Hi...I think we are talking about two different things. When I publish a study, I don’t include anything that’s individual level data in the report...i.e. raw data such as you would find in my SPSS or R file where every row represents participants and every column a point of data from that participant. What is shared…

Thanks...that’s good to know.  And kudos to them for caring enough.

That’s interesting...were you brought in by the PI of the research project as a check, or did IRB bring you in to help them make a determination?

This issue has been front of mind lately as Institutional Review Boards at Universities (IRBs), which for those not familiar, are the federally mandated committees that must approve all research conducted by members of the university. The mission of IRBs is to insure that studies treat participants ethically and also…

I have no comments about the technical feasibility or market demand for this stuff...but here’s the sentence from one of the co-founders that grabbed me: ““I thought—what if my kids had my PAI back home?” Jain says. That way, his kids could interact with an avatar that looked, sounded, and behaved like their father…

Wow on the heel-&-toe action, and how was he that good at it given that 99% of the the time Senna would’ve been using his left foot, not his right, when driving production cars?

Curious for those legit computer scientists/ engineers out there (I’m neither), but assuming these do get better and better, and certain state actors or state-sponsored actors, attempt to use them nefariously, the issue of detection becomes everything. However, it has to be a detection system that doesn’t depend on…

I don’t know. I think it works at the big idea level. When the Ship of Theseus is brought up in undergrad philosohy classes the discussion quickly moves away from the appearance criteria and toward the “at what point did it cease to be Theseus’s ship?” argument. And that echoes much more modern takes on the same basic…

Just about to post the same the same thing and you beat me to it. Good catch!

An interesting observation that Car & Driver made about the 2018 A4 manual (not this particular version): One of the few cars (maybe the only?) in the last few years where the manual version was faster 0-60 than the automatic—-which is doubly surprising given that the the A4s have the ostensibly sportier DCTs and not…

Hmmm...as a Greek who keeps track of other Greeks (obviously) I have to ask what what the odds are of the GM and top player both being Greek? We have a saying in my family. One Greek doing well at a job—-just means they are good at their job, Two Greeks, something’s fishy. Three? RICO act.

12 more things? How many more things are there before they are done? I’ve been waiting a while now so I can finally buy the final phone with all the things.

Look at that....came here to read about another incident confirming reasons to be angry and depressed, and perhaps some on-point comments, sees mention of MURS, decides to take a deeper dive, and exits with a new artist on my Spotify heavy rotation. Thanks!

Also possible...albeit a depressing thought. However, I think it behooves us all to remember the historical context in which we are debating the burning trash heap that is social media. By nearly every metric that we can objectively measure with some reliability, we live in more peaceful, less violent, less famine…

Yes, and in point of fact the psych studies I often lecture about offer an even more depressing finding. There is a VERY strong recency/primacy effect with “news” such that people keep remembering and believing incorrect information even when countervailing evidence is provided and corrections issued. This is true…

As an “academic” myself, and a social scientist no less, I say “bingo” to you! Social media is just a force multiplier for folks with ill will and nefarious agendas. Conversely, of course, it should act the same for folks of good intent and prosocial agendas, and so you would think that two would cancel each other…

Hi Beth, your statement “(If several authors have emails listed, go with the person who is listed last. They are likely to be the person who was in charge of the project, or who runs the lab where it was conducted.)“ varies quite a bit by discipline. In many social science disciplines and their aligned journals, for…

You have a point—-perhaps more than you realize—about peer/friend influence, although it’s not so much about modern vs. past/ancient. What we’ve learned from behavioral genetics is that the type of environmental influences that are most impactful in producing individual differences are not what are termed “shared”…

I can confirm that general info as well. About 15 years ago I was on a Lufthansa flight (LAX->Frankfurt) and we hit the worst turbulence I’d ever experienced (or have sense). Unbuckled passengers elevated out of their seats and hitting the overhead luggage bins, food and beverage carts knocked over..people screaming,…

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