I was tempted by your suggestion to modify the title (and flattered that you've noticed the effort I put into my headlines!), but finally decided to leave well enough alone, mostly on the grounds that I don't like messing with history — but also due to sloth.
...so you're also subscribing to the lj rss feed now!it certainly does add a little giggle to our Monday, Wednesday and Friday friends-pages!
If you mean the XKCD feed, then yes. And it certainly does make life a little brighter (as does Pearls Before Swine).
I can see how they might be a bit hurt by the comment just because it touches on a thing that I believe that many anthropologists are insecure about: the validation of their career as a science. Because in most of societies (and my) eyes, it is not an exact science ...
Yes, exactly. Possibly the worst offender along those lines is economics which, because they deal with so many numbers just love to dress up their research as if they were writing up repeatable and falsifiable experiments.
Speaking of non-rigorous experiments, the cartoon certainly managed to gather quite a bit of anecdotal evidence to support its own thesis that anthropology majors don't have much of a sense of humour about themselves.
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Re: on titles and different interpretations of humor
Date: 2010-07-10 03:18 pm (UTC)...so you're also subscribing to the lj rss feed now!it certainly does add a little giggle to our Monday, Wednesday and Friday friends-pages!
If you mean the XKCD feed, then yes. And it certainly does make life a little brighter (as does Pearls Before Swine).
I can see how they might be a bit hurt by the comment just because it touches on a thing that I believe that many anthropologists are insecure about: the validation of their career as a science. Because in most of societies (and my) eyes, it is not an exact science ...
Yes, exactly. Possibly the worst offender along those lines is economics which, because they deal with so many numbers just love to dress up their research as if they were writing up repeatable and falsifiable experiments.
Speaking of non-rigorous experiments, the cartoon certainly managed to gather quite a bit of anecdotal evidence to support its own thesis that anthropology majors don't have much of a sense of humour about themselves.