ByrdNick

ByrdNick, 9 months ago to internet

😳 “most misinformation ...exists within [a] homogeneously conservative corner [of Facebook], which has no equivalent on the liberal side.”

🤔 My daily posts for the rest of this week suggest that social media algorithms have little impact on polarization, news discernment, trust in news, and similar outcomes. So this result may tell us more about how we use social media than how social media impacts us.

https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ade7138

#socialMedia #UX #epistemology #psychology #politics #civics

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ByrdNick, 9 months ago to Logic

Can the civic and rational benefits of discussion and argument mapping be combined?

Platforms like BCause and Kialo attempt to find out.

Here's a recent conference paper about the former: https://aclanthology.org/2023.sicon-1.5

#CriticalThinking #CogSci #Rationality #DecisionScience #xPhi #Logic #polarization

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ByrdNick, 10 months ago to Medicine

How can we help people recall alternative views?

Teaching medical students a pro-con—missing-and-rank reflection protocol and then having them teach it to an imaginary stranger (on video) helped students better remember alternative diagnoses (besides their initial diagnosis).

Bonus: just telling people that a task was difficult also helped among participants who didn’t learn and teach the reflection exercise.

https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2023.2229504

#DecisionScience #edu #teaching #medicine #CriticalThinking

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ByrdNick, 10 months ago to random

🤔 "causal information at decision time can lead to less accurate choices in domains that relate to existing knowledge".

Possible explanations: (a) fluency effect or (b) expertise reversal effect.

https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-020-0206-z

#PhilosophyOfScience #PhilSci #xPhi #Epistemology #Causation #DecisionScience #cogSci

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ByrdNick, 10 months ago to philosophy

Catarina Dutiful Novaes' 2023 Aristotelean Society paper asks whether John Stuart Mill is right that arguments change minds for the better.

Novaes proposes a “three-tiered model” of conditions that partially determine whether this happens.

So Mill is partially vindicated by the model: “engaging with dissenters may allow for the correction of errors” under certain necessary (but not sufficient) conditions.

https://doi.org/10.1093/arisoc/aoad006

#philosophy #epistemology #decisionScience #religion #politics

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ByrdNick, 11 months ago to science

Today I found Deena Weisberg's (and David Sobel's) #freeBook about how kids can develop scientific thinking! A (concernig) take-away: not all pedagogy is equal.

Traditional #teaching may prevent kids from becoming as reflective as "inquiry-based" approaches.

https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11939.001.0001

#edu #CriticalThinking #Science #parenting #P4C

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ByrdNick, 11 months ago to random

I can no longer see Lower Manhattan from Hoboken due to #wildfireSmoke.

To learn more: time.com/6285326/wildfire-smoke-air-quality-health-impacts/

#ViewFromWork #NYC #NJ #HudsonRiver #PM25 #smoke

ByrdNick, 11 months ago to workersrights

How soon do you expect replies to #work #email?

When I ask colleagues, answers range from hours to days. This ambiguity may be a source of stress. So I've prepended a disclaimer to my email #signature line: "No pressure to read or reply outside your normal working hours, of course."

Generally, I rarely need a response within a week. In rare cases in which my email is motivated by an immanent #deadline, I try to disclose that to my recipient.

What do you do?

#workLifeBalance #Collaboration

ByrdNick, 11 months ago to random

Academic pet peeve number 74: Abstracts which mention what the author(s) discussed rather than the results of what the author(s) discussed.

Example: "Possible mechanisms are discussed" vs. "Possible mechanisms include [X and Y, but not Z]".

We'd never accept such uninformative summaries of the rest of the paper:

• Introduction: "Prior research happened."
• Methods: "New data was collected."
• Findings: "Analysis of the new data is reported."

#Academia #Writing #Publishing #PeerReview

ByrdNick, 1 year ago to random

Although correct reflection test answers predicted lower "endorsement" of a "planned disease" #conspiracyTheory, not all of the interventions that involved reflecting on the theory's #logic reduced people's endorsement of it.

People who were told that the conspiracy would not be detrimental even if it were true reported less agreement with it.

People who were shown the theory's logical fallacies did not!

https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2023.2198064

#DecisionScience #Epistemology #xPhi #Psychology

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ByrdNick, 1 year ago to random

Giving people more time on base rate problems resulted in more base rate fallacies?

Base rate problems often lure you into stereoptypic rather than probabilistic thinking. Example:

"Of all 1000 participants: 3 had a tattoo and 997 did not."
"Jay is a 29-year-old male. He has served a short time in prison. He has been living on his own for 2 years now. He has an older car and listens to punk music."
"Is it more probably that Jay has a tattoo or that Jay did not?"

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105451

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ByrdNick, 1 year ago to random

Even high school students can pay-to-publish in “peer-reviewed” student research journals to buy advantage in admissions to top U.S. colleges?

“The programs serve at least 12,000 students a year worldwide [charging] between $2,500 and $10,000 to improve their odds of getting into U.S. universities that accept as few as 1 in every 25 applicants. Some of the biggest services are located in China, and international students abound even in several U.S.-based programs.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/college-high-school-research-peer-review-publications

ByrdNick, 1 year ago to random

Around 50% of #philosophy PhDs got permanent academic jobs in 2012. Guess the percentage for 2021. (Scroll for answer.)
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20%

https://apda.ghost.io/2022-data-collection-results/

#higherEd #gradSchool #Humanities #Philosophy #STEM