16 JUN 2011 by ideonexus
The Military is Pretty Leftist
The business sector is dazzlingly productive, but it also periodically blows up our financial system. Yet if we seek another model, one that emphasizes universal health care and educational opportunity, one that seeks to curb income inequality, we don’t have to turn to Sweden. Rather, look to the United States military.
You see, when our armed forces are not firing missiles, they live by an astonishingly liberal ethos — and it works. The military helped lead the way in racial desegregation, ... 1 
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notesIt is a completely socialist system, and a highly effective one with very positive results; however, we must remember that it is effective because its members give up liberty to join it.
03 JAN 2011 by ideonexus
We Take Things for Truth When They Need to Be More Thorou...
You see the problem fo obtaining facts from experience--it sounds very, very simple. You just try it and see. But man is a weak character and it turns out to be much more difficult than you think to just try it and see. For instance, you take education. Some guy comes along and he sees the way people teach mathematics. And he says, "I have a better idea. I'll make a toy computer and teach them with it." So he tries it with a group of chidlren, he hasn't got a lot of children, maybe somebody g...Folksonomies: science pseudoscience
Folksonomies: science pseudoscience
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notesBecause one experimenter gets positive results from teaching children with computers, it does not follow that everyone should use them, the experimenter may have had enthusiasm for their use, which would skew the results.
01 JAN 2011 by ideonexus
Publication Bias Produces a "Decline Effect"
Jennions, similarly, argues that the decline effect is largely a product of publication bias, or the tendency of scientists and scientific journals to prefer positive data over null results, which is what happens when no effect is found. The bias was first identified by the statistician Theodore Sterling, in 1959, after he noticed that ninety-seven per cent of all published psychological studies with statistically significant data found the effect they were looking for. A “significant” result...Folksonomies: research decline effect
Folksonomies: research decline effect
1 Because publications are biased towards positive results, when a phenomenon produced in earlier studies turns out not to be true, then later studies will increasingly have difficulty reproducing the results.
