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SandyS, no offence intended, but what you describe, would possibly, and probably correctly, now be diagnosed as being on the borderline threshhold of dyslexia, but mild. Capital "B" and capital "D" are very different, but "b" and "d" are not, simply a reversal or mirror image of a shape.
If at school today, you would have become a statistic as one who got exemptions from statistics that judged the school's performance.
Many dyslexics do well in maths and engineering, especially if "hands-on practicality" is involved. Many engineers have been subjected to mocking due to bad spelling in the pre wordprocessor era, and with a word processor, for not spotting the wrong word, even though correctly spell checked.
golf charlie
The Times Newsbites
"Half of Britain's electricity generated from low carbon sources" this summer..
Someones put out a press release again cos I saw this story few weeks ago.
Burning biofuels WHICH PRODUCE more CO2 than replacement young trees take out, is included !
pg 35 France opens 1Km of solar roadway costing 17 times more than equivalent solar panels per KW.
pg47 remaining 48m Smart Meters have to installed within target date of next 3 years.
stewgreen
You know you could move people out of cities and into countryside only to find later that the pollen has a worse effect than the pollution.
stewgreen
10:39 I waa fearing that I wouldn't be surprised if Grigg had got sucked into a machine of deviousness. Thts why I first questioned if DAD was a fromt for pushing EVs
We here.all seem of need to do things in an Engineering way and not in the Social Science way.
ie Robust evidence based sot hysterical emotional manipulation and flakeynes.
The jump to diesel in the first place probably was the result of such rushed thinking, so there is
no need to rush again and end up with other unforseen circumstances.
"Think of the children !" No quantify the problem inbterms of life days lost and be aware nothing is without some negative consequences.
In the way Grigg talks I fear Certainty beyond the evidence.
- "I have no conflicts" em everyone jas conflicts eg Scientists have to think about their next gramy etc.
Surely if you want to do a major policy change, theb you.run a trial somewhere ? You don't begin with the biggest city.
stewgreen
@Tomo I was thinking you were TomoMason since he's always tweeting and seems right on top of climate issues
stewgreen
golf charlie
I've often wondered if the rise in the number of cases of disorders, dis**'s and **isms isn't in part down to the increase in the number of experts and pushy parents. As someone who has had a lifetime problem with spelling and differentiating lower case b and d and p and q I think there are people who do suffer from all sorts of problems. No expert likes to turn away work and no pushy parent will accept their child isn't in the premier division.
The word build was both a help and problem to me. I didn't know until spell checkers came along that it was ui so when writing I wrote a curvy w with a dot over the middle peak; on the other hand I knew the bumps on the b and d faced each other. Therefore I could work out which way the bump went on any b or d I had to write. please had the same issue and aid.
SandyS
Dec 23, 2016 at 1:03 AM | Pcar
By getting a pupil diagnosed with something, the pupil becomes another useful statistic. He/she can be removed from the statistics for failing to achieve the right grades, and a school's success rate improves.
There may be many reasons why a particular child is difficult/troublesome/under achieving etc, but a diagnosis proves it is NOT the fault of the school.
This also causes some school catchment areas to flag-up as hotspots for asthma/attention deficit/autism etc, especially if the same medical advisors are brought in as experts in diagnosing by the same school or GPs surgery.
golf charlie
@tomo & @stewgreen
On JoNova comments above linked to:
Lung cancer only came in at No 3 after autism!
Autism along with ADHD and Asthma are the activists illnesses of choice for any scare story due to difficulty in disproving - they are self diagnosed or parent diagnosed illnesses*.
Schools collaborate (in UK) as they label them as "special needs" pupils to obtain extra funding for the Christmas party and employing a friend/relative.
*imho they are, in most cases, snowflake fake illnesses to excuse bad behaviour/parenting or illicit sympathy for shirking.
Pcar
Yep I agree, he coild be a perfectly fine chap, but then I wouldn't be surprised into a machine of deviousness.
Like GPce have published some wacky claims but I can't see that he called them out.
stewgreen
It seems there has been conspiring going on in the world of Global Warming. Well financed too.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/12/23/the-command-control-center-of-climate-alarmism/
Who wouldathunkit?