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How to Survive Boiling WaterTheir words
"How to Survive Boiling Water" is a quintessential effort post. Cook accidentally drinks some probiotic tea, and then she's like, wait, how could "probiotic tea" possibly be a thing?
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Magical ConstitutionalismTheir words
SECOND PLACE ($250): Magical Constitutionalism by Ricardo López Cordero
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Remembering Indonesia from My GrandpaTheir words
What stands out about Hsieh's version is that her roots occupy such a unique spot in history: her grandparents were Chinese born in Indonesia, which means they got caught between the rock of the Cultural Revolution and the hard place of anti-communist backlash.
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Chatting AloneTheir words
Martsinovich argues, via code snippets, that there is no such thing as a "conversation" with a chatbot. The AI is born anew every time it speaks, and it simply reads the dialogue so far and then tries to write the next line:
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PangramTheir words
For the first time, I ran all potential winners through Pangram, which is an AI-writing detector.1 So according to the machine (and to my ear), all of the winners are 100% human-written.
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From one piece I wanted to be a teacher but they made me a cop 6 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Every time we rank one another, we lose a little humanity.
I wanted to be a teacher but they made me a copexperimental-history.com
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If my class is so boring that I have to devise an additional carrot-and-stick system to get students to pay attention, the problem is my class is boring.
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Evaluation should be taken out of the classroom and given to people whose whole job it is.Their words
One solution is to separate instruction and evaluation. Let teachers be teachers and cops be cops.
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Grading flattens whatever is taught into what can be tested, and teaches students to ignore everything else.Their words
Evaluation forces me to flatten everything I teach into something that can be tested, and it encourages students to ignore everything that isn’t on the test.
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Instruction is collaborative: students want to learn, and I want them to learn, too. Evaluation is adversarial: students want the points, and I have to make sure they don’t get too many.
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Teaching and grading are two different jobs, and doing both at once makes a person worse at teaching.Their words
Grade harder, grade softer, grade with words rather than numbers, hide the grades entirely—none of it works, because the problem was never the grades themselves. The problem was trying to be both a teacher and a cop at the same time.
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11 April 2023
From one piece Science is a strong-link problem 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Large replication projects answer the wrong question, because most individual studies do not matter either way.Their words
There’s no point in picking some studies that are convenient to replicate, doing ‘em over, and reporting “only 36% of them replicate!”
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Reviewers are less likely to greenlight papers and grants if they’re novel, risky, or interdisciplinary.
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In the long run, the best stuff is basically all that matters, and the bad stuff doesn’t matter at all.
14 March 2023
From one piece You can't reach the brain through the ears 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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We do this all the time: we attempt to reach the brain through the ears, but all we end up doing is vibrating the air.
You can't reach the brain through the earsexperimental-history.com
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The beliefs worth changing are the defended ones, so changing a mind is a siege rather than a conversation.Their words
To impart wisdom, then, is to lay siege to someone’s mind-castle, because the only things worth being wise about are hidden behind the walls.
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Even when advice is understood and believed, people discount it by assuming their own case is the exception.Their words
Even when we understand the words, and even when we trust them, we still have another eject button: we assume they don’t apply to us.
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A thought does not fit inside a sound wave, so most of what a person means is lost before it reaches anybody else.Their words
You simply can’t fit a thought into a sound wave.
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Opinions move by touching things, not by reading about them: nobody learns to drive a race car from a book.Their words
You cannot dump your bucket into someone else’s bucket.
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13 December 2022
From one piece The rise and fall of peer review 8 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Peer review is one of the things genuinely wrong with academia, not a safeguard that mostly works.Their words
Peer review doesn’t work and there’s probably no way to fix it.
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The invention of peer review may have even encouraged bad research.
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Making peer review harsher would also exacerbate the worst problem of all: just knowing that your ideas won’t count for anything unless peer reviewers like them makes you worse at thinking.
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This extremely bad system is worse than nothing because it fools people into thinking they’re safe when they’re not.
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Scientists say they take peer review seriously, but what they actually do shows they do not think it matters.Their words
If you look at what scientists actually do, it’s clear they don’t think peer review really matters.
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In fact, we’ve got knock-down, real-world data that peer review doesn’t work: fraudulent papers get published all the time.
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Scientists have run studies where they deliberately add errors to papers, send them out to reviewers, and simply count how many errors the reviewers catch. Reviewers are pretty awful at this.
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All we can say from these big trends is that we have no idea whether peer review helped, it might have hurt, it cost a ton, and the current state of the scientific literature is pretty abysmal.
20 September 2022
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But the point that gets mixed in is “now we should go back and double-check every psychology study.” And that, my dear Kyle, makes no sense to me.
12 July 2022
From one piece You'll forget most of what you learn. What should you do about that? 7 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The students who ultimately succeed in learning R are not the ones who force themselves to memorize functions or do a bunch of coding drills.
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Untangling them requires some knowledge, yes, but knowledge is cheap and easily acquired. What you really need is curiosity, self-efficacy, perseverance, perspective, and hope.
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Highlighting, rereading and summarising are poor ways to remember what you have read, and cramming is worse.Their words
When you want to remember something you’ve read, do you highlight it, reread it, or summarize it afterward? Those strategies don’t work very well.
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We know a good deal about how people actually learn, and almost nobody is ever taught it.Their words
We do, in fact, know quite a bit about how people learn, and almost nobody learns it.
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Almost all of education is organised around knowledge and skills, which are exactly the part that does not last.Their words
Almost all of education centers around knowledge and skills rather than vibes.
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Knowledge decays fast when it goes unused, while the feeling a class left behind lasts for decades.Their words
Feelings, or vibes, on the other hand, seem to stick around a lot longer.
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I’m here to tell you that learning is all about vibes.
7 March 2022
From one piece Widespread misperceptions of long-term attitude change (with 1 co-authors) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Imaginary trends could thus spuriously shape people's real beliefs and behaviors.
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Overall, our findings suggest that widely shared stereotypes of the past lead people to misperceive attitude change, and these misperceptions can lend legitimacy to policies that people may not actually prefer.
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Our findings suggest that the national discourse around contentious social issues, policies resulting from that discourse, and perhaps the opinions that drive discourse in the first place would be very different if people better understood how attitudes have and have not changed.
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These misperceptions may bedevil people's efforts to understand and change their social worlds, distort the democratic process, and turn imaginary trends into real ones.
1 March 2021
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