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I Will Not Accept AI-Generated Writing
Terror: The anticipation and dread before a frightening event has occurred.Horror: The revulsion or shock after a frightening event has occurred. When Google Translate and early AI translation acquisition tools first hit the internet, my French, Spanish, and all other language teachers marked assignments and the students who used this these tools harshly. These teachers…
Simple Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST) Mindmap
Created using Whimsical Learning or remembering every step and requirement of the Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST) framework is difficult. There are many complex concepts and choices that need to be learned and understood in order to make accurate decisions. The NHST framework is intended to set up a logical, consistent, and accurate set of…
Two Sides of the Same Fear: The Hive Mind vs. the Mindless Zombie
The Fear of Loss In many forms of popular culture, from dystopian novels to horror films, two recurring archetypes capture our collective anxieties: The “hive mind” and the “mindless zombie.” At first glance, these tropes appear to represent opposite ends of a spectrum—one governed by rigid control, the other by chaotic anarchy, but both tap…
Decolonization and the History of Psychological and Psychiatric Care
Decolonization and the History of Psychological and Psychiatric Care Psychological and psychiatric care around 1900 was punitive and institutionalizing, and extreme critics of psychiatry were often unwillingly labeled as antipsychiatry (Burston, 2018; Chapman, 2016), meaning opposition to the “treatment of mental diseases” (Tuke, 1892a, p. 1013). Labeling critics of unethical psychiatric practices as antipsychiatry conflicts…
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