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AliceWong··on Creatine found to improve cognitive performance during sleep deprivation
Do you have a source for this? I haven't heard of any evidence for kidney damage long term from regular creatine intake in a healthy adult.
AliceWong··on The Link Between Birth Control Pills and Sex Drive
https://archive.is/xcqxw
AliceWong··on Can progressives be convinced that genetics matters?
I'm not sure the assumption that the comment above you is somewhat delusional is not necessarily reasonable here. I do think its that people are interpreting "everyone" differently.

To me, 'everyone' does not mean literally every person but rather the vast majority. Whether this number is 95% or 90% is going to be interpreted differently. I think nearly all of us can agree that as intelligence falls on a bell curve there will always be those unfortunate enough to not be able to do certain tasks. However the nature of the bell curve does mean that around 90% of people are above ~80 IQ.

AliceWong··on Life before smartphones (2020)
I'd be considered 'young' and would think it at least aloof so I don't think its your old-fashionedness.
AliceWong··on OpenSSH switches to using gender-neutral language
I'm a native speaker too and while I think there are a few areas where it feels a little unnatural, for the most part it seems natural to my ears. Could be a dialect based thing for how it feels though.
AliceWong··on Scientists use optogenetics to help a blind patient see again
Yes, it'd be interesting to see the patient's view on this
AliceWong··on LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online
Life insurance ads perhaps.
AliceWong··on Trapped priors as a basic problem of rationality
What do you mean by "just-so" style? I'm not familiar with the term.
AliceWong··on Data Science for Psychologists
I'll admit I only took a skim but isn't this just an R course with EDA?