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| | Granted, he's a psychologist: operationalizations of information, computation, and control are his empirical bread and butter. But operationalizing intentional concepts in experimental contexts is a far cry from naturalizing intentional concepts. https://rsbakker.wordpress.com/2018/03/20/enlightenment-how-pinkers-tutelary-natures/
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| | A particularly thorny-yet very common-way for a discussion to break down is when participants strongly disagree about the correct scope of a discussion. If neither side is willing to compromise, progress often becomes impossible. John Nerst identifies a difference in expectations that is particularly prone to causing such issues: Suppose data showed that people born in even-numbered years committed murders at twice the rate of the general population. Can you state this directly and, if so, must you issue a disclaimer?
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| | "[C]onfusion about the foundations of the subject is responsible, in my opinion, for much of the misuse of the statistics that one meets in fields of application such as medicine, psychology, sociology, economics, and so forth." (George Barnard 1985, p. 2) "Relevant clarifications of the nature and roles of statistical evidence in scientific research may
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| A comprehensive re-analysis of a skull fragment found in a Greek cave back in the late 1970s suggests early modern humans were present in Eurasia some 210,000 years ago. Its the earliest indication of our species on the continent, but the lack of supporting archaeological evidence raises some questions.