"You Cannot Step Into the Same River Twice", but you can "step into it" again and again.
A snarky post on McShane's rhetorical simulation studies.
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Every math teacher when students say they will never need it in real life. Are you human?
Maybe AI is not really smart, intelligent, etc. what ever that means. Maybe we should give it an IQ test (LOL).
However, it is much more rational than humans. Human intelligence is often wasted and compromised by self-deception willful ignorance, and cognitive biases that won KT a Nobel.
Which kind of #MetaScientist are you?
A. Basic / metaphysical - talk a lot about problems
B. Applied MetaScientist - actually solve problems.
Academia often rewards the talkers because they have a lot of time talking without doing. :)
#PathologicalScience
The unbearable automaticity of experimental social psychology.
1. Run an underpowered study.
2. P-hack
2a. still not significant, discard.
2b. significant, tell a story.
repeat, repeat, repeat.
