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I have a feeling that the lack of faith that Americans have in their government ends up being a self-fulfilling prophecy. I work closely with a lot of government employees, and it …

> To the larger point, scientists are not programmers. They got into their programs to do research. I would say most research, to an ever growing degree, is so heavily dependent on…

There are lots of great computational biologists, but being a computational biologist doesn't necessitate being good with computers. Plenty of PI's rely pretty much exclusively on …

It's not about being an expert at everything or hiring more people. These aren't particularly hard problems, it's not difficult to find biologists who are incredibly adept at using…

I don't disagree completely with this, but just want to point out that it's kind of a bad smell to have computational biologists who are - as someone in the article puts it - compu…

It sounds like what you're suggesting would be functionally equivalent to PI-led replications, which I would agree is a good idea. There are still some practical problems though. 1…

> academics ultimately rely on universities for their income Sort of, a huge portion of income is from grants, particularly after the first few years from being hired. More importa…

> What might work is that we require replication work for a PhD I don't think this will work. All it will do is devalue the value of replication studies because only PHD students d…

Not OP here, but my issue with the recommendations are that they've pretty accurately listed a whole bunch of mostly structural problems with academia, but all of the suggestions b…

> One silver lining of living in these United States is that you can be assured that complex technology picked up by cities and counties (and often even states) will be implemented…

According to Nate Silver, these data come from smaller labs and in total account for a low proportion of tests: https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1283144803476283392

There's no battle, both links say pretty much the same thing.

Your link suggests that the statement is true, but you probably already know that and are posting in a bad faith effort to mislead people.

As someone who works with a lot of state IT people, if they don't know how to hire programmers, they probably don't know how to manage programmers. In a bureaucracy, if the adminis…

Here's a link to the actual source, rather than that garbage news article: https://nihrecord.nih.gov/2016/07/01/much-biomedical-researc...

I think "zip" breaks this rule.

Thanks for the response, I'm more on the research side of things now, so I don't have a current use case, but thinking about moving back to industry, and it's something that I reme…

It's been a while since I've done database stuff, so maybe this is a naive question, but how do you find the reusability of using primarily SQL/redshift to answer these sorts of qu…

If the point of the quote is to say that "sometimes the more expensive option is better value" it's accurate, but also is obvious, and doesn't really mean anything. To be clear, I …

This quote gets posted over and over ad nauseum on reddit and HackerNews and always seems to just get accepted as truth, but realistically the entire theory depends on the relative…

I guess I meant in regards to studies that suggest psychology studies are underpowered (there have been quite a few in recent years), reporting often says that the studies have bee…

In addition to the earlier points, I find a lot of the reporting on the misuse of statistics in psychology misuse statistics. It's a narrative, so "psychological studies are underp…

As someone who studied Psychology and CS, and is somewhat good at math, it's not necessarily a bad thing that psychology students don't take a lot of math. I'd say maybe 10% of stu…

One thing I'm confused about is why most of the criticism has come on the Positive Affect paper and not the original "The complex dynamics of high performance teams" paper, which t…

With Gelman in there too? Definitely fear.