Jag spelar med min favoritorkester. Alltid lika roligt.

Just idag räcker det med att gå en runda i parken och se på Billgrens skulptur. Nästa vecka tar vi oss an skolans utveckling.

Peps säger det bra.

Abstract
AIM: Subjects who did not respond to an invitation to participate in a community-based randomised controlled trial for childhood obesity in Melbourne, Australia were approached to investigate reasons for non-participation.

METHODS: Between January and September 2007, 305 families were sent a brief questionnaire and invited to take part in the current study. Thirty-seven questionnaires were returned and 12 parents agreed to a follow-up interview. Questionnaire data were quantitatively analysed. The interviews were conducted via the telephone and provided detailed qualitative information on non-participation.

RESULTS: Lack of time was cited as a main reason for non-participation. Different aspects of time were discussed including lack of time to dedicate to a topic seen as low priority, overestimated perception of time for study commitments and the inappropriate timing of the request. Other major reasons for non-participation included risk of negative experiences and the impact of the initial contact with the study.

CONCLUSIONS: This study illustrates the experiences of potential participants during the recruitment process, their perceptions of study commitments and how their previous experiences impact on their decision to participate in research. These findings provide insight into the decision not to participate in health research and could be used to modify recruitment procedures for future health research as a way of improving the recruitment experience for potential participants as well as enhancing recruitment rates.

Detta är en av anledningarna till att jag ibland intar en forskningskritisk hållning. Ambitionerna är ofta höga och bortfallet ännu högre.

Läs mer.

Och ännu mer.

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The point is not that the Swedish experiment of treating women as men has been a failure, but that it has succeeded. As Natasha Walter argued persuasively in Living Dolls, the result of stripping women of their social roles as mothers has not been the development of a new balance in society which still respects women, but rather a sexual nihilism with which most women are instinctively uncomfortable. When all other points of differentiation are stripped away, what is left between the sexes is purely physical. As a result, we see a rise of a tits-and-ass culture that emphasises the physical because there is nothing else left. Women should have no doors barred to them in life, but a relentless focus on image does them no favours.

No boy grows up dreaming of being a princess. I find it hard to believe many little girls grow up wanting to shoot people. This make-believe may salve the conscience of the Left, but it does society a great deal of harm, both here and there.

Det går att se de förvånade internationella utropen som ett bevis på att vi är på rätt väg.

Länk till listan på Kulturrådets utvalda barnboksillustratörer.

4/31 är män. De är inte unga.

Juryn består av 2/10 män.

Jag är inte konspiratorisk och tror inte på kvotering. Men hur arbetar Kulturrådet för att motverka det här stereotypa könsmönstret? Hur kommer framtidens barnböcker att se ut? Skulle Pettson och Skrotnisse passera förlagens genuspolitiska nålsögon idag?

Min tes är att författarens och illustratörens kön påverkar bokens innehåll. Vilka erfarenheter gestaltas?

Tryggve tipsade.

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