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The premise is that his crime will be rewarded with free medical care. How bizarre!

We were going to double slit and non-Newtonian fluid, until you affected the results.

They didn't choose their sexual orientation (or to be hypersexual), so it doesn't reflect the quality of their judgments. There is a body of research regarding the effects of CSA: internalizing disorders most notably. I'll concede that, in those particular instances, the relative ages remains unknown. Ted Haggard was reported by his congregation to have solicited a "young male" (of 20 years ). Cleared of the crime, the electrodes will be removed.

The psychosurgery patients were sexually oriented toward children. A subset of such men do want to be cured. I don't know how much risk they pose, but without treatment, they might change their mind. There may also be some hypersexuals who would volunteer. A Treatment-Oriented Typology of Self-Identified Hypersexuality Referrals Cantor, Klein, Lykins, Rullo, Thaler, & Walling, 2013 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3958916/

Although the hardware + procedure averages about $50,000.

You could look up the probability of false positive for whatever medical test it was.

A neurological pathway has gone awry, so disrupt that pathway. It seemed simple enough, so I did a search. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1629706/ It was performed as early as the 60s, and this rather breif summary describes optimistic results. I'm tempted to call it a cure! What happened? Most articles on treating sex offenders only mention therapy and libido-reducing drugs, but both of these involve life-long regimes that subjects might undermine or quit. And today we have a reversable intervention called deep brain stimulation. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-01144-8_4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_brain_stimulation

There are factors beyond anonymity: I have experience this effect despite not being anonymous. I think Richard Dawkins has too.

Almost forgot. Snort is a highly respected open-source intrusion detection system. I think it's more for people hosting servers, and I've never used it myself.

This is basic stuff, but anyway... Just take some backup measures. For example, sandbox the program that will be using the forwarded port, and any programs it may need to access; or alternatively, always use the "inherit profile" rule. Windows 8 can do sandboxing too now, but Ubuntu and Mac OS have been more securable historically. Oh, secure your network too, and not just your computer. This means securing all devices, including router (hub) and gateway (modem).

Okay, haha, joke's up. You can call off the angry mob now.

I don't quite understand the question, [...] A hypothesis (or theory) is a (unifying) explanation that can be used to make further predictions. Without one, you're just left with data. Data on its own is less meaningful. Data always depends on some aspect of the sampling procedure (how, where, when...... what). In addition, summary statistics, particularly measures of central tendency, may oversimplify a complicated pattern if a variable is not normally distributed, or if variables are oversimplified (e.g. yes or no). And statistics don't necessarily establish what causes the relationship. Remember that list from the opening post? I'm getting out of this thread now.

Does Altemayer propose any testable hypotheses? I mean anything that doesn't circle back to his self-rating scales?

It needs a Christmas tree (worm). http://youtu.be/4kGVfn0czK0?t=1m40s

How about, "Stars may seem charming and innocent, until they explode their stomach inside you."

Suspension feeders are so interesting... and so are star fish.

It went to pay within the last half of the year, but was published five years ago. it was full of nonetheless fascinating statistics about their sloppy sample of minor-philes, and I'm kicking myself for assuming I didn't have to make back-ups of research articles.

quick question This paper was free, but they've moved it behind the pay gate. Why might they have done this? Can pedophiles be reached for primary prevention of child sexual abuse? First results of the Berlin Prevention Project Dunkelfeld (PPD) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14789940903174188 I've linked to this paper to show that underage preferences are inversely related to adult-oriented preferences, with most of their convenience sample consisting of primary or exclusive-type pedophiles.

I think starlarvae's shtick is that differential success actually arises from physiology and the interaction of sequences rather than the environment. Of course differential success must ultimately trace to genetics, or else it wouldn't be selection. Yet Starlarvae doesn't see the modifying-role of environment that has diversified life on Earth.

Couldn't this also be said of a randomly occurring but still selective event? It seems that stochastic events will kill an individual regardless, but they don't kill everyone because they don't happen for everyone (the external variable). Yet this random event would still introduce just as much noise is it were selective, assuming it was at least selecting for something different.

Thanks, StringJunky. Edit: It didn't append.

Go ahead. I'll enjoy it when I get around to it.

Stochastic events have been assigned various features in the previous posts: They don't disrupt H-W equillibrium (Arete) except by causing genetic drift if they severely reduce the population (CharonY); they carry the risk of alleles blinking out of existence (Arete); they can overpower selection effects in small populations (chadn737) by introducing noise into the system (my guess). Some good equations could tie all this together (and answer my question of whether stochastic events actually favor H-W equillibrium).

This thread needs more equations.

You were one step ahead. It's there in the spoiler anyway.