Carl-Richard

H3 was considered relevant when I realized the consequences of scrapping H1 and H2. Let me try to explain with my sleepy brain: Ruffault et al. (2016) conducted a study where they found that mindfulness moderates the relationship between two variables: 1. intrinsic motivation towards exercise (independent variable), and 2. physical activity levels (dependent variable). So mindfulness increases the effect that intrinsic motivation towards exercise has on physical activity levels, but since it's a moderation effect, mindfulness does not have to be correlated with physical activity levels for this effect to exist. That was in fact the reasoning that Ruffault et al. (2016) used for choosing the moderation model in the first place: they couldn't find a correlation between mindfulness and physical activity, but they did find a correlation between mindfulness and intrinsic motivation towards exercise, and they of course found a correlation between intrinsic motivation towards exercise and physical activity. On the other hand, had they found a correlation between mindfulness and physical activity, they would've most likely ran a mediation model instead, because mediation is when you have an effect on the dependent variable, but it's mediated by an intermediate variable (i.e. mindfulness' effect on physical activity would be mediated by intrinsic regulation towards exercise). These are subtle differences, but this lead me to my insight about the consequences of scrapping H1 and H2: When you scrap H1 and H2, you have excluded the possibility of a mediation relationship, mainly because mindfulness is not correlated with physical activity. But, it's still possible to find support for a moderation relationship. Why? Because the criteria for a moderation relationship in this case is that mindfulness must be correlated with intrinsic motivation towards exercise (H3), and intrinsic motivation towards exercise must be correlated with physical activity (which was already established in the regression model used for answering H2). The only reason I consider it HARKing has to do with the timing: I ran the analysis, which when I saw the results, made me have to scrap H1 and H2, and then I had the insight. But I could've easily predicted the consequences of scrapping H1 and H2 before running the analysis. It was just me being bad at forward-thinking, and I needed to actually be in the situation of scrapping H1 and H2 in order to prompt me to think about the consequences of that scenario. Anyway, it doesn't matter now as my plan is to be transparent about the whole process and do it under the guise of "Grounded Theory" (which was one of the suggestions from my advisor). That option is so much more freeing than having to shoehorn myself into a more standard format. This is probably way too dense, but fuck it, I'm exhausted from writing my last bunch of clingy e-mails to my advisor lol. Also, post-hoc-ing the H3 wasn't the only problem. I ran a second survey on a different population after seeing some of the results of the first population just out of curiosity (because I saw some patterns in the data that made me ask a very interesting question), and the data from that survey came in much more handy than I expected (again, lack of forward-thinking), and I would feel bad if I had to exclude that data (even though I could easily exclude them). They call me the Zentific Devil. The interesting question I asked myself was: "it seems like many people scored 0 on physical activity in the spirituality-related population, so what if mindfulness doesn't make you "take up" exercise, but instead it just increases exercise frequency in people who already exercise?", hence I made a survey for people who exercise frequently in order to avoid 0-scores and posted it all across lifting-related subreddits and got the same amount of participants in just a few days. And yes, that population indeed turned out to have zero people with 0-scores on physical activity). I just recently did a data cleaning protocol which significantly improved the amount of ugly outliers, so I would have to re-run the comparisons between the two populations to see if there is a difference.

Have you ever been in love before? Have you seen directly how an "empty vessel" can fill up your vessel?

I agree. I'm on your side.

Who will pay you? OnlyFans subscribers? But I agree, I've always seen academia as the second best thing.

But then you could make the argument that he is more inclined to shit on people like Frank because people are shitting on him all the time. It's a complex circular relationship, like all abusive relationships

*cocks ban hammer* "whatchu say?"

I think the guidelines is a good metric in this case.

I can sympathize with being fed up with being told "you ain't shit" by some random dudes on the internet day-in and day-out. Imagine if the forum was a corporation and Leo was the CEO and people went up to him regularly to say "you ain't shit". Those people would disappear pretty quickly. On the other hand, this is a forum, and returning the abuse in a public manner like this sets a bad example. It puts the law-abiding forum members in a double-bind: "should I follow the guidelines or should I follow the owner? The owner regularly calls people idiots, so why can't I?" Also, it just makes people confused and forces them to make up elaborate excuses for behavior that they know is not ok. So what should Leo do? Shut down the forum? Go for a walk? Meditate? That's up to him, but I will keep making the same point every time something like this happens.

I don't see much alternatives though

I don't disagree that an asshole can be deep in many different ways (no pun intended). What I'm pointing out is that you seem to be using being an asshole as an explanation for his deepness.

Ego mainly determines how truth is presented to other people. Truth itself is beyond ego. And isn't it just a weird proposition in general? Why should truth require being asshole?

So somebody is being an asshole, and your explanation is "they must be onto something deep"? What about the explanation that they're simply a bit of an asshole?

If somebody believes that it's easy for people to stop being stupid, and that all it takes is a little push and their behavior could easily change, and that it's not like the momentum of the entire universe is behind it, they would probably get mad at stupid people pretty easily. The more complex you know life to be, the less surprised you'll be when you see somebody acting up. You can't predict it down to each single individual, but you can make attempts to protect general groups. You don't walk into a kindergarten to advertise your OnlyFans

20 years, that's a big confidence interval there fella.

My mom was loving all my life, but it still took 20 years before I turned my life around.

Ok, I think we're getting a little lost here. My point is trivial: the task of predicting exactly when an individual is ready to learn, or just generally predicting their exact behavior, is virtually impossible. Yes, you can make general cases like granting survival needs, healing trauma, personality traits, etc., but still, when somebody is the way they are, 99.9% that is the universe at work, not them, not you, not anyone or anything in particular. So when you truly understand this, it's hard to spend a lot of time getting mad at stupidity, or evil, or injustice.

I think I've solved it for now. My thesis is going to be a weird Frankenstein monster of combining the principles of Grounded Theory and quantitative analysis.

Should I just shower my friends and family with spiritual quotes and expect it to work? No. You have to be ready to receive these things. How do you make somebody ready?

How do you actually make someone become less ignorant and self-centered?

I find stupidity really funny. It's like the universe telling you a joke. I think it has been this way ever since I realized that in an absolute sense, people are not in control. Control or personal agency is a very locally defined psychological construct. I still believe in the utility of believing in personal agency and being responsible for your actions, but I also know that there was a time where I practically believed the complete opposite, and I was acting very stupidly because of it, but I actually can't tell you exactly what caused me to change. So the reason I generally don't get mad at stupidity is because I don't actually know the solution for it; not for myself, and certainly not for other people. Sure, you can give the right advice, but how do you make somebody understand, or let alone listen? That is the real problem. Life is a very individual and complex process, and nobody fully knows how it works.

What if you keep cutting yourself more and more every time, with the pain getting more intense every time, until you die?

Multiple thoughts, perceptions and sensations can appear in the same consciousness, which is what people are.

Does me choosing to cut myself twice a week lead to the same level of pain as me not choosing to do that?

You think that is what happened? It's probably some ToS stuff.

Hitler is bad relative to a set of values that I hold. That is why I don't support neo-nazi parties. It's true that my values are not absolute, but they are my values that I hold as a human being, and as long as I exist as a human, I will act in accordance with those values. It's just like eating food. From the absolute perspective, there is no reason why I should eat food, but I'm still going to eat food. Do you eat food?