#Causal

QC

QiaochuYuan

this is not a point that will translate well into tweets probably, but generally i think people's relationship to the concept of "why" a thing happens - causes - is

Nick Dennis

nickdennis

Huge thanks to @bain_bob and the @OERProject #OCforSS #OCSS2020 for the live session earlier. Glad all the technology ran smoothly! Just wanted to add a few things that history teachers

Fatima Hassan

_HassanF

If *you* want the economy to *open*, travel to resume, businesses to flourish, health care systems to not collapse, education to continue, then how do you defend patent monopolies in

Jonathan Mummolo

jonmummolo

Our paper shows traditional analyses understate racial bias in police violence. A newly posted critique claims those approaches work great (if we assume away the problem). Given the bad science

Dr. Cat Hicks 📈👩🏻‍🔬🦄🏳️‍🌈

grimalkina

Yeah, this is not it. I'm speaking as both a social scientist with some experience studying causal beliefs and as a person who got out of extremist right-wing culture and

Greg Lukianoff

glukianoff

For part 7 of our “Catching Up With ‘Coddling’” series, I sat down with @TheAtlantic’s @KateJulian to take a long look at the role of parents in childhood anxiety, some

Michael Muthukrishna

mmuthukrishna

New paper on "Psychology as a historical science" w/ @JoHenrich & @slingerland20 in Annual Review of Psychology. Catalyzing the field of "historical psychology" by reviewing work on: origins of psychology

Peter Young (The Austrian)

TheAustrian3

To understand economic phenomena we must analyse human action, rather than material objects and their properties.Inanimate objects are dead matter. It is human reason shaping humans’ actions that rearranges matter

snav (escarpment)

qorprate

the Western Standard Model of mind/psyche is really bad, constrained by demands for scientific (read: institutional) validation if you think about mind, self, emotion, etc as a vague space to

Health Nerd

GidMK

A new paper has been published by John Ioannidis and Jay "Great Barrington Declaration" Bhattacharya on "lockdowns" as a COVID-19 preventative measureLet's do some twitter peer-review! 1/nhttps://twitter.com/andrewbo

Duncan Exley

Duncan_Exley

New CSJ report on the importance of marriage to children’s outcomes is a masterclass in getting LOTS of coverage for a report in which a big conclusion rests on a

Nicholas Timpson

nic_timpson

1/6) Delighted to say that our study on genomewide association study of human gut microbiome variation is out today @NatureMicrobiol! Great congrats to #davidhughes @RaesLab @Caketin_Wade @rbacigalupe @mruehlemann https://www.nature.com/art

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NeuroYogacara

Luiz isn’t a philosopher, but he’s philosophically curious, so I want to push back on this a little bit. I think that part of the problem is with a tacit

Kasper Daniel Hansen

KasperDHansen

Excited to share our latest work, where we describe an approach to systematically address a pressing (in our opinion) need in epigenetics: How do we identify functional (ie. causal) disease-associated

snav (escarpment)

qorprate

i like where QC went here but i want to take this in a different direction -- causality is fucked because we're bad at being clear about the "types" of

WRISK

WRISK_project

This is an interesting study but it by no means establishes that men born to overweight women are more likely to be infertile.Sadly that hasn’t stopped @MetroUKnews printing a horrible

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