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Different people will respond in different ways (like or dislike) to different art pieces.

I had to have my 14 year old dog put down today.. That is one thing that never gets easier. The dog was a Black Lab Blue Heeler, and...

1 to me is, yes, ungodly awfulz 2 is bad 3 below average 3.5 is average 4 is good 5 is excellent.

Out of five can mean a lot of things. Is 1 ungodly awful? Is 3 average? Is 5 so good that only a handful in the universe meet the criteria?

Leaf of european maple (Acer platanoides,)

You didn't define the scale used for scoring. Poorly defined results are the result.

On the contrary, his scores average exactly 3/5. He's not giving you an absolute scale; he's giving you relative scale - which must...

Saying that if someone gave it a 3/5 instead of a 5/5 it means they don't like it is terribly unfair.

Insect neurophysiologists use a cleaver version of this set-up to get recordings from insect nervous systems while the insect is...

Nebraska bird/critter pics round 1. Taken a few weeks ago on a trip to eastern Nebraska. Figure 1. Mourning dove (Zenaida macroura)...

Yes, those were fossils from the Cambrian period (period named after where the fossils from that time were first found). PreCambrian...

Machine code, in binary, using a row of switches on the front panel. :cool: I played with one of these as an undergraduate in the...

Manchester Piccadilly has two Victorian statues, This is one.

In my first job with IBM, as a vacation student in 1973, I had some free time and I worked out how to use overpunching on the IBM 029...