“Why Are We Listening To Badger Screams?”

Haha I know. Currently I’m procrastinating on a memorization for school ... that’s due tomorrow.

Okay, so this is my tumblr account. I created it a few minutes ago, so there aren't any posts yet. But hi! I'm the creepy stalker knowledgeable person who posted answers to the game.

Molly hi!! congrats on tumblr. it’s a black hole of procrastination.

@johnhocksbur

This isn’t how statistical methodology works.

If you want to be able to generalize the results of your survey to the general population, you have to use some form of random sampling*, you can’t just ask random people on the internet. Twitter polls (etc.) have two main flaws:

1. Response is voluntary, which means that people who don’t care are less likely to answer, and (on questions where this is applicable) people with more middle-of-the-road or less-shocking answers are less likely to answer. 

2. They operate using “convenience sampling,” which is basically what it sounds like and tends to bias the results in favor of whatever opinion is held by the people in the group likely to notice the survey. A political survey on the Fox News website will tend to have more conservative responses than the general population; a sports survey on the Boston Globe website will tend to have more pro-Red Sox responses than the general population; a survey on a Twitter page will tend to have more whatever-the-twitter-users-followers think responses than the general population.

(I did a brief Google search to see if this has been surveyed reliably and didn’t find anything, although possibly I could find something in an academic database. If anyone can find a reliable survey, I would be interested in seeing what the results.)

*This is somewhat complicated by the fact that it is nearly impossible to do a perfectly random sample. Phone surveys in which callers are randomly chosen and the response rate is high are generally close enough in surveys of Americans, although they aren’t perfect.

This is so interesting to me. 65% of people would rather experience rape than be falsely accused of rape.

If someone is an adjunct professor, it’s even worse (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/11/adjunct-faculty_n_4255139.html). According to that article, the average salary for an adjunct is between $20,000 and $25,000. I think the untenured column on this graph is higher than that because it’s including tenure-track positions.

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This is for real. Image by Piled Higher and Deeper.

As a history student, the most ridiculous thing that tumblr social justice warriors ever made up is “cultural appropriation”. If you only had mild historical knowledge of any cultural exchange that took place before colonialism (the ultimate times of evil oppression besides the third Reich) you’d realize that what you consider your culture is probably just a mashup out of thousands ancient cultural aspects from many different cultures. “Culture” itself is an umbrella term for basically anything that might be associated with a certain group of people - and it is both fluid and highly subjective. Your political system has been culturally appropriated from somewhere once, and so has your educational system, your economical system, your religion and your language. If you want to get mad about cultural appropriation, how about you start with those monumental cultural appropriations before complaining about white girls wearing dreads?

Hiiii!!! Can you do muggle born Slytherins headcannons? I'd really appreciate it! :D love everything about your blog, btw!

Pretentious Pureblood here oops

Muggle born slytherins who bring pens and notebooks to school and the purebloods are infinitely curious but wont ask. (Every descendant of the malfoys ask. Every single one of them)

Muggleborns using memes in every conversation with the purebloods because why not

they almost create two little groups, the muggleborns and the purebloods, until Scorpius decides to drop by and physically pushing the two groups together. (it was a hilarious sight, as the purebloods were physically resisting and the muggle borns just encircled the more pretentious ones in hugs that the purebloods were sure would give them some sort of muggle illness.) 

Eventually they form this huge group, muggleborns indistiguishable from the purebloods, and they have inside jokes and share those weird ‘pen’ things and even some of the purebloods take to using notebooks instead of parchment (if asked, they either ignore you or shrug and say that its convenient)

-Mod Cas who has feelings about Slytherin house and needs a Slytherin friend. 

Quick someone find me a picture of moldy leaves it is VERY IMPORTANT

Are you okay? Do you need someone to talk to?

and now I’m just mad. no one is answering me. great.

ron: god, professor dumbledore's speeches are so boring. more like dumblesnore amirite?

dumbledore: I HEARD THAT, WEASLEY

dumbledore: TEN POINTS FROM SLYTHERIN

malfoy: hey now what the shit?

dumbledore: FUCK YOU MALFOY

George Lucas: if you make gay stuff about my characters I'll sue you

*3 decades later*

George Lucas: *sells Star Wars*

Oscar Isaac: Poe is in love with Finn

Carrie Fisher: Obi-Wan Kenobi is bisexual

Mark Hamill: Luke's sexuality is never addressed in the movies, also he could be trans and even if he isn't he supports trans people because all Jedi do

What if instead of gilly weed Harry had showed up to the black lake challenge in muggle scuba gear like “like where’s your advanced magic now bitches? Got me a free fishing knife with this thing”