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Related: Ayako Sakakibara et al.: A longitudinal study of the process of acquiring absolute pitch: A practical report of training with the ‘chord identification method’

https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735612463948

Abstract TL;DR: Results suggest that, at a minimum, children younger than 6 years old are capable of acquiring AP through intentional training.

His book Analysis I, and potentially also his linear algebra lecture come to mind.

Would be interesting to know how many of these visa applications eventually get rejected. Also, maybe some sort of deposit to be returned when participant shows up would discourage abuse.

Iatrogenesis (adj.: iatrogenic) is, I suspect, what the fist word should be.

It's complicated. It seems Airbnb was forced by some customer protection agency (UK iirc), to always offer the possibility to submit a review in the case of last minute cancellations. It's standard practice though that Airbnb considers reviews from guests who did not stay as irrelevant and removable when requested. OP should appeal the removal in their particular case. It's not impossible to reanimate removed reviews. However, generally, what Airbnb did here makes sense (else e.g. host's would suffer from retaliatory reviews when guests show up beyond check-in time and feel entitled). What people forget: by participating in reviews customers are more likely to engage with the product/plattform again (source: influence or pre-suasion by Robert Cialdini).

For us bibliphiles: why has the second edition no hardcover version or is it planned?

"In the case of perfect pitch, it seems that the necessary adaptability in the brain disappears by the time a child passes about six years old [...]. (Although [...] there are exceptions of sort [...])" in Prof. Anders Ericsson's book "Peak" in which he presents results from his research area of expert performance. He also quotes a published study in which childs aged 2 to 6 consistently were taught perfect pitch: "A longitudinal study of the process of acquiring absolute pitch: A practical report of training with the 'chord identification method'"

In English the /v/ in the phonetic spelling [edit, was: transcription] vee usually represents a voiced labiodental fricative (as /v/ in Italian Vincente) whereas most Spanish speakers will pronounce v (just like b) as voiced bilabial fricative or approximant. That is, I'd expect Vicente to be phonetically spelled bee-sen-teh (well aware that English /b/ is not a fricative as Spanish /v/ and /b/).

One positive effect of morning exercise may sinply lie in the associated tendency towards increased exposure to natural (i.e. more intense) light in the morning hours [I don't have a quote at hand, but Prof. Andrew Huberman speaks about the effects of calibrating one's circadian rhythm by morning light exposure in his YouTube podcast.]

This rather negative excerpt from Jack Nasher, "Conv!nced - How to Prove Your Competence and Win People Over", p. 185-187 may be helpful:

"We are frightenly bad at making an accurate assessment of other people's competence, and the same is true for the closely related factor of intelligence⁰. In one experiment, only 20 percent of people tested were able to assess the intelligence of others with higher accuracy than a random number generator.

[…]

To assess intelligence, which is colesely related to competence, there are, however, some generally valid factors. The following items are charcteristics of an actual high intelligence¹:

• speaking quickly • using easily understandable speech and standard English • making eye contact while talking • displaying self-confident behavior • reacting quickly and with little hesitation

[…] Unlike many of the previously discussed points, however, these five items are also indicators of actual high intelligence. All of these points can rather easily be evaluated by mere observation. Interestingly, it is easier for us to make an accurate evaluation if we only hear people and do not see them - visual factors often are misleading."

[0] Reynolds, D.J. & Gifford, R. (2001). The sounds and sights of intelligence: A lens model channel analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 187-200.

[1] Murphy, N. (2007). Appearing smart: The impression management of intelligence, person perception accuracy, and behavior in social interaction. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 325-39

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They don't. But you'll have trouble to admit possession of a recorded call unless you're sure you legally obtained it. So unless you merely use it for your private training purposes its of limited value.

What follows works 99% of the times with airbnb:

Customer service representative: "For training purposes this call is being recorded. Are you okay with it?"

Airbnb member: "Well, you know if you feel comfortable that we record this call for quality purposes, I'm totally fine with it, no worries."

CSR:"Haha, sure I am. I just have to ask, you know."

AM: "Sure, me too, it's important to me that you're comfortable with it, too. So... here's the issue why I'm calling..."