ContrarianBrit

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by ContrarianBrit 4y ago
Agree that much commentary has an agenda. But as I say in the post, this phenomenon also reflects human agency bias.
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by ContrarianBrit 4y ago
'Much political commentary is highly misleading. Though media evaluation of policy agendas and the conduct of politicians tends to be better, analysis of policy effects and the role of parties is very poor, even in the "quality&qu
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Why is so much political commentary misleading?(thomasprosser.substack.com)
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Netflix cuts 300 more jobs after subscriptions fall(bbc.co.uk)
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Playstation launches new subscription service at double original price(news.sky.com)
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‘The worst person you know’: the man who unwittingly became a meme(theguardian.com)
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Space tourism could undo work to repair ozone layer(news.sky.com)
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What It Takes to Become a Successful Independent Blog Writer(residentcontrarian.com)
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Does immigration erode welfare states?(thomasprosser.substack.com)
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Europe's Digital Markets Act Takes a Hammer to Big Tech(wired.co.uk)
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Is the Cryptocurrency Bubble Bursting?(bbc.co.uk)
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The sci-fi technology tackling malarial mosquitos(bbc.co.uk)
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Does liberal bias affect academia? Advancing a deadlocked debate(thomasprosser.substack.com)
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Global food supply chain at risk from malicious hackers(bbc.co.uk)
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Canada to ban China's Huawei and ZTE from its 5G networks(bbc.co.uk)
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Scientists develop tool to identify patients most at risk of Covid death(news.sky.com)
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Artificial Intelligence sleep app may mean an end to sleeping pills(news.sky.com)
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by ContrarianBrit 4y ago
‘Academia faces a crisis of credibility; following the replication crisis and studies which suggest that datasets have multiple interpretations, we have fewer reasons to trust academic output. People have long identified solutions, such as
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Why the crisis of academic credibility may not have a solution(thomasprosser.substack.com)
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Interview with Guido Imbens on causal inference and instrumental variables(causalinf.substack.com)
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Netflix hints at password sharing crackdown as subscribers fall(bbc.co.uk)
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AI Threatens to Increase Inequality(socialeurope.eu)
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Analyst suggests the iPhone 14 will have an autofocus front camera(theverge.com)
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by ContrarianBrit 5y ago
'Publish or perish' is a real problem, I agree - we should publish less.
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by ContrarianBrit 5y ago
Agreed. Kuhn is really worth reading - one of the greatest books of the 20th century.
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by ContrarianBrit 5y ago
But the hard sciences have also had problems with replication. It's worth reading the Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn; to some extent, science is socially embedded.
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by ContrarianBrit 5y ago
Moral foundation theory is intriguing and crucially important.
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by ContrarianBrit 5y ago
'Following several crises, quantitative social scientists now worry about the validity of methods. Such developments have political implications. There may be greatest risk to progressive ideologies, these being predicated on the notio
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What happens when the public lose confidence in academic findings?(thomasprosser.substack.com)
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Has Putin made NATO stronger?(unherd.com)
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