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But it also fuzzes value. So what you end up with rather than "value" is network effects, people who are good at advertising, and random chaotic trends that blow like the wind. Tha…

I sincerely appreciate this blog post and discussion, as it raises a lot of important and compelling points, but I wish it had had some discussion of alternatives and why. To me, m…

It depends on what you mean by "science." Science has become so political and subject to hype and fads, at least in biomedicine, that everyone should be deeply skeptical of every c…

It's already too political. I agree with you; just saying that everything bad in that regard will get even worse.

I feel odd being so gushing about Best Buy, because for the longest time I really didn't have the most positive impression of them at all, but I'm not exaggerating when I say that …

10 million confounds is a lot to eliminate. Randomization only works because it decreases the probability of a spurious association existing. At some point the number of confounds …

I think the horse has left he barn in terms of the suggestions in the comic. I love the comic and the attention it's getting but the issues discussed are such a small part of the p…

IIRC, Hungary has implemented something like this and it's been floated as an idea, to distribute grant dollars as a fixed amount to everyone who has an H index or citation count a…

Maybe I read the original research article incorrectly, or maybe this BBC piece is discussing something additional, but my impression after reading about it more closely was that t…

I agree that business isn't really the right model for academics but the problems imho is that what an "outstanding academic track record is" has become so ambiguous that it's prac…

This poem often reminds me of geological timescale, which occurs over millions of years or more. For example, the Carnian Pluvial Event was a relatively humid rainy era that lasted…

The harder story to tell that this piece is avoiding because of the difficulty is the institutional dynamics. It's hinted at in the article more or less directly, but the entire mi…

Peer review is a cornerstone of academics, and there continues to be a prestige associated with it as well as with certain journals. This is especially true in certain circles. As …

Can anyone recommend any good resources on double descent (DD; the phenomenon whereby overparameterized estimators achieve better error reduction than parameterized ones)? DD seems…

It's not just here. It seems like a common sentiment in a lot of places. It's confusing to me as well. There's a direct line in my mind from calls for social media to be self-regul…

Lots of thoughts. First, there's a sort of framing issue with "subjective answers to questions" per the press release. These subjective experiences are the very nature of the thing…

My experience is that there is phenomenal cheese on both sides of the Atlantic, so much so it's ridiculous in my mind to argue about who has the best cheese, because they both have…

So, I left a tenured position. The linked piece resonates with me. I'm actually not so sure it's that common relative to the number of people who actually leave. After I left my po…

I don't disagree with these points, but I do think many individuals entering college are looking for some kind of extended [rite of] passage or something into adulthood, and I do t…

As a former tenured professor I've been watching all of this with a bit of empathy, anxiety, concern, and schaudenfreude. Many of my best friends and colleagues are at the universi…

It's important to keep that in mind re: improvements in inequality, but at the same time, for example, there is a refugee crisis that's been steadily increasing over time worldwide…

I've increasingly become convinced the environmental problem is really a socioeconomic problem. This is in some ways the point of the paper, but in other ways the paper misses the …

I've lived through this and seen this in histories of home purchases. It's the reason I don't recommend buying a brand new home unless you oversaw its construction. The ideal situa…

I have color-grapheme synesthesia. I was in a study once because of it and got frustrated by the colors on the screen being offered in the study, because they generally weren't qui…