• General Demographics
• Education Level
• Career and Finances
• Location
• Religion and Spirituality
• Sexual and Romantic Life
• Childhood and Family Life
• Sterilisation
• Childfreedom
• State of the Subreddit

##2. Methodology

Our sample is redditors who saw that we had a survey currently active and were willing to complete the survey. A stickied post was used to advertise the survey to members.

##3. Results

The raw data may be found via this link.

3858 people participated in the survey from 5 July 2021 to 31 October 2021. People who did not meet our wiki definition of being childfree were excluded from the survey. The results of 2683 responders, or 69.5% of those surveyed, were collated and analysed below. Percentages are derived from the respondents per question.

###General Demographics

####Age group

80.61% of the sub is under the age of 35.

####Gender and Gender Identity

####Sexual Orientation

####Birth Location

Because the list contains over 120 countries, we'll show the top 20 countries:

Un

Hi all, looking for some advice for a problem as old as time. This might be long but please bear with me!

I (26F) have been talking to, let’s give him a name…say Ali (27M) who I matched with on a muslim app back in Feb 2021 (almost a year ago!). We only lived a few hours away from each other, but were separated by the US-Canada border (he is American). We got to know each other and found compatibility in almost every area of our life; from deen to education to careers to family values to interests/hobbies to ideas of marriage and raising children. Alhumdullilah we got along really really well as we got to know each other in those first few months. Soon enough, we discussed how neither of us wanted to “date” and were interested in pursuing marriage.

Some background here; I am the 2nd oldest of 4 daughters and have been subject to a lot of family pressure to marry soon. My parents are pretty open to exploring any suggestions I bring forward; I know that my parents wouldn’t have any concerns about the potential I was talking to.

Ali has one older sister (33F) who isn’t yet married and doesn’t seem to have any plans for it in the near future. His parents live in Texas, and sister lives in another state. They all live in different states due to their careers/jobs.

In April 2021, Ali told his parents on the phone about me and how he was interested in pursuing me for marriage. His parents were totally averse to pursuing, or even talking to, “any strangers from the internet” and advised him not to trust anybody until he has met them in person. Though we had multiple phone calls and even a few video calls leading up to this point, we agreed and decided to wait to meet until we discussed marriage even further.

The difficulty was that the US-Canada land border was closed for all non-essential travel due to the pandemic and as a result, so we continued to talk online with plans to meet as soon as the border opened. Finally, we were able to meet in Aug. 2021 (yaaayy!!), and aH it was a magical and memorable first meeting. Once again Ali followed up with his parents, and asked them to contact my parents; however, it took his father nearly 1 month to finally call my dad. His dad credited this to “doing research to find out which city, village, etc. they are from in Pakistan and what kind of people they are, background, education, status, etc.”. As Ali continued to get frustrated with these delays, I did my best to help him stay calm and told him to let his dad do hi

Overview/Disclaimer

Earlier the question of “why are there so many female characters who are hard-working?” cropped up. I’d like to offer my ideas on why that is. Disclaimer that these ideas are just mine, a random redditor, and that you’re free to disagree; (i.e. please don’t flame me if I happen to bash your favorite character). I imagine that this post will likely not be very popular; that’s okay. These thoughts are just ones I had in my head for a while; just please be kind to me in the comments. Spoilers also for the main story quest up until the end of 2.1, so don't read if you're spoiler-averse!

There are currently forty playable characters not including Aloy, who I’ll omit because she’s not an original Genshin character. The split currently is twelve male, twenty-eight female. I’ll also be going over four unreleased characters who play perhaps an even greater role in the game than some of the released characters: these four are Yae, Gorou, Thoma, and Dainsleif.

Thesis

Long story short is that most characters can be summed up in just a few words. Design philosophy is usually that way in gacha games: give the audience an easy-to-understand character with one or two charm points. Genshin is no exception; you see characters like Xiangling, a girl with a smoll bear who’s all about cooking or Diona, a smoll catgirl who’s all about taking down the Mondstadt wine industry, but where Genshin differs is that it also has a dynamic and very rich backstory… these two contradictions will butt heads over and over again.

My understanding is that, in practice, Genshin is unfortunately not very different from most gacha games in that its actual story-building is secondary to character-selling, especially with regards to the female cast. Simply put, guys are allowed to be dangerous because that’s what MiHoYo has deemed as saleable while the majority of girls are not (before you get angry, please read at least some of the analysis). I hope that this trend changes. Here’s my evidence and reasoning for why this evidence is the way it is.

Analysis (Males)

Let’s look at the guys first for a quick reference point. The majority of guys in Genshin have a commonality beyond just being male: they are dangerous; it adds spice and is done actually so well that you might not have noticed the trend. I define ‘dangerous,’ by the way, as being able to harm you when it’s not your fault. It’s perhaps a bit loose of a definition, but please bear with me.

Going d

Hey, I wrote this thing and wasn’t sure if I should post it. I decided to, because why not? Hope someone finds it interesting!

First, let me say that I have been into non-duality for some time. I have had experiences and insights that feel, and maybe are, profound. This so-called “critique” is in no way hostile, and it is not coming from a perspective of scientism, nihilism or anti-spirituality. My primary spiritual/religious influence is Tibetan Buddhism, though by no means do I claim to accurately put forth a Tibetan Buddhist viewpoint.

That said, the thing that I have come to believe about non-duality is that it is… dualistic.

Dualities, in the most general sense, are simply pairs of opposites. Dualistic thinking, the splitting of experience into polarities, is one of our primary tools for conceptually, and emotionally, interpreting the world and ourselves. We think some things are good, others bad. Some people are smart, others dumb. Some experiences are fun, others boring.

The way the term ‘non-duality’ is usually used, the two things are self and other, or subject and object. This particular duality is certainly one which most dominates our experience of life. But what does it mean to realize the non-duality of self and other? Typically, it means we attain a particular state of consciousness where the sense of self has fallen away, and we cease to feel separate from what we experience. Many non-dual seekers chase this experience, and become frustrated when they cannot find it, or when they do find it but then lose it and cannot get it back.

I’d like to draw attention to another duality that dominates our experience: liking and disliking. These can also be called attraction and aversion, accepting and rejecting, or a number of other names. We habitually divide our experience into aspects we like, which we cling to, and aspects we dislike, which we try to get rid of. I would posit that this particular duality, more so than the self/other duality, is the source of ordinary suffering, or what we might call the illusion of duality.

Some may claim that if we overcome the subject/object duality, the liking/disliking duality will also be overcome since there will be no self to like or dislike anything. I don’t actually think it is nearly that simple, though it is certainly true that no-self type experiences can loosen our desperate clinging to what we experience. The fact that we seek no-self experiences, and reject feeling like a separate self, ma

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Anyone find it weird how outraged/upset most people seem to get about irregular somewhat predictable expenses for people who can easily afford them? Like car repair, home repair, medical bill, etc.

I think like half the reason people buy newer cars instead of repairing old ones is they prefer a predictable $400/mo ($4800/yr) instead of $0/mo with a sporadic $1k bill once or twice a year or so. Everyone knows older cars are going to have repair bills, but when the 1k bill hits, it's a tragedy that warrants considering upgrading the car for "financial reasons," when the yearly costs are likely going to go significantly up with a new car.

With health insurance, I think people would rather pay $1500 every month but have no extra sporadic out of pocket bills, instead of $750 every month with sporadic large bills totalling less than 3k/yr. Everyone seems massively outraged about paying a couple hundred to 1k for some Dr visit when they can easily afford it. But nobody seems to complain at all about the yearly outlays for insurance which are typically much higher than the one-time visit fees. You even see the same thing where every other country with socialized medicine is in love with the program because they can see a doctor for no additional cost, but don't even know or care what the actual yearly cost in taxes is. ( I prefer socialized medicine, but am just pointing out the predictable vs irregular expenses idea).

These phone companies are smart with their loan plans. Seems like not many would be willing to stomach 1k on a new phone, especially if their previous one suddenly broke. But give them $42/mo for 2 years, and nobody cares about the total cost. I bet without payment plans, sales of the top tier phones would significantly drop. If you have to think about shelling out 1k for a phone all of the sudden when you weren't expecting it, you might think twice.

I'm aware that it's easier to budget with predictable expenses for people who are paycheck to paycheck and that's perfectly rational, so that's not what this post is about. But I find these traits relatively common among high income people with a full emergency fund, investing thousands a month, and 6 figures in their investment account. A 1k unexpected bill has basically 0 effect on their life, but they still have massive outrage over the less predictable bills compared to little to no outrage about steady and predictable bills even when the total costs are higher.

I'm wondering if there's a

PREFACE

I wanted to write this up mostly as a reference, because there are multiple misconceptions repeated in the sub-reddit about how his questline works. I've seen complains like "you have to play evil and support his cruelty" (not true, there are very few interactions which matter, 90% of jokes don't, and the interactions which matter have nothing to do with cruelty or making fun of people), or "he will always kill Liotr if you refuse to do it" (the game literally gives you a mouse over bold text if this happens saying "you were unwilling or unable to earn his trust", you can prevent this), or "the romance has no conclusion and you remain fuck buddies" (it's possible to lock yourself out of the "good" romance resolution by playing his non-romance questline wrong).

There will be spoilers and there will be meta-game info. This questline isn't as unintuitive like Wenduag's or Sosiel's, but probably at the same level as "not knowing why Lann didn't trust me and died" or "not knowing why Greybor didn't trust me and betrayed me", all of those quests work with tracking very specific events depending on your intuition and in-game knowledge you can do them correctly or miss them without knowing.

I will only hide the spoilers which hand-hold you through the questline, but not the ones which spoil the questline / mention the endings so be warned.

EXPLANATION

There are 2 things at play, trust counter which is accessible to both romance and non-romance playthrough, however romance playthrough has access to a couple of extra options, and romance counter also called "true love" counter. If you want the best romance ending, you have to do well not just that, but both. I tested this on the game version 1.0.7 and I don't think there will be any changes, I found it a stable version and wanted to avoid any new bugs cropping up which people report in unrelated matters in newer patches.

If you fail either of the 2 prerequisites, your only choice in dialogues are to end with "union of passion" or "unsure about feelings" and I'm certain the 2 options which lock it in are pretty self-explanatory, but if I have time to replay the quest and the whole ending to check if they in fact lead to what I think they lead based on toybox flags, I might update the post, but it's time consuming to do so.

If you are not averse to cheating and fucked up along the lines, you can fix it with toybox by going to search n' pick -> flags -> se

Do your worst!

There are cases where "military robots" are ambiguously said to have taken part in a military operation, like the Al-Baghdadi raid, or even utilized by some SWAT teams across the US but there's very little publicly available info about how these robots look like or what functionalities they provide. Now this is indirectly but closely related to the title of this question, which is about possibility of using small handheld(or at least, carriable via a road vehicle and doesn't need a runway) drones for battlespace awareness before special operations missions, possibly also using IR/thermal/NV sights, instead of using human scouts who obviously can't fly, and will be more risk averse since their life is on the table rather than a piece of fancy equipment. Same goes for CIA ops though probably that's a bit out of scope of this sub and very hard to find public info that's not very dated.(Cold War era latest I guess)

So do these exist in real life at all? If so, when were they started to be commonly utilized? Do they provide a significant advantage during combat since the commanding officers(or whoever that's watching the drone's camera) can easily verify where the enemies are? Considering how useful cheap civilian drones can be these days when surveying an area from the sky, I only imagine a $50k Pentagon spec one to be much more magical.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

Hey everyone!

So we all know the financial and social pressures millennials, gen z and gen alpha are facing today. But I was thinking about something else that's on our shoulders. The information age has made us incredibly aware, on a daily basis of how bad some things are in the world : Global warming, sexism, racism, hate, the rise of fascism, the mistreatment of animals, inequality, our own health... The information age also made us compete with the entire world, we are deeply aware that there's always someone better somewhere simply because the numbers of competing humans are infinitely higher. I feel like the world feels bigger for younger generations and that, in a way, it rests bigger on their shoulders. I don't think the previous generations had that feeling, at least not that strongly. Their world was tinier, simpler, morally less ambiguous. I'm not saying that was better I'm asking myself if it was easier.

It's good that we are supposed to be better humans than those that came before us and it's important to know that our actions have consequences. But I sometimes think the pressure is too high on younger generations. Not only do they have to face less than ideal circumstances but they are supposed to be moral paragons of virtue since they can't ignore the bad state of the world, that would be hypocritical of them and they hear it every day : it's bad and you should do something about it. I also think the younger generations are, in a way, hurting themselves : we are all watching each other moves and that makes us risk averse and afraid to fail since every mistake is documented and in worst cases criticized by a committee you often don't even know in real life. Basically we better be perfect on so many aspects and that's unnatural, no one's perfect and I'd argue that we should be able to be more imperfect sometimes to get better, mistakes are part of learning.

In regard to competition, I also think about athletes of the past. The world records keep getting higher. If you were an inventor in the past, or a scientist, wasn't there more opportunities to discover things? If you were an artist, wasn't it easier to be original and to invent something new? I'm a fan of cinema and TV and I often hear older entertainers saying that they wouldn't wish to start their career now because of how many YouTube channels are doing what they did in the past when competition wasn't that big. The sheer number of people doing the same thing you do now makes it har

• How old are you? What's your gender? Give us a general description of yourself.

I’m female. I can’t reveal my age, but in the U.S., I'm old enough to get married and too young to rent a car.

I’m a fairly busy person. The time it took me to write this was a rarity and a privilege, though one that I’m happy to have spent. I’ve studied MBTI quite a bit, going off of cognitive function studies, blog posts, YouTube videos, and…sigh, memes (So credible!), but I’m curious to see what conclusion others come to about my type based on the answers to these questions, since standardization works magic when done right.

I got into personality typology after some of my peers introduced me 3 years ago, thinking me to be the ‘paragon’ of a specific type. I agree to an extent, but as they’re just colleagues, there is much to me they don’t see that would certainly shake their perception of that archetypal mold. I studied MBTI and other typology systems (mainly Enneagram) with the hopes that they could help me understand myself a little better. Previously, I hadn’t the time or desire to get to know myself, seeing it a frivolous chore, but I now understand that there is great value to it - of both sentimental and utilitarian nature.

• Is there a medical diagnosis that may impact your mental stability somehow?

No.

• Describe your upbringing. Did it have any kind of religious or structured influence? How did you respond to it?

I was raised in a tolerant household. Not a grueling boot camp and not a free-range home. There were rules, with many exceptions. My parents quickly learned that they didn’t need to leash me, literally or metaphorically. According to them, I hardly cried as a baby and when I did, it was far from what other parents had to deal with. (As an aside, I still have a box of unused pacifiers. They’ll be of no use for my future kids, though, as they’re starting to show their age.)

My childhood was good, and I wouldn’t ask for much to be different. The only possible point of contention would be in my parents’ will to take risks - they were quite risk averse, which contrasted with my own inclinations. I knew what risks I took were well-researched and calculated - but my parents didn’t share in my passion. They were either inclined to offer ‘safer’ alternatives, or shut down the idea all together. I don't blame them.

I was a stranger to my peers. I was interested in what they were not, and couldn’t stand trends. I wanted to work with what would

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

Hi - I am in my second year of my PhD entering the stage where I need to collect primary data and analyse it and program. I am quite proficient in R and MATLAB; but I feel I need some resources to be able to understand how to program and analyse loss and ambiguity aversion and how to analyse a survey with different treatments.

I was wondering if there are any resources you guys can recommend that look at analysing surveys and economic research.

Thanks in advance.

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.