Paul Feyerabend, Against Method.

Prescriptions about how science MUST be done? Simply a bad, authoritarian idea. And based on the history of science, not good for scientific progress.

#metasci

I don’t know if ”all unhappy families are unhappy in their own way,” is true or not, but *in book that the quote is from* all the unhappy families are, in fact, unhappy in the same way. Namely they got married too fast, and now they’re stuck with an incompatible spouse.

Ok so if 2,300 people from #Sweden and then another 160,000 #EU citizens sign this it will have reached the threshold of a million signatures and 7 counties reaching the threshold.

But they have to sign it by tomorrow.... #Spéirgorm #Pride #LGBT

No one asked, but here’s my opinion of preregistration badges: They’e uninformtive! Preregistration is neither necessary nor sufficient for good science. A study can be bad and preregistered and it can be good and not preregistered. So what do we gain by knowing it was preregistered? Not much!

Finally downloaded Sekiro. V excited to play a from game where you only die twice.

Does microtargeting work? The idea that people can be manipulated by political messages that are furtively tailored to their personality or other vulnerabilities has triggered much concern. But how well founded are those concerns? 1/n

Hey friends and strangers Has anyone read a particularly great psychology phd thesis lately? I am beginning to write my phd thesis and it would be inspiring to read a great phd thesis.

FORMAL EPISTEMOLOGISTS: Interesting argument. However, I have already constructed a formal model on which you are the irrational soyjack and I am the rational chad

Everyone’s always talking about how we need more women in stem. You know who’s truly underrepresented in stem? Children. The true final frontier of stem. We need more children in stem.

"Real-life error rates are unknown and even difficult to fully conceptualize....Theoretical error rates are only as trustworthy as the assumed model of the process that generated the real-life data."

New preprint by Megan Higgs and Valentin Amrhein: www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...

#Methodology 🧪

Modest proposal: instead of saying statistically significant, we used the term 'precisely measured'.

I think this communicates what the p value does add while also raising the question, ”that’s great, but how big is the effect?” ”

Desperately searching for participants for a cheese study. I can’t pay, you will have to do a fair amount of work and the potential upsides are dubious at best. Send me an email if you’re interested (if you are the kind of motivated participant I’m looking for, you’ll find it on your own).

There’s nothing sadder than an empty feed so here is a placeholder bleet (bluesky-tweet) until I think of something to say (which may never happen).