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5 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Students told to analyse a dataset to test a specific hypothesis tended to miss the gorilla hidden in the data genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
students not given a hypothesis to test, just told to examine the data more likely to find the gorilla. Fiendish.

Pre-print with more details here biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Lead author is on twitter @ItaiYanai

Part of their "night science" project ("exciting and significant parts of scientific research that occur behind the scenes") biomedcentral.com/collections/ni…
Unrelated: Klaus Kinski throwing a monkey into the Amazon
@ItaiYanai is the dataset you made for this study available anywhere please?

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5 Nov
Why would you be driven to make baseless claims about election fraud? it seems so norm-eroding, so dangerous a precedent to set - knocking out the epistemic ladder up which we climb to democracy, leaving a future in which legitimacy can't exist.
Presumably (1) you would only do so if you felt that the threat posed by losing the election was as large as the threat of the collapse of legitimate government anyway (i.e. if you were really desperate) but also ...
...(2)Do accusations of electoral fraud betray a lack of faith in the rationality of voters: "Reasonable people couldn't vote for the opposition, so those votes must be fraudulent"? In this way calls of electoral fraud are the right's Cambridge Analytica
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Who reads preprints? Academics and...er... white nationalists?? journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…
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(could be useful @nikaletras ?)
Interactive data explorer for this paper carjed.github.io/audiences/
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During my PhD I nearly lost my mind thinking about why we build computational models in cognitive science. {thread}
Modelling defines what makes cognitive science different from psychology. All cognitive scientists know that formal, computable models are good, but we don't always say exactly *why*

And when we do say, we find we don't exactly agree
After my PhD (which I completed without completely losing my mind), the issue of articulating exactly why we put so much effort into modelling still bugged me. Eventually I wrote something up, organised around answering the charge that models are just tautological
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19 Jan 19
Legit learning outcomes for my new MSc module on data management and visualisation, right?
Another module development question: should I devote an entire 2 hour class to how to google Stack Overflow, or rush it and cover it in 1 hour?
"Computing for the Behavioral Scientist" github.com/jashubbard/psy… teaching python programming fundamentals, in jupyter notebooks, from @jashubbard
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Thread, top five drone takedowns.
#5 Shotgun - simple, effective. A classic
#4 Eagle - Dutch authorities *were* training eagles to take down drones, but have since given up on this idea (either due to risk of injury, or difficulty training the eagles, reports vary) theverge.com/2017/12/12/167…
#3 Spear - thrown by medieval warrior at reenactment in central Russia. Link for full video:
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Many Analysts, One Data Set: Making Transparent How Variations in Analytic Choices Affect Results journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/25… our 65 author collaboration is finally published in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
As featured in this from @FiveThirtyEight "Science Isn’t Broken :It’s just a hell of a lot harder than we give it credit for." fivethirtyeight.com/features/scien…
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