Tomas Formo Langkaas

I guess the difference between the LLM here and a real scientist is that the scientist also reads the abstract before claiming to know its content.

Isn’t this what real scientists also do?

IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle Background : “IQ” is a stale test meant to measure mental capacity but in fact mostly measures extreme unintelligence (learning…

This is amazing medium.com/incerto/iq-i...

Although this figure also seems to validate my preconceived beliefs.

Vi burde forvente bedre av en toppleder.

«Holte skriver at 8 av 10 er fornøyde med Nav samlet sett. Da viser han til en undersøkelse utført av Nav, for Nav, formidlet av Nav.»

«Rapporten har uakseptabelt store metodiske svakheter.»

«Rapporten er ikke god statistikk, men selektiv selvskryt.»

Cover page for the manuscript: Morey, R. D., & Davis-Stober, C. P. (2025). On the poor statistical properties of the P-curve meta-analytic procedure. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2025.2544397

Abstract for the paper: The P-curve (Simonsohn, Nelson, & Simmons, 2014; Simonsohn, Simmons, & Nelson, 2015) is a widely-used suite of meta-analytic tests advertised for detecting problems in sets of studies. They are based on nonparametric combinations of p values (e.g., Marden, 1985) across significant (p < .05) studies and are variously claimed to detect “evidential value”, “lack of evidential value”, and “left skew” in p values. We show that these tests do not have the properties ascribed to them. Moreover, they fail basic desiderata for tests, including admissibility and monotonicity. In light of these serious problems, we recommend against the use of the P-curve tests.

Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?

Norsk offentlighet har en helt vill meta-sjukdom, der vi rekordfort hopper fra hva noen sa til «var det lurt for denne personen å si det nå?». Alt blir en fotballkamp og resultatet er et elektorat som er ekstremt kunnskapsfattige om de faktiske temaene.

Genuine question: is our reliance on these corporations - our institutional reliance in particular - really necessary? Why do I have to use Microsoft products (Outlook, Office)? Are there really no options for providing these basic services? The way we are dependent on these companies is disturbing.

Therapists’ beliefs about traumatic memory: Possible effects on therapy proceedings and contributions to false memory formation How psychotherapists understand and approach trauma-related memory remains clinically and ethically significant, particularly given the risk of false …

"Overall, the findings highlight the need for conceptual clarity in research, further research into suggestive therapist behavior, and integration of memory science in therapist training."

«Tulledebatten» — sett fra Europa Høyres utspill om høyere utdanning krever et europeisk perspektiv. Det finnes flere relevante utsagn om hvilke formål utdanning har og hvilken rolle offentlige myndigheter bør spille.

Aj aj, Høgre blir offentleg avkledd og tilbakevist i "tullefag-debatten" frå Sjur Bergan; "Et bredere utsyn basert på partiets verdikonservative røtter kunne ha reddet Høyre fra å demonstrere så åpenlyst hvorfor «tullefag» er viktige." 😂https://www.khrono.no/tulledebatten-sett-fra-europa/987381

I .. what?

turing.ac.uk using a Cloudflare real human verification check box test?!

Really, Alan Turing Institute?

Nav må rives ned Problemene med Nav er så omfattende at løsningen ikke lenger kan være i enkeltvise forbedringer. Hele systemet må skrotes og bygges opp på nytt. Denne gangen med et system som setter mennesket først.

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Kaveh treffer spikern på hodet igjen. intelligent og medmenneskelig person.

Five out of four statisticians don't think it's possible to lower drug prices by more than 100%, and the other three statisticians were fired by Donald Trump.

Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

I'm all for giving awards to Trump. Why stop at Nobel?! Let's give him Pulitzer, Oscar, Grammy, Abel, Fields, whatever you got. If it'll finally force us to dismantle whole awards systems and their contribution to the prestige economy, we should do it!

One of the most successful deceptions of our time was getting so many Americans to fear diversity more than racism, equality more than misogyny, democracy more than fascism, immigrants more than authoritarians, the poor more than corrupt billionaires, and empathy more than cruelty.

That's how you can tell human authors from AI.

AI will put in some em dashes, then apologise and take them out when told off.

Human authors will climb the filing cabinet, hissing, and defend their right to em dashes with a loaded stapler.

In short? Critique science all you want but just be scientific about it. When you drift into rhetoric from science, don’t be shocked when the rhetoric falls into someone else’s hands.

Everyone should know what an overdose looks like. Feel free to share:

Psychologists & related fields: what is a big methods question that you believe remains somewhat unanswered & that you'd love to see adressed? There may be an opportunity for a large-scale meta-science project with many teams trying to figure out a question.

Any thoughts welcome! #psychscisky

Introducing the Simulation Studies Preregistration Template: Q&A with Björn S. Siepe, František Bartoš, and Samuel Pawel Initially submitted through COS’s open call for community-designed preregistration templates, the Simulation Studies Template is now part of the expanding collection of preregistration resources avail...

A few years ago I heard someone *joke* a conference that about preregistering theory/simulations. It looks comedy became reality with this new template.

www.cos.io/blog/introdu...

therapist: so what shall we explore today

me: I’m worried that I’m becoming a biological reductionist and increasingly concrete as I age

therapist: what makes you say that

me: Broca’s area

Came across this again and I'm still in awe of Desq's skill on one of the weirdest and most difficult instruments. Listen and watch because both are fascinating.

For the first time, Israeli human rights groups say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza ***

Israeli human rights groups B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights – Israel published on Monday two reports concluding that Israel is committing the crime of genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, as defined by international law.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

more of a comment than a question is the unsolicited dick pic of academia

Israel and allies have ‘fingerprints all over a crime scene’ We spoke to Jan Egeland from the Norwegian Refugee Council.

"There is an easy way of feeding everybody in Gaza."

Jan Egeland from the Norwegian Refugee Council tells Jackie Long "we can go in with thousands of trucks."

But "the Israeli war machine must open the border crossings, all of them."

Read and watch:
www.channel4.com/news/israel-...

People really do need to stop making JPAI the face of research integrity.

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New preprint: Stop thinking of Cohen's d as an effect size.

Cohen's d confounds magnitude of effect and reliability. Yet, we pretend our measurements are flawless when interpreting it. What if we thought of Cohen’s d as a measure of detectability instead?

osf.io/preprints/ps...

How do you get to zero pedestrian traffic deaths?

1. Lower speeds
2. Improved pedestrian and biking infrastructure
3. Increased public transit options
4. Better enforcement

Any city could do this. They used a data driven approach. Most cities know where their problem areas are.