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DaOld Man:
I was going to mention about the water but you beat me to it.

The news caster said that "scientists are noting the oceans levels decreasing." Gimme a break. How many aliens would it take sucking up water to notice a decrease in the ocean level in just a day?

More I think about it, the less I like this movie, maybe I was just caught up in the non stop action.

shateredsoul:

--- Quote from: shmokes on March 15, 2011, 12:50:34 pm ---I know, who the hell are you hiring to watch your kids, early childhood development PhDs?   ;D

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I charge $24/hr for my side job.. I don't have the PhD in Dev Psych just yet but I petitioned for the Masters Degree, PhD in 2/3 years.

I'll throw in a case study of your kids for free and tell you why you're a horrible parent also at no extra cost even though I've not a parent my self yet. You'd be surprised how many ppl publish about children  but have not had their own kids, they make the research that influences how you're told to raise your kids and how schooling is structured.



shmokes:
I think it's alright to write about kids if you haven't had them.  I mean, it's a double-edged sword.  You just can't be prepared to have your first kid.  No matter what you think it's gonna be like, you're wrong.  You're underestimating the difficulty and time requirements.

So when people don't have kids, but write about parenting, they have the disadvantage of not truly understanding what it's like and what it takes to be a parent.  But on the other hand that same knowledge can taint a study, I expect.  There's nothing like powerful anecdotal evidence to convince someone of something that isn't generally true.  A person with no kids can approach a situation with less emotional clutter getting in the way of scientific research.  He has no motive to favor certain techniques (that he happens to use on his own kids).

Essentially, I think it's probably good or bad.  Sometimes having been through it will give you much deeper insight and unerstanding.  Sometimes it could contaminate the results.  Sometimes it's probably irrelevant.

hypernova:
Hm...Did not see that coming.

We went from talking about a summer action/blockbuster type movie to academic research regarding parenting.

RayB:

--- Quote from: DaOld Man on March 19, 2011, 04:10:58 pm ---I was going to mention about the water but you beat me to it.

The news caster said that "scientists are noting the oceans levels decreasing." Gimme a break. How many aliens would it take sucking up water to notice a decrease in the ocean level in just a day?

More I think about it, the less I like this movie, maybe I was just caught up in the non stop action.

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That irritated me too, as well as the few quotes where a scientist or whoever was saying "they are here to do ____" and "they are after ___" etc, with absolutely certainty. The truth was there was no way for them to know with absolute certainty other than "they're trying to wipe us out". A slight change in the sentences to make them sound like theories rather than absolute facts would have made it way less cheesy. Like "they may be after our water".

BTW, anyone else catch the scene that went from night to cloudy day in the space of about 10 minutes?

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