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The Mentaculus: In Praise Of The Obvious

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Psychology, statistics, and trade-offs. Sunday, February 13, 2011. In Praise Of The Obvious. Ryan Holiday recently wrote a post. Encouraging us, in a roundabout way, to seek the counter-intuitive. On the contrary, I think the counter-intuitive is overrated. Consider:. It is very difficult. To find an RSS feed that only lists the basic, most important findings from any particular field, even though this would be the most useful to an outsider. Is unlikely to win the Oscar for best picture ( currently.

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The Mentaculus: No Darkness But Ignorance

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Psychology, statistics, and trade-offs. Sunday, May 27, 2012. No Darkness But Ignorance. Here's Nancy Kanwisher's suggestion. On how to improve the field of neuroimaging:. This is very similar to Robin Hanson's suggestion. And since I assume she came up with the idea independently, it bodes well for its success. Both Hanson and Kanwisher are motivated to promote an honest consensus on scientific questions. Came to give a talk at the NIH (which was interesting), I asked him. Could this actually happen?

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The Mentaculus: The Trade-Offs Of Publicizing Your Goals

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Psychology, statistics, and trade-offs. Tuesday, September 4, 2012. The Trade-Offs Of Publicizing Your Goals. In Ben Casnocha's reflections. On writing his book The Start-Up Of You. He mentions this tidbit:. In science, there are often norms against sharing too much of your project with outsiders, to prevent it from being " scooped. It strikes me now that these norms serve the dual purpose of preventing you from taking mental credit for something that you haven't yet done the grunt work to accomplish.

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The Mentaculus: Magic Is Measurable

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Psychology, statistics, and trade-offs. Sunday, October 7, 2012. Matthew McIntosh tweeted this. And alerted me to the blog. Of a young woman who I never met, Courtney Arthur. She recently died in a bike accident. The whole poem Matthew was referencing is nice. Whatever magic is,. It's in the metronomic dance of cogs. In your watch,. In the gallop of your hands. Metamorphosis into cake,. In the zygote's slow unfurl. It's in the understanding that flowers. In the two cerebellums. Of the two people who speak.

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The Mentaculus: The Wisdom Of Whuber

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Psychology, statistics, and trade-offs. Sunday, April 17, 2011. The Wisdom Of Whuber. That's William Huber, whuber. For short, dispensed in his answers at the relatively new stats Q&A site, Cross Validated. His answers are the best on there, reputation normalized to the number of answers (with shrinkage. He writes about whether the median is a better summary stat than the mean:. He writes about the biggest questions in statistics, from which I'll reproduce two (emphasis his):. He writes about whether you...

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The Mentaculus: Book Review: Great Flicks By Dean Simonton

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Psychology, statistics, and trade-offs. Tuesday, July 24, 2012. Book Review: Great Flicks By Dean Simonton. Review and notes from a book discussing an academic topic that will likely only interest you insofar as it generalizes to other topics, unless you are both a huge stats and film nerd. So, as soon as I saw this one, I clicked "buy it now" on its Amazon page. A few of my other gripes:. 1) It takes awhile to get used to Simonton's academic writing style. 2) The book takes few risks stylistically. ...

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The Mentaculus: June 2013

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Psychology, statistics, and trade-offs. Sunday, June 30, 2013. 1) In case you find yourself in an acute panic looking for a last-minute alternative for GR, I am now using Feedly. As my RSS reader. I haven't used it enough to recommend it one way or another, but import at least is easy. 2) In an effort to consolidate various interests, I am now blogging exclusively here. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Don't Have An RSS Reader?

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The Mentaculus: September 2012

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Psychology, statistics, and trade-offs. Wednesday, September 12, 2012. The Embryology Of Spin. Yavchitz et al. looked at. In their sample (N = 41), the only. Labels: Pointing Out The Obvious. Tuesday, September 4, 2012. The Trade-Offs Of Publicizing Your Goals. In Ben Casnocha's reflections. On writing his book The Start-Up Of You. He mentions this tidbit:. In science, there are often norms against sharing too much of your project with outsiders, to prevent it from being " scooped. As this is my personal...

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The Mentaculus: Is *Any* Human Activity Long-Run Sustainable?

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Psychology, statistics, and trade-offs. Friday, July 6, 2012. Is *Any* Human Activity Long-Run Sustainable? That's from a guardedly optimistic article. Recently, in which case you should do that for 15 seconds first. Don't Have An RSS Reader? As this is my personal blog, the opinions expressed are my own. They do not represent the views of the educational establishments I currently attend or attended in the past. Book Review: Great Flicks By Dean Simonton. Statistics Is Like Medicine, Not Software.

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The Mentaculus: When You Should Be Most Skeptical

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Psychology, statistics, and trade-offs. Wednesday, June 20, 2012. When You Should Be Most Skeptical. One of the hardest things we can do as readers is disagree with the methods of authors we agree with ideologically. It makes us feel good to find authors who agree with us, but this is when we should be at our most skeptical. Searching the world for self-justification is not a worthwhile goal, it simply turns you into another short-sighted, argumentative know-it-all. Don't Have An RSS Reader?