On scientific consensus
In reply to: Scott Alexander's Learning To Love Scientific Consensus. Actually, I have planned (in my mind) a somewhat longer post on my take on the 'correct contrarian cluster', or…
AI stereotype accuracy too
https://twitter.com/timothycbates/status/852778717411659776 Humans have stereotypes, that is, they hold beliefs about groups of people. When examined, these beliefs tend to reflect reality quite well, sometimes very well (for review, see Jussim's…
Hollywood eugenics and actual eugenics
I oppose coercive eugenic policies, so don't try to quote mine my blunt discussion as support for such policies. Hollywood has a new anti-eugenics movie out, called The Thinning. There's…
Do you hate Python’s range() and want to use R’s seq()?
I do. So I implemented R's function in Python. I wrote a bunch of tests for this for most uses I could think of and they all work. Except the…
On crackpottery (or why I don’t think I’m a pseudoscientist)
This post is unusually blunt because the topic concerns some rather serious criticism leveled against me. This necessitates replying with some facts that I've used for self-assessment purposes. In case…
Comments about my interview with Thinking Ape (2017-04-06)
Just a quick post to summarize or reference the evidence for various claims and mistakes I made. The interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttzqXeX2hjw Previous interview with Tara McCarthy I should have done a…
Strong publication bias in early intervention studies
I apparently did not post this one on the blog, only on Twitter. Or at least, I can't find it. Here's the analysis: http://rpubs.com/EmilOWK/pub_bias_early_intervention Figures
Another calibration test
See also previous results. I stumbled upon another calibration test: http://calibratedprobabilityassessment.org/ This one is almost entirely based on distances between US cities. I don't even know where all the states…
What exactly is Human Biodiversity? – Personal view
There seems to be some disagreement about what the term human biodiversity covers. I'll be reaching out to the prototypical HBD people to ask what they think. However, my own…
Criticism of me and my research on SlateStarCodex’s subreddit
On the commentariat here, and why I don't think I can be associated with this community, despite liking the blog. My reply, as found in the comments. Most of it…