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I agree, but I think there are exceptions. I knew a fellow from India who worked as a marketing executive in the fast food restaurant business. His English was obviously a little off, but he got along fine. Moving from the anecdotal to a broader scale, think about a lot of the people in...

I think another problem is that there's the image of the deaf militant that a lot of mainstream society tends to encounter (for example, the image that came out in the public eye during the Gallaudet protests in 2006). This hurts the signing, etc. image when parents are considering options. I...

I remember I had a deaf friend who I often went snowboarding with long ago. One time we went to a resort with a huge number of parking lots and a bus that shuttled passengers to the slopes. The problem? I forgot where we parked! My friend and I went to every single parking spot, and I was...

Economics is broadly applicable with many of the social sciences. I've heard of research that examines the fiscal equivalent of sex once a week for an individual's quality of life. Someone I know just did an undergraduate honors thesis on childhood obesity trends and school demographics...

*nods* And it sucks that it's that way. I think about all the smart deaf people I know who can do so much, but are limited by the perceptions of other people about their English. The marketer in me is wondering how that could be tackled!

Jillio, Too much information? Not at all! I encourage more technical terms. This is a hobby of mine, especially since I'm Deaf. My specialty is economics. When I think of these issues, I look at them from a mix of interesting angles. Here's one: if the difficulty of English grammar...

Took me a second to figure out it was an April Fool's joke. Lol.

A good point. That leads me to the question: If the brain adapts to language that is visual-centric (ASL) but does not have access to the auditory mechanism, does it as easily have the ability to process language input from a language that is dominantly verbal (English)? (An...

Hey! Welcome to the forum. I'm not around often these days, seeing that I'm caught up in my own research. We have some pretty sharp folks here, and I'm sure you have a whole world of information to share! Welcome! Quick question. Is the TSP alphabet bimanual?

*wants to throw somebody in jail* :naughty:

Agreed. Psychometrics comes to be a pretty loose science. However, I think there is some empirical validity to intellectual psychometrics. See, for example, someone who scores 195 is probably going to be pretty darn smart, no matter what his environmental context is. But on the other...

I have a friend who's studying for a PhD in literature. Lately I've been trying to introduce this friend to ASL storytelling. Thing is, my friend has never signed before in her life. While there are many great videos out there, captioned ones might help most. Do you know of any great...

The best numbers are from the people who study this empirically. That means you're up for scholarly papers and the like. There's a classic resource that will return a bunch of scholarly papers. Check this for a bunch of research over many, many journals and other sources: Google Scholar...

Plenty! You might want to see a career counselor for more ideas. If you have a a bachelor's degree, you're off to a great start. If not, no worries (though if you can, I'd definitely suggest getting one -- it's the magic degree that opens a lot of doors). I'm also a pretty big optimist...

What kind of job are you looking for?

The train industry used to do something similar to this. I remember advertisements about "Zephyrettes" who would do babysitting on the California Zephyr route from Chicago to the San Francisco/Oakland area in the 50s. They phased it out a long time ago. I think it had something to do with...

I stay away from them too. My favorites tend to be with Acura and Honda. Though I have a weakness for BMWs. ;)

LOL, awesome. If you're very animated, you and I probably would get along real well! I appreciate expression in people. It's very "honest" in a sense that's not as readily available with words. For the non-actor it's easier to say, "Oh! That's the cutest hat I ever saw!" than to show the...

That's the fascinating thing. See, the gap that you like to cover with larger words, I love to cover with ASL. Of course ASL is very different from English and some concepts don't translate well -- that's exactly why I like it. The concepts that ASL embodies and expresses are sometimes...

I think your vocab is great too, Deaf SKeptic! :) And yep, you're right. I like a lot of science terms. I'm a science nerd and I love it. I've always said if I didn't do what I do, I'd be doing chemistry or something.