How should numeric probabilities be translated into words? Maybe they shouldn't be.
"Words of estimative probability" wreak havoc in high-stakes communication like #intelligenceCommunity assessments and briefings, in part because intelligence and defense institutions map numbers to different words (!) — see Amelia Kahn's forthcoming work at ameliakahn.wordpress.com.
We know that the task demands of cognitive tests most scores: if one version of a problem requires more work (e.g., gratuitously verbose or unclear wording, open response rather than multiple choice), people will perform worse.
Providing slides helps when students are not in class. If the participant groups are both equally likely to attend class, then this important detail is missed if the metric is, "does bringing slides to class improve test scores?".
If there is no harm in providing increased access, I say do it regardless of whether you think it'll improve test scores. That's why I recorded and shared each class lecture on a web portal, so students had more flexibility engaging the material.
To me, it seems bizarre that classical education appeals to people who are paranoid about wokeism in schools. The “Western” tradition does not vindicate conservative Judeo-Christian thought or debunk either progressive thought or non-religious traditions.
Are #philosophy students’ intuitions about thought experiments different because of expertise?
Longitudinal studies of philosophy and #CogSci students (N = 226) didn't seem to reveal as much: there were some group differences in intuitions, but a selection/indoctrination effect seemed more likely than “a general expertise” or “expertise specific to particular subfields”.
If mapping arguments improves critical thinking, then argument mapping skills should correlate with critical thinking skills, right?
Alas, they didn't correlate among 115 Advanced Placement students across 4 high schools who mapped arguments for universal basic income (from a Douglas Murray article).
Is there a way to find out how deep the #waterTable is on a given day in a given location?
For example, #weather apps/sites usually report the day's #precipitation accumulation and #forecast the next day's precipitation amount for each locale — and in a way that almost anyone can understand.
Is there an app or website for ordinary people to get that much time- and spatial- resolution on #groundwater levels in their area?
Context: APA's PsycNET is chronically inaccessible to me. To diagnose this, I need to figure out the scope of the problem. (Want more context? See my replies to either one of the polls.)
@ByrdNick I wish I could vote but I am on neither of these platforms. A little poll on Mastodon? 🙏 (Surely, APA can still see it as long as it’s a public post?)
Is #APA's #PsycNET chronically inaccessible to you?
(It usually blocks me for "trying to access ...using a different IP". No other journal article sites have issues with my IP or block me. Just APA's.)
If you often experience what I do, then PsycNET may be unprepared for shared IPs on #privacyConscious campus networks and services (e.g., #Apple's #iCloud Private Relay).
Hat tip to @elduvelle for asking me to poll this site.
Losing one’s #religion predicted worse relationships with one’s parents over time across three waves of the National Study of Youth and Religion (N = 2,352).
I usually recommend rejection when authors of a manuscript decline to
(a) report full and final sample sizes
(b) link to full dataset
(c) list reproducible exclusion criteria
(d) report the results with and without exclusions.
Why? So readers know whether the reported results depend on exclusions and/or massively reverse in excluded data.👇