Posts by Keir Leslie
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They could do the same thing when releasing the final census information, and it would people a better idea of the true make-up of the country.
Yeah, but it would also lose the information contained in the non-boolean answers, which some people might find valuable. I dunno, I guess I just don't think there is a better idea of the "true" make up of the country, because I take issue with the idea of "better" and "true". I suppose I'm just a bit of a social constructionist.
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The reason that Stats doesn't use the electoral figure for other uses is presumably that the electoral figure is based on a yes/no classification, whereas other Māori descent figures allow for more than two values, no?
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Seems to me it's pretty clearly better to not take freebies as a reviewer. Whether it's supererogatory or obligatory is a bit beyond me.
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Oh man there is something hilariously unsporting about throwing the institutional theory at people who don't know the game.
Also, unfortunately, local government turn out to be a nest of retrograde clowns as far as culture goes surprisingly often.
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Hard News: First, admit it's broken, in reply to Sacha,
A somewhat epistemically pessimistic view there!
I was there, and while I hardly expect you to take my word for what happened, in my view, the way that the blogospheric left is trapped in a fantasy world is very hard to get past.
(Basically I think that the vast bulk of online left commentary in NZ is trapped in a degenerative research project, to adopt a Lakatosian framework, and it's really really annoying.)
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Hard News: First, admit it's broken, in reply to Sacha,
This absurd myth that Gower somehow manufactured that story is part of what's so deeply damaged about the New Zealand online left.
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Hard News: When "common sense" isn't, in reply to Matthew Poole,
The intent of evading capture isn't intent to kill, or intent to wound. If you want to keep murder elegant, you have to avoid lumping other bad things in with it.
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Or, possibly, because the laws on rape & armed robbery are quite old, and therefore have comparatively low maximum sentences, whereas the laws on hacking are new and therefore have quite high maximum sentences.
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Hard News: When "common sense" isn't, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Of course, someone fleeing police may not have any intent of injuring anyone, so treating that as murder kinda mucks up the rest of your position around intent.
Also in general in NZ we try to avoid objective recklessness.
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Recklessness doesn’t really involve “caring” (or not) about a result. Subjective recklessness is knowledge that if you do x, then y may well happen, and doing x anyway. You might care very deeply that y not happen, but you’re still reckless.
In the UK, objective recklessness - funnily enough - mostly shows up in criminal damage and reckless driving.