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by pacbard 5y ago
The problem is that there are no incentives in learning how to program for people in those fields. Most people just get their code to "work" (i.e., output the analyses that they want) without really wanting to know how it works. M
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by pacbard 5y ago
The federal government has updated the rules for exemption in 2018. The MSU link is more of a summary than the actual rules. The fact that a mailing list is publicly available is what made me worry about the applicability of any sort of exe
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by pacbard 5y ago
IRB (as in Institutional Review Board) is a local (as in each research institution has one) regulatory board that ensures that any research conducted by people employed by the institution follows the federal government's common rule fo
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by pacbard 5y ago
A few things about IRB approval. 1. You have to submit for review any work involving human subjects before you start interacting with them. The authors clearly state that they sought retroactive approval after being questioned about the
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by pacbard 6y ago
I guess that they could ask for a new trial but wouldn't it better if they would settle it using poetry, specifically comic poetry (or vituperium) that was common during Dante's time? It would be great if the two heirs would face
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by pacbard 6y ago
I honestly don't know. I am not well read in hermeneutics to have any sort of opinion on it. It looks like Stanford's encyclopedia of philosophy [^1] might have a good introduction on the intersection of truth and hermeneutics. A
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by pacbard 6y ago
Prefacing that I am not a philosopher, but I think that hermeneutics would reject the idea that "real" and "reality" can exist outside of the interpretation that people have of something that has happened. To an extent,
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by pacbard 6y ago
A nice fuzzy RD design! The interpretation of their results, though, is difficult because the counterfactual is not very clear to me. They are using admission score cutoffs to oversubscribed vocational schools. The intuition here is that pe
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by pacbard 6y ago
To build upon this answer a little bit, people want to go back in person not for the educational reasons but for social reasons. While you can learn in an online format and (with enough work/investment) make the experience similar to i
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by pacbard 6y ago
I think that the issue with heat pumps is that they don't really work well in sub-freezing temperatures, making them mostly useless in colder climates. There are dual fuel systems that use heat pumps until they stop working and switch
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by pacbard 6y ago
I don't know what you mean by margin of error. The results in the paper are a little confusing because they report mean and standard deviation while t-tests use mean and standard error. In Table 3, they report the 95% confidence interv
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by pacbard 6y ago
The difference between a super GM and stockfish is that a super GM will play moves the "feel natural" to a human given the current position on the board. A chess engine won't care about what is natural and will maximize the p
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by pacbard 6y ago
Most chess sites provide a "firehose" for current games. It should be pretty easy to pipe a game's pgn file to stockfish. Also, sites also have a "viewer" page for most games where they add a chess engine evaluation
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by pacbard 6y ago
Yes. SEM assumes that all relationships are linear and that all variables are normally distributed (for standard errors and fit indices calculations). Those assumptions are baked into the model and are usually never discussed. Non-linear mo
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by pacbard 6y ago
Unfortunately for psychologists, establishing causality within a structural equations framework is really hard (regardless of the common claims that SEM is causal in nature). The approach outlined in the paper is close to [Directed Acyclic
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by pacbard 7y ago
I wonder if it has to do with the suffix -tion. Maybe muscle memory is triggered when the letters “tio” are typed at the end of the word and “n” is automatically added to the end of the word.
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by pacbard 7y ago
There is much more to a PhD than research output. The unwritten curriculum of a PhD program is to introduce the student to the field of research through apprenticeship. For example, you hear people talk more about who your dissertation advi
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by pacbard 7y ago
Books here could be a stand-in for what Thomas Kuhn has called paradigms [1]. Broadly, each science has a core set of beliefs that are accepted by a majority of the scientists working within that discipline. Books can be seen as the formali
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by pacbard 7y ago
The data structure doesn’t help with causal inference. Reading the abstract, it looks like the authors are trying to make a causal argument: people are more likely to improve their economic standing because they moved to a walkable city. OP
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by pacbard 7y ago
He is coming at that conclusion from a Bayesian point of view to statistics. He is seeing the p-value as a random variable that can take values from 0 to 1 and follows some distribution. Under these hypotheses, observing a p-value of 0.20 a
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by pacbard 7y ago
It looks like the blog author completely missed the point of the statistical significance discussion going on. Most first-tier journals in the social sciences have an acceptance rate of about 5%. At the margins, the differences between acce
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by pacbard 7y ago
As long that it’s done with all deliberate speed [1], white parents will be fine. /s More seriously and with less snark, as long as our schools are separate, we can’t have true social justice. That was at the heart of the Brown v. Boar
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by pacbard 7y ago
The issue is probably two-pronged: 1. There is pressure from the department (and funders, as the article mentions) to produce publications. The need to publish leads to researchers to spin null results as a way to "cash in" the ti
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by pacbard 7y ago
I get that. Sorry my reply wasn’t very clear. The article gives examples of how politicians and policymakers have “weaponized” peer review to silence critics. The author proposes moving away from peer review (and the gold standard it someti
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by pacbard 7y ago
What would be the alternative to peer review? White papers on “pop” topics? Opinion pieces by think tanks? The ideal of peer review is pretty much the gold standard of scientific work. By that, I mean the idea that your work should undergo
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by pacbard 8y ago
Isn't that the beauty of language? Communicate meaning through words. I agree that the word "forge" might not be defined as "a source host that adds collaboration features like issues and pull requests", however you
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by pacbard 8y ago
From my experience, I think that this is unlikely. A notebook abstracts a REPL and allows for literate programming. It's mostly used by people who used to write computer programs to carry out analyses (e.g., applied statisticians or nu
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by pacbard 8y ago
In my experience, I have never seen or heard of anyone grazing their milk cows. I also haven't seen cows being abused or underweight (I don't think that an underweight milk cow would produce much milk, so that wouldn't make s
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by pacbard 8y ago
As someone who grew up in the Parmigiano Reggiano production zone and whose family is member of a Parmigiano co-op, I can tell you that it is possible to taste the difference between Parmigiano, grana padano, and the parmesan clones. It boi
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by pacbard 8y ago
The likely process at play here is cutting out the middle man from ad placement. Before GDPR, a company would have likely contacted an ad agency to target the population that reads the NYT. Ads would then be sold to a pool of websites that

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