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| | | | | Having spent all five of my years as a graduate student trying to get psychologists and economists to agree on basic ideas about decision-making, I think the following two pieces complement one another perfectly: Cosma Shalizi's comments on rereading Blanchard and Fischer's "Lectures on Macroeconomics": Blanchard and Fischer is about "modern" macro, models based on agents who know what the economy is like optimizing over time, possible under some limits. | |
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| | | | | Theoretical Physicist Matt Strassler reported the "Naturalness 2014 Conference (hold on November 16, 2014, see http://profmattstrassler.com/2014/11/17/at-the-naturalness-2014-conference/ )". Naturalness: it is a question of "whether the laws of nature in our universe are "natural" (= "generic"), and if not, why not?" What makes the Standard Model's equations so "unnatural" (i.e. "non-generic") is that many free parameters... | |
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| | | | | A key recognition among those who write on the statistical crisis in science is that the pressure to publish attention-getting articles can incentivize researchers to produce eye-catching but inadequately scrutinized claims. We may see much the same sensationalism in broadcasting metastatistical research, especially if it takes the form of scapegoating or banning statistical significance. A... | |
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