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by nonbel 8y ago
How many different ways are there to form a solar system? I am sure the requirements for experiment and possible combinations of factors are just as daunting. So, I don't think thats the real problem. I think the main real problem is t
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by nonbel 8y ago
Direct replications are done in science 100% of the time something becomes fact. Eg, see my other post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17981869 Btw, I dont consider either psychology nor medical research to be a
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by nonbel 8y ago
Sure, in some areas of physics they reproduce studies millions or billions of times by figuring out how to get it done cheaper and cheaper until students can do it: https://hepweb.ucsd.edu/2dl/pasco/Millikans%20Oil
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by nonbel 8y ago
I was in academia dealing with the same stuff. I worked constantly for years to save my project once I figured out what was going on. I got it to the point where at least it wasn't BS, but after that was too burned out to go further. A
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by nonbel 8y ago
Yep, his idea is for psychologists to never actually double check each other's work. Hes probably scared of what would be found. Edit: And of course " conceptual replications" should also be done. Its just that they are not
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by nonbel 8y ago
There are, but the "replication studies" tend to change little details for whatever reason so they aren't really checking for reproduciblity anyway. I don't mean details like where/when the study was performed, beca
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by nonbel 8y ago
Check out Paul Meehl, a psychologist who was really into epistemology: https://meehl.dl.umn.edu/sites/g/files/pua1696/f/074theoryte... http://meehl.umn.edu/unpublished-material/
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"people being wildly wildly wrong in good faith" There is really no excuse for them not trying to replicate each others studies this whole time to the point it was allowed to build into a crisis. That is a very old and well kn
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by nonbel 8y ago
I just don't think the fact that there is debt erosion has much impact on the gap between rich and poor. I'm talking about an income that ten years ago would get you a full one bedroom apartment now gets you living in a converted
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by nonbel 8y ago
From a few posts up: >"This is backwards. Inflation destroys the value of debt. Poor tend to be borrowers and rich tend to be lenders, so inflation is an equalizer." chimeracoder seemed to be agreeing with this "equalizer&
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by nonbel 8y ago
Well the overeating is partially the healthcare industry's fault due to poor nutritional recommendations. People in general should not have grains as the main basis for their diet. This type of diet makes many people eat more than they
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by nonbel 8y ago
Inflation hits prices before wages. Wage increases due to inflation always lag the price increases of the food/shelter/etc people need to buy. Is this controversial?
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by nonbel 8y ago
Nah, you just have to go elsewhere because the US healthcare system apparently includes a bunch of unnecessary or overpriced expenses. Or you just say you dont have insurance so you get charged at 10-50% the "chargemaster" price.
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by nonbel 8y ago
Hospital "billing" is mostly BS opaque negotiations between them and insurance companies. Those numbers mean nothing for individual patients. http://selfpaypatient.com/2014/01/03/insured-patients-can
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by nonbel 8y ago
When I looked into healthcare spending in the US about 5 years ago, it was almost all (~75%) chronic treatments for people over 70 years old. Does anyone have a current reference regarding this type of data?
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by nonbel 8y ago
I think you have the blame reversed. These problems were caused by statisticians who failed to understand there is always a reason to "adjust" the data. They taught people to apply methods that were inapplicable to the real-life
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"I'm still dumbfounded how we can have advanced so far in so many areas of science and technology and yet we are in the dark ages when it comes to nutrition science. Why is that?" Perhaps its just easier for non-specialis
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"I mean, if you spent 3-5 years (sometimes much more) of your prime working on something only to come to the conclusion that your wrong would you just accept it? OR you "re-adjust" the data and somehow make your p-value s
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by nonbel 8y ago
I would bet there is almost no overlap between the people betting in prediction markets and those who dont screen email/websites/calls (ie, answer polls honestly).
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"Progress is slow because much of the long hanging fruit has been picked Cancer is much more difficult and complicated than other types of diseases" Or maybe the people researching it haven't been doing a very good job an
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"How can studies be improved so it identifies good/bad drug candidates better and quicker?" These are not at all hard to identify, but too many people have "bought in" to the bad methods and incorrect results th
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by nonbel 8y ago
Perhaps that water ended up in the great lakes, which currently contain near record high amounts of water? http://www.uppermichiganssource.com/content/news/Lake-Superi...
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by nonbel 8y ago
I looked at the paper. I mean there needs to be a table that tells us what they consider the acceptable range for spine density, bouton density, soma size, soma ellipsity or whatever shape stats, branching stats, etc. I dont really know wha
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by nonbel 8y ago
It can do any of those or the opposite. The effect of the signals from one neuron depend on the properties of the receiving neuron. Ie, the same neurotransmitter released can be "excitatory" to neighboring neurons in one case and
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by nonbel 8y ago
I had some old pictures of stained rodent brains and saw something looked qualitatively like what they described in the first (and only) image I checked. Since they dont give any definite criteria for me to compare against, what can I do?
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"While I am usually sceptical of anything that has even a whiff of human exceptionalism, this is a fascinating result...the primary outstanding question that I have is whether we have actually sampled the population in L1 sufficien
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by nonbel 8y ago
Are they doing this and putting it on youtube, etc? If not then there is apparently no demand for it. And JOVE is a useful tool. I wanted to try researchers wearing go pros or similar while collecting the data and all of this archived. You
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"I just know there's some hungry entrepreneurs waiting to pounce on the idea of a "Modern Peer Review Journal" startup, but you will not be 'disrupting' this industry anytime soon I'm afraid." Wha
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by nonbel 8y ago
>"Cord cutters with Netflix aren't going to be exposed to ads." Netflix is adding advertisements now (random source): https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-turn-off-netflix-ads-...
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by nonbel 8y ago
Designing reproducible experiments and making accurate predictions are both important, but they are totally different things. Somehow you've combined them into one concept.

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