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So I was looking for images to use in slides for the class I’m teaching this semester – I’m a big fan of using striking images in my slides and I also make a point of only using ones that have copyright licenses to allow me to use them for free ((I know a lot of people take whatever images they want off the interwebs and use them with impunity, but I choose not to do that.)). I have a few sites that I go to for such images: Freepik, Unsplash, Pixabay, Free Images, and Flickr (where you can search for Creative Commons licensed photos). I’ve found some pretty good ones and have some slides that I really like this semester, but in the process of searching for images is not always so smooth. Like yesterday when I was searching for an image to represent “causation”. Three sites ((Flickr gave me a bunch of unrelated photos plus this photo, which made my head explode, because it’s completely not true. We don’t use correlation to give credit to vaccines for preventing diseases – we know vaccines work to prevent diseases from randomized controlled trials!! #ScientistRant.)) gave me no images and one site gave me 484 images of carnations. #EvaluatorProblems.
I’ve also come across some weird stuff. Like this image ((For the record, I was searching for “reports” when I found this abomination!)), which is currently haunting my dreams:
So, um, Happy early Halloween?
Image Credit: Posted by SarahRichterArt ((Be warned: I just went on the page of this photographer and she also has photos with spiders in them. And you know how I feel about spiders! Gah!)) on Pixaby with a Creative Commons license.
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Please never publish horror like that again! If you aren’t careful, I will start posting pictures of your fave non-insects where you will randomly come across them.
Also as for causation/correlation—why do you have to go and be all rational like that?! 😛