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> However, what drives me crazy is how are we supposed to get the medicine? It might be too soon to call this "medicine," a word with certain emotional associations. The article includes many interesting and intriguing anecdote
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Specialized language. Imagine editing today's technical stories to replace "automated driving" with "automated car driving". Remember that the original journal is read by astrophysicists, for whom a low-mass X-ray b
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More accurately, Bose spies on its customers, not the app, not the headphones. And Bose sells the collected information. "No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up." - Lily Tomlin
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Quote: "My long-term goal—an ambitious one, I know—is to stop the production of predatory journals altogether." I salute your energy and your objective. Having observed individual scientists over a period of decades and noting the
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> You might as well have posted a link to a scientology article. Yes, true. Psychologists will disagree with you, but yes. Also, psychologists don't own narcissism -- it predates their field by thousands of years. They're free
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Quote: "In a quest to build Uber into the world’s dominant ride-hailing entity, Mr. Kalanick has openly disregarded many rules and norms, backing down only when caught or cornered. He has flouted transportation and safety regulations,
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> It is possible to explain what is happening without explaining how. That's a description -- an account of what was observed. By definition, an explanation must add something to a description. "The night sky is filled with poi
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> What a pointless method of study. A pointless method of study that's responsible for building the world you see around you, including the computer you're using for this conversation. In science the problem is not getting the
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The problem with the term "genius" is that it's emotionally fraught but has no practical definition. One of the few things psychologists got right was a decision in the 1960s to avoid use of the term in I.Q. assessments (a de
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> For anyone who came to this article hoping it might contain any actual concrete or interesting information about the nature of human intelligence: it doesn't. Go ahead and skip the read. Complete agreement. It's easy to detec
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Quote: "SLOTERDIJK HAS ATTEMPTED to rewrite the history of the human race using the notion of a sphere. It is a concept that encompasses topological, anthropological, psychological, political, social, immunological, and semiological as
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> The theory in this case is "Isolations affects alcohol tolerance in crayfish". That is not a theory, it's a statement about an observation -- it describes, it doesn't explain. Theories explain observations. > A t
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> Also, how can people be that stupid? You have to know the truth will eventually come out? In an equities market defined by quarterly profit statements, "eventually" is far enough away to be irrelevant. The reason this sort of
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A very worthwhile story, behind a paywall. Welcome to modern times.
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> Except that there is evidence of causation, not just correlation. In science, addressing causation requires a testable, falsifiable theory. Without a theory -- an explanation -- we can only describe what took place. The authors of th
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> As I understand it, this article is about a controlled experiment. In which case there is no confounding and therefore correlation implies causation. Without a testable, falsifiable theory -- an explanation, correlations don't --
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> But the evidence supports the idea that social isolation induces measurable changes in behavior and neural activity. The experiment showed a change in behavior resulting from a change in environment. There's no cause proposed that
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> "X causes Y" is separate and can be proven separately from "X causes Y by Z mechanism". The former seems to have been proven here. The experimenters changed the environment and noted a change in behavior. This isn&#
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> Just because the chain of causation isn't clear doesn't mean A doesn't cause B. Yes, that's true, but science isn't based on what can't be excluded, it's based on what the evidence supports. If this w
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As usual in articles of this kind, the article's content contradicts its title. The study doesn't show that "loneliness raises alcohol tolerance," it shows a correlation between two measured traits. In studies like this,
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No, only a reply to the OP's assumption that those facing the mirror test were individuals.
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Remember about ants that they're not individuals as we understand the term. They're more like a hive mind. Like the Borg. It's the same with bees.
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First, until this study has been replicated by a different laboratory, one completely removed from the original lab, I invoke Betteridge's Law[1]: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no ."
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Some points: 1. I see this as a public-spirited project that favors consumers over a rapacious corporation. 2. At a time when farmers can't even repair their own tractors any more ( http://modernfarmer.com/2016/07&#
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> ... you're plain wrong. If I expressed a preference for blondes over brunettes, would you describe that as wrong also? Obviously thinking of "physical media" as a plural is a matter of opinion, as well as being consisten
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> And yet there's still no sane way to move data from my laptop to my desktop without physical media. If the laptop and desktop are connected to a network, then there's no reason to use physical media, in fact the medium can on
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> Flash storage too? As in SSDs? All information storage media degrade over time, it ultimately comes down to differences in durability. Stone tablets outlast SSDs, but for both, the clock is ticking.
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> Everyone knows that physical media is [sic] a thing of the past. s/is/are/
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> ... how do you determine who is considered a "scientist"? In the same way we do now, using a system that would overlook people like Einstein, a patent clerk who hadn't finished his Ph.D., who published articles having no
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Everything people object to in socialism would apply to science funding. It would be like giving everyone a percentage of the GNP and hoping their innate altruism would redistribute the money to worthy recipients based on individual judgmen

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