Here are some interesting articles/essays/posts I’ve had open in browser tabs for too long. By posting them here, I give myself permission to close the tabs and yourself encouragement to follow any that look interesting and open some tabs of … Continue reading
It’s rather old news now, but last year Hampshire et al. published a paper called “Fractionating Human Intelligence” [pdf] in which they argue that there isn’t a single scale along which people’s intelligence varies – i.e., there’s no g. This claim is … Continue reading
I was amused to come across the toupée fallacy recently. According to the RationalWiki page on it, the idea is that it’s (informally) fallacious to assert that “all toupées look fake” if I am basing that conclusion solely on the “evidence” that, … Continue reading
I wrote that elegance has no epistemic virtues, citing the apparent failure of supersymmetry and my wish to see an end to the invocation of elegance as a dimension along which (linguistic) theories should, or even can, be evaluated. Josh … Continue reading
It’s a long standing joke that social scientists have Physics Envy. To the extent that it’s not a joke, I’m tentatively hopeful that some recent developments in physics will have a ripple effect in fields like linguistics. Or perhaps I should say … Continue reading
A couple weeks ago while revising a paper (now published), I got thinking about the interplay between generality and specificity in mathematical proofs. A more general proof is better than a more specific proof, all else equal, since the former covers … Continue reading
Four or so years ago, I submitted a paper to Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. It was very long, in large part because there was a fair amount of redundant information. The reviewers pointed this out, and I was happy to … Continue reading
I got reviews of a manuscript back last Wednesday evening. They were generally positive, and the needed revisions seemed pretty straightforward, so I got to work right away. The paper was revised and, as of a few minutes ago, resubmitted. … Continue reading
Neuroskeptic asks “What is science?” and his answer is thought-provoking. While I think he and I agree more than we disagree on the answer, there are some relevant issues that he doesn’t address. Here’s Neuroskeptic’s summary definition of science: My … Continue reading
I’m a little late to the game on the new paper A peculiar prevalence of p values just below .05, available to download here for free. The authors gathered 1,092 p-values from the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 1,760 from the … Continue reading
