Machow

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by Machow 12y ago
That's fair. For psychology methods it's easier to avoid both, at times, since you can write "participants viewed...", etc.. For other types of methods, especially where the object becomes implicitly understood, or would
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by Machow 12y ago
For what it's worth, in Psychology (by APA standards) 1st person voice is discouraged, but so is passive voice. In the passages you use, removing 1st person (almost) requires using passive voice, but I would say removing 1st person voi
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by Machow 12y ago
I think the algorithm he is suggesting is.. 1. Get empirical probability vote is within 2 million from previous N elections. (so, 1 if it is within 2 mill, and 0 of not, then average). Use it as p(vote is within 2 million). 2. Assume that
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by Machow 12y ago
3D barcharts have a longer history than I thought!
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by Machow 12y ago
"given this measurement and our prior beliefs , the probability of page A being better than page B is X%" FTFY ;). I think Bayesian methods add a lot of interpretive power, but I'm not sure that it would help people make a c
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by Machow 12y ago
I really like the broad coverage that articles like this give to the psychology of learning, but I wonder how important some of these principles are in a practical sense. Sure, the effect of studying and retrieving in the same context is a
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by Machow 12y ago
Sorry if this sounds condescending. I'm asking out of total naivety. What is the background of people who typically run A/B tests? Are they often unfamiliar with things like multiple comparisons, stopping problems, and the like?
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by Machow 12y ago
I'm not talking about students who participate in experiments as subjects. The students who are research assistants are sometimes unpaid, and might not receive course credit for RA work, but contribute code to projects for research exp
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by Machow 12y ago
This seems to be exactly the case in psychology. Undergraduate students often assist with experiments in return for research experience on their resumes. Depending on the degree to which they were involved in a project, they may be thanked
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by Machow 12y ago
Agreed. That title made wonder what kind of crazy set of working memory training experiments took place. And I don't even know how they would test things in the other direction...
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by Machow 13y ago
I was surprised by that, too. I work in a lab that studies intelligence, and IQ tests are generally designed to measure G (general cognitive ability). It's like saying, "we're interested in measuring height, and I'm not