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I'm surprised this isn't getting more attention. If this holds it would imply a lot for a wide variety of fields.

In the US, you have heights of inequality, underemployment, and rampant rent-seeking monopolies, along with ageism. In my experience, among those who are employed and paid well, th…

That's true, but they do make the more abstract assumption that any bias isn't associated with birth date within cohort. I think the idea is that if there were bias due to instrume…

I have mixed feelings about the predictions; I get the sense that significant change is in the air, at least in the US, whatever direction that takes. I see some of these things as…

Not old-time, but tenured professor for 10 years. I definitely saw this happen in my time. The university has a faculty legislature that at one time was the administrative core, bu…

Alexander is maybe reading the wrong therapy books and literature. He should look up Bruce Wampold's research, for example. The dodo bird effect is well documented: therapy works r…

There are whole fields of research devoted to the questions you're raising. As such, it's hard to reply with anything that would do justice to them. This isn't to say your question…

So, I shared some of your impressions, but also some of what Vox is conveying. Speaking from personal experience, the problem with large public institutions (maybe any institution?…

The clothing itself isn't really what I necessarily expected, if you look at the pictures themselves ( https://osf.io/v2j43/ ). The "rich" clothing is just more like "formal" or "c…

The ego depletion effect story is interesting to me for numerous reasons, some of which are statistical/inferential, some of which are more theoretical, and some of which are kind …

I can't speak to venture funding or terrorism, but something seems really misleading to me about the NIH grant applications model. My sense is that a grant, like an academic paper,…

I think in general I mean that people are seen as cogs in a machine, rather than individuals to be trained, and there's no safety net from the government, either in terms of real r…

Former tenured professor. I think your impression is generally spot-on although there's nuances and it's more complicated than that. In general, universities are suffering from man…

My personal impression is decentralized tech — at least with regard to established equivalent functionality — is still in a kind of emergent state. I think there's a lot of options…

I think we've reached some singularity with regard to the obviousness of the futility of large scale content moderation on social media.

Some people hallucinate without drugs. There's a range of this, in terms of intensity and type. Some people take drugs. They tend to onset around the same age (adolescence to early…

I had a different take on this paper. There's a well-known phenomenon whereby narcissism and self-evaluation is generally related to positive mood. It's part of an overall positive…

I have to agree this was done really poorly. Another example of why randomized controlled trials aren't always what they're cracked up to be. Not sure if a junk food diet would fly…

Interesting. I think I've heard that before somewhere else. I'll have to ask one of my colleagues about it. Where my family is from, in the northern US, the night sky is very clear…

Off topic, but after my daughter was born I realized how sad and worried I was that she wouldn't be familiar with looking up at the sky on a clear night and seeing the Milky Way. S…

After reading the BMJ piece I wondered if any study strategy would satisfy Ioannidis, to be honest. I came away from it feeling like his calls to eliminate observational studies an…

Although I think that's reasonable at some level, I think there's dangers in it as well, in that I don't think we really know that much about metabolism or physiology in the grand …

I was kind of wondering about this after reading the passage. On the one hand the traditional Bayesian response is something like "yes, we're making our prior assumptions explicit …

I don't follow him regularly unless something he's saying comes up somehow, at which point I kinda look into him again. He's famous for lambasting psychology, some of which is dese…