-Left: when you just read the Abstract.
-Right: when you read the whole paper.
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Stuart Ritchie
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Stuart Ritchie
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- This will go down in the annals of dumb alt-right tweets as a true classic. It’s almost art.
- When you pre-register the wrong analysis. x.com/oilinki/status…
- I tried that instant AI translation tool (labs.heygen.com/video-translate) and it's one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. I gave it a 35 second video of me speaking English. And this is what I got - that's my voice! But I don't speak a word of German...
00:00 - Hello from the hospital, where we’ve just had a baby(!). This is our daughter(!) Juliet. Very strange to hear myself say that. Wish us luck!
- Academic twitter: _________ Here’s my extremely rigorous study that makes an incremental contribution to science _________ 🔁12 ❤️ 15 _________ HERE'S MY SUPER-FLIMSY N=12 STUDY WITH RESULTS DIRECTLY RELEVANT TO ONE SIDE OF A CULTURE-WAR ISSUE _________ 🔁3,243 ❤️ 15.7k
- -Sample size: 49 -p-values: 0.045, 0.052, 0.029, 0.032 (i.e. prima facie p-hacking) -Scientific value: very little -Number of views on Twitter regardless: 3,000,000 Doesn’t this Huberman guy have any standards for the stuff he promotes to his huge audience? (via @alexabelson9)A 2 min cold immersion to the neck and five, 30 second cold showers per week led to a significant reduction in abdominal fat and waist circumference in the men in this study; also multiple psychological improvements related to stress & wellbeing. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36599485/Readers added contextThis study has been retracted as of Feb 1, 2024. The authors audited their data and identified errors in the analysis including the incorrect inclusion of subjects from other ongoing studies... In addition, the study design is ambiguous. militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/170/1/…
- Three true things: 1) The guy’s Nazi salute joke wasn’t very funny; 2) Some extremely unpleasant people have been defending him; 3) The above two things make zero difference to the fact that *people should never be prosecuted for making a joke*, FFS.
- Did... did a bat write this?Bats ‘pose no greater viral threat’ to humans than other species bit.ly/3egqDvY
- Look, here’s the thing about free speech: YES, it’s not “absolute”. Even the most hardcore free speech advocates agree that there are exceptions. Extreme case: telling e.g. Russia about UK military secrets is “just” a speech act, but it is (and should be) illegal in UK law.
- BREAKING: Biden signs Executive Order banning the use of the phrase "trending towards significant" if your p-value is 0.05 or higher.
- My conscience: Stuart, you have an enormous amount of work to do and I think it’s best if you- Me: [spends over an hour assembling this]
00:00 - Just to be clear, this isn’t about eating yoghurt to cool you down. It’s about smearing it all over the outside of your windows. Get me out of this country!!!The down bad nation
- My hot take: this isn't real. Nobody can actually "see" stuff that doesn't exist in the way implied here unless they're actively hallucinating. This is just an issue of these things being extremely hard to explain using language, and people using words in subtly different ways.It's baffling to me that some of y'all see stuff in your mind. You SEE it? The way your eyes see? I always thought "visualize" meant thinking of the words/ideas/feelings associated with a thing, not actual visuals. I am such a total 5 on this scale I didn't know 1-4 existed.
