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Regarding 'cad-bloggers from Columbia: Woit does do a bit of grey area coverage. Likewise, his academic pubs are more interesting to me, personally! His reputa
by gsf_emergency_2 2y ago
Regarding 'cad-bloggers from Columbia:
Woit does do a bit of grey area coverage. Likewise, his academic pubs are more interesting to me, personally! His reputation, however, is mixed at best. A real hero!
Gelman: maybe he's trying to subdue the neuroticism*. I look forward to more compassionate, less overtly "curiosity"-driven grey-area coverage (not to mention stats papers) from him!
Here is recent one, sadly also about psychologists (would be more interesting to do it to card carrying statisticians)
http://stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/healing3.pdf http://stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/healing3...
*Not many people describe themselves as an exponent of radical self-honesty since radicality isn't a palatable, much less enjoyable, thing. It takes a real saint (or logician) not to reflexively flinch from the imagined tsunami of incoming pity.
Grey areas-- you can safely explore
- senderista 2y agoDoes Woit actually publish anything in well-regarded journals? My impression was that he wasn't really an active researcher at all.
- gsf_emergency_2 2y agoSorry, was trying to be generous with "mixed rep at best". He is reasonably active (on arxiv,say, which is a red flag I suppose). Just that his blog gets far more attention. I would say that anybody in theory more active than Woit would immediately arouse my suspicion :)