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by nonbel 8y ago
Wow, another study that fails to actually include a low carb diet: > "During the test phase, high, moderate, and low carbohydrate diets varied in carbohydrate (60%, 40%, and 20% of total energy, respectively)" A low carb diet
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Dynamics between cofounders
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by nonbel 8y ago
The quote refers to the "process of growth", which I took to refer to the rate of growth rather than growth for an infinite amount of time.
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by nonbel 8y ago
> "I’m not sure what you mean by “infinite rate”." I quoted the sentence that claims this guys main discovery was that the process of economic growth does not "explode without limit".
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by nonbel 8y ago
The implication is that the prize is an attempt by bankers to give their self-interested policies an air of legitimacy via association with the nobel prize.
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by nonbel 8y ago
Are you saying economic growth can proceed at an infinite rate?
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"Most importantly, Romer won the Prize for seeing how the non-rival nature of ideas can boost ongoing and indeed “endogenous” economic growth. Romer also showed mathematically that this process of growth is bounded, namely that it
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by nonbel 8y ago
I'm not saying competition is good for medical research, but having done medical research I am well aware of the unbelievable rate at which crappy papers are being published. And then when you try to publish a paper you're expecte
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by nonbel 8y ago
Or you can save all that money to work on your own projects like curing cancer. Eg, tens or hundreds of billions of dollars are being wasted every year on crappy (not even reproducible in principle) medical research: https://blog
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"It's deeply immoral to hoard money and resources" This sounds like "it's deeply immoral to plan ahead" to me.
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by nonbel 8y ago
Off the top of my head: 1) Being arrested for real or framed crimes. In case you don't know, once someone has your sequence they can easily produce craploads of the regions checked by the police in bacteria and leave it at crime scenes
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by nonbel 8y ago
Stuff like this is already going on: https://www.ajc.com/news/national/can-police-legally-obtain-... Of course, people think its great when it was used to solve a murder...
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by nonbel 8y ago
No, you have no idea what danger you are putting your family or descendants in by giving these companies a good DNA sample. On the plus side you might get told some vague "risk factors".
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"For example if I wanted to conclude that a solenoid worked I could correlate piston position with applied voltage" No one would do this, its once again a "rudimentary science" behavior. People have figured out what
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by nonbel 8y ago
So you want to use "effect size" to mean "deviation from prediction"?
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"If a field is getting by without expecting its contributors to do statistics it is either a straggler before we realized this aspect of rigor or it is a case where the effects are so large that a nonrigorous detection of them work
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"a field where you don't need statistics" I feel some topics are getting confused here. Now you seem to be saying "a field that doesn't need statistics" only doesn't need it because the error due to
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"There are zero valid interpretations of quantum mechanics where you can tell me which particles will come out of an event, even in principle. It seems silly to suggest that describing your certainty in your results is incompatible
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"In physics, it is fundamentally impossible to predict the outcome of wave function collapses/pick your favorite interpretation's verb." This is one interpretation of quantum mechanics. Plenty of physics is done with
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"We seem to have reached a point where rarely does a new invention throw off previous science without it being based on new science that was already in disagreement with old science." Or perhaps science has become so instituti
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"how likely your result was to occur randomly"? What does random mean? It just means you didn't include every possible influence in your mathematical model of whats going on. Instead you used some distribution of "no
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"I suck at statistics and won't make a good formal scientist" Most really good science got done before statistics was even a thing (starting in the 1930s-1940s). Stats has very little to do with being a good scientist.
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"If this is true, how does that work if the fundamental conclusion re the relationship of 2 entities is the inverse of what you expect?" Not quite sure what you are trying to say but this doesnt sound like any statistical mode
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"'It is highly unlikely that you will find a large number of statistically significant results. The sample sizes are just too small'." This is just a tautology. In social science large sample size = statistical signi
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"workers output improved because someone was paying attention to them" How much did it improve? All this test tells you is that there was some difference, it could be minuscule.
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"the goal of an experiment is to determine whether the difference is because of the treatment." I doubt this is really the goal of an experiment like this. The goal would actually be to figure out whether changing their proced
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"One question of interest is whether the times are the same on average for the two workplaces. Formally, we test the null hypothesis that the average runstitching time for the standard workplace is the same as the average runstitch
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by nonbel 8y ago
In fact the voting system seems to be getting more , rather than less, shady in some places. Eg, LA county: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17823702
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by nonbel 8y ago
Everyone just wants NASA to do something cool. The probes are ok, but pictures of rocks are getting boring. This requires risks... And sadly, I would expect the end result of this sentiment to be fewer probes rather than cooler projects.
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by nonbel 8y ago
Doesnt general relativity only predict the right thing if you allow for 90% of the universe to be made of dark matter/energy that is only detectable as deviations from from the predictions of GR?

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