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the_skine t1_ja8me4k wrote

Reply to comment by MrR0m30 in Workers tasked with moving products in the U.S. food and beverage supply chain are at a high risk of severe injuries and fatalities — Grocery wholesalers and grocery retail stores saw the highest number of injuries, followed closely by the warehousing and storage groups by marketrent

Yep. Why would a fortune 500 company not implement a policy that costs them nothing (employees have to buy their own steel or composite toe boots), when getting an OSHA fine for 100-400 people (depending on time of year) not following regulations?

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the_skine t1_j9yvfem wrote

Reply to comment by CompromisedCEO in Workers tasked with moving products in the U.S. food and beverage supply chain are at a high risk of severe injuries and fatalities — Grocery wholesalers and grocery retail stores saw the highest number of injuries, followed closely by the warehousing and storage groups by marketrent

Look into how bad Tesla's "Full Self Driving" performs. And that's in an environment with novels worth of rules and regulations that the car has to follow.

A warehouse environment requires drivers of powered lift equipment to do the parts that automation struggles with. Things like situational awareness, making judgement calls, improvising and adapting, simply recognizing when something isn't quite right, etc.

There are some robots being incorporated into warehouses, but this is mostly for smaller product (there's a Tom Scott video about this). It still requires people on powered lift equipment to unload the product off of trailers and move the product around the warehouse. Not to mention the people not on equipment required for the other jobs in between unloading the trailer and product leaving the building, usually requiring lifting product by hand.

Of course, with all of the reddit discussions and YouTube "documentaries" about how automation and AI are coming for "low-skilled" work (that actually requires a lot of skill, but is called that so they can be paid less), it's funny that the jobs that AIs are disrupting are mostly art, music, and writing.

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the_skine t1_j9yp0ns wrote

Reply to comment by Algur in Workers tasked with moving products in the U.S. food and beverage supply chain are at a high risk of severe injuries and fatalities — Grocery wholesalers and grocery retail stores saw the highest number of injuries, followed closely by the warehousing and storage groups by marketrent

I work in a warehouse. Steel toe is optional. About 80% to 90% of employees wear sneakers. I wear composite toe so I can go through the metal detectors without setting them off.

We only send people home if they're wearing open toe or open back shoes.

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the_skine t1_ix6geix wrote

Reply to comment by ThoDanII in what was the population of ancient Mesopotamia? by Omastnar

Also, they didn't have large professional armies.

Up until the early 1900s, over 95% of all people worked in agriculture. Many of those men would help plant in the spring, go to war in the summer, harvest in the fall, and tend to their homes and farms in the winter.

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the_skine t1_iurfm3o wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Does Science Need History? A Conversation with Lorraine Daston by Maxwellsdemon17

A big problem is intuition, and the inability for people to accept that what seems obvious isn't always true.

Learning styles is a great example of this. The idea is that people in general, and students in particular, have different ways of learning.

Some people are visual learners (graphs, charts, diagrams), auditory learners (listening to information being presented), kinesthetic learners (learn through physical activity or handling objects), textual learners (reading and writing information), social learners (work best in teams/groups of peers), solitary learners (prefer independent, self-directed work), nature learners (learn best in natural environments or when lessons are tied to nature/natural phenomenon), logical learners (focus on patterns, relationships, cause/effect), and many other labels that add other attributes or group these learning styles together.

The problem is that teaching according to learning styles doesn't work.

That is, if you go through the trouble of determining students' learning styles, separating the students into different classrooms, and have each classroom teach the same material based on that learning style, then, in the more favorable studies, the students will average about 1-3 points of improvement out of 100 in 1-2 subjects. So a solid C student studying six subjects will get a C+ in two subjects, making them a C student overall.

This isn't talking about one or two studies, but hundreds of studies done over the last 70 years.

But still, learning styles is something you will hear about all the time if you or someone you know is involved in education. Teachers love to incorporate it into their curriculum, and talk about how they're "reaching more students" by presenting information using several different methods.

The most probable explanation seems to be that people don't have learning styles. They've just had a positive experience that they extrapolate into self-identity, based on assumptions about the reason for that positive experience.

But it's intuitive, so people will keep studying and incorporate learning styles into classrooms, trying to find a way to force reality to comply.

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