Sunday, August 6, 2023

calling bullshit - bergstrom & west (2020)

delightfully informative. i come away with a newly upgraded BS-meter. here are some useful nuggets:

  • much of our communication is self-regarding, even when it is ostensibly other-regarding. how intuitively true, and so much for appearing self-deprecating!
  • clickbait is real and thriving. i am not misguided in my sense of betrayal by the lists of 10 best places to eat at 20 best new cafes and 25 surefire ways to lustrous hair
  • observation selection effect explains why we may be misguided in surveying learners about their learning, yes?
  • bar charts tell stories about magnitude and should start at zero and line graphs tell stories about changes and need not. thirty years in a profession and i finally learn this.
in addition i learn about reverse image search and i get to read the dead salmon paper*.

*https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Neural-correlates-of-interspecies-perspective-in-an-Bennett-Miller/9b0305530d5b1d85c210f518615480ecf6e4ab19

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