Still a far cry from the days when the whole thing fit on a handful of floppies.
nyan
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The skew is something they're supposed to take into account, if they realize a given factor is important. Models are seldom perfect, and people can be incompetent or self-centered even when they're not being actively malicious. I think you're overestimating both the quality of the statistical models and the purity of the motives behind this survey.
You're assuming that the set of people surveyed was truly random, but it never is—people who don't like answering surveys are always underrepresented (obviously), and the article isn't specific about how people were recruited for this one. There isn't enough information to tell how much skew might have been introduced as a result. Surveys are always kind of iffy as information sources: not meaningless, but with a lot of subtle noise in the signal.
If I recall correctly, the aircraft manufacturer writes the maintenance guidelines.
This could be a Boeing issue, if it's due to something that happened at the time the aircraft was built, or due to a foreseeable gap in the maintenance guidelines.
It could be a Delta issue, if they weren't following the maintenance guidelines, or a maintenance contractor working for them wasn't following them and they didn't catch it.
It could also have been (very small but nonzero chance) the result of physical trauma to the plane that wasn't foreseen, back in the 1990s when it was built, as something that might cause an issue of this magnitude. I haven't yet seen any information on whether this particular aircraft has a history of hard landings or running over debris on the runway. Freak accidents do happen.
All of those have precedents in aviation history.
One also wonders how the questions asked were phrased. And how they interpreted responses of, "E, chotto . . ." and other "telling the truth would be rude" circumlocutions.
For what it's worth, Ray isn't really worth going back for, or at least it didn't make enough of an impression for me to remember much except the title.
Some of the Black Jack material is worth watching, but you can dip into it at almost any point from the 1990s OAVs on and make some sense of it, since it's fairly episodic. The characters' backstories are interesting, but rarely necessary for understanding the plot. (There's also Young Black Jack, a more recent series—Wiki gives a 2015 airdate—that I forgot about initially which traces part of the title character's origin story.)
Monster is worth watching on its own merits, if you haven't seen it already (it was early 2000s, if I recall correctly, so outside your timeframe), but only the first few episodes could be considered medical drama. After that, it proceeds in quite a different direction.
The classic anime medical drama is Tezuka's Black Jack (there have been multiple anime adaptations of the manga over the years, the last one being the TV series Black Jack 21, from 2006). Other than that, there's Ray (also airing in 2006), some individual episodes of Monster, and maybe the currently airing Surgeon Elise, depending on the direction it goes in? There was a period where you didn't see medical dramas much on Western TV either, and maybe Japan is going through a similar time. (Now I feel old. 😭 )
I don't know much about the political landscape in France, but in the US you have to be wealthy to achieve political office above a certain level. When's the last time a poor person became their President?
The problem is that the Boomer generation is now getting hit with all the normal age-related degenerative diseases, including those that cause dementia. The demographics mean that we just don't have enough younger people to look after them, and it's going to get worse before it gets better. ☹️
I would blame Skype itself for being a corporate-owned closed-source flaming pit of doom in this case, not your actions or the snap.
Depends on why they were saying it was a scam. It's functional as a browser, so not a scam on the most basic level. It hasn't always been as privacy-supporting as it claims (somewhere between Chrome and Firefox if all are carefully configured, it seems). Brave also has a dubious crypto rewards scheme baked in.
Yeah, there are no guarantees there, assuming you can even find a working floppy drive. (I actually own a full set of DOS 6.22 + Win 3.1 install floppies, and a full set of 16-bit MS Office install floppies as well, but whether any of them are still readable is anyone's guess. If I ever tried to use them again, I'd probably find out that the next-to-last Office floppy had died of spontaneous degaussing at some point in the past twenty years, after I'd already gone through the remaining 40+ disks.)