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Cognitive bias cheat sheet

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I find the treatment of psychology on HN to be perplexing. On one hand, there have been attacks on psychology as a field [1] due to legitimate concerns related to replication. On the other hand, blog posts such as this come up every few days that take the same results for granted and frame them in everyday terms. I wonder, are there different groups of HN readers with different attitudes towards psychology? Or does t…

"I find the treatment of psychology on HN to be perplexing."

Yes--there has been constructive critism.

1. Most people on hn have at least a bachelor's degree.

2. Many have seen a Psychologist.

3. Sone have seen a Psychiatrist.

4. Many have taken drugs that were suspose to help them.

5. Many have spent a lot of money on Psychology, with a lot of crying, side effects, and no result in the end.

6. Out of all scientific disciplines, I can't think of one that needs more critism than Psychology, and its more regulated brother--Psychiatry.

7. So yes, our anuses twitch, when any Psychology is brought up.

Any MFCC, or Dr, "Oh golly gee--maybe he's a latent homosexual. He used a peculiar word in 7?" Where's that 18 something book? No--let's put him on drugs. Oh, they didn't work. How much does he owe me? Let's try CB therapy? How much have I made off him? Well he thinks he's a little bit better, but he's still self medicating with alcohol, and isn't working, and Still complaining. Let's tell him he needs to go to rehab! That will get him out of my hair? Well--my profession is definetly better than construction? I wish my patients respected me more? Maybe I will start a 501C3--they make a killing off people's heart strings? I wonder why they don't respect what I do? I spent all those years in school, but still have a hard time with statistics? But then again--it's an Art too. Yea! (Hand rub together) My next victim is attractive, and has great insurance. Come on in Mary. We have 50 minutes. Did you bring your insurance card?"

Re: Cognitive bias cheat sheet

#122
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I actually get the impression that most of the articles that are "liked" by HN are somewhat grass roots. Take this one. It is a "hacker" that is spending time to try to improve biases held. It is somewhat ironic, to me, that I am basically accusing us of having an anti-intellectual bend. However, it is not unique to psychology. There is a similar slant against "academic" computer science.

There is a similar slant against "academic" computer science. As someone who went to college for CompSci, I see good reason for a slant against computer science . The problem is that it's the wrong topic for somebody who does software development! What we do is not science , it's engineering. Much of the time spent teaching us the science aspect is wasted, at least compared to the opportunity to use the time on engin…

I completely agree. I love computer science. I love software development. But those two things are radically different things.

What I'm finding it difficult to find, these days, is actual mature-age accredited uni courses in computer science. Instead, you get a plethora of development courses which, as you say, are akin to engineering, not science.

Re: Cognitive bias cheat sheet

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On replication, this same criticism has recently been directed at physics, chemistry and biology, among others. [1] Psychology, with view to its practical (non-research) use has not helped me, but at least three people I know say they benefitted from cognitive behavioural therapy. Perhaps in the future, medicine and science will subordinate it to the same role of philosophy to better explain human behaviour and think…

Historically you have the roles reversed in that medicine and science are both subordinates of philosophy. But admittedly due to the predominance of analytic philosophy, particularly in modern western philosophy, it has become much more of what you describe. This is really more a failing of modern philosophy than a condemnation of the field as a whole. There were/are/will-be many philosophers that don't ascribe to it…

As a former philosophy student, I disavow philosophy for its uselessness. Save for ethics and a few niche topics of inquiry where it has practical utility, its only function is to add epistemlogical detail to science's study of nature (historically known as natural philosophy).

To paraphrase what John Locke said to Newton: "Sir, it is the lesser duty of mine as Philosopher and under labourer of the Natural Philsopher, to remove the debris and furnish detail that the latter imparts to our Knowledge."

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post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually get the impression that most of the articles that are "liked" by HN are somewhat grass roots. Take this one. It is a "hacker" that is spending time to try to improve biases held. It is somewhat ironic, to me, that I am basically accusing us of having an anti-intellectual bend. However, it is not unique to psychology. There is a similar slant against "academic" computer science.

There is a similar slant against "academic" computer science. As someone who went to college for CompSci, I see good reason for a slant against computer science . The problem is that it's the wrong topic for somebody who does software development! What we do is not science , it's engineering. Much of the time spent teaching us the science aspect is wasted, at least compared to the opportunity to use the time on engin…

I went to school for Software Engineering, in the engineering faculty. My school also had Computer Science.

The difference was somewhat ironically that the CS degree had more practical, hands on coding, and engineering was more theoretical, plus we had to take all the physics/chemistry/math courses to meet the requirements of the Engineering board.

Re: Cognitive bias cheat sheet

#126
Is there a dataset somewhere with sentences/paragraphs labeled with cognitive biases? The idea of a machine learning program auto labeling college essays with faulty deductive logic is enticing. Then run the system backward to generate logically sound arguments like the yahoo Nsfw detector post recently.

Re: Cognitive bias cheat sheet

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The psychology replication crisis is much worse than any other field. http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/09/05/if-you-cant-make-predic...

>The psychology replication crisis is much worse than any other field. The article doesn't get into this. Coming from a physics background, I will not say there's a crisis , but: 1. Few research is replicated. 2. We who did physics research were very unconcerned about whether our results could be replicated. Our journal papers were very concise, and it was common practice not to give all the details needed to replica…

>keep the "secret recipe" to ourselves >Everyone will have a list like that

You and/or your publishers are terrible human beings.

Re: Cognitive bias cheat sheet

#129
For those interested in the topic, there's a really good book (also available as audiobook) that covers this in some depth, "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman.

Re: Cognitive bias cheat sheet

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>The psychology replication crisis is much worse than any other field. The article doesn't get into this. Coming from a physics background, I will not say there's a crisis , but: 1. Few research is replicated. 2. We who did physics research were very unconcerned about whether our results could be replicated. Our journal papers were very concise, and it was common practice not to give all the details needed to replica…

>keep the "secret recipe" to ourselves >Everyone will have a list like that You and/or your publishers are terrible human beings.

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