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by garden_hermit 6y ago
With temperatures, the blue-red color-map is makes intuitive sense because, culturally, we already have an association of blue = cold and red = hot. The issue though is where to draw the center between blue and red? Like, when do we transit
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
> The emails exist and I think have gone through the same amount of due process as other leaked documents. I'm not convinced. The story was initially rejected from several outlets and even struggled to get a byline in the NYPost. Th
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> Hm, let's do a comparison. Do you think trust in the media would have been better or worse if media outlets had received leaked emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign during the summer (some indicating, for instance, that som
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
Both both blocking and running a story are conscious actions with political consequences and which have the potential to undermine trust. Plenty of people lost trust in the media following their focus on the Hillary Clinton email scandal, w
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> Why do they have so many more PhDs now? Because these jobs are researcher jobs, and research is a distinct skill-set than what is learned in the typical undergrad and masters program. Could we train researchers in another, more efficie
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
The counterfactual is still useful to think about, because what works for the poster may not work for the modal person. There is a big self-selection problem—if the poster wasn't a successful software engineer, we wouldn't be hear
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
The Occam's razor explanation seems that children of the high-ranking political elite get cushy jobs by either their social connections, or in an (perhaps unsuccessful) attempt to curry favor with the parent. Not fair, a bad look, but
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
Not the OP, but I grew up in a mountainous Appalachian town. I always thought I was terrible at navigating, until I moved to a Midwestern town with a grid layout. Suddenly, I'm pretty good! In my hometown, it was incredibly difficult f
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
Citation is not an endorsement—plenty of things are disagreed with in order to disagree with something, reference history in a field, or contextualize a result against past findings. Here, the author seems to only look at recent papers, and
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There are tons of replication issues across the sciences, they are just most salient in the Social Sciences because the topic is just really hard to study well. Clinical trials can often be flawed, even if the stats are fine, just in how th
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ML has the benefit though of a rapid turnaround time from Academia -> Industry. Things that work/replicate will be immediately used to make money. Things that don't work will be abandoned pretty quickly (at least outside of ML
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Python, R, Mathab etc. are outside of many people's skillsets. I've tried to evangelize to many fellow researchers, but they simply don't have the time or the interest in novel programming languages when the tools they have (
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
I guess I fall under the field of "Progress Studies" though I think I'm much less concerned with the replication crisis than most. Most new social science research is wrong. But the research that survives over time will have
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
I love remote work—some of the time. I also love offices—some of the time. I fear that in ditching offices completely, we might lose out on some society-level benefits, like knowledge spillovers. Specifically, remote-work (to me) makes it m
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
If the region is at threat from massive wildfires, yes! Just the same, if there is an national pandemic that has upended all traditional childcare options, then maybe give some slack to the parents
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
It starts to approach eugenics pretty quickly, which we as a society have pretty much rejected. But we do regulate the raising of children, to a certain extent. For example, we regulate school curriculum to install a certain set of values a
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
I favor open code, but like everything, there are issues. For example, the EPA years ago required that research can only inform policy when data is open; open data, however, takes a lot of effort to document and provide. Companies, however,
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by garden_hermit 6y ago
I agree with your overall point, but I just want to point out that many (most?) journals don't employ copy-editors, or if they do, then they overlook many errors, especially in the methods section of papers.