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Feb 16 • 30 tweets • 14 min read
I am skeptical of the "exercise cures depression" meta-analysis because these are often ways of laundering lots of bad studies that may or may not have ever happened into Serious Science Facts Of course I do not think it would be hard to demonstrate superiority to antidepressants given how low their efficacy seems to be - but we know how poor it is from lots of analyses of published and unpublished data carcinisation.com/2022/09/07/the…
Jun 13, 2022 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
I've been trying to figure out why writing for a public audience seems less and less rewarding to people lately One hypothesis I have is to oversimplify into three distinct periods of time - before mass media, mass media era, and present day
Oct 10, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
One of the problems with the executive function/self-regulation/ego depletion literature is that "self-regulation" is a really complicated phenomenon that only pretends to be simple (definition from baumeister et al.) It seems obvious to me that there's a major suffering dimension involved - for instance, if you naturally have low appetite, you'll be able to stay thin without suffering, but if you have a high appetite, it will involve a lot of suffering to avoid eating too much
Oct 6, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Why, in general, are old things beautiful and new things ugly? This is my descriptive answer, but how it got that way is more complicated carcinisation.com/2015/04/01/the… Mathematical art can achieve a high degree of life - levels of scale and deep interlock are particularly strong here, I imagine they’re baked into the math!
Sep 17, 2021 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Have you seen this chart? I’ve been seeing it a lot lately and wondered what it was based on Image Other than the obvious y-axis shenanigans, one author’s criticism of this chart was that the “sugar” line tracks estimates of the CONSUMPTION of certain types of sugar, but the way this was calculated from AVAILABLE sugar changed medium.com/@robertagreer/… ImageImage
May 5, 2021 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
I was excited to read this formalization of Andrew Gelman’s interesting and in my opinion profound “piranha principle” stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/resear… so of course I have to talk about the one tiny thing I found to disagree with in it
Apr 9, 2021 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
This was micro-popular enough that it made its way into my life - I wanted to explain how it works because I think this will become more common as a method The tool used is called the “Evaluative Lexicon” - this comes in a checklist form of 42 words, and a software form of around 1500 words.
Nov 14, 2020 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
a brief thread of visual patterns I’m trying to get a handle on

1. the BZ reaction 1. lace agate youtube.com/c/MichiganRocks
Jul 11, 2020 • 23 tweets • 13 min read
I’m volunteer hostile fact checking Nudge because I hate myself and I thought it would be a bunch of n=30 fMRI studies and priming stuff but the first reference is just a blog post from 1997 (third image is commentary) sometimes it will be a reference to a popular book with no page number and you have to dig hard to figure out that it’s an n=30 fMRI study birc.jaredjustus.com/assets/publica…