I do, and I live in New York.
The short answer is “none”. Violinists play more technically and are generally associated with classical styles of music. Fiddlers tend to play more freely and are associated with more “folky” styles. Violinists tend to prefer non-metal strings while fiddlers prefer metal. The instrument itself is the same.
Having been one, I can attest to that! The joke was that one couldn’t walk in a bank and swing a cat by the tail without hitting 6 VP’s.
Not when I was in banking. I was a project manager with a VP title, as were my peers. We did not make anywhere near $100k (in those dollars or today’s)and were only “in charge of” our project. Banks liked to give title promotions in lieu of dollars.
Not my profession, but :
“This musical piece is slow. Must be easy to play.” :rolleyes:
Conversely, not all fast pieces are difficult to play.
Teacher here:
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Standardized tests are useless and are only there to set kids up for failure. The newest test where I live is outrageously cheap and difficult. Lots of “best” or “most likely” type questions.
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Teachers can do little to help children of neglect and even suspected abuse.
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We really do have to buy many of our supplies out of our salary. School spending is strictly audited and monitored by outside companies in order to report publicly how money is spent. Very little is allocated to supplies or anything.
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None of the lottery money comes to us, really. Well, it does, but they moved money out of the schools and replaced it with lottery money. John Oliver did a piece on this one. Those “900 million dollars to schools this year” signs are fraudulent.
Yep.
Large data statistician:
If you look at enough different connections between things, some of them will appear to be amazingly strong and real, even if the data is just random noise.
Examples here.
So much of this rings true. I use to work in a rapid response reporting group back in the day when data was on mainframes, and the software used to extract and manipulate said data was not easy/quick to learn. There was a core of 2 or 3 employees in this group, but we often hired a contractor or two when the load got particularly heavy. And management (not IT smart) never believed us that understanding the data was the biggest obstacle for a new hire in our group getting up to speed.
It was like this product called Intellect that allowed someone to get answers to questions written in plain English. The problem was that it was always give you “an” answer. It just wasn’t always the right answer. You had to understand the data to correctly formulate the question to get the answer you really wanted.
If I’ve learned anything in my current career that drives me crazy it’s this:
“No one in the financial services industry is working for YOU.”
QFT Karen Wetterhahn
If a company fails to pay its payroll taxes, a Responsible Person can be held personally liable for them. It can be decided there is more than one Responsible Person, and they can each be held personally liable for the total amount. And said liability cannot be discharged, even in a personal bankruptcy.
To expand on this, most medical schools use an oath that can’t even remotely be said to be an “updated version” of the Hippocratic oath. Inspired by it, maybe. But no medical school in the modern era has ever had students recite anything close to the original Hippocratic oath, which entails, among other things, swearing by the Greek gods and promising not to perform surgery.
In most types of exams, that lead apron isn’t protecting you. At all. It’s used so we don’t hear you ask “aren’t you going to put that lead apron on me?”
This one should be obvious to anyone, but apparently not, judging by the prima donnas I’ve had to deal with in the past. If there is a problem with your order or purchase, and you ask me to take care of it by screaming, pouting, cursing or yelling at me, I will give you the absolute minimum service that I can get away with. If you deal with me in a calm, reasonable manner - even if you’re telling me how unhappy you are, or how badly we screwed up - I am likely to go out of my way to resolve the situation for you, simply out of gratitude that you’re not throwing a temper tantrum.
If the problem is relatively minor - a late special order, or a dent in an appliance - we will probably offer you a discount. But at some point, the discount becomes so large that we actually lose money on the sale. At that point, it’s less expensive for us to cancel your order or installation altogether, and give you a full refund.
If you preface your demand for a discount or special treatment with “I spend X amount at this store every year”, I’ll assume the next thing you say is a lie, as well.
I’m not a Decision Analyst, but I did know this, mostly because one of my favorite books is Thinking, Fast and Slow. The anchor effect you describe is just one of many, many ways that human minds get things wrong. (Another example involving judges: at parole hearings they were more likely to rubberstamp-deny parole if they were hungry, more likely to consider the case and grant parole right after lunch.)
Fencing coach:
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[li]No, taking a few fencing classes won’t get your kid a scholarship to Harvard.[/li][li]Olympic fencers didn’t just take lessons and “learn the moves”. They’re also highly trained athletes in top condition.[/li][li]Qualifying for the Olympics is really, really hard. Taking lessons and Doing Your Best isn’t going to automatically qualify you, because every other competitive fencer out there is also Doing Their Best. If four people (in your weapon) have a Best that’s better than yours, you’re not making the team. Sorry.[/li][/ul]
I wanted to practice. I came to music a little later in life, and I’m not from a musical family, so it’s something I wanted to do.
Having spent about 80% of my working life in jobs that amount to customer service, amen Slow Moving Vehicle!
If there’s a mistake and you’re nice? I will do everything in my power to to fix it. If there’s a mistake and you’re a dick? I’ll be glad to do the bare minimum.
(The corollary? If you are a regular client who is always courteous and pleasant, regardless of whether you are a big spender, you get the hidden perks. The cashiers at one of my regular stores keep a product with a manufacturer coupon in the back for me, just because I’m a regular and polite. The kids at the nearest grocery store - who are really awesome anyway - make sure that I know about their unadvertised sales. I don’t spend huge, but I always admire the new class ring or hairstyle, or ask about them because they are lovely and interesting people, or wave someone ahead of me if I have a full cart and they have three items. I don’t do this because of the long-term benefits, but I don’t mind the benefits!)
There’s an easy way to remember. First, recall there are 5 kinds of accounts: assets, liabilities, income, expenses, and equity (yeah, you probably were taught there are six kinds. Every textbooks I’ve read says so, and every one of them varies as to what’s the sixth, and every “sixth kind” is a subdivision of one of the five). Now, all you need to remember is the right IDEA: Increase are Debits for Expenses and Assets.
That’s all there is to it.
What is the sixth kind? Genuinely curious.
I’m always drawing a distinction between Hollywood and reality for non-lawyers. In particular:
- most cases never go to trial, but are settled (civil) or pled out (criminal)
- most of those cool, dramatic questions on cross examination would be objected to, and the objections sustained, as argumentative, speculative, assuming facts not in evidence, asked and answered, or hearsay
- most criminal cases don’t have Buck Rogers hi-tech superscience involved
- many lawyers rarely go into courtrooms at all
- jury instructions can sometimes be the most important thing about a case, but nobody wants to see them read on the big screen
My cousin Jill is a music teacher. My aunt said that of all her kids, Jill was the only one who really loved to practice and was self motivated.
We are going through that right now with my children. They are almost 11 and nine, and while they like the idea of playing a musical instrument and sometimes it’s just difficult for them to keep motivated to practicing.