When did this notion that caring about things and wanting things to be professional is bad, or makes you a "man-child"? That would mean that practically everybody in human history has been a man-child. It feels like the whole world (even formerly professional areas) have decided to be casual and it's frustrating to those who think things matter.
I want less professionalism, thanks. I think the idea that everything needs to be an emotionless product has been largely harmful to the internet as a place of community and expression.
Adhering to a narrow definition of a "professional" look signifies immaturity, stemming from a desire for approval from a stereotypically "adult" third party. Personally, I wouldn't take seriously anyone who has a problem with Anubis but doesn't blink when presented with people drawn in the corporate Memphis style.
>Adhering to a narrow definition of a "professional" look signifies immaturity, stemming from a desire for approval from a stereotypically "adult" third party.
I'm not looking for anyone's approval. If I was, I wouldn't be publicly disagreeing with people on an internet forum, would I? Relax with your armchair psychology.
> Personally, I wouldn't take seriously anyone who has a problem with Anubis but doesn't blink when presented with people drawn in the corporate Memphis style.
Whole countries of comparable size to the US happily put similar mascots all over their products, and pay other companies big money to use their characters. They're all over busses and billboards. The Korean ramen brand I buy has Kpop Demon Hunters on it now. (And Buldak usually has their little chicken dude.) Casio and Fender have expensive products with Hatsune Miku on them...which has been used in ad campaigns by petroleum and rail companies in Japan.
American corporate culture is dehumanizing and dystopian, not a standard for professionalism.
You're engaging in bad faith here. Nobody has brought up politics at all. If an almost identical clone of myself (with the same opinions on everything but mascots) developed a software project with an anime mascot I'd still disapprove.
> That would mean that practically everybody in human history has been a man-child.
I would argue that this statement is blatantly false. Currently, most people really do not care about anubis anime cat girl icon which is actually fairly tame and boring picture.
In history, people used all kind of images for professional things, including stuff they found funny or cute.
I mean if you want that level of pedantry "I" can't send Morse code at 10 gigabits per second. I can make a computer transmit it at that speed, but I am not personally sending it that rate. And, because one generally needs a machine to transmit Morse code, one cold argue that "I" never send Morse code ever.
Before you start your experiment, you calculate how many samples you need based on the estimated effect size you're looking for and how small you want your confidence interval to be.
In the physical sciences you can often estimate the noise level in a null measurement -- or even measure it. You often do this just to get your setup working before doing something like wasting a precious specimen on a "this time for real" measurement.
