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Brilliant jerks, crazy hotties, and other artifacts of range restriction (2019)

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Re: Brilliant jerks, crazy hotties, and other artifacts of range restriction (2019)

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Post by cactusplant7374 »

photochemsyn wrote: post #19
tbrownaw wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> There's little solid evidence for inherited mental illness A quick web search seems to suggest that ADHD, depression, and autism are all known to run in families?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33624032 > (8) Family genetic studies . The phrase “family genetic studies” is commonly used in psychiatry to refer to designs in which investigators examine the familial aggregation of one or more disorders, such as panic disorder or major depression, within intact (i.e., non-adoptive) families (e.g., Weissman, 1993). Given that the familial aggregation of one or more disorders w…

> There's little solid evidence for inherited mental illness

> Even schizophrenia, which is among the most heritable of all mental disorders, appears to have a heritability of between 70 and 90% as estimated by twin designs (Mulle, 2012), leaving room for still undetermined environmental influences.

You have set the bar high.

Re: Brilliant jerks, crazy hotties, and other artifacts of range restriction (2019)

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Post by cactusplant7374 »

DiggyJohnson wrote: post #9
runnerup wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn’t know. I was a rower.

I’ve seen once heard of several concussions from rowing. Catch a crab and the oar comes back heaaavvy

In my experience catching a crab is entirely avoidable.

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Post by photoGrant »

RosanaAnaDana wrote: post #13
swyx wrote: post #6

> Get unlimited access to data science stories from industry leaders on Medium. cant read this article without "upgrading". no i dont want to "upgrade". can we downrank Medium until they stop doing bullshit like this? (yes towardsdatascience is a well known data publication, would love to push them gently into moving off medium)

I support a view of hackernews where no pay walled content is permitted.

Hear hear!

Re: Brilliant jerks, crazy hotties, and other artifacts of range restriction (2019)

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Post by runnerup »

DiggyJohnson wrote: post #9
runnerup wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn’t know. I was a rower.

I’ve seen once heard of several concussions from rowing. Catch a crab and the oar comes back heaaavvy

Valid point. I’ve luckily only seen these get caught under rowers rib cages and/or launch them out of the boat, luckily only bruises and sprains.

But I’ve been knocked unconscious twice in skiing and suffered a third concussion as well. Another concussion from swimming into the wall and from falling off gymnastics equipment.

Perhaps there is some reason for concern after all…

Re: Brilliant jerks, crazy hotties, and other artifacts of range restriction (2019)

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Post by runnerup »

cactusplant7374 wrote: post #22
DiggyJohnson wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve seen once heard of several concussions from rowing. Catch a crab and the oar comes back heaaavvy

In my experience catching a crab is entirely avoidable.

Avoidable but expected that beginners will. Concussions are rare though, not the likely outcome.

Re: Brilliant jerks, crazy hotties, and other artifacts of range restriction (2019)

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Post by throwaway742 »

swyx wrote: post #6

> Get unlimited access to data science stories from industry leaders on Medium. cant read this article without "upgrading". no i dont want to "upgrade". can we downrank Medium until they stop doing bullshit like this? (yes towardsdatascience is a well known data publication, would love to push them gently into moving off medium)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywal...

Re: Brilliant jerks, crazy hotties, and other artifacts of range restriction (2019)

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Post by davidhay »

swyx wrote: post #6

> Get unlimited access to data science stories from industry leaders on Medium. cant read this article without "upgrading". no i dont want to "upgrade". can we downrank Medium until they stop doing bullshit like this? (yes towardsdatascience is a well known data publication, would love to push them gently into moving off medium)

if you open it in incognito that should solve it.

Re: Brilliant jerks, crazy hotties, and other artifacts of range restriction (2019)

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Post by svnt »

cactusplant7374 wrote: post #21
photochemsyn wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33624032 > (8) Family genetic studies . The phrase “family genetic studies” is commonly used in psychiatry to refer to designs in which investigators examine the familial aggregation of one or more disorders, such as panic disorder or major depression, within intact (i.e., non-adoptive) families (e.g., Weissman, 1993). Given that the familial aggregation of one or more disorders w…

> There's little solid evidence for inherited mental illness > Even schizophrenia, which is among the most heritable of all mental disorders, appears to have a heritability of between 70 and 90% as estimated by twin designs (Mulle, 2012), leaving room for still undetermined environmental influences. You have set the bar high.

You can think of those percentages less like “there is only 10-30% left to explain” and more like “we can explain most of it we think but we have no idea how these complex factors interact”

They basically look at fraternal and identical twins and assume (because their environments are otherwise probably close) that any differences in outcome are heritable. It’s a huge leap of faith.

Re: Brilliant jerks, crazy hotties, and other artifacts of range restriction (2019)

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Post by ALittleLight »

dehrmann wrote: post #20

> In fact, the only people who should feel imposter syndrome are the ones whose strongest skill is selling themselves. But since selling yourself entails some self-deception, they are, naturally, the ones who think they’re surrounded by lazy idiots. Reminds me of someone I've seen in the news a lot lately.

That doesn't make any sense. Selling yourself doesn't require self-deception. Even if you were deceiving others in order to sell yourself that doesn't require you to be deceiving yourself.

Re: Brilliant jerks, crazy hotties, and other artifacts of range restriction (2019)

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Post by thwayunion »

ALittleLight wrote: post #29
dehrmann wrote: post #20

> In fact, the only people who should feel imposter syndrome are the ones whose strongest skill is selling themselves. But since selling yourself entails some self-deception, they are, naturally, the ones who think they’re surrounded by lazy idiots. Reminds me of someone I've seen in the news a lot lately.

That doesn't make any sense. Selling yourself doesn't require self-deception. Even if you were deceiving others in order to sell yourself that doesn't require you to be deceiving yourself.

> Even if you were deceiving others in order to sell yourself that doesn't require you to be deceiving yourself.

The self-deception assumption is charitable. Of course it's also possible to just be a pathological liar; the author is being polite.

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