Nick Brown
@steamtraen.eu
English/Irish/EU in Spain. PhD in psychology. Former data police cadet, now full member of the unchecked research integrity militia. Interested in the lower tail of many distributions. Not yet disabled.
It is so mentally corrosive to try to ascertain, every day, whether the images I am seeing or the texts I am getting or the phone calls I am receiving are real - produced by a human who is trying to communicate something with me, even indirectly. It makes me feel insane and paranoid all the time
"Reviewer #3 asked for a number of additional experiments" 🤣 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VRB...
Scientific Peer Review, ca. 1945
YouTube video by indusieumgresium
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🤔 (Presumably it has been selling so well that they have temporarily run out of Kindle copies.)
Ian Hussey@ianhussey.mmmdata.io · yesterdaySeparately, the author of the retracted article has written a book called "100 Ways to Future-Proof Your Brain" which she claims has sold over 100k copies. This would be remarkable given its negative reviews www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
"Separately, Middlesex University, one of the author’s submitted institutional affiliations, formally indicated that the research was not approved, conducted, or supervised by the University, and requested withdrawal of its affiliation from the article" — I'm not sure what to make of this wording.
Ian Hussey@ianhussey.mmmdata.io · yesterdayArticle now retracted. Retraction notice focuses on data sharing, but doesn't mention - the ethics review body is the author's own company - the tech used to to collect the data by intercepting users' LLM prompts does not exist ht @grinschglsandra.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
"The ethics review body is the author's own company" reminds me of the guy who passed off fake traveller's cheques, not by forging American Express but by inventing his own bank.
Ian Hussey@ianhussey.mmmdata.io · yesterdayArticle now retracted. Retraction notice focuses on data sharing, but doesn't mention - the ethics review body is the author's own company - the tech used to to collect the data by intercepting users' LLM prompts does not exist ht @grinschglsandra.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Eliminatory, my dear Watson. Wordle 1,912 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Any US lawyers here? At what point does manipulation of evidence in a civil case cross a threshold into outright criminal behaviour (contempt of court, perjury, ...)?
Brian Nosek@briannosek.bsky.social · 2d agoThe cover-up is always worse than the crime? Harvard's latest filing says that Gino manipulated a file to cover-up fabrication, hid the laptop used to do it during the discovery process, and did more [redacted] destruction of evidence after being compelled by the court to share the laptop.
Trump becomes the first orange man to support a united Ireland
Richard Chambers@newschambers.bsky.social · 2d agoBreaking: Donald Trump says “I’d love to see Ireland unified…. I think it would be a great thing. How could it be bad?” Oh my word.
A certain type of unionist that sees MAGA and Kahanists as their kindred spirits is having a rough couple of weeks.
Richard Chambers@newschambers.bsky.social · 2d agoBreaking: Donald Trump says “I’d love to see Ireland unified…. I think it would be a great thing. How could it be bad?” Oh my word.
Hey @flightradar24.com I think there may be an AM/PM problem here. The plane that will operate this flight is incoming to Faro right now, on time, and yet you are showing an arrival exactly 12 hours late (or early?) for its next flight to Nantes.
Dear Company ABC: Please name your app just "ABC". Not something cute like "THE app!!" or "My ABC". I don't remember what your stupid icon looks like. I just know roughly where you are in the alphabet.
Perhaps Ben Delo can be persuaded to put on a balaclava and become Ben Dover.
Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 2d agoOn the £36m donation to Reform UK from Ben Delo... Lib Dems: "Farage wants to bring Trump's America to our shores by buying his way into power. He's trying to get into No 10 as if it's a stop on a monopoly board" The PM "needs to introduce a cap on political donations. Our democracy depends on it"
Social psychologists have some serious explaining to do. I don't recall a single article saying "around a quarter of the population of pretty much every Western country are just full-on racists", and yet here is the proof, every fucking month somewhere. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sweden election becomes tight race, as hard right eyes role in government
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has promised cabinet jobs for the Sweden Democrats, but the rival left-wing bloc has a narrow lead in the polls.
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www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news... It looks like the NATS outage may have been caused by a single flight plan that the system couldn't handle. That was also the case in 2023 — someone filed a flight plan including two waypoints that had the same 3-letter code in the system and it couldn't handle it.
Claim air traffic control glitch that stranded fliers 'caused by one aircraft'
It is understood the Ministry of Defence does not believe there is any indication of an error on the part of the military.
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Presumably the hyphens in "quarter-of-a-century" are the result of following some weird BBC style guide thing, but it looks very strange to me. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
"From left to right" — are we meant to draw very thin vertical lines through the centre of each person's head? www.bbc.com/news/article... (Don't get me started on the fact that there are only 9 comma-separated names for 11 people. #OldManShoutsAtCloud)
Precisely. I get annoyed when green politicians, especially in Europe, reveal their true ("frustrated by my failed career in the main social democrat party") colours by complaining about the impact on purchasing power when oil prices go up, instead of welcoming it as a way of reducing CO2.
Make a band edible Primal Ice Cream Midnight Olive Oil Massive Flapjack Egg Zeppelin Stone Temple Pine Nuts Manic Street Peaches
Sean Jones KC@seanjones.org · 2d agoMake a band edible Pasty Cline
Play stupid racist games, win stupid racist prizes.
David Shipley@shipleywrites.bsky.social · 3d agoEXCLUSIVE: Restore party members and activists have spoken - on condition of anonymity because they are so frightened of their fellow members - of a 'hostile takeover' which risks turning the party into 'a revitalised British National Party' www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/f77488c...
During the Brexit referendum campaign, owners of curry houses were told that the reason they had trouble bringing in chefs from Bangladesh was due to immigration from the EU being too easy, and that following Brexit it would be much simpler for them to obtain visas. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...
Who will cook your Indian curry?
Nick Robinson looks at why curry houses appear to be Eurosceptic.
bbc.co.uk
ScouseLakes@scouselakes.bsky.social · 3d agoReform politicians truly are scum. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...
Sorry, Sage, but this isn't good enough. How will we know if any progress is being made at all? Why can't you - as a minimum - check in every three months, say, to tell us that you are still on it, that the person assigned to the case hasn't left, etc ?
Proof, if it were needed, that Likert-type data should always be treated as categorical. 😉😄
Darren Dahly@statsepi.bsky.social · 3d ago😡
LOL, Mythos has jumped straight to the "conspiracy theorist" level. www.anthropic.com/research/ali...
Do any medical/health psychology people here have experience with the scoring properties of the SF-36? 🙏🙏🙏
Speakers of languages other than English: What is the # key/symbol called in your language? (Please also mention the language). #️⃣#️⃣#️⃣#️⃣#️⃣
Nick Brown@steamtraen.eu · 3d agoOne of the Americanisms that writers in all variants of English should embrace is the use of #1, #2, etc to indicate a number within a sequence. It's easy and unambiguous. But "pound sign" and "hash" are both terrible names for it. It should *obviously* be called a sharp sign, as it is in French.
One of the Americanisms that writers in all variants of English should embrace is the use of #1, #2, etc to indicate a number within a sequence. It's easy and unambiguous. But "pound sign" and "hash" are both terrible names for it. It should *obviously* be called a sharp sign, as it is in French.
