Jay Daigle
@profjaydaigle.bsky.social
Mathematician at GWU. I write about teaching, epistemology, math, and metascience, and how hidden assumptions shape our decisions and beliefs. I write at https://jaydaigle.net/blog
April 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Huh, my understanding was most classes taught completing the square one week, and then derived the quadratic formula the next week and thus everyone immediately forgets completing the square.
See e.g. OpenStax intermediate algebra:
openstax.org/books/interm...
See e.g. OpenStax intermediate algebra:
openstax.org/books/interm...
December 14, 2024 at 7:21 PM
Huh, my understanding was most classes taught completing the square one week, and then derived the quadratic formula the next week and thus everyone immediately forgets completing the square.
See e.g. OpenStax intermediate algebra:
openstax.org/books/interm...
See e.g. OpenStax intermediate algebra:
openstax.org/books/interm...
Okay, but nearly half of the participants they DIDN'T give $1000 also secured housing. (The $50-a-month group started from a somewhat higher base, though, which seems like a partial randomization failure.)
This is much less impressive than the headline.
www.denverbasicincomeproject.org/research
This is much less impressive than the headline.
www.denverbasicincomeproject.org/research
June 26, 2024 at 8:25 PM
Okay, but nearly half of the participants they DIDN'T give $1000 also secured housing. (The $50-a-month group started from a somewhat higher base, though, which seems like a partial randomization failure.)
This is much less impressive than the headline.
www.denverbasicincomeproject.org/research
This is much less impressive than the headline.
www.denverbasicincomeproject.org/research
I've written about this a bit before. It's a big driver of the replication crisis, that we want (1) statistically significant results (2) that show surprising things. If we do enough studies we'll find those results, and they will be bullshit.
jaydaigle.net/blog/hypothe...
jaydaigle.net/blog/hypothe...
September 23, 2023 at 10:57 PM
I've written about this a bit before. It's a big driver of the replication crisis, that we want (1) statistically significant results (2) that show surprising things. If we do enough studies we'll find those results, and they will be bullshit.
jaydaigle.net/blog/hypothe...
jaydaigle.net/blog/hypothe...
I really like this from Jonathan Falk via
Andrew Gelman.
Reminds me of: we reward research that produces counterintuitive results. But counterintuitive results are exactly the ones that are unlikely to be true—it's less interesting to find evidence for what everyone believes.
Andrew Gelman.
Reminds me of: we reward research that produces counterintuitive results. But counterintuitive results are exactly the ones that are unlikely to be true—it's less interesting to find evidence for what everyone believes.
September 23, 2023 at 10:56 PM
I really like this from Jonathan Falk via
Andrew Gelman.
Reminds me of: we reward research that produces counterintuitive results. But counterintuitive results are exactly the ones that are unlikely to be true—it's less interesting to find evidence for what everyone believes.
Andrew Gelman.
Reminds me of: we reward research that produces counterintuitive results. But counterintuitive results are exactly the ones that are unlikely to be true—it's less interesting to find evidence for what everyone believes.