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by 0d9eooo 6y ago
But it also fuzzes value. So what you end up with rather than "value" is network effects, people who are good at advertising, and random chaotic trends that blow like the wind. That is, it's not just enough to be the best, it
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by 0d9eooo 6y ago
I sincerely appreciate this blog post and discussion, as it raises a lot of important and compelling points, but I wish it had had some discussion of alternatives and why. To me, messaging is a mess at the moment, somewhat like IoT because
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by 0d9eooo 6y ago
It depends on what you mean by "science." Science has become so political and subject to hype and fads, at least in biomedicine, that everyone should be deeply skeptical of every claim that is made. That doesn't mean that you
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by 0d9eooo 6y ago
It's already too political. I agree with you; just saying that everything bad in that regard will get even worse.
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by 0d9eooo 6y ago
I feel odd being so gushing about Best Buy, because for the longest time I really didn't have the most positive impression of them at all, but I'm not exaggerating when I say that over the last few years, I've had the best cu
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by 0d9eooo 6y ago
10 million confounds is a lot to eliminate. Randomization only works because it decreases the probability of a spurious association existing. At some point the number of confounds eliminated would probably be more worthwhile. I'd defin
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by 0d9eooo 6y ago
I think the horse has left he barn in terms of the suggestions in the comic. I love the comic and the attention it's getting but the issues discussed are such a small part of the problem. Many of the comments here are on point. At this
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by 0d9eooo 6y ago
IIRC, Hungary has implemented something like this and it's been floated as an idea, to distribute grant dollars as a fixed amount to everyone who has an H index or citation count above a certain amount. When I've talked about this
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by 0d9eooo 6y ago
Maybe I read the original research article incorrectly, or maybe this BBC piece is discussing something additional, but my impression after reading about it more closely was that this test is actually discriminating Alzheimer's from ot
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by 0d9eooo 6y ago
I agree that business isn't really the right model for academics but the problems imho is that what an "outstanding academic track record is" has become so ambiguous that it's practically meaningless -- and I say this as
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by 0d9eooo 6y ago
This poem often reminds me of geological timescale, which occurs over millions of years or more. For example, the Carnian Pluvial Event was a relatively humid rainy era that lasted for millions of years, beyond most of our comprehension in
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by 0d9eooo 6y ago
The harder story to tell that this piece is avoiding because of the difficulty is the institutional dynamics. It's hinted at in the article more or less directly, but the entire mindset at many places is so far from what's conveye
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by 0d9eooo 6y ago
Peer review is a cornerstone of academics, and there continues to be a prestige associated with it as well as with certain journals. This is especially true in certain circles. As far as I can tell though, functionally this is breaking down
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Good resources on double descent phenomenon?
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by 0d9eooo 6y ago
It's not just here. It seems like a common sentiment in a lot of places. It's confusing to me as well. There's a direct line in my mind from calls for social media to be self-regulate or be regulated (interestingly in differe
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by 0d9eooo 6y ago
Lots of thoughts. First, there's a sort of framing issue with "subjective answers to questions" per the press release. These subjective experiences are the very nature of the thing of interest: feeling desperate, crying for h
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by 0d9eooo 6y ago
My experience is that there is phenomenal cheese on both sides of the Atlantic, so much so it's ridiculous in my mind to argue about who has the best cheese, because they both have the best cheese. It's a win-win situation. The pr
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by 0d9eooo 6y ago
So, I left a tenured position. The linked piece resonates with me. I'm actually not so sure it's that common relative to the number of people who actually leave. After I left my position I started learning about other tenured facu
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by 0d9eooo 6y ago
I don't disagree with these points, but I do think many individuals entering college are looking for some kind of extended [rite of] passage or something into adulthood, and I do think college provides that for many. I don't neces
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by 0d9eooo 6y ago
As a former tenured professor I've been watching all of this with a bit of empathy, anxiety, concern, and schaudenfreude. Many of my best friends and colleagues are at the university and it still forms a huge part of my life. In speaki
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by 0d9eooo 6y ago
It's important to keep that in mind re: improvements in inequality, but at the same time, for example, there is a refugee crisis that's been steadily increasing over time worldwide in recent times. GDP per capita is not the only m
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by 0d9eooo 6y ago
I've increasingly become convinced the environmental problem is really a socioeconomic problem. This is in some ways the point of the paper, but in other ways the paper misses the point completely, by focusing on affluent lifestyles ra
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by 0d9eooo 6y ago
I've lived through this and seen this in histories of home purchases. It's the reason I don't recommend buying a brand new home unless you oversaw its construction. The ideal situation in my experience is to find a home maybe
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by 0d9eooo 6y ago
I have color-grapheme synesthesia. I was in a study once because of it and got frustrated by the colors on the screen being offered in the study, because they generally weren't quite right in capturing the colors correctly. I had kind
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by 0d9eooo 6y ago
No. Empirically, they're as predictive as or more predictive of future educational performance (usually first-year college GPA) than test scores, despite grade inflation (which isn't as extreme as some would have you think). The a
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by 0d9eooo 6y ago
So I generally agree with you, and have agreed with the position you're outlining, but my thoughts about this have changed over time, having been on graduate admissions committees and doing research on related topics. The admissions co
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by 0d9eooo 6y ago
Unfortunately, I think we're already at a clickbait science level to some extent in some fields, depending on what you mean by "clickbait". This effect would have to be replicated in some form to understand its boundaries bet
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by 0d9eooo 6y ago
Related: https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.1362 At some point the complexity of a system becomes great enough that it's impossible to simulate it perfectly. The interesting question for me lately is how and under what ci
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by 0d9eooo 6y ago
As someone in the behavioral/population sciences, I think there's an underlying, interesting question of "when, if ever, should quantitative methods not be applied to an area of empirical inquiry?" The article doesn&#x27
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by 0d9eooo 6y ago
The reproducibility crisis extends far beyond psychology. Psychologists are the messengers, just like they were with meta-analysis in the 60s and 70s. Similar problems have been demonstrated in a host of fields, mostly the biomedical scienc

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