tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post6885887904575384563..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: Is science self-correcting?Steve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-86153568738143066242013-12-14T11:26:41.320-05:002013-12-14T11:26:41.320-05:00Indeed. "Any deviation from the principle th...Indeed. "Any deviation from the principle that seeking the truth has priority over any other goals..." If the outcome of the "science" is going to be govt policy, I suppose entire fields want to get out in front of that trade. The physicists are probably tame since changes in our understanding of cosmology are not going to influence govt policy.LondonYoungnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-59899186386595900302013-12-14T01:04:23.252-05:002013-12-14T01:04:23.252-05:00all psychiatric disorders are syndromes without an...all psychiatric disorders are syndromes without any tests. and psychiatrists are in business. and psychiatric disorders are often chronic so drug companies have an incentive to develop drugs for them. it's also possible that academic psychiatrists have career motivations for finding (making up) a new disorder. all of these contribute to the expansion in the number of disorders and the "Diogenesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-24982136199973398892013-12-13T20:59:01.526-05:002013-12-13T20:59:01.526-05:00Strangely enough, a lot of the derision directed a...Strangely enough, a lot of the derision directed at the movie over the years by Johnny Carson wasn't aimed at Reagan but was Carson's joking at the expense of his producer Fred De Cordova, who had directed "Bedtime for Bonzo." De Cordova, who was the model for Rip Torn's great producer character Artie in the "Larry Sanders Show," was standing right off the edge of stevesailernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-41849838576249671752013-12-13T03:59:48.105-05:002013-12-13T03:59:48.105-05:00hegel never used those terms. his were "momen...hegel never used those terms. his were "moment", negation, aufhebung or "absolute negativity". that is, the "synthesis" was not a compromise but a "neither this nor that". that is, again, the problem with thesis and antithesis was conceptual. it wasn't that one was true and the other false or there was some via media, it was that the picture of the Diogenesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-2229731981800893502013-12-12T21:00:22.203-05:002013-12-12T21:00:22.203-05:00Interesting metric from,
http://retractionwatch.c...Interesting metric from,<br /><br />http://retractionwatch.com/2013/07/11/why-has-the-number-of-scientific-retractions-increased-new-study-tries-to-answer/<br /><br />"Time-to-retraction (from publication of article to publication of <br />retraction) averaged 32.91 months. Among 714 retracted articles <br />published in or before 2002, retraction required 49.82 months; among <br />1,333 dxie48noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-32694145918110613872013-12-12T19:14:22.884-05:002013-12-12T19:14:22.884-05:00the big physical differences i know of are that es...the big physical differences i know of are that eskimos tend to be shaped like weebles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeble as predicted by allen's rule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%27s_rule (a sphere has highest volume to surface area ratio). also the bedouin tend to have big noses, an adaptation to low humidity supposedly.<br /><br />"... is that so few people are willing to have Diogenesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-40143997680689474992013-12-12T15:07:45.763-05:002013-12-12T15:07:45.763-05:00One can argue about the balance, but I think deris...One can argue about the balance, but I think derision of the movie (or at least the title) was used to deride the leading man by association.Richard Seiternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-50951110055866006892013-12-12T14:39:03.799-05:002013-12-12T14:39:03.799-05:00It's not the movie that is derided, it's t...It's not the movie that is derided, it's the leading man.Rudelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-43655365391011590612013-12-12T11:31:05.459-05:002013-12-12T11:31:05.459-05:00Kind of like the 2013 Economics Nobel Prize ;-)
...Kind of like the 2013 Economics Nobel Prize ;-)<br /><br /><br />A nice optimistic take (I hope you are right). I would feel better if I saw more Synthesis and less Thesis and Antithesis shouting at each other (and most of all at any attempts at Synthesis it seems). This seems to be a common theme in current American public discourse.<br /><br /><br />On a related note, can you suggest any goodRichard Seiternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-30650530080346727902013-12-12T11:16:18.470-05:002013-12-12T11:16:18.470-05:00Who would have guessed such a much derided movie c...Who would have guessed such a much derided movie could have an interesting message? Thank you.Richard Seiternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-87442440692570339032013-12-12T11:09:17.669-05:002013-12-12T11:09:17.669-05:00I think you are correct to a large degree, but won...I think you are correct to a large degree, but wonder how substantial the physical adaptation issues are. Eskimos and bedouins live in VERY different environments. Body fat composition could affect survival dramatically (I wonder what the nature/nurture balance is for body types in those cultures). Another difference is eskimos (on their historical diet) have a high omega 3 fatty acid intake.Richard Seiternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-92174990863401270882013-12-12T10:06:36.165-05:002013-12-12T10:06:36.165-05:00I have heard anecdotally that DSM-V is a complete ...I have heard anecdotally that DSM-V is a complete clownshow.David Coughlinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-65708631050625784602013-12-11T23:13:32.232-05:002013-12-11T23:13:32.232-05:00Off topics but concerning the comment system,
htt...Off topics but concerning the comment system,<br /><br />http://cornucopia-en.cornubot.se/2013/12/flash-disqus-cracked-security-flaw.html<br /><br />"FLASH: Disqus cracked - security flaw reveals user e-mail addresses"<br /><br />"The crack uses a serious security flaw in the Disqus API:s, enabling the extraction of MD5 hashes of user e-mail addresses."<br /><br />http://dxie48noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-83983114292864497832013-12-11T22:59:05.462-05:002013-12-11T22:59:05.462-05:00There seems to be things that replication cannot f...There seems to be things that replication cannot fix.<br /><br />DSM, the bible for psychologist,<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM-IV-TR<br /><br />"Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders"<br /><br />quote,<br /><br />"The DSM has been praised for standardizing psychiatric diagnostic categories and criteria.<br />It has also generated controversy and dxie48noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-65312523272428776752013-12-11T19:45:22.619-05:002013-12-11T19:45:22.619-05:00yes they have adapted physically/genetically. perh...yes they have adapted physically/genetically. perhaps their behavioral adaptation is partly genetic too. but i have no doubt that an eskimo raised by bedouins would learn to speak whatever bedouin language, learn to behave like a bedouin. he wouldn't grow up to say, "i'm sick of this tent living, i want an igloo. i'm sick of this mint tea, i want blubber."<br /><br />the Diogenesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-74010021143370884592013-12-11T18:16:13.372-05:002013-12-11T18:16:13.372-05:00Do you have an example toy model? If you do, I wo...Do you have an example toy model? If you do, I won't have to bother making one.Carson Chownoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-74760160284535101562013-12-11T14:50:56.729-05:002013-12-11T14:50:56.729-05:00"eskimos and bedouin differ much more in cult...<i>"eskimos and bedouin differ much more in culture than in genes."</i><br /><br /><br />A generality that has ill-defined terms. On the surface I find that most tribal cultures exhibit boring similarities and that the Arab and Eskimo phenotypes imply strong selection due to climate.Rudelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-10433719804141916672013-12-11T14:40:52.308-05:002013-12-11T14:40:52.308-05:00"so, again, steve must claim that physicists ...<i>"so, again, steve must claim that physicists are smarter than everyone else."</i><br /><br /><br />Not just physicists but East Asian physicists if the truth be known. And I agree, just as some areas of theoretical mathematics are meaningless, so it is with much unprovable cosmology and aberrant intellectual masturbations like string "theory" which are utterly useless. Rudelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-40993628238042970262013-12-11T10:02:26.170-05:002013-12-11T10:02:26.170-05:00You should read the entire special issue on reprod...You should read the entire special issue on reproducibility (of which this was the last paper). I put all the papers here: http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=3395Emil Kirkegaardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-27659223059822565582013-12-11T08:27:59.817-05:002013-12-11T08:27:59.817-05:00The paper was pretty funny.
It includes a list o...The paper was pretty funny. <br /><br />It includes a list of six rules to follow to avoid the problem of many false positive publications:<br /><br />1. Authors must decide the rule for terminating data collection before data collection begins and report this rule in the article.<br /> 2. Authors must collect at least 20 observations per cell or else provide a compelling cost-of-data-collection Endre Bakken Stovnernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-37941462078894836172013-12-10T19:32:28.579-05:002013-12-10T19:32:28.579-05:00humans are very unlike all other animals in one re...humans are very unlike all other animals in one respect: the variety of their behavior.<br /><br /><br />humans live in greenland and the sahara. they live in manhattan high rises and in huts. they make their living writing (to people or to computers) and by hunting, by speculating in derivatives and by prostitution.<br /><br /><br /><br />eskimos and bedouin differ much more in culture than in Diogenesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-46253352370044923622013-12-10T19:12:38.212-05:002013-12-10T19:12:38.212-05:00"Obviously the complexity of the systems unde..."Obviously the complexity of the systems under study and the quality of <br />human capital in a particular field are important determinants of the <br />rate of progress and its character."<br /><br />so, again, steve must claim that physicists are smarter than everyone else. but how smart could anyone be who chose physics? i'll take antibiotics and vaccines over modern physics anyDiogenesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-64862615782438192072013-12-10T11:50:32.167-05:002013-12-10T11:50:32.167-05:00There are theories like String Theory, or Keynesia...There are theories like String Theory, or Keynesianism, that are too broad to ever be falsified. Bad theories aren't rejected, they're orphaned.efalkennoreply@blogger.com