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22 October

Adam KucharskiKorrents 22 Oct

From one piece Understanding the unseen 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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The early rise in flu is likely not driven by schools reopening.

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If we look at school-age children (5 to 14), the rise was later and smaller, and began in late August, during the summer holidays (English schools go back in early September). Schools out... as a theory currently, it would appear.

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Unusually cool weather does not appear to be a valid explanation for the early rise in flu cases.

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In short, unusually cool weather doesn't seem to hold up well as an explanation.

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Seasonal epidemics are driven by a combination of biological and epidemiological factors.

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There will be a combination of biological and epidemiological factors behind the patterns we observe. And if that combination of factors changes, we shouldn't necessarily expect epidemics at the same time of year.

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21 October

Adam KucharskiKorrents 21 Oct

From one piece Understanding the unseen 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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In the heat of the moment, people often share false content that triggers an emotional response or is aligned with their political views.

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In the heat of the moment, though, they would often share false content that triggered an emotional response or was aligned with their political views.

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People often over-index on the specifics of a pathogen when evaluating a new disease risk rather than considering the wider context in which it is emerging.

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This focus on the specifics of the content is a common approach when dealing with information that is spreading, much like people often over-index on the pathogen itself when evaluating a new disease risk, rather than considering the wider context in which it is emerging.

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17 September

Adam KucharskiKorrents 17 Sept

From one piece Understanding the unseen 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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Countries could potentially increase their GDP by reducing the time people spend unwinding scams and inappropriate salesmanship while supporting relatives with dementia.

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I'm no economist, but I suspect countries could give themselves a decent GDP bump by reducing all the time people have to spend unwinding scams and inappropriate salesmanship while supporting relatives with dementia.

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Well-meaning reassurance from others can make the process of providing support for someone with dementia harder and slower.

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In my experience, this only makes the process of providing support harder and slower. Denial, and the delays it brings, gets reinforced by the well-meaning remarks of people who don't see the day-to-day problems.

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People with dementia can be remarkably good at filling gaps in memory with plausible conversation, especially if they have had jobs involving talking to many people.

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People can be remarkably good at filling gaps in memory with plausible conversation, especially if they've had jobs that involved talking to a lot of people.

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12 September

Adam KucharskiKorrents 12 Sept

From one piece Understanding the unseen 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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Uncovering and encoding information about organization or population-specific quirks can be more valuable than adding more data.

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But if there are organisation or population-specific quirks, uncovering and encoding information about these can be much more valuable than adding more rows to a misinterpreted spreadsheet.

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Domain knowledge can be more important than data when investigating cause-and-effect using AI.

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When investigating cause-and-effect, AI shows that domain knowledge can matter more than data

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2 August

Adam KucharskiKorrents 2 Aug

From one piece Understanding the unseen 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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'Everyone gets it wrong sometimes' is a bad argument when assessing track records.

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'Everyone gets it wrong sometimes' is a bad argument when assessing track records

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A journal or publisher drawing a line under a past plagiarism incident with minor corrections may not represent the full story.

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But we shouldn't assume that just because a journal or publisher drew a line under a past incident, with some additional quotation marks or references, that it's always the full story.

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