Arvind (has towel, not panicking)

Gonna start calling you Dad Hon for that.

Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars?

These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research.

So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...

I live nearby, can I come by to say hi?

Fuck yes I’ve been wanting to make this discord for literal yonks.

We live in ruins no one else can see, and that we can’t unsee.

It’s taken me three decades of living like that to understand the farsight to be both a curse and a blessing;

I’m starting to think the only way to work with this is to build a hyperobject out of it.

That is an even more impressive concentration of fuckery than previously estimated, which itself was quite record-breaking.

Beyond Sticky Notes (Kelly-Ann McKercher)
The Staff Designer (Catt Small)
Surveys that Work (Caroline Jarrett)

Deliberate Intervention (Alexandra Schmidt)
Mental Models (Indi Young)
Design for How People Learn (Julie Dirksen)
Badass - Making Users Awesome (Kathy Sierra)
Design Justice (Sasha Constanza-Chock)
Be Slightly Evil (Venkatesh Rao)

Indigenous Maldivians originally came from Sri Lanka!

Those trade and migration networks were very extensive.

"I say, Jeeves. This character sheet's all wrong. What's this Thacko business?" "THAC0, sir. An abbreviation of To Hit Armor Class 0. In Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Second Edition, a low number is preferable in both." "By Grabthar's hammer, Jeeves. One doesn't know if one's coming or going." "Indeed, sir." "It's enough to make one pine for GURPS." "Very nearly, sir."

Gödel, Escher, Bachelorette

Thanks for the helpful auto-complete, Gmail.

Ahem

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I’d say it makes it worse because we see EVERYTHING that is broken and we also know it can be better, and easily.

Just living in the shards of a pre-ruined world all the time.

This is just devs being lazy and not unescaping special characters in a very crude security measure.

I bet no one in charge has any clue about this.

Ugh, I feel that so hard, and I’m sorry you’re having a rough time.

I think there are a lot of us silently struggling to find a place, and I don’t know if any have better answers.

Perhaps we need a support group.

Will do!

Ah so this isn’t at an event?

I’d love intros if you feel comfortable.

Nice! I’m looking to connect with these folks as well, where did you meet them?

Belief they are doing something badly might also be indicative of high calibration - especially if task performance is genuinely challenging.

Is that “I’m not very good” or “I’m not as good as others”?

If the latter they might have an accurate estimation of their own skill / performance but be mistaken about the population distribution.

Incidentally reading that paper in conjunction with this one is interesting

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(Which I realise the paper isn’t doing, its assessing impacts on performance, I’m just calling out for my own clarity what can be usefully experimented on if MCC is made definitional to expertise)

Yes you might not be capable of high performance right now but you might have been, so current low performance doesn’t mean low expertise.

But then if we use metacognitive calibration as part of the definition of expertise it’s a bit circular to then make claims about expertise using MCC measures!

Can one define expertise without also implicitly or explicitly implying low meta cognitive miscalibration?

I’m thinking of something I learned from a string music pedagogist, that much of what teachers end up correcting is deeply ingrained bad habits that weren’t recognised as bad habits.

Wouldn’t that depend on familarity/expertise with the task?

I can’t remember, did they screen for domain expertise in the task performance?

Right, it’s not an easy task to assess something like this without proxy indicators that are less influenced by self-belief, without also adding extra & cumbersome measures.

It also occurs to me that it could also for the same reason conflate with underconfidence!

If these items were presented as is in questionnaire language, I don’t see how it *doesn’t* induce overconfidence in the responses.

It’s not measuring literacy, it’s measuring belief in one’s literacy.

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How did mediaeval Europeans think about nationhood and citizenship?

Even if the big claim were true (occasional “indicators” in psych studies are numerous and cheap to generate)

It still doesn’t address the claim being smuggled in via the framing, that reduced navigational ability via certain cognitive processes is inherently bad independent of context.