Hello and welcome to MIPTV and with me as always is Bob Cook from the Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy complete with Davros the Dalek behind him to help us with one of our book reviews and this book review is book review 16 isn't it Bob? Correct yes it certainly is. Yeah and this book is relational TA principles and practice. Quite interesting and from what I've heard from you in the preamble quite an important book in the history of TA. Yes in 2008 the 700th book on relational transaction analysis came out by Lina Hargedon and Charlotte. This book followed 2011 edited by Charlotte Seales and Heather Fowley and they bring together 15 or 16 of their contemporary colleagues who take a chapter each to talk about the principles of relational transaction analysis as they see it. Yeah and as I say it's sometimes called a relational turn isn't it in TA where that research that came from North Cross which was some research about the quality of the relationship being the arbiter of a successful outcome really kind of put TA on a different path isn't it? Yeah I suppose what we had North Cross was a researcher not particularly in TA but he and his colleagues researched and dialogue with many clients I don't know how many over a thousand and they found in this research that the relationship was the curative factor not the approach. Yeah. They would argue they didn't matter whether it was a gestaltist, an existentialist, a person-centered therapist that the relationship is pure you know the relationship is figure. That was late beginning the century early 1990s that decade and you had that phrase the relational turn because many of the different psychotherapy disciplines followed that research really and TA is no different. They were a bit later they started to explore the whole idea of the relational TA in 2002 and then they produced and I say they I mean hard to go to sales in 2008 this seminal book which won the Eric Burnman Award called Relationship TA and then this book I'm talking about here edited by Charles Sills and Heather Fowley really get their colleagues together from the relational school in TA to talk about different aspects different principles of their approach. Yeah and I get the sense of this book it's the important book because it kind of catalogues the turn and the theory behind the turn and more to the point how it's applied relationally. Yes. Because this is very different because if you sort of chart the other schools so if you chart Burn earlier you know late 60s if you like following with Catechsa School, Jackie Schiff following with the Redecision School with the Gouldings going up to the Integrative School with Richard Erskine in the late 1980s and then you know we have the move really to the relational school and reworking the transfers in the here and now so the methods are very different and the focus on the relationship and the transfers and reworking in the present really hallmarks the relational school of transaction analysis in the modern century. Yeah and when you talk about reworking the transference do you want to give us an example of that Bob? Yeah so classic transference, parent-child transference so Clare walks in the room and says gosh when you look at me like that I feel like I am three years old again being told off by you and I feel really young so the sort of classical way of working that in transaction analysis would be often to use the regression to go back to look at the deficits to explore the relationship of the parent and the younger child and what was missing back in the different time zone and the aim would be about looking at deficits and helping the person transform their defences in a different way however you go back in time yes well as to the relational school 2008 about the present time and actually reworking the transference then so what would happen there would be the therapist would say oh I'm actually not your mother though I hear you feel that I am and you have feelings about this actually I'm not let's look at what we can do in the relationship where there could be some sort of change here in the relationship in the moment so instead of staying in the here and now isn't it as opposed to going back to the there and then so very much a kind of here and now approach that's a really good example of the change so the book is relational TA it was published in 2011 a recent book by Heather Crowley and Charlotte Stills Heather Crowley and Charlotte Stills so it's relational transaction analysis principles in practice by Heather Crowley and Charlotte Stills and as I said they put together at least it's quite a big book really it's about 400 pages 16 of their contemporary colleagues talking about all the different principles of relational transaction analysis at a stem from 2008 yeah so an important book I would imagine for a student and also for someone who is practising practitioner maybe who didn't do didn't do that school who's taught a different skill to catch up on the latest ideas yeah and this school isn't easy for a therapist to master because you have to know yourself very well you need quite a lot of therapy you need to know your own kind of transparency you need to know what's being invoked in terms of in the moment because you're going to be using present time and you're going to be sharing a lot of yourself because the relationship between the therapist and client is key here yeah and that will come across I would imagine in the book as always Bob isn't doing this as a sponsorship it's not a paid review Bob's just sharing his love of literature for the audience and we will put a picture of the book and title of the book at the end of this video and a link in the description bar below so that people if they want to inspect it or get a copy and click on and they can go and find it so as always Bob Cook thank you very much thank you


Coming up on DTNS, Apple and Google cave to Russia, free streaming TV is on the rise and Utrecht plans to power its city with solar cars. This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, September 17th, 2021 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt and I'm Chris Ashley, co-hosting today on DTNS. Drawing the top tech stories from Cleveland, Ohio. I'm Len Peralta and I'm Roger Chang, the show's producer. We were just talking about our favorite burgers on good day internet. You want that wider conversation? You got to become a patron, patreon.com slash DTNS where you can join our top patrons like Justin Zellers, Eric Holm and Carmine Bailey. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. The Financial Times and Cyber Intelligence Group Cyberint released data from a recent investigation into Telegram that the messaging service has seen a 100% plus rise in Telegram usage by cyber criminals, following users switching to Telegram after a change in WhatsApp's privacy policy that asked users to accept a revised policy, allowing it to share data with its parent company, Facebook. So basically, like everybody else switched off WhatsApp, the criminals did too. An English inventor, Sir Clive Sinclair passed away at the age of 81. Sinclair was the inventor of the ZX series of computers, which were famous for being the UK's first mass-market home computer for less than 100 euro. He also invented electric vehicles, releasing the Sinclair C5 electric vehicle in 1985 and the Sinclair Zike electric bike in 1992. So rest in peace, my man. Microsoft announced it will release the perpetual version of Microsoft Office 2021 on October 5th for general consumers. It's available for enterprise right now. That's the version that doesn't get feature updates or cloud services, but doesn't require a subscription. You pay for it once, you can keep using it as long as you want. Microsoft is also testing a new Windows 11 photos app in its dev channel, offering a film strip of small thumbnails at the bottom of the window. When viewing an image, there's also a new multi-view feature to compare a selection of photos in a single window, and the editing toolbar now offers quick access to third party photo editors. WeChat updated its messaging service to let users link to previously blocked services from Taobao and ByteDance's video app, Dou Yun. This comes after the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology for large tech platforms in China warned tech companies to stop blocking links to rival services. OnePlus is bringing Hasselbad's cinematic X-Pan camera to the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro through a software update. The nine series cameras didn't initially offer much around OnePlus's multi-year collaboration with Hasselbad, but the new update adds an X-Pan mode for the OnePlus 9 series camera, as well as some patches. The X-Pan mode replicates the focal lengths, the colors and the processing of the original Hasselbad X-Pan camera for the phone, which lets users capture wide aspect ratio images right there from their OnePlus phone. All right, let's talk about Russia. The Russian government has ordered Apple and Google to remove an app called Umnoye Golosavnye, or smart voting. Umnoye Golosavnye. It was meant to guide supporters of Alexei Navalny and how to deprive President Putin's party, United Russia, of votes in regional and federal elections. Russia's communications regulatory agency Roskomnozoar ruled earlier this month that the app constituted election interference and warned that Google and Apple would be fined if they did not remove it. TikTok, Facebook, Telegram and Twitter have all been fined by Russia this year for failure to remove illegal content. So at first, Google and Apple held the line. After that warning, Baylifts visited Google's offices to enforce a court ordered measure against the app, but Google didn't budge. However, neither Apple nor Google removed the app until the government said it would prosecute Russian employees of the companies for violations of election law. It appears that rather than subject employees to imprisonment, the companies complied with that order. Chris, Apple and Google are taking a lot of heat for this today. A lot of people accusing them of caving to an authoritarian regime, etc., etc. Apple and Google, not really commenting a lot other than I think Google saying it's the law, we have to comply with the local laws. But some folks are saying you've you've stood up to other regimes. You've stood up to other countries. Apple famously wouldn't give in to the FBI of the United States. What made this different? Do you think? Yeah, well, you know, those companies have plenty to be held accountable for in the world of tech. But my God, guys, come on, let's step back for a second. There are employees who are about to be imprisoned for this. That this, you know, you can tell the line as much as you want. But once you start affecting your own employees' lives, that first off, you got to imagine the PR for that. It's going to be absolutely horrific. But just the humanity of that, you don't want employees being locked up because of a fight, you know, that that's not really your fight. You know, you can do the best you can to kind of effectuate change in other countries, but it's not your country and they have their rules. And honestly, the people have to rise up if they want to make that change. So don't put that on the companies. Yeah, the counter to that is this app was a way for the people to rise up. And now the companies are complicit in in making it harder for people to rise up if that's the case. I think you're right, though. If if I'm Tim Cook or Satya Nadella sitting in the United States, it'd be one thing if I were going to prison for this, you know, then yes, sure, maybe maybe I take a stand. It's another thing to say my employees didn't necessarily sign up for that. You know, when they signed up to be executives or app store reviewers in Russia, it's another thing to send them to prison in Russia, where I'm guessing their prison experience might be a little different than it is here in the hundred percent. And honestly, you know, now if they want to evacuate their employees and their families and then put the app back up, more power to them. But as long as you have people that, you know, the goal is not to make your own employees suffer. You know, so unfortunately, you know, when you have folks that try to rise up and try to make changes, they're going to be some obstacle in roadblocks along the way. That's to be expected. Hopefully they continue to fight and they continue to move and do what they can to get the country that they want. Well, that's the difficult position they're in now is Russia now knows, oh, if I threaten to imprison employees, I can get what I want. So I think rather than condemn Apple and Google for what they just did, I would look at what are you going to do now?  Are you going to do something else to counter this? Are you are you going to protest? You know, I don't know what you do, but it's now now it's Google and Apple's move to counter this so that they don't end up being like, oh, OK, so if you put in CSAM protections in Russia, Russia can just tell you to also use it for something else. That's, you know, the worries are things along those lines. Yeah, so hopefully they do do exactly that. They find another way to help and to allow these type of things. But yeah, I don't know if it's necessarily fair at this point to give them grief about the decision. It's the right decision to make. I it's I don't want to come off as excusing them, but I'm with you where I'm not sure they had another move at in this particular instance. Yeah, the here's some happier news. The Netherlands fourth largest city, Utrecht, famous for the piece of Utrecht wants to become the first region in the world with bidirectional electric vehicle power. That would mean in addition to the power grid charging vehicles, there would also be a system for what's called vehicle to grid or V to G charging, where cars send power back into the grid. Utrecht has ordered one hundred fifty bidirectional Hyundai Ionic fives by early twenty twenty two. Utrecht has also ordered a fleet of one hundred Scion S I O N solar electric vehicles from Sonomotors. Scion vehicles have fifty four kilowatt hour batteries and will work with Utrecht's five hundred bidirectional chargers since the solar car can recharge in the sun. It'll be able, when it's not driving itself, to feed up to eleven kilowatts into the grid. It can also directly charge other EVs or even power homes. All one hundred Scions combined could provide one point one megawatt peak power to the city. That's about the same as a photovoltaic plant the size of two football fields. And this is in Europe, but you know, soccer and a grid iron field about the same. So, you know, it works either way. The Scions and the Ionic fives will work with we drive solar solar powered car sharing system. So the way this works is they'll have these bidirectional vehicles charging themselves up and then feeding into the grid from their solar arrays until they're ready to be used by somebody who wants to drive them somewhere as part of this car sharing issue. So there's two parts of this that I absolutely love. One, this is technology that can remove the additional hesitation or excuses of why we shouldn't be going down this path at a faster rate, right? Because one of the things you constantly hear is how can the system handle charging all these cars? In fact, I was at the car wash the other day and I told her she lady was admiring my truck and I said, well, I put a deposit on the F-150 electric and she was like, I just wonder how the grid can handle all these, you know, power. So it's even just regular people, little lady, they all consider this. And you're like, well, actually, they'll be contributing to the grid. Love that. The second part that I love about this is not coming in five years or 10 years. They're talking about next year that they're starting to put these devices out. And that's the problem when you find you hear like a lot of these announcements. They're so far out, but this is not the case with this one. Love those two pieces. Yeah, I think this is really interesting to watch. Great that Utrecht is willing to try it. And I think it was in the Netherlands. It was somewhere in Northern Europe where they were testing roadways that could charge cars as you drove over them. So imagine if you throw that in the mix where the cars can charge not just from the sun, but from the road while they're driving. I there there is you could you could imagine a world in the future where, you know, cars are just always powered and range anxiety just becomes something we're like, oh, remember back in the old days when grandpa had to worry about range on his electric vehicle? Yeah, love it. Yeah, it's crazy. All right, tell us about this new Ikea line of furniture. So. Then. Ikea partnered with Asus to bring out a collection of gaming oriented furniture. And in October, it will launch for the rest of the world. Some of the items in the so called gaming range are existing Ikea items like pegboards, but there are few gaming specific items, including gaming chairs ranging from $69 to $349 gaming desk for around $599, as well as a CPU stand with wheels. There are also smaller accessories like a headset stand, mouse, bungee cord, mug holder, ring lights and mouse pad. So they definitely kind of went all out with this. There are the piece, the pieces come in black with red accents, which I love echoing Asus is raw gaming lineup. But you can also get some of them in white. There are about 30 gaming products across six product families. So I actually took a look at some of this stuff and the furniture. Not so exciting, but the accessories actually looked pretty cool. What do you think? Yeah, the furniture is pretty basic, right? It's Ikea stuff. So, you know, these chairs kind of look like office chairs with red piping on them. Yes. I imagine there's something more to it. But at first glance, it's probably not going to knock you out as a gaming chair. Although there's there's one of them that has like the diamond pads and the, and the, you know, the higher neck, which my wife has a gaming chair that she got for work from home kind of looks like that. So I don't know. Those are the kinds of things you definitely want to go try them out. You want to go to an Ikea and sit in one, right? So the file cabinet with a little hook on the side. I actually thought that one looked pretty cool from the furniture standpoint. But the most even though is like kind of resurfaced old stuff, which is what gaming items tend to be. The pegboard look pretty cool. The straps that they had to kind of strap up your keyboard or your controller. Although I don't know how you naturally charge your controller while it's strapped up there. But if you're going away for some time and you just want to pack everything up and keep it nice and neat. You know, I think some folks will enjoy this.  I'm actually been looking for one of those. So if anything, I might, I might actually scoop that. You're going to, you're going to get the headset hook. Or do you want to get the wooden block headset hand that holds your headset? They can't. I'm just going to do the hook is creepy hands sitting on my desk. I'm sure somebody's going to love it out there. And I apologize for that person. But yes, I apologize as well. But yeah, interesting nonetheless. I think the one that caught my eye the most was that that CPU stands with wheels and that's nothing new, but, but it looks solid, you know, and it's like, oh yeah, that's a great thing to have. You can just wheel that thing out. So I'm not sure what they're charging for the CPU stand though. I didn't find a price on that yet. But to be fair, you know, the lights do look pretty cool. Right.  So for a younger fella who, who doesn't mind having their whole room lit up in neon, you know, I could definitely see that as something that was pretty interesting. Now listen, we know we've got a few people who punched through the firewall in China and get the show. So if any of you tried this out because China got this earlier in the air and want to let us know what you think and to figure out how to get us an email, let us know. Feedback at daily tech news show.com or if anybody's jumping on it right away. And they're like, yeah, I went down to the IKEA immediately and bought some stuff. Let us know. Hey, if you like tech news, you're in the right place. First of all, we kind of assume you like tech news. If you're listening to us, you're going to want to check out The Tech John, J-A-W-N podcast featuring Rob Dunwood, Terence Gaines and Stephanie Humphrey. The Tech John takes a second look at the week's tech headlines delivered from an African-American perspective. Pilot episode received so much positive feedback during our Experiment Week that Rob has turned it into a full show. The first episode is out. You can go get it at thetechjohn.com. Again, that's T-E-C-H-J-A-W-N dot com. They talk about people stealing stuff on TikTok. They talk about the need for a dumb TV. They talk about ransomware at historically black universities like Howard. So go check that out, thetechjohn.com. Brand new podcast. You're going to want to have it in your feeds. Protocols sources say Google's planned to add free TV channels to Google TV and is currently in talks with several free ad-supported streaming television channels. This is similar to what Samsung, LG, Vizio, and Amazon do on their devices. The industry calls these kinds of services free ad-supported streaming television or fast channels. They usually show you a cable TV-like grid of free streaming channels. You can see this kind of presentation on Zumo, Pluto, or Roku's app. For Google TV, the free channels would reportedly appear in a dedicated live TV menu and show up alongside over-the-air programming on smart TVs. Google may have deals in place by this autumn, but may wait to launch the feature in 2022. Content makers have been experimenting with multiple fast channels that show up on multiple services. AMC Networks has a Walking Dead channel and a Portlandia channel. Smaller outfits like Rotten Tomatoes also offer free channels. So this is good, and the reason why I like it is because I looked at my last Hulu bill and almost fell out of my chair. It was over $70, and that was not what I started out with. So if content creators gravitate to this because it's just another way to kind of get their content out and they're making good stuff. I'm so ready to drop Hulu as well. It's so expensive, and I'm like right back where I was. You're getting the live TV service to be clear. Because some people are like, how do you spend $70 on Hulu? The live TV service is the bulk of that, I'm guessing, right? To be fair, yes, it is the live TV, but it didn't start out as that expensive. It was a great replacement for a direct TV, and now I'm just, you know, I'm looking for other content, and I don't really watch it that much. Direct TV, though. Oh, $100, right? Oh, easy, easy, easy. Yeah, so any avenue for folks, to creators, because there's a lot of talented people that may never make it through a network gatekeeper, but can use a service like this, and all of a sudden you're watching some hilarious stuff, you know, somewhere else, and I'm all for it. So, you know, alternative avenues as well is the ability to allow me to drop this price. I have a feeling that this might be where we're headed. The popularity of these free streaming channels is essentially the internet version of broadcast television versus Peacock, Netflix, Hulu, they're all the internet version of HBO Showtime, and in fact HBO Showtime are part of that too, right?  Like I get it on my device, and then I can choose, if I want, to add channels for premium shows. I can choose HBO Max, I can choose Peacock, I can, you know, I can choose one or one of the other of those. Instead of right now where everybody thinks, well, I have to pay to get everything. I think we'll get over that. I think people won't have to see everything because they'll have some free TV here. It's like, yeah, okay, maybe I don't get the walking dead early, but there's a whole channel of it so I can catch up. I think patterns, pattern behaviors might change because of that.  So, you know, the network content can take a rise.  So they don't even ask questions. So having alternative locations for a lot of these news folks to be able to put their content so they don't have to experience those type of takedowns would be an awesome thing to happen. Yeah. And Lyon Jim Video in chat asked a question I didn't even think of. He's like, does Google require subscription to its core channels to watch the free channels? And the answer is no. That's not though. None of these services do. If you get the Roku app or if you fire up Pluto or Zumo, you're just watching TV. Now, it's not the most recent thing. It's not like the premium HBO Netflix shows, but it's streaming right there for free. In fact, Fubo even has originals and stuff, and it's entirely free. It's ad supported. That's the rub, right? You have to sit through ads. Yep. Yep. Oh, and thank you. Thank you for mentioning rotten tomatoes where my wife works. Oh, she's actually in charge of that channel, which is why I wrote that in and made Chris say it. Oh my goodness. I need to disclose that. Slide that in there for you. No problem. A paper published Monday in the journal Nature Communications describes using an algorithm to discover why creative artists, painters, writers, filmmakers often have what are called creative hot streaks. CNET used Van Gogh as an example with his famous sunflower paintings or Star He Nights or the bedroom paintings. Those all came within a few years while most of his life's work is uncelebrated. He painted for decades. To examine these hot streaks, the scientists used algorithms originally designed for autonomous cars to scan creative works. For artists, it would look at things like brush stroke trends or linear orientation or the use of objects in the paintings. For film, it would look at things like cast selection. What genres did they work in? The plot structure. For scientists, they would look at which publications they were in. What kind of citations did they use? They analyzed thousands of examples of these hot streaks and came up with a pattern. The algorithms discovered that the hot streak manifest an artist that moved from what they call an exploratory period to an exploitative period. So some artists make this transition, some don't. But when an artist made this transition, they were likely to have a hot streak. The exploratory period is characterized by experimenting with diverse styles and topics.  You're not always doing it the same way. The exploitative period is more focused on a particular way of doing things. Artists that continuously evolve and experiment all the time or artists that are always focused on a single angle don't experience a hot streak. They may have celebrated works, just not all in a short period like Van Gogh. Other examples of the hot streak include Jackson Pollock's drip period between 1947 and 1950, or Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Van Gogh and Pollock both had a lot of variance and brush movements before their hot streaks. They were trying all different kinds of things. And Peter Jackson worked in a lot of different genres with a lot of different cash choices before Lord of the Rings when he focused. While this work identifies how a hot streak begins, the scientists are going to continue to do research and they hope to discover how to tell what sparks a hot streak before it begins, what causes artists to make that change, and possibly whether they can do things to maintain it for longer. Coming with the hits. Keep bringing the hits. This was really cool. When I first read it, I was like, okay, some more sciency stuff. But when I started thinking about, these movies, they just mentioned movies and stuff like that as far as where they've already taken the science. I just started thinking about, okay, look at your favorite hip hop artist and when you have these records that are trash and then all of a sudden, boom, the next three records are out of this world and then they go back to making trash sports. When a player comes up and then all of a sudden he's unstoppable, just name your sport and your athlete. It happens quite a bit. Being able to extrapolate this and then if it becomes something that small companies can take on, it's like, okay, you got your small company and then all of a sudden you kind of, because you think about it, what they said makes sense.  This is just science and hopefully something more comes out of it. And the technology of this, obviously, is this is something that maybe now you could say like, I could have figured that out but you didn't. Until they could look at the algorithm and until they could have the algorithm look and go like, oh no, no, we're finding that transition. We're finding that point where things change and we're finding it across different disciplines. We're finding it in painters, we're finding it in filmmakers, we're finding it in scientists. I'm talking right now, I'm like, maybe Jay-Z just kind of knows this and that's why he's like, yeah, my hot streak's over. That's why I'm not making any more albums, right? Just in business now, I'm good. Yeah, exactly. Maybe he's going for a new hot streak in business, right? And maybe that's the answer, you can have multiple hot streaks, maybe not all in the same discipline but you can manage that transition. I don't know, that's fascinating. All right, earlier this week, I'm going to give you an overview of LED, the DV LED Home Cinema Display lineup which ranges from a 108 inch HD screen up to a 325 inch 8K panel that'll only cost you $1.7 million and weighs more than 2,000 pounds so the shipping will also be very expensive. LG reserved these displays in the past for commercial buyers but they've decided to start selling them to I say anybody, anybody that can afford $1.7 million. So if you have the cash, now you can buy one. The displays use LEDs with some using smaller micro LEDs according to CNET. That's not unlike what we've seen from Samsung's The Wall or Sony's Crystal LED lineup. I feel like these really are the way of taking these big commercial displays and starting to make the transition into the home, right? You sell it to the millionaires first to kind of prove the concept and work out the kinks and then eventually you scale it down to something that maybe you or I could afford. Yeah, so I definitely put a deposit on one to get it in my third lifetime. Can you do a live with it on that? Yeah, that'd be great. Right on. And first I thought, you know, this is a flex so that folks can say I got the biggest TV but now I'm like, well, you know, COVID's still there so all they're doing is doing this so people can watch TV from their own home sent to somebody else's home. Yeah. You know, in a way this kind of reminds me what American General did the makers of the Hummer vehicle when they originally just sold to the US Government and a very famous action movie star was starting to drive one around Hollywood and suddenly there was a lot of consumer interest in the Hummer and that kind of segued that particular product into a broader audience. You know, they're looking at, hey, you're building a new house. You might want a wall that has this. Right.  Oh, man. Well, if anybody out there gets one of these, please let us know. Feedback at dailytechnewshow.com and support us on Patreon if you're that person too. If you're people who support us on Patreon, you don't have to be able to afford a $1.7 million TV to do that and even though we broke our streak yesterday, we've started a new one thanks to James White and Turning Bones, brand new bosses backing us on Patreon, keeping us above the zero level, making sure that they're picking up for the people who are, you know, maybe struggling a little and can't keep supporting the Patreon. So thank you, James White. We'll be back in us on Patreon and starting the new streak. Who will keep the streak going tomorrow? Let us know by becoming a Patreon. Patreon.com Thank you, Len Peralta for being with us to illustrate today's show. What have you drawn today, Len? You know, I hope I haven't hit my hot streak yet, but maybe this image is the start of it. You know, you forget I'm also a graphic designer, right?  But here you have all these, you know, they have all these names of their furniture. Oops, I'm not going to try them. Well, match spell match spell and then underneath it says your party has logged on. So are these names of the furniture or are these screen names? Or are they? I don't know. I guess it's for us to figure out. But if you're into Ikea and you like ads, graphic design ads, you can get this right now on Instagram, or actually at my online store, which is where there's all kinds of other great stuff you can pick up for yourself. So check it out and go Ikea. Yeah. And in case it's not obvious Ikea didn't pay or any of us. Let's just doing this for kicks. But they should hire you honestly. Definitely, I agree. Chris Ashley, thank you, my friend for being with us today. What do you got going on to tell the folks about? So the newest episode of the SMR podcast just went up. Go on and check that out. Me and Rob doing a chicken wings and beer version, which is a lot looser. If it can't get any looser. And because you ask for it, it's coming very soon. 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It is now time for member's statements. Member for Muskegawak James Bay. Merci Monsieur. Thank you Mr. Speaker. The elderly people in the north of Ontario and distressed Mr. Speaker. There's not enough space in the long-term care houses and this is causing a lot of stress for those residents. You heard the Minister for Health who talked about more spaces but it's not the case for the north of the province. We have an aging population, much more than the rest of the province. Most of the regions are isolated from urban centres. Communities such as hers Mr. Speaker have a four-year waiting list when the average in the province is 140 days in caposcasing. The waiting list is three years Mr. Speaker. When the average is 140 days in the province it's unacceptable. How could members of my community wait for that long? I believe that the Minister should listen to us and she should restore an average that's closer to the provincial average and she should open more spaces whether it be in her store in caposcasing. Our community is in distress. We need additional spaces Mr. Speaker. Three and four years waiting time is unacceptable when the average is 140 days. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Member Stavins, the Member for Berry Springwater, the transition into spring means the beginning of tapping season for maple syrup producers in Ontario. The iconic maple tree in the syrup it provides is found everywhere in our kitchen covers, backyards and on the nation's flag. This cultural symbol and local economic driver is proudly produced and celebrated in my writing as it is in many other writings. On April 27th I'll be attending the 54th annual Elmville Maple Syrup Festival in the Township of Springwater. This historic community event gives local syrup producers an opportunity to sell their products and educate over 30,000 visitors on the history and practice of their craft. It's a great example of the kind of community support we find in small towns across Ontario. For 10 months the Volunteer Committee works tirelessly to organize. Over 90 different community partners donate everything from money to flowers to prizes and parking spots. And each year the community holds a banquet after the festival and they donate over $20,000 in proceeds to local schools, libraries, charities and extracurricular programs in the community. Mr. Speaker, since 1966 the people of Springwater have volunteered their time, effort, talent and money to help build their community from within. This year's festival is set to be the biggest yet with a variety of activities including the annual log sawing competition for dignitaries. I still need a partner so if you're as good at cutting wood as you are at cutting red tape please give me a call. I want to thank the volunteers and organizations that make this important community event possible every year. I wish you all a healthy and bountiful harvest season. Thank you. Thank you. The member for Niagara Centre. Thank you Speaker. Recently I had the privilege of meeting with Lisa Burketto, administrative coordinator with the Niagara Region Sexual Assault Centre. She described the dire straits they find themselves in due to lack of proper sustainable funding. We are living in a time where more victims and survivors of rape, sexual violence and sexual abuse are choosing to speak out about their experiences. However, many cannot access the support they want and need, including free counselling services because there is an ever growing waiting list. This agency is most certainly grateful for the funding that is provided from the Attorney General's office. The rest of their funding comes from generous local donations, grants and fundraising activities. Administration is bare bones accounting for 11% of its budget. They now have no idea what additional funds there will be for this year. We need to ask ourselves why is it that in this period of heightened awareness and with a stated government commitment we cannot ensure that help is available. We have a social responsibility to all victims and survivors to make sure they can access properly funded services. As noted by Ms. Burkettow during our meeting, with unprecedented growth in demand coupled with the lack of funding resources, this agency's very existence is threatened and that will have dire consequences for victims and survivors. This government must provide the Niagara Regional Sexual Assault Centre with sustainable multi-year funding so that it can continue to carry on with the work it's been doing across our region for over 40 years. Thank you, Speaker. Thank you. The member from Mississaugamal. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. University Health Network Toronto is one of the top five organ transplant hospitals in the world. Eighty-five percent of Ontarians are in favour of organ donation. Yet, 1,600 Ontarians are waiting for our life-saving organs. Every three days, someone in Ontario dies waiting for a transplant. Ms. Speaker, one organ donation can save eight lives and through tissue donation can enhance the life of 75 individuals. Hockey legend Don Cherry's son Tim was saved by an organ transplant. Under the leadership of Premier Mike Harris in 1999, Don Cherry became the head of a new advisory board on organ donations. Ms. Speaker, by registering to become a donor, we have the power to save or change someone's life. In my writing of Mississaugamal, there are 27 people waiting for the transplant. I'd like to acknowledge Amar Karma, an organ and tissue donation advocacy group from my writing, along with Trillium Gift of Life Network, who here have been working tirelessly to increase registration and awareness for this cause. Thank you so much for doing this. Every April, Ontarians celebrate Be Our Donor Month, a time in which all Ontarians are encouraged to show their support. And, Mr. Speaker, Mississaugamal is ranked fifth in registrations. But still, there are over 500,000 health card donors which have not registered. I encourage everyone, please register yourself through www.beourdonor.ca. I hope and I wish that we have plenty of donors so that no one, and I repeat, Mr. Speaker, no one has to die waiting for an organ transplant. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members statements, a member for Waterloo. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. In early December, the Ministry of Health suddenly moved the Cambridge Ambulance Communication Centre to Hamilton due to staff shortages. The relocation was supposed to help. Instead, it made things worse. Hamilton Dispatch was not equipped with auto-locate technology for Waterloo region, and an ambulance was set to the wrong location. Last month, when I asked the Minister of Health about this, she said she is working to modernize and strengthen the system since then no progress has been made. In fact, the Ministry has made things worse. Here is an update from the frontline Cambridge staff in Hamilton. The workplace is hectic and unhealthy. Staff are unable to take breaks and are being denied vacation time. Unsurprisingly, this has led to staff taking more stress leave. As of last week, Cambridge Dispatch was short 20 staff. Managers told them by March 17th, 12 new people would be hired. That date has come and he has gone. No new staff have walked through the door. Provincial Dispatch staff are asking for wage parity with OPP dispatchers so that they can actually retain staff, full-time hours for new staff rather than partial contract hours, and the same equipment that they need to do their job. The Minister of Health is fully aware of the severity of the crisis with Cambridge Dispatch. And by not using the information at her disposal to address these issues, her ministry is knowingly putting people at risk. We believe frontline ambulance dispatchers deserve so much better than an unresponsive ministry. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Member Statements, the member for Ottawa Vanier. Merci, Monsieur le Président. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm happy to speak, to talk about events in Ottawa Vanier on Saturday. At nine in the morning last Saturday, there was a competition for spelling. It was organized by PAPA that wants to support the success of African-Canadian young people. This organization attracts people who want to compete in the spelling. And I had the occasion to come back around 4 p.m. to listen to the last round of this Francophone spelling bee and the finalists went 12 rounds without any mistake. That's very impressive. That's very impressive. Stints at Ipenmois, Canada, I attended another incredible event which was Let Your Voice Be Heard that's organized by the Ottawa Inuit Child Care Inuit Youths. They took the stage and talked about their lives, their culture, their desire to unite to prevent suicide, moving testimonies were offered, and we had great Inuit hip-hop. And we also heard wonderful lullaby and love songs and throat singing. We were fed traditional food. It was a wonderful day. And next Saturday, there is a sugar bush, a museum park in Vanier. It is the only functioning sugar bush in an urban environment. So I look forward to seeing you next week, Saturday in Ottawa Vanier. It's always snowing. Thank you. The member for King Vaughan, the member for Mississauga East Cooksville. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. It is my honor today to highlight in this house the accomplishment of three young women from my riding of Mississauga East Cooksville who are here today. The three bright young students Aditi, Liz, and Leticia from TL Kennedy Secondary School will be heading to Orlando, Florida to compete in the international DACA competition. DACA is an exciting business club that has over 180,000 members with chapters all over the world. DACA allows students to participate in conferences and compete in regional, provincial, and international competitions. This year, Aditi, Liz, and Leticia will be representing their school, our province, and our country internationally. I was proud to hear about the three students who showcased their exceptional leadership and communication skills during the regional and provincial competitions. They have now qualified to compete at the international level. Their hard work and dedication has paid off. The young girls are looking forward to representing not only Ontario, but Canada at the International Career Development Conference in Florida. Let us all together wish them the very best and congratulations to the three TL Kennedy DACA members, Aditi, Liz, and Leticia as they head to Florida this month. Member Statements. The Member for Nickelbelt. Thank you, Speaker. Did you know, Speaker, that this Monday, April 1st, the Ford government changed the drug coverage for kids in Ontario. Without much fanfare, they decided that hundreds of thousands of kids would no longer qualify, and now their families are finding out. Today, a family from Blind River found out that their 10-month-old daughter, who needs special dairy-free formula, is no longer covered, and they will have to pay $700 a month to keep her alive. For the families with premature babies who need hypercaloric formula, it is $400 a month, and for the kids with special needs being fed via G-tube, it could be up to $1,600 a month. Speaker, the great majority of drug plans do not cover the special formula that feeds preemie, fragile infants, or kids with special need. The medication and nutrients they need were covered until March 31st, but it isn't anymore. Now, families of premature babies, babies with special needs, are finding out the hard way that the government has cut them off with no warning, with no consultation. What does this government has against babies and children, Speaker? The minister seems to be making changes on the fly without thinking of the consequences, and these families are finding out that things are going from bad to worse. The NDPs knows how to fix this, Speaker. It is called Pharmacare, a universal drug program for all Ontarians, where you get the medicine you need, even if you're 10 months old and don't own a wallet. Thank you, Speaker. Member Statements, the member for King Vaughan. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in the township of King, there are disturbing reports of poisoning of dogs taking place in and around Memorial Park in King City. Your equation of police have issued a statement asking for the support of the public in apprehending those involved in what is really a disturbing allegation. Now, the township is taking action to communicate to residents, to post signs, and to help ensure family owners of dogs are safe. Now, the individual, two individuals, have been apprehended, but we must remain vigilant. All of us have a role to play. The safety of our animals is important to us all, and dog owners and King and Vaughan know that I stand with you and support tough penalties for those that harm our pets. I know many of you love your dogs and they're part of your family, and I have fond memories of a German shepherd I owned for many years, I had for many years that brought me great affection as a youngster. So I'm asking each person watching to be part of the solution to remain vigilant to please contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS. Thank you, Speaker. Member Statements, the member for Scarborough Agent Court. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to my friend, the member for Oakville North Burlington for tabling Bill 77, the Hellenic Heritage Month Bill. I want to thank her for this very important piece of legislation. I believe that recognizing the Hellenic community and their contribution to Ontario is very important and timely. Mr. Speaker, since the arrival of the first Greek immigrants to Ontario during the early 20th century, the community has contributed immensely to social and cultural makeup of this great province. Greek cultural organization, businesses and religious institutions have historically played an important role in making Ontario what it is. On a personal note, I am the son of Armenians, a culture and society very much linked in culture and history of the Hellenic community. In fact, my maternal grandmother was Greek. I lived in Athens for two years, and as a young man, I was able to experience Greek hospitality, warmth and friendship. I learned to speak the Greek language and was able to immense myself in a culture and society that has left me with memories that I will carry with me for the rest of my life. On a final note, as we celebrated Greek Independence Day, we also had to recall the 100th anniversary of the horrific genocide that the Pontian Greeks experienced during the dying days of the Ottoman Empire. As the grandson of the survivor of the genocide, I want to mention that this bill will helpfully contribute to the healing of the people that are still living with that horrific memory today. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you very much. I think the member for early on has a point of order. Yes, Mr. Speaker, and I'm terribly sorry, but I have a guest who's here and I just would like to recognize today with us, Mark Henshel, who's here for the introduction of a private member's bill that I will be tabling. So I would like us to welcome him in our literature. Merci. Thank you very much. Reports by committees.


Just to recap before I start so we saw there are different types of measurement error The main one is random error, so that means when people are not consistent So we asked them the same thing the true score is the same So let's say attitudes towards immigrants is the same, but somehow they're not consistent So sometimes they're slightly more positive. Sometimes they're slightly less positive So that we would call random error and then we talked about systematic error Which me and Daniel don't really like that or validity or So that's when for example, I ask you using one method So for example, I use a 10-point scale and you tend to kind of always be higher more positive than when I use a 5-point scale Okay, and that's systematic because of the way I ask you just because of the response scale So that's the way while how in survey methodology we usually conceptualize the method So a systematic effect due to method is because of the response scale and then we saw for Tobias That's quite different. So what they are looking at the method is actually the rater But actually the method that you used to estimate that is the same So for us you can think of the different ways to ask the question is the same as using different raters There are different methods to collect the data And we don't really use interchangeable methods like you use so all our methods are kind of fixed so that's a difference and another nice similarity with what Tobias was talking about is that This work that is with with Daniel Obersky Is actually we're also going to this direction of designing The questions and kind of manipulating them in order to estimate measurement error So it's also really design based and then the model is really based on kind of the design or experiment We we built on top of it Okay, so we have some concepts we want to measure so for example in this cartoon How was your pain today? and then what we're saying when I say method effects in In survey methodology we mean that if I use a different scale instead of the smiley faces I would get different results But as you look at this image you realize that maybe that is not the main issue with asking this question Yeah, there might be other reasons why you wouldn't give a true score So for example there might be some kind of peer pressure to answer in a particular way Yeah, so that's what we call Social desirability in survey methodology. Yeah, so we want to present ourselves in a positive way And we really don't say the the truth So a nice example of that is asking people how many sexual partners they have Men tends to overestimate and female tend to underestimate and you'd think somewhere in between the true score should Should be there, but yeah, so that would be systematic error due to social desirability We also have other types of measurement error. So for example, there's something called acquiescence or yes saying So let's say you don't really want to think about the questions anymore And you just agree with whatever the person asks you and again That's not very good measurement, right because it's kind of it's not related to what I ask and it's it's just It's systematic because you always agree, but it's not really what you want to measure so the methods we saw so far the Multi-train multi-method actually makes a important assumption. It says that the only Systematic bias we get in our answer is because of this But we know that's not true There's a huge research in survey methodology that we know social desirability is a issue We know acquiescence is a issue. There are other things like extreme response styles and so on So the question is well are these methods correct if we assume that everything is missing when we have this huge literature That says they're present Okay, so that's kind of what we're trying to do We're trying to get rid of these two main assumptions of the methods for dealing with measurement error So one is that they look at one type of measurement error at the time and then often they either look at means or variances MTMM is quite good because you can do both of them, but test retest for example, just look at random variation and other types of Designs that are common in survey methodology like split-ballot designs. You can only look at mean differences You can't look at the amount of variation that is systematically biased So our aim is try trying to figure out. How can we move away from the methods that exist so far and try to bypass these assumptions So we're going to develop something on top of the MTMM In which instead of assuming there are only two sources of correlated variation We're going to try to estimate multiple sources of correlated variation or systematic variation And one one issue with a lot of the multi-train Multi-method that Melanie didn't really have time to mention is that the order is not randomized So we saw that actually memory effects might be important So one way to get rid of that because we have two measures from the same individuals We could randomize the order of the question So that's one way to get rid of this assumption of non-random presentation that the MTMM has So what I'm going to do is I'm going to walk you through an example how we develop this new method, which you call the multi-train multi-error So first of all I want to thank Understand Society because they collected this data for us for free and As you see we have 56 experimental groups I think they regretted that they agreed to do this after they started programming this experiment But we're really grateful because as you see we can do things that I don't think anybody ever did before with measurement error So what we have is we have a wave. I'll just look at one wave of the Understand Society It is a household representative sample. It has around 2000 people and it used mainly for methodological research Okay, so a lot of the things that will go in the main survey of Understand Society will be tested in the innovation panel So what we have is our empty ME experiment, which I'll explain in a minute We're trying to measure attitudes towards immigrants and the reason why we chose this is because it's a very difficult topic to measure We know attitudes are Yeah, they're biased by really small things like the way you ask we know it can be a sensitive topic So social disability might be a problem. So that's why we kind of went for like the most difficult thing you can measure and then I'm going to explain how we ended up with 56 experimental groups and As Melanie mentioned we have to have two measures of the questions for the same individual. So People would be asked the questions at the beginning of the survey and then at the end of the survey in slightly different ways And in between there will be around half an hour of survey Yeah, there's some limited research saying that 20 minutes is enough But that's one of the assumptions of the methods. So keep that in mind So one way to deal with that is again, like I mentioned we randomize the order of the forms So these are the questions which are very popular. They appear in the European Social Survey and EVS a number of large surveys. So first you have Free questions. So for example the UK should allow more people of the same race or ethnic group as most British people And then you change this italic part with different people of different race and ethnic group and so on And then we have three more questions here Do you think that immigration in general is good for UK's economy or for UK's cultural life and so on? So these are the six questions we want to ask and they Yeah, they measure attitudes towards immigrants So so far we saw that in order to estimate MTMM you have to kind of Randomize the method that you use so we can use two points and five points And then we see if they agree or not and that's how we estimate method effects But what we are thinking well, why just randomize one thing? Why don't we randomize multiple characteristics of the questions at the same time and estimate multiple types of systematic errors? So for example instead of just manipulating the method Which we did using either a two point or a eleven point scale. We also Manipulate two other things so for social desirability what we do is we change the stem of the question So for example here the stem is that the UK should allow more people of the same race And what we did is we randomize if they have if they get allow more or allow fewer and The the idea behind this that we kind of imply was the social norm We're kind of saying most people think that this is the social norm And if they tend to answer in a socially desirable way, they tend to agree with the rest of the people So that's kind of subtle. So we say, okay We'll see if that works or not and the other thing that we manipulated is if the response scale is agree Disagree or disagree agree and again the idea is that if it's agree disagree people would tend to agree easier It's easier to agree with that and you tend to get more acquiescence Yeah, so if we combine these we actually get eight ways in which you can ask the same question So here is just the first question UK should allow fewer people of the same race. So the first wording Social desirability is higher. It has a two point response scale It is agree disagree and it's negatively worded. So it has fewer in it So these people were asked the negative question and then the response scale was agreed disagree with two points The second way in which I can ask the question is wording to it's again two points agree disagree But now it's positively worded. So we should allow more and then Wording free is 11 points agree disagree negative. So these are all the different ways in which we could we could add the same question Yeah so these are The wordings and what we did is people got one wording at the beginning and one wording at the end and Then this was randomized. Yeah, so if you combine all of these all possible combinations, you get 56 experimental groups So this is what we did in our in our design Okay, so Do I have one of these graphs? Oh, yeah, of course I have one of these graphs So I won't go into it actually this is not the entire one. So this is one question. Yeah, so this is question one Question one wording one question one wording two until wording eight and this is similar to what we saw before So we have a true score which basically says well these some have to be consistent somehow They're all the same question about the same topic. They have to measure the same thing Then we're saying well for example these these two and these two are Measured with eleven point scale. So they have something in common because they have the same response scale So this is what we call the method effect And then social desirability and acquiescence is the same. So they're We call the loadings depending if they're for example positively worded or negatively worded. Yeah, and Acquiescence if they're agreed is agree or disagree agree So I won't go into the details of this if you want to discuss this I'm very very happy to discuss it, but I have a feeling that you might have enough of these graphs by the end of this session Okay, so now on to the results So we can estimate both systematic We can estimate both mean bias and variance bias. So that's kind of one advantage of this method So the way to read these numbers is that if I give you a degree disagree versus disagree agree You'll have a shift in the mean of the response of one of zero point twenty five standard deviations That's just because it's a greed is agree versus disagree agree Okay, the same for social desirability if I change one word So if I say fewer instead of more I have a shift in the mean of the observed item by point 18 standard deviation and The same for method actually if I if I use a 11-point scale I tend to be less extreme than if I have a two-point scale an average by point 47 Okay, and this could go in different directions depending on how the question is asked But at one extreme all of them could go in the same direction and you could have a shift of one standard deviation Just because of the way you asked which is slightly concerning for measurement There you go The next thing that we did which is kind of exciting is to decompose the variation so we have We have the total variation of a question and we want to know how much of it is actually what we want to measure What we were calling true score before or trait and how much is these other types of errors So this is kind of over all the questions and all the different ways to estimate things This is the average result. So an average the actually the valid The proportion of valid variation we get is around 60% and all the rest is is biased Okay The biggest part is random error So and this is similar actually to what we found in other studies in survey methodology Which is around 20% and then we have the rest of the systematic errors okay, and Again, we never were able to do something like this before until now we always for example We only had method and we assumed that there were were not there And the nice thing with this is that now we know how important is method compared to others Yeah, and also it gives us an idea. What are the best ways to ask a particular question? So for example if I want I have six questions if I want to find out which is the best question Which question should I use? Well, I can decompose do the same decomposition for each question And I see for example the worst question is this one the first one where more than 50% is is biased variation Yeah, and we see the last three questions are actually better than the first three So this would be an indication. Well, maybe we should just use the last three questions And maybe we should do something about the first three Another way to look at this is well We had the eight different ways to ask the question So I can do the same decomposition Depending on the different wordings. So that will give me an idea. What is the best way to ask these questions? So here we see that actually the main difference is between wordings one two Five and six compared to the others and the main difference between this is these are two point scales Versus 11 point scales. So actually our finding is that the two point Scales are better than the 11 point scale and one thing that is hidden here is that actually The two point scales has less variation, right? So this is kind of the hidden thing here two point scale less variation But more reliable versus 11 point scale more variation, but more bias Okay Okay, and then actually we can do a combination and see well is some wordings better for some questions than others So I won't go into details, but this is kind of an example of what you can do Okay, so the next thing that I'll do is I'll chat a little about the longitudinal aspect So I'm not even going to try to show you the graph of how to estimate that But what I did basically is the same model in three waves So it's really nice because understand the innovation panel is a panel. So we have multiple waves of the same People so we can actually look and see what happens longitudinally So what I did is did the same model for all the three waves and try to see how is Systematic error changing in time and again, I don't think we really did this before so let's see some of the results So on the left we have the mean of the different types of systematic error So acquiescence method and social desirability and on the right we have the variance So the variance is what we use in the decomposition of the variance and this is what we estimated initially for the mean bias So actually none of the differences are systematic So it means that there's no systematic change for any of these so it means they're stable in time Okay, so this is one of our findings that For example, none of these Goes in significantly up or down in time So that kind of contradicts Panel conditioning so panel conditioning says actually people get better at answering questions in time So we expect some of maybe some of the systematic biases to go down. That's not really what we found Another way to look at this is again We have for example the questions and then we have the decomposition by wave underneath and We see that the sizes of these systematic errors are similar, but actually the sizes of the random errors tend to go down Okay, so these on the other hand supports the panel conditioning Hypothesis that people have are yeah more reliable in time the more you ask the same question the more reliable they are And then yeah, you can do more complicated things so you can have a combination like I said a combination of the wording and the The question by wave and again you can see if there are different patterns for different kind of combinations Okay, so this is kind of the conclusion So we me and Daniel proposed this method called the multi-train multi-error and we show that it's possible to estimate multiple types of measurement error at the same time and Actually, this is just an example of the design you can use so our what we're saying is that if you think you have a type of systematic Measurement error in your question just manipulate that and try to estimate it Okay, it doesn't have to be this complicated It could be simpler as long as you have a hypothesis about the measurement error you expect Then we saw that you need this kind of within experimental design So the same people have to answer multiple times and you assume you don't have any memory effects And one way to make that more plausible is to shift the order of the forms. So there's no systematic bias For the substantive conclusion, we saw that random error is the highest non-trade variance Which is kind of encouraging because a lot of the methods we have for measurement error only estimate Random random error. So it means that already that's a good thing if we can estimate and correct for random error We're halfway there We saw that the correlated errors or the systematic errors have an impact both on the mean and the variances And we saw they can be quite big so up to one standard deviation shift in the mean and up to 50% of the variation Which is kind of concerning for the social science as I would say Then we saw that I didn't really talk about this but we saw that the methods so actually the scale you use Influences both the reliability and the amount of social desirability So we actually found more social desirability if you use a 11 point scale then if you use a two point scale But I didn't really go into depth to that with that and Then the final conclusion was that systematic errors do not change in time Although random errors seem to decrease in time. So there's some partial support for the panel conditioning hypothesis So, yeah, do we solve all the problems in the world using the super complicated models? so probably not so I think we get some insight about the questions and The kind of the best ways to answer to ask questions and also about the trade-off So we can see okay method of how big is method effect compared to something else But then there are some disadvantages. It's quite hard to program and estimate this method So, yeah, it will be yeah, it's hard to convince other people to use it But again, we argue that you can do a smaller version of this Something like MTMM or a little more complicated than the MTMM in order to really understand your data and the measurement error Okay, that's it. Thank you


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I saw like one of the projects you worked on, Get Her Place, Sweaterify, and it kind of amazed me that looking at code from a sort of artistry point of view, like code as an art form or as a medium and what you think about that.  The way I came across was that when I was making knitting pattern, knitting come in two forms. It's like a graph paper, pretty much visualise the blueprint of what it's looked like or it comes in like form of written instruction. So it's, you know, cast on this much stitches and then knit this pattern, it's in like a written language. And what I noticed was that it is really close to code, it was very much knitting code.  I was a JavaScript developer back then, so, you know, I can do it in JavaScript. And that's how that it kind of got started. But then I realised that I can quickly iterate my creative process because it is in code and it's like all the valuables are all in, you know, in the place. I can tweak the valuables, I can see what it's like in, you know, 100 different versions and I find it really interesting. Then I discovered like a creative coding community that does like a generative art. So it's, the art is the output, but then they write code and they kind of like experiment with different algorithms and tweak the valuables and then like see what happens. It's like really different approach from software engineering. In software engineering, I worked as a software engineer. It's just like, you don't really want unexpected result. There was a target that you need to hit. It's all defined and then you write a code for it. But then when you think about the coding as a creative process, you kind of start to introduce like a fun to like, oh, what if I change that to negative one? And the fear of the unknown, right? You're embracing, I know I want to create something interesting, but I have no idea what that is. And then you just let the sort of the pieces fall where they may.   I just, I don't understand how anyone can, not necessarily literally sketching could be anything like writing code, comments, whatever. But I mean, how do you, because that's the best, if I find so difficult to understand is I look at the code and it looks like looking at the matrix. I don't understand how you get from, it's almost like, you know, write code, question mark, profit. Do you know what it means? It's like, how do you actually get to, what's the process of actually designing the thing? Designing the thing. So I feel like there was like iteration, like, you know, they let anything with anything, there was like a iteration of stuff. But I started with paper, actually, so I have an idea. If it was, I was creating like some kind of art, a visual or something, I would go for like, I want to have this circle on this page or like, you know, kind of like a visual set. I like, I pretty much, it comes from like a visual mindset. So I can't start from logic. I just start from like, here's the thing I want to see on the screen. Glanted, it will not end up like that at all at the end. But then I get to code after I have like some basic ideas of how my visual wants to look like. And then there is like another design iteration of negotiation between whatever technology that I'm using, usually browsers and, you know, JavaScript and web API that like, I thought I wanted to make this interaction on paper, but it doesn't really work on browser because I changed the medium and that's my medium. And negotiation between technology and my creativity of like, can I, how can I achieve what I wanted to do in my head on this medium that is usually built browser for me. And sometimes it's impossible or sometimes it's not reasonable to do the interaction that I thought I want to make on my head or paper and I'm like, all right. And then sometimes I discover like a new API or like a new thing in browser and being able to like, oh, actually I can change that. This is quite interesting. I can change my original design to do something different. So it's usually ended up like a completely different thing from what I originally sketched, but I quite enjoy the discussion and negotiation between technology and me. Yeah. Kind of like a game of like, I have this plan. Can I do this in browser and will browser let me do this? If not, can I find a loophole? Is there like, you know, kind of clearing up the level? I'm playing a game basically with the technology, trying to discover what is possible and what is it? But I mean, also you can often take lessons learned from that. Yeah. I mean, it may not be like you're doing some generative pattern, but it's like a technique or coding thing that you can bring back in, which is like, you know, invaluable, right? Totally. Totally. I learned so many things that I like code snippets that I like ended up using in my production code for my job, you know, it's. So do you recommend knitting as a way to learn how to do it? I do. It's quite a lismic, quite algorithmic process. It's I recommend anybody to do it. It's quite binary knitting. I'm going into super geeky stuff. But in knitting, there's two versions of stitches, which is like pulling the yarn from the back or pushing the one from front. And that creates like a different face of a knitwear. And the combination of that creates complicated patterns. So it's basically binary and how you all inch that binary and how you repeat that binary pattern becomes the the final product. So it's it's when you're designing the knitting pattern, it's quite like exercise of defining the algorithm to get to this pattern for a designer to get to learn how to sort of see code as like paint or whatever. What's the developers of just embracing the unpredictable? I mean, what advice would you give to them? So I think every time I like to create projects, the question I get or the feedback I get is like, so what? Or what does it do? How is it useful? Right. And like getting over that, those like a mentality of like, if you do code, you have to make a useful tools that everybody's going to use and get so many GitHub stars and you get VC funding and start a startup. I'm like, you don't need to aim for that. You can just use coding as a creative expression to, you know, fix the creative muscles. And once you like thinking about like what I'm making, it doesn't have to make money. It doesn't have to make sense. It doesn't have to help somebody else. This is purely for my fun and discovery. Then it gets a lot easier to experiment. It gets a lot easier to, I don't know, get into code and just like, you know, make 100 different versions that is not tracked on GitHub. That's totally fine. Providing a performing experience is something that requires, you know, close collaboration between two sides. Like, I don't think I'd ever seen skeleton screens as a concept until I started reading like blogs that designers are working on. Yeah.


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Good afternoon, thank you for joining. My name is Ricky Cassidy. I'm taking over for Dennis Izaki, who started this show a long time ago. I do have some news about Dennis. He's one of my best friends, probably my worst enemy because he asked me to take over to do this show. And for that, I'm very grateful. He actually has given me a possibility of learning something and maybe even growing more mature. I mentioned him upfront, and then I'm going to segue into my guest who's an old, old friend with a fine mind who I've known in my capacity as doing market research. And every so often, she would call up and we'd talk about real estate. And she's a reporter. And it was fun for me to talk about it with her because she had a 360 degree view. She was interested in everything. On top of that, she's pretty intelligent. She did it for PBN for a long time. That's Janice Magnon. And I'm going to welcome her to the show and start by saying, tell me something about yourself. Well, as you mentioned, I used to write about real estate full time, but I no longer do that. I still do, in some capacity, as a freelance writer. So we still talk about stuff, right? Yeah. I'm, yeah, I've been in Hawaii for like 22 years, but originally from New York. So we have some connections, too. And then the serious thing is, I mean, it's great fun being interviewed. It's always fun to ask questions for you. And it's even more fun for me to keep on talking for me, even though many have said to me, I talk too much. But in our context, it was a data dump of all sorts of things. I do a report, some of which would tell the trend. Others were, who's going to develop what, where, when, how. And because of your involvement in that, you had two things. You had, again, a 360 view of all sorts of different facets. So it was fun to be questioned because of all the different aspects. And then you'd pull out examples. And they would be current one. And the thing I did remember being impressed by was your facility of gathering information on the web. You went deep into the internet. And you're able to really track ownership of things. That was your skill. And for that, I give you full credit. How did you kind of develop that? You were the market researcher. Just out of necessity out of having to find information and not always relying on people to tell me what the information was. Because data doesn't lie, usually. And things, public records are very useful. I think a lot of journalists don't take enough advantage of all the public records that are out there that can tell you things that maybe people don't necessarily want you to know or want you to know yet. And like you said about ownership, about projects, being developed, and whatnot. So it was just, I guess, persistence over the years of digging wherever I could find something and then bookmarking it and going back to it over and over again. So. I'm segueing from that. For me, starting out at Gentry and doing market research and collecting data and then representing it, knowledge was power. And the power was making people think it ultimately in my profession led me to be able to answer questions. I used data to answer questions. And that was helpful. Yours is something similar. Only you kind of, as a journalist, anticipate their questions, the five questions that you have to answer in an article. The who, what, when, while, et cetera, et cetera. And then knowing something gives you context and interviewing because you can go backwards in times and then maybe add on something thing. So that's admirable. Did anybody treat you like you were all powerful? I mean. Only you. Well, you were. I mean, actually. No, but it's not a bad answer.  Did that ever cross your mind or? No, no, I never made that assumption. Oh, cool. Because there's always somebody who knows more, who knows more than me or, you know. I never assumed that my, I always assumed my readers would know more than I did about certain things, right? Right. And so did they talk to you about that? Did you get a dialogue going at all? Did they say this? Did they say that? Sometimes people would, sometimes people would reach out after something was published to comment on, you know, what, what the story was. Or to say, yeah, but you should really look at this thing or that thing or, you know, to let me know there were other things going on. Because, you know, I was not privy to conversations behind the scenes. And I was not privy to a lot of things. So what you can glean from public records is one thing, but sometimes something else is going on, as you well know, right? It's all context. Context is why, why news is important. There's a great quote from Alan Kay, who was one of the original computer scientists in Bay Area. And he said, my paraphrase, context is worth 50 points of IQ. And what he meant was that when you form a team to solve a problem like build a computer, you don't always need the smartest guy, or they don't always have to be the smartest. But if somebody can give you a frame, that's, that's worth 50 points of IQ, which meant that after I read that, I said, well, I'm at 51. So the press has a great utility in public. It's protected by the First Amendment. You, you can protect your sources. You never protected me, unfortunately. That's a joke for those of us that don't know how I roll. But it stands out singularly, well, amongst all other things, as a real public benefit. Because if you can protect your source, you can get something valuable. Today with a blog that we see, it, maybe I'm jumping somewhere, but I just, I don't, you and I talked before about complying news and how we get our information. And a lot of it is blogs rather than paid journalists. And you get what you pay for. How do you respond to that? Well, I mean, well, I, you know, I went to school for journalism. I trained as a journalist. I worked for Associated Press for a number of years and came out here with them. And so then you have people who have a blog and call themselves a journalist. So that's like, you know, I just because I have a box of band-aids doesn't make me a doctor, right? So anyway, well, anyway, so I mean, that's the value in having, in having somebody who's a journalist who knows what they're doing, who has experience and who is working with other journalists and editors, you know, too. And there's, and it goes beyond knowing how to write or knowing how to find things on the internet. There's judgment that is, you know, you don't necessarily have just from starting a blog. So yeah, that's my, that's my two cents. But I mean, there is value. There are a lot of bloggers that I do read. There's a lot of people who write newsletters. There is value to what they have to say. So it's not everybody, but, you know, there is it's, there's a lot more noise out there right now than there was, you know, 20 years ago even. So the thing about having a team around you as editor, publisher and constitutional right lawyer is that, yeah, it gets vetted very well. Some of the problems I've always had with professional journalism is the standard that you have to get to store sources. And it's not that you have to get to sources per se. It's just some subjects are so, I mean, are charged and the response, say, of me talking about somebody else, if I do it wrong, then they're going to get mad at me. And so I'm not going to be frank and honest. That's the common one. The other one that used to bug me was that I wanted, I wanted my point to be taken first and foremost and the heck with everybody else's. But that's human nature. And so I would read to hear the opposite side. TV news for me has just gotten horrible because it's shouting and it's selling commercials. And then I'll cave in a little and say, validate what you said about bloggers. There's a couple that really have integrity. They're usually specialized and they follow things through. So a lot of them are former journalists or former working journalists. So so it's screened into a ground into them. Yeah. Yeah. And and it's got to be one of the more fun professions. Kind of like taxi driving as a taxi driver. But when you get up in the morning, again, you don't know where you're going to go. You know where you're going to start, perhaps. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah, it depends on what you do and where you do it. For a lot of reporters, they're out in the field. They show up to the office and then get sent somewhere and maybe don't come back for hours and hours and are out running around interviewing people or, you know, when I worked for AP, we had there were natural disasters that, you know, I got sent to a tornado that hit and it was in the south and it hit on on a Sunday and took out half of a church and half the people in it.  There were a lot of people, you know, several people, you know, my colleagues, but there were national news from all over. And so that's something that not everybody gets to do, right? So, and it's not always, you know, it's not always good news. There's a lot of tragedy that happens, you know. So, you know, covering business, we didn't really have as much tragedy covering business. Yeah, that segues into the next one, which would be, okay, you deal with the fence and you're at disasters, but when you deal with business events, there's always disasters, but business events, to my mind, would give you an idea of trends. There'd be incremental or stories repeated with incremental or stories repeated with incremental changes or evolutions. Right. And what yet, you talk to yourself about that or when you were reporting, did you kind of bring that out in when you were interviewing people? Yeah, I was always looking for trends because trends are good stories and they, it's a good way of like kind of piecing every, some maybe disparate stories that maybe didn't look like they were related, but then they all have a theme of growth or I don't know. Like, I'm blanking out on thinking of a good trend to give you an example of, but we- No, I'm gonna ask you about that. Okay. Because in the sense, the other thing to segue from is real estate, it's multi-disciplinary and the hip bone is connected to the neck bone kind of thing. Yeah, yeah. And that's why it was fun to talk to you to go down all the different avenues. That thing was fun and then trends would develop out of it. So over your time here, you've seen a number of trends, the big one today is affordable housing. The big one before that was probably, I mean, way back in the 60s, it actually was land reform when they got real peaceful system. But I mean, what do you look for today or what? Well, I write primarily about residential real estate now. So I'm always looking for trends because I'm trying to give readers kind of more of an overview, less of specific about one particular person or place or, you know, ask, but try to pick off different aspects of, because like you said, real estate, there's so much that it touches. And especially in Hawaii, it's kind of a big part of our economy here. You know, it's very expensive. They're land ownership. There's still some large landowners in the state that control some of the properties, but not as much as you touched upon land reform. We don't have the same kind of leasehold environment that we had. It's much smaller now, right?  So it's there, and especially in Hawaii, I think a lot of people, they're home because our values have gone up so much, it's like 40% since pre-pandemic. So on a while, overall, like not different neighborhoods are different, right?  So it's an important, it's an important topic for almost everybody, even if they're not looking to buy or sell a home, they're living somewhere, right? Majority of people are living somewhere. And majority of people are paying a lot of money to live in that place. So, yeah. I mean, interest rates have been the big story in the last year that we went from an environment of two, you know, two and a quarter percent, now it's pushing seven. So at cut spying power, a lot of people just kind of dropped out of the market because, you know, maybe they have the down payment, maybe they have the monthly income, but their monthly payment just went up considerably. So. Oh, thank you for sort of subjects. Yeah. Let me turn it around and say, it's not just a personal issue, then it's widely personal. And Landon, more than any other place I can think of Hawaii and land is a big deal. You got a, you mentioned that there was an award given to the real estate reporting that you do in Hawaii. And my response to that was just how personal it is. But some of the trends, some of my feelings are that, it's not just personal, but you aggregate everybody, be it the mortgage situation or the buying situation or the rental situation. And in my lifetime, I've seen the regulation on housing a grow by the end of it being more and more important to more and more people and being kind of one of their major issues or factors in voting for people. And it's resulted in, to my mind, there's a lot of confusion out there about affordable housing. And part of that is because politicians have said, vote for me because I'm for affordable housing. But the definition of affordable is a made up one and everybody gets frustrated because I say, I representative Ricky am at a groundbreaking for affordable housing. And in order, and the project, had to bring in affordable prices that everybody don't consider affordable. There's no kind of way of explaining this easily. And that's, it has to be complicated. Yeah, very complicated because the definition of affordable housing according to government, right, is housing that's regulated according to the financing of how it's built, right? With some public money from in Hawaii, it's the rental housing revolving trust. And it's also low income housing tax credits that investors get involved with. And then the developer has all kinds of regulations on them and then there are the amount of money that they can charge for rent is spelled out under those rules as well, right? Right. And it's not, you know, I look at the rents and there's a project that I was talking to my mother about maybe she shouldn't go there and she's actually paying less for a private apartment and then in an apartment building, then she would in this, you know, quote unquote affordable housing project for seniors. So, you know, your definition of affordable online may not be the same. It has to be that way. And it's also the landlord. I would think in your mother's case, but I was smiling a second ago thinking to myself, affordable housing really is a lousy story. You just regurgitate the facts, but the, and you know, the eyeballs will follow, but it doesn't have context. And so you see, you would know this best in Kailua, you see Makane Maeva trying to get to do some affordable housing infill and the six or 10 or 20 neighbors around her are rallying the neighborhood totally against it. And she tried very hard, but she just couldn't convince him. So this is an affordable housing that turned into a drama. And I'm seeing more and more of that. And rightfully so. Everybody wants affordable housing. They just don't want it next door to their house, right? But I think there's also the other misnomer about affordable housing is that I think people equate affordable housing with public housing. And affordable housing is something, it's for people who are working. Like there's a stack of paper they have to fill out to qualify. And chief among it is a job with a paycheck, right? So it's people who have jobs who are, but maybe they just don't have very high paying jobs. So it's the people who work at restaurants or even they'd like to say cops and teachers, right? So. And then it rolls through the economy when restaurants can't get laborers. And it downsizes things. One of the things that is new in my life is that all my working life, at least in Hawaii, I have depended on housing and development and production for my paycheck. And as I get to the end of it, hopefully not right now in this moment, I start to think, well, what's sustainable and what's balanced? And how do you have locals versus visitors sustainable and a productive and sensitive society? Equitable stuff. And I just don't know how to start that conversation. Do you have any ideas? It's hard because there's so many different factors in the play, you know, just the regulation and the pace of how fast or slow things get done here. And the money, money is at the root of it all, right? And the carry, you know, developers say, I have to charge more, the longer it takes, I have to charge more because of the carrying costs because they're paying interest to the lender on land that they can't get permits for. So, you know, I don't have the answers. Right, it needs profit and profit doesn't necessarily mean a great word. If you want to stop a project, you throw sand in it and slow it down and all that happens.  Some of it is you just don't want change but you're not building for the future.  I will at the risk of not sounding like one known Johnny, I'll end the show here because I'm about to say it's obvious which is, you know, the balance of sustainability and profit. So on that note, we've hit 30 minutes, how about that? All right. You get a round of applause for sticking with us and your smile is worth everything in social friendship. So thank you very much. All right, you're welcome. Thank you for having me on. Hello.