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The way these tools are developed is by doing and then replicating and analyzing these studies. (maybe thats what the intent behind "collecting and curating" wa

The way these tools are developed is by doing and then replicating and analyzing these studies. (maybe thats what the intent behind "collecting and curating" was?) Exposure to air pollution seems to my intuition like it lowers a persons level of consciousness, and the lower a persons level of consciousness (the further down The Spiral Dynamics model they are) the more prone they are to violence.

littlestymaar 7y ago
> The way these tools are developed is by doing and then replicating and analyzing these studies Nobody in the field of people publishing this kind of studies has the required skill-set to develop the needed tools. This is the job of mathematicians. I'm not meaning it pejoratively, it's just a totally different job. (I wouldn't trust a mathematician to build a house, you shouldn't trust an economist, a biologist, or anyone to build statistics tooling). > maybe thats what the intent behind "collecting and curating" was?) Most of the time the data behind this kind of studies isn't easily available. Sometimes you can shoot an email to the author, sometimes it comes from some publicly available data needing a lot of preprocessing before being consumable, and I wish we had a centralized database of well-formed data.
- mikelyons 7y ago
  I see, and agree. It seems though that we've (as a society) gotten into a habit of categorizing people. Maybe rightfully as specialization has increased, but it seems to me (perhaps wrongfully) that there were more polymaths in Ben Franklins time for example.
- anigbrowl 7y ago
  You seem to be overlooking the possibility that such study teams can and do include mathematicians. I'm friends with one who does the statistical legwork for a foundation that studies the spread of infectious disease.
  - littlestymaar 7y ago
    You are right, I had overlooked this possibility. How does that work with your friend? Will he publish his own work in a separate math paper?
    - anigbrowl 7y ago
      Sorry for the slow reply. My friend sometimes publishes alone and sometimes in concert with researchers from other disciplines; My understanding is that the research team has fairly wide latitude compared to people working in academe, but I don't know their publication history/process in detail.

littlestymaar 7y ago

> The way these tools are developed is by doing and then replicating and analyzing these studies Nobody in the field of people publishing this kind of studies has the required skill-set to develop the needed tools. This is the job of mathematicians. I'm not meaning it pejoratively, it's just a totally different job. (I wouldn't trust a mathematician to build a house, you shouldn't trust an economist, a biologist, or anyone to build statistics tooling). > maybe thats what the intent behind "collecting and curating" was?) Most of the time the data behind this kind of studies isn't easily available. Sometimes you can shoot an email to the author, sometimes it comes from some publicly available data needing a lot of preprocessing before being consumable, and I wish we had a centralized database of well-formed data.

mikelyons 7y ago
I see, and agree. It seems though that we've (as a society) gotten into a habit of categorizing people. Maybe rightfully as specialization has increased, but it seems to me (perhaps wrongfully) that there were more polymaths in Ben Franklins time for example.
anigbrowl 7y ago
You seem to be overlooking the possibility that such study teams can and do include mathematicians. I'm friends with one who does the statistical legwork for a foundation that studies the spread of infectious disease.
- littlestymaar 7y ago
  You are right, I had overlooked this possibility. How does that work with your friend? Will he publish his own work in a separate math paper?
  - anigbrowl 7y ago
    Sorry for the slow reply. My friend sometimes publishes alone and sometimes in concert with researchers from other disciplines; My understanding is that the research team has fairly wide latitude compared to people working in academe, but I don't know their publication history/process in detail.