davidmanheim

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Building Less Flawed Metrics: Dodging Goodhart and Campbell's Laws(mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de)
42 points by davidmanheim 5y ago|4 comments
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by davidmanheim 5y ago
Thanks for highlighting our paper!
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by davidmanheim 5y ago
And it was actually preregistered as well: https://osf.io/vzdh6/
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by davidmanheim 5y ago
Maybe all studies should be preregistered, including their methods... like this one was? https://osf.io/vzdh6/
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by davidmanheim 5y ago
This paper was pretty clearly pre-specified here; https://files.givewell.org/files/DWDA%202009/IPA/Masks_RCT_P...
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There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)(lesswrong.com)
2 points by davidmanheim 5y ago|0 comments
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Relativity and galactic rotation might explain away the need for dark matter(sciencedaily.com)
4 points by davidmanheim 6y ago|0 comments
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by davidmanheim 6y ago
You might want to click some of the links or read other content on the site to get more of that supposedly missing context.
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A (Very) Short History of the Collapse of Civilizations, and Why It Matters(forum.effectivealtruism.org)
4 points by davidmanheim 6y ago|0 comments
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Nobel Laureates, Ethicists, and Volunteers Agree on Covid-19 Challenge Trials(1daysooner.org)
1 points by davidmanheim 6y ago|0 comments
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by davidmanheim 6y ago
The source might be: https://medium.com/the-year-of-the-looking-glass/how-do-you-...
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by davidmanheim 6y ago
There's no cooking allowed on the Sabbath, and women can and frequently do go to synagogue with the men. (But if they stayed home, they were probably setting the table while the men were in the synagogue.)
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by davidmanheim 6y ago
Interestingly, all ISPs and phone companies in Israel are required to offer server-side filtered internet for all customers who request it, at no extra cost.
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by davidmanheim 6y ago
This "article" doesn't actually have any substantive evidence for the claim in the title.
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by davidmanheim 6y ago
Non-interactive zero knowledge proofs. ZK proofs have a number of good explainers, mostly using graph colorings. Non-interactive versions, however, require quite a bit more than that explanation allows - and despite asking experts, I still
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by davidmanheim 7y ago
Right - but there is also a relationship between IQ and educational attainment. So controlling for it means that you're measuring something fundamentally different. That's fine, but you can't just control for things without h
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by davidmanheim 7y ago
So does frequentist stats - they are just different axiomatic foundations and assumptions.
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by davidmanheim 7y ago
Having taught frequentist stats as a TA to grad students, I understand why frequentist stats seems not to make sense. On the other had, my prior on teaching quality, and my data on the relative difficulty of understanding the approaches say
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by davidmanheim 7y ago
What does this have to do with Bayes? A frequentist assessing probabilities to make decisions about how to respond is in, if anything, a far worse position. The Bayesian would ideally use priors on groups and cross-group correlations to not
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by davidmanheim 8y ago
That's often helpful, but not sufficient in general. See the dynamics discussed in my article here; https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04585
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by davidmanheim 8y ago
This is probably where I should mention my two longer articles that discuss this in depth; https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/06/09/goodharts-law-and-why-... https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/