#MANILA, #Philippines – A low pressure area (#LPA) located east of #Mindanao developed into a tropical depression at 2 am on Sunday, December 17, and was given the local name #Kabayan.
Tropical Depression Kabayan is the Philippines’ 11th tropical cyclone for 2023 and the first for December.
Theatregoers can expect to be leafletted by union delegates outside Australian performance venues in the new year, in a campaign to lift the pay of about 6,000 actors and dancers....
#psychometrics community: I found a paper that developed a short scale and tested it via #LPA and #kmeans clustering. (Paper here: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0281021). Now for me, this is odd as it uses two clustering techniques to assess scale quality. But then again this is a sociology paper and I know that sociologists and psychologists have a different world view. In case you didn't know: Sociologists tend to look at groups within society or societies at large, whereas psychologists tend to see individuals and groups as aggregates of individuals. Obviously, coming from a sociological perspective, using such clustering methods makes sense. However, I still have mixed feelings about this approach. I still feel a IRT approach would be better since obviously k-means and LPA does NOTHING to evaluate items, for example.
Theatregoers to be petitioned outside Australian venues amid ongoing actors’ pay dispute (www.theguardian.com)
Theatregoers can expect to be leafletted by union delegates outside Australian performance venues in the new year, in a campaign to lift the pay of about 6,000 actors and dancers....