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by caddemon 6y ago
For young people (it seems especially young women) I think the answer could end up going in either direction honestly. I think it's completely reasonable to redirect them to mRNA vaccine until we know more. Not sure why the J&J vac
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by caddemon 6y ago
Also, if the effected group is only young women, the denominator isn't really the same as the total number vaccinated. Not saying it isn't still very rare, but in young people COVID deaths are also very rare. We have alternative v
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by caddemon 6y ago
Cigarettes used to be a huge problem too, the regulation came after more people started to realize what was going on. Hopefully some regulation of social media companies is coming soon.
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by caddemon 6y ago
Obviously this isn't going to happen, but imagining it from a scifi perspective - honestly that sounds kind of horrifying to me? This is a step further, but say we could interface directly with auditory areas to have access to a massiv
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by caddemon 6y ago
I'm not sure what timescale Elon thinks this company is on, but even that first point is probably much further away than any new product team at Google could survive for (and no this is not a "Google is ADHD" joke, although t
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by caddemon 6y ago
Yeah their implant hardware is really impressive but "mind pong" is a pretty common starter project for at home EEG hacking, let alone legit BCI research. The internet is littered with examples of mind pong for the Muse like this
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by caddemon 6y ago
I had no problem with hosts kicking off Parler, and I don't really have a problem with this Twitch policy, but those are very different things than the grocery example. Social media companies, webhosts, etc. are directly enabling speec
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by caddemon 6y ago
If that's true then the narrative above about how "people with dog allergies shouldn't be allowed to drive for Uber" is crap. Service dogs are much rarer than Uber drivers without allergies. There's no reason Uber c
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by caddemon 6y ago
I get enforcement is basically impossible on this/people throw around the word "traumatized" way too much - but I knew a girl who was attacked by a dog as a child and would have panic attacks if a large dog got anywhere near
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by caddemon 6y ago
I don't know what they're trying to be, but outside of Yahoo Finance the only other thing I'm aware of people using Yahoo for these days is fantasy sports. One of the fantasy football leagues I do every year still uses Yahoo,
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by caddemon 6y ago
I actually ended up buying the book when I moved to Boston and really enjoyed the illustrations, so I guess I sort of made up for it haha.
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by caddemon 6y ago
I think the bad study habits thing isn't really specific to learning to read early though. Even if you were deprived of all outside of school reading you probably wouldn't have been particularly challenged by school. So it's
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by caddemon 6y ago
Yeah it's possible things have changed in the last 20 years but when I was growing up any pressure to read above grade level was purely social. I remember showing up to kindergarten very proud that I was reading Ramona, and one of my f
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by caddemon 6y ago
It's a dual problem IMO- women are dismissed due to unconscious bias sometimes I'm sure, but I also suspect there are medical issues out there that are much more common in women that have been so under-researched that we know basi
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by caddemon 6y ago
The photo clearly doesn't provide any real evidence for her story, but it's also reckless speculation to say that "real patients" tend to not take photos with medical equipment. People take photos of everything these day
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by caddemon 6y ago
Complaining about vague symptoms and then complaining about data collected with consumer devices is a little unfair IMO. We should be encouraging people with vague symptoms to collect more objective data! There are of course drawbacks with
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by caddemon 6y ago
I think the discredited part is mainly that presence of small crimes can increase likelihood of major crimes. There's still pretty good evidence that more vandalism, run down buildings, littered streets, etc. can increase the amount of
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by caddemon 6y ago
IIRC it was dismissed by most people at the time though. I've only started to hear it discussed by people in psych/neuro academic departments in the last few years.
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by caddemon 6y ago
I think it could depend a lot on how strong the person's other modalities of memory/imagination are. Some people commenting above mentioned they have good spatial memory despite poor ability to visualize, but others are bad at bot
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by caddemon 6y ago
Yeah I do this for anything that's both important and complicated - it can be a slow process for me, but when typing things up I'll usually end up further refining my thoughts and coming up with new ideas, in addition to the benef
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by caddemon 6y ago
That's pretty cool actually, I don't visualize things much and I've only experienced it in the reverse direction, and another commenter above mentioned something similar. Do you feel you are more likely to visualize or intern
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by caddemon 6y ago
Interesting, how do you experience spatial memories? Is it somehow encoded verbally, or via somatosensation? Or does it feel completely subconscious, like a Pavlovian reaction? Or something else? I am bad at visualizing things from what I c
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by caddemon 6y ago
The handwriting thing makes sense, since I don't think aphantasia necessarily affects motor memory. Drawing/writing by hand could actually be more important for people with aphantasia in that case, since it could provide a motor m
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by caddemon 6y ago
Makes sense, I was picturing more of a diagonal boundary but you're right the paradox doesn't specify the shape of the boundary. Thanks!
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by caddemon 6y ago
Interesting, I only ever heard of Simpson's paradox in the context of comparing overall averages versus subgroup averages. I guess this paradox could then be thought of as a special case of Simpson's paradox? Since the out group w
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by caddemon 6y ago
I'd say it's a type of selection bias, but yeah seems very closely related to survivorship bias. Also "survival" taken literally is kinda interesting to think about in this framework. Like say there was some disaster so
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by caddemon 6y ago
I think Berkson's paradox is more specific than just correlations arising from non-random sample selection. Correlations that are not representative of the general population could still be useful, if it's a meaningful correlation
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by caddemon 6y ago
I'd probably prefer full-time WFH over full-time office 9-5, but I agree there is definitely a benefit to spending 1-2 days per week in the office. I'm hoping some more jobs with that sort of format will come out of this too.
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by caddemon 6y ago
My understanding is it's very difficult to get into Wharton MBA without having worked a bit first. Even the "out of undergrad" admits usually get in via a 2+2 program where they spend their first 2 years working at a partner
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by caddemon 6y ago
AFAIK the impact of asymptomatic transmission is still under debate. The bigger danger seems to be presymptomatic transmission. But my info may be a few months out of date, would be interested if anyone has any sources saying otherwise? Sti

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