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Well some questions were aimed at discovering if there's been change over time... Also asking for assessments of ideas and approaches and then about the future and other stuff... And the written portions allowed scope for explanations. This kind of detail can be very important; leaves space for information that Yes/No answers can't address. I thought it was fairly pointed and nuanced. In any case, it need not be groundbreaking comprehensive research to be of value. I do about five of these a week. It is the hardest thing for researchers to get honest and representative results, so it helps everyone to do surveys and contribute to research that might just pay off. The worst thing is to have bad (unrepresentative) research from which poor decisions are made.....

I included this in my answer.

Yep. What does it need to be scientific, a bloke in a lab coat and silver frizzy hair? They ask questions and analyze the results according to tried and trusted methods. Respected people in the same field then review any ensuing papers and if they pass mustard they get published for the wider community to scrutinize, attempt to replicate, and discuss. The method has served people very well, with exceptions (especially in some social sciences), ever since some people began questioning if divining the future from tea-leaves actually worked or not. Guess what? It didn't, and still doesn't. Science can be simply summarized as finding out what works.

But you do need a survey if you want to investigate that phenomenon academically, and the scientific method is the only way humans have developed which systematically removes bias. Otherwise we fall back on belief, on assumptions, the 'it's as plain as the nose on your face' arguments or pseudo-science (that is belief disguised as science) which don't hold up in the cold light of reality.

Wouldn't be academic is this were true.

Nice one. Brownie looks like getting a game after the bye, I'd bet.

Half an [censored] is better than none, especially if you're at an [censored]-kicking party.

Dubai is open, but there are thousands of cases per day..... Don't touch anything on the way thru.

Yeah, I'm not surprised. Good to hear. I remember a shot of them together in the box. Richo in Goody's ear. Next week Richo wasn't at the game, and it was spoken about as if they were connected. Can't be sure about that, but it clicked for the conspirators....

Remember when it was discussed that Goody didn't like others speaking in the box? Seems he's matured.

Hang one on your face under the chin. Slip it up when you need it. Easy peasy. Where I am, we get out of the car with mask on and walk into my local place of leisure. Once in, where everyone congregates, we take them off or slip em under the chin. Bizarre. But these days I'm not complaining about anything. I've had an overwhelmingly positive experience during COVID. And another year to go..... Average length of major pandemics is 2.5 years. I guess it comes with a feeling of defiance that some mistake for something meaningful.

I was going to start a thread like this way back when we were.... oh, 5-0.... which seemed outlandish at the time. I'd noticed I wasn't quite as interested in things, given all the positivity, and was experiencing an entirely different realm of imaginative outcomes and associated emotions: lossless seasons and massive GF slaughterings, etc. Yeah, it was balanced with guarded optimism, for sure, but nevertheless such things appeared tatalisingly reachable, like a Tatts win. But then I thought better of it and let the opportunity slide, and now I'm glad of it. I've settled into this positive thing quite nicely. It turns out that winning is interesting too, with fascinating twists and frustrations. It's nuanced. It's kinda like a really good bed: sure, you can't stay comfy in one position the whole night, and you still have to get up to pee, but on the whole its a great place to spend a third of your life. In other words, there's ups and downs, but there's support underneath that keeps things in a good place. And let's not forget that we're nowhere. If we don't make it to the final four, the season will be remembered as the one when the wheels fell off. If we don't make it to the final two, it will be a disappointment. I'm not expecting our still young and GF inexperienced side to win the cup this year, but making it seems about par. But we ain't anywhere near that yet.

A bloke near my folk's refuses to wear a mask.

sparGod

When we’re three goals up with two minutes to go in the granny, I’ll believe we’re favourites. Til then, lotta things to overcome, especially nerves in big finals.

Dunno, mate. The club seems to have developed the hell out of a number of other players in that time.....

Best win of the season. We don’t run, we lose. We run, we win.

We look tents in and slow and lacklustre. Not good.

And remember, if we don't get them in, other teams will. Would Treloar have improved us? Yes. Instead he improved the Dogs. If Merrett goes, he's going to improve another contender, otherwise he'll stay at the Bummers stuck on the mid-table merry-go-round. We need to be constantly vigilant and proactive. Oooooh, it's exhausting at the top......

Bit like 2019: without tanking we wouldn't have Dogga, Koz or Riv.

Only concern for me is we had 15 scoring shots in the first half and only 7 in the second even though we were well on top.

Awesome win. Everything I feared didn’t happen. Hard at it all night. Pressure and running. Hot!

Throw everything at Zac Merrett.

Double that. Make the pay equivalent to an elite sportsman (in Aus). You'd catch many of those players who aren't quite big enough to make it at AFL, but understand the game. VFL types and fitness fanatics would line up.

I reckon pay them a boatload. Make it attractive for all those fitness buffs out there. Then we would have the right to hold them accountable.