I would probably… just not use mulch right now. 
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You can clear the area around the tree and put grass clippings there to help retain moisture. Or use compost around the tree.
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I did a spit take at that. So true. So, so true.
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It could definitely be of fruit bearing age if it’s semi-dwarf or smaller rootstock. If full size not yet.
My semi-dwarf trees were bearing by that size but we have so many squirrels I consider myself blessed if we get any intact, fully-ripe fruit 
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It had a few mini apples on it last year. I didn’t monitor closely though because it was right during our weeks of wildfire smoke that kept me trapped inside 
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What kind of range are you looking at? I’m horrible at judging distance so I’m not sure what earshot equates to, but there are definitely RF key finders that you could put on a collar instead of a key ring. Since they’re for finding something lost in your house, I doubt the range would be more than 100/150 ft, though, so it might not be enough.
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Yeah, that’s probably not enough.I probably need a half mile to a mile. That’s easily obtainable if you shell out the money to get enough to cover a pack of hounds, but I’m not seeing a reasonably priced version for one or two dogs. Frankly, we could probably get by with just one, because they’re not going to separate.
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I had an arborist do my apple tree because I have no idea what we are doing. They also trimmed a huge tree in my yard also.
My apples feed the birds and the squirrels lol
Does anyone here have a degree in Sociology? If so: is it common, in the field, for a researcher to psychoanalyze what a person says in an interview scenario?
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For example, if someone says something (in an interview with a Sociologist) like, “I prefer to fly first class,” is it normal for the Sociologist to infer and write down in their final report, “this person says it’s a ‘preference’ to fly first class to deflect from the fact that they expect and feel they deserve a higher level of service than other people, and to justify wealth distribution disparities to themselves.”
I’m asking because I’m reading a pretty well reviewed book (Uneasy Street) that is filled with similar inferences. The author’s bias is extremely clear and they seem to have extremely uncharitable takes on what subjects say…often takes that I would never have taken away from the original quotation! It’s like, the most unflattering possible underpinning for everything regardless of how innocuous, almost like they are willfully misunderstanding things at times?
Anyway, it’s so not-data-driven that I looked up the author and she has a PhD. in Sociology from UC Berkley. So…is this type of pattern creation through inference common in the field? Should I expect this if I read another sociology book? I’m just really surprised and confused. Thanks in advance!
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I did a double (undergrad) major in sociology a million years ago, so things may have changed some, but I don’t think the fundamental nature of the field would have changed this much. No. You wouldn’t even report individual survey responses; you’d aggregate them to look at the data. Social trends, don’tcha know. Kind of what the field is about. Not individuals, inferences or no inferences.
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Ok, see that’s what I was expecting! I thought it would be lots of data and then extrapolations about that data. Instead, the book begins with her talking about how she only interviewed highly affluent people in NYC, and almost all of them identified as nonreligious democrats. So it kicks off with her explaining it’s not a representative sample, but she still goes on to make all these massive conclusions about affluent people in general. V strange!
I’ll still finish it because…I paid for it on audible and the quotes are still kind of interesting. Glad to know my instincts were correct though, thanks!
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Sounds like she wants to put a disclaimer that it’s not sociology, at least. I wonder why she decided to write that particular book.
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The world may never know!
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I only did my undergrad in sociology, but this seems like really bad anthropology work underpinned by a weird Marxist reading?
It isn’t unusual for a researcher to say ‘participants say x, but do y’, or ‘claim x but their true motivation is more likely z because of a, b, c’. Participants lie all the time. Sometimes knowingly, sometimes not.
I was recently reminded of the participant who admitted in their follow-up interview that she had only read a newspaper during the diary portion of the media consumption study because she didn’t want to leave me (the researcher) with a bad impression of a mom who only listened to the radio and watched tv talk shows with her kids. (she was so much fun! great relationship with her kids and niblings and did these weird dress up karaoke videos because that’s what they were into)
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Is there any medical reason to take low dose bcp when I haven’t had a period in over a year and am not sexually active? It’s probably almost time to see my gyno and I will ask her, but just wondered…
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That totally makes sense, and lol at the person you mentioned (sounds like something I would do). Yeah I don’t want to judge too quickly since I haven’t finished the book but thus far there hasn’t been any data or “evidence” to support what she’s saying other than more than one person responding in a similar way. I’ll stop back by here with an update when I’m done reading just in case it’s all contained in later chapters or something! Thanks for the info!
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I have an undergrad and grad degree in sociology and that is not typical of sociological research or writing, at all. I mean, I guess there is qualitative research (which always frustrated me because I wanted data and numbers) that is a bit more personal than what I usually think of of sociological work. But what that author is writing seems a lot more like psychology or something (caveat: I took one psychology class, ever, so I might be incorrect in calling it psychology. But it’s definitely not what I’d call sociology.)
When I was in school for sociology, people would always confuse it with social work or psychology. I used to explain it like “Sociologists don’t care about why fill-in-the-blank happens to one person, they care about why rates of fill-in-the-blank are different in different groups”
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Do you (or anyone really) have any reading recommendations? I’m most interested in finance/money stuff but open to any recs!
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@AllHat I did one semester of an intended sociology degree in 2013. So only Soc 101 w Anthro 101 concurrently and the intro to research methods class which was very basic. One of the few reasons I decided it wasn’t going to be for me was the field is steering into morphing with anthropology (per my professors and the dept counselors) and I hated anthropology because of its focus on qualitative interpretation. The soc professor was great, the anthro prof made me want to scream. I was interested in the large scale cause and effect across populations not extremely particular cultural details.
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That’s really interesting!
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