> These are called "pedestrian scrambles"
Oh cool, thanks for sharing! The ones I've seen in Sydney are hardly marked at all, often just some signs and diagonal green men.
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Oh cool, thanks for sharing! The ones I've seen in Sydney are hardly marked at all, often just some signs and diagonal green men.
The comment about the crossing times being too short is spot on, often they are too short for me as a healthy young person. Trying to cross when you can't move as quickly must be a total nightmare.
Sydney has a few crossings where instead of particular directions being open to pedestrians, the whole crossing goes green for pedestrians and red for cars. This seems more efficient to me, and safer since cars aren't moving at all when you cross - often you have to share the space with cars turning left when you cross. I wish we had more of these.
But that's what it is? Drugs aren't the only treatment, but they are by far the most effective.
I wish I could be more hopeful, but it seems like a large portion of researchers in fields like psychology are too worried about their prior, poor quality research to embrace change.
Switching from verbal to written communication, or vice versa, can sometimes be helpful. Often when asked a complex question it's difficult to answer on the spot, not because they don't know the answer but because they need to organise their thoughts to explain it to you, or are trying think of any other information they might have forgotten, or other stuff. So a written answer they can compose might be easier.
Sometimes your simple question is not so simple, and doesn't have a clear cut answer. You do need to be open to that.
Of course sometimes people are not answering in good faith, and sometimes you're talking to a customer service drone, or even an actual AI responder, who are literally just choosing answers from a dropdown menu and not really reading what you've written.