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I think direct care models, in all but name, are probably coming. I might be wrong, but the way federal governance in the US is headed it seems increasingly rather than decreasingl…

Reasonable point, but I'd argue that the purchasers of dedicated cameras are already not the general market, who will just be using their phone camera anyway. For purchasers of the…

Bingo. The fact this is one of the two most popular TED talks says volumes about TED, and how to interpret TED vis-a-vis the broader scientific community.

I started reading the essay not knowing what to think, and it turned out to be more relevant to my work than I thought. The issues being discussed in the essay have been a central …

Whole fields have been devoted to defining science; I don't think experiment is necessary to the scientific endeavor. Experiments in many fields, for example, often suffer from pro…

This was one of my first thoughts--these are extremely, extremely low base-rate events with not much measurement power. People mess with the surveys, or simply fail to understand t…

... but later the whole line of inquiry and interview of him was ruled in court to be immaterial to the case. So there's some disagreement with the perspective you're outlining.

So, I'll try to respond as someone who voted in support of Johnson, and can get the appeal of Trump as well as the Clinton, as well as visceral hatred of either. I get that huge sw…

Yeah, all these arguments against non-GMO products, painting non-GMO proponents as antiscientific, seem to me to be strawman arguments that ironically miss the point. It's a thinly…

A major downside of Stan is its lack of support for discrete priors. This isn't really advertised very well, but is more of a problem than it might sound initially. Its type handli…

... and/or deregulation (reregulation?) to open up competition. Often if not usually, the same task could be just as skillfully by done, or even more skillfully or appropriately do…

As someone in this field somewhat close to the article in a certain sense, I wouldn't say Susan Fiske's attitudes are typical of psychology. Maybe not rare, but not typical either.…

Then you have to summarize those replications and decide whether or not the replication studies replicated findings... which means meta-analysis.

This could either be brilliant or a total nightmare: "Support for arrays with indexing starting at values different from 1. The array types are expected to be defined in packages, …

I agree with your general sentiment, but think those error rates hide a lot as well. Human error might be at x% overall, but when you eliminate malfunctioning humans, broadly defin…

The article frames the question as a sort of strawman in some ways. Rather than ask "is running good or bad for you?" you could ask "is an alternative form of exercise, that has fe…

The problem is that it is not actually a free market. The government grants monopolies to prescribers, restricting access that way, and to drug manufacturers, through the FDA, dire…

I don't know if I entirely agree with the "fall on your sword" argument. Sometimes it applies, but not always. There's definitely a grey area. At some point, the leverage becomes c…

It does matter if you're aware of the cost:benefit ratio involved in adopting it relative to the existing tech, or even more commonly, the cost:benefit ratio involved in adopting i…

I sort of agree with you, but the laws overstep what I consider acceptable. I'm fine with an operation banning employees from filming, for example, and employees getting fired for …

People also underestimate the market for baby name resources. It's true in the US as well, something I didn't realize until I had my own child. Add to that additional uncertainty a…

Depending on how you define it, you could say my research is in this general area. My sense of how to interpret these sorts of findings has changed greatly over time, and become mu…

Without meaning to sound antagonistic, you're framing the question in the wrong way. Research suggests depression is more like blood pressure, varying continuously in the populatio…

How do you know an intelligence service didn't create this system, and turn it loose only to be watching and listening the whole time?

This paper is interesting to read, but confusing in my opinion and sort of misled. I'm not sure what point the author seems to be making about the DSM. They seem to be stating some…