o09rdk

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by o09rdk 7y ago
I'm surprised this isn't getting more attention. If this holds it would imply a lot for a wide variety of fields.
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by o09rdk 7y ago
In the US, you have heights of inequality, underemployment, and rampant rent-seeking monopolies, along with ageism. In my experience, among those who are employed and paid well, the hours are often brutal and huge sacrifices are being asked
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by o09rdk 7y ago
That's true, but they do make the more abstract assumption that any bias isn't associated with birth date within cohort. I think the idea is that if there were bias due to instrumentation, it would have to be somehow systematicall
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by o09rdk 7y ago
I have mixed feelings about the predictions; I get the sense that significant change is in the air, at least in the US, whatever direction that takes. I see some of these things as being realistic, especially on a global scale. That said, I
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by o09rdk 7y ago
Not old-time, but tenured professor for 10 years. I definitely saw this happen in my time. The university has a faculty legislature that at one time was the administrative core, but it's largely a symbolic gesture at this point, kind o
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by o09rdk 7y ago
Alexander is maybe reading the wrong therapy books and literature. He should look up Bruce Wampold's research, for example. The dodo bird effect is well documented: therapy works relative to all sorts of placebos, but therapist effects
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by o09rdk 7y ago
There are whole fields of research devoted to the questions you're raising. As such, it's hard to reply with anything that would do justice to them. This isn't to say your questions aren't important, just that your lack
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by o09rdk 7y ago
So, I shared some of your impressions, but also some of what Vox is conveying. Speaking from personal experience, the problem with large public institutions (maybe any institution?) hiring these consultancies is that there's enormous
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by o09rdk 7y ago
The clothing itself isn't really what I necessarily expected, if you look at the pictures themselves ( https://osf.io/v2j43/ ). The "rich" clothing is just more like "formal" or "conservativ
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by o09rdk 7y ago
The ego depletion effect story is interesting to me for numerous reasons, some of which are statistical/inferential, some of which are more theoretical, and some of which are kind of personal or anecdotal (I know the author of the blog
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by o09rdk 7y ago
I can't speak to venture funding or terrorism, but something seems really misleading to me about the NIH grant applications model. My sense is that a grant, like an academic paper, is often basically well-received or not. So prior to g
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by o09rdk 7y ago
I think in general I mean that people are seen as cogs in a machine, rather than individuals to be trained, and there's no safety net from the government, either in terms of real retraining or advanced education or life benefits or any
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by o09rdk 7y ago
Former tenured professor. I think your impression is generally spot-on although there's nuances and it's more complicated than that. In general, universities are suffering from many of the same pressures as other fields. Nonprofit
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by o09rdk 7y ago
My personal impression is decentralized tech — at least with regard to established equivalent functionality — is still in a kind of emergent state. I think there's a lot of options, and there's some coalescing around some standard
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by o09rdk 7y ago
I think we've reached some singularity with regard to the obviousness of the futility of large scale content moderation on social media.
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by o09rdk 7y ago
Some people hallucinate without drugs. There's a range of this, in terms of intensity and type. Some people take drugs. They tend to onset around the same age (adolescence to early adulthood). Ergo, by base rates, some will start aroun
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by o09rdk 7y ago
I had a different take on this paper. There's a well-known phenomenon whereby narcissism and self-evaluation is generally related to positive mood. It's part of an overall positive tint. So one interpretation of this is that peopl
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by o09rdk 7y ago
I have to agree this was done really poorly. Another example of why randomized controlled trials aren't always what they're cracked up to be. Not sure if a junk food diet would fly, but they could have at least given both groups a
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by o09rdk 7y ago
Interesting. I think I've heard that before somewhere else. I'll have to ask one of my colleagues about it. Where my family is from, in the northern US, the night sky is very clear and visible (barring clouds etc which aren't
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by o09rdk 7y ago
Off topic, but after my daughter was born I realized how sad and worried I was that she wouldn't be familiar with looking up at the sky on a clear night and seeing the Milky Way. Stuff like what's in this article is much more intu
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by o09rdk 7y ago
After reading the BMJ piece I wondered if any study strategy would satisfy Ioannidis, to be honest. I came away from it feeling like his calls to eliminate observational studies and smaller randomized trials are misleading in that he seems
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by o09rdk 7y ago
Although I think that's reasonable at some level, I think there's dangers in it as well, in that I don't think we really know that much about metabolism or physiology in the grand scheme of things. Physiological and microbiol
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by o09rdk 7y ago
I was kind of wondering about this after reading the passage. On the one hand the traditional Bayesian response is something like "yes, we're making our prior assumptions explicit and then incorporating that into a formal inferent
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by o09rdk 7y ago
I don't follow him regularly unless something he's saying comes up somehow, at which point I kinda look into him again. He's famous for lambasting psychology, some of which is deserved, but some of which is just ignorant. Ear
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by o09rdk 7y ago
Eh. I admit I have a complex with Taleb. It's not just his narcissism per se, although there's that too: he's just wrong about a lot of stuff, and other times fails to recognize how old his ideas are. He gets over his head so
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by o09rdk 7y ago
So, for several years the actual efficacy of antidepressants has been called into question. There's lots of reasons for this, some related to the general replicability crisis, but in general it followed from reanalyses of datasets sugg
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by o09rdk 7y ago
The article is interesting, but only touches on the very tip of a very large iceberg, and your comments are spot on. This issue has been a central one in psychology for decades, especially in clinical psychology. There are many variants of
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by o09rdk 7y ago
I've noticed the same thing with arch pain on flats. However, when I started pushing from the middle of the foot, rather than the ball of the foot, that arch pain went away. The problem then that is that then I don't think I was a
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by o09rdk 7y ago
https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/14059/are-there... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNedIJBZpgM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV0Fz2i2a8s They're universally re
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by o09rdk 7y ago
I agreed with that statement, but from the perspective that the FDA should drop its regulatory capture activities, and increase that 1% to a bigger sampling N. That is, they're focusing their efforts on the wrong problems. The problems

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