neuronerdgirl

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What's in a Name? How abstract representation can shape the brain and behavior(brainblast.substack.com)
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by neuronerdgirl 2y ago
Boeing is a word that looks like a proper noun and, more importantly, is a much more well-known company than DJI. Moreover, for those of us who don't know it's a company, DJI looks like an acronym, so the writer should have clar
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by neuronerdgirl 2y ago
Right but the salary ranges here are not that tipping point. Sure, a coke is a coke, but how many people can even consider the other options when it's 5 dozen for $10 for that or 5.99 for 8 Aura Boras? Having significant excess income
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by neuronerdgirl 2y ago
God I'm glad I'm not the only one. I'm working on getting a newsletter up and running and I'm so focused on best writing practices and these guys can't even remember to define their acronyms first?
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by neuronerdgirl 2y ago
Learning styles is bunk because it's effectively a practice effect that's self-reinforcing, not because we don't have preferences at all. So the fact that you have not found utility innately in those schematics (per this thes
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by neuronerdgirl 2y ago
And smell and bacterial levels are absolutely correlated
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by neuronerdgirl 2y ago
Teachers don't actually get a 3 month vacation in summer, they just do a shitton of unpaid labor to prep for the next school year while being told they should be grateful
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by neuronerdgirl 3y ago
HN has a lot of people who are quite smart but have not been through graduate school or academia, so they don't realize just how niche the type of training and topic-specific knowledge you get in that world is relative to a classic uni
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by neuronerdgirl 3y ago
One small suggested addendum: 1.5) read the last paragraph or two of the intro. Most good papers spend these paragraphs laying out their study and their expected and alternate hypotheses. It's a quick way to go from the floaty higher o
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by neuronerdgirl 3y ago
You can't see the point of elucidating the nuances of the way the brain encodes the information around us? Surely even if you see no value in basic science of this nature in and of itself (in my opinion a mistake) there are myriad appl
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by neuronerdgirl 3y ago
It does not, just that both dimensions are coded for in some way. Per the current article, temporal and spatial codes have been previously studied in isolation, so it was not known if or how they might be intertwined. This has elucidated ne
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by neuronerdgirl 3y ago
I truly have no idea what you are advocating for here.
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by neuronerdgirl 3y ago
That's certainly a potential follow up hypothesis. Surely this study can be improved, but conversely not every study has to answer every question or be perfectly ecologically valid before it is worthy of publication. For all its faults
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by neuronerdgirl 3y ago
An interesting off the cuff alternative hypothesis that could be tested in a future study for sure. Though if I were the authors before I did that study I would do a pretty big lit review of gender differences in foveal vs peripheral visual
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by neuronerdgirl 3y ago
There is a pretty good argument to be made that asking someone to imagine walking in these scenes and click on areas of interest/concern is at least a partial proxy for where they will actually look when placed in that context. It is n
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by neuronerdgirl 3y ago
It sounds ridiculous as well but neither are women. It's an interesting question to ask why we would see baseline gender differences in the implementation of these concepts. My back of napkin guess is a combination of women being socia
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by neuronerdgirl 3y ago
This is a rough take. Not every study has to be fully ecologically valid to show us something interesting about human behavior. The authors have presented you with a real, observed difference. What is your interpretation of that difference?
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by neuronerdgirl 3y ago
Outside of real-world context, both men AND women will naturally focus on objects in a scene that are brighter than their surroundings. What's more interesting here is that the context of an outdoor real world scene with an instruction
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by neuronerdgirl 3y ago
Your peripheral vision has greater ACUITY at night but that doesn't improve its RESOLUTION. Your peripheral vision will be better able to alert you to movements at night. You will still be better able to identify objects - and threats
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by neuronerdgirl 3y ago
Their point is women largely WEREN'T clicking in the lit up center, even though the men were. Your counter only presumes that men would look more like the women's clicking in real life, but you havent explained the observable diff
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by neuronerdgirl 3y ago
My first thought was the actual publication reads like a student paper, especially the methods. Lo and behold: > Acknowledgments The Skaggs Faculty Mentoring Award at BYU for its financial support to mentor undergraduate students in rese
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by neuronerdgirl 3y ago
Thats the PSAT and is not used for any college admissions that I'm aware of
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by neuronerdgirl 3y ago
Hi friend, I have replied to someone further down with an explanation that may be of interest to you! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39304294
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by neuronerdgirl 3y ago
Imagine that your brain is a company composed of several different departments, each with a different primary function. In any organization, there has to be some communication between departments to get things done. So, for example, the dev
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by neuronerdgirl 3y ago
I think my handle already gives a pretty clear reason I'd prefer my anonymity here and on the internet more generally.
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by neuronerdgirl 3y ago
You can't point to that in a vacuum. For boomers and Xs, it was literally less important to be rich, because you could still do quite well for yourself. Since about 2008 if you're not rich you are much more likely to be existentia
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by neuronerdgirl 3y ago
Nobody CAN publish them. An actual criterion for most top journals is literally "novelty". Reviewers will immediately levee "this has been done before" as a damning critique in peer review. There is no replication becaus
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by neuronerdgirl 3y ago
> employ busloads of psychologists Oh for the love of - no. They do not. As a PhD in psychology I am completely unhireable at these places except maybe as a data scientist because I can do basic statistics. This is completely baseless co
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by neuronerdgirl 3y ago
Oh that wasn't a knock on you, I'm just being salty about my field.
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by neuronerdgirl 3y ago
Oh look, it's the Matt Walker book that reference chains into nowhere and is riddled with errors [1]. Yea, we know about it, and your acquaintance is a massive pain in the ass barrier for us to actually clear out his bad ideas from the

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