David Dunning

There are two Bs!

Outstanding...nothing finer than Rapanos Chicken Sausage Chorizo Style!

True. Even a raw deal is, by definition, still a deal.

But no cancer research for the rest of us.

But let them eat cake...

How's that plane comin'.

Trump’s AI plan is here. What's in it, what does it leave out, and what happens to your job?

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIPolicy #Jobs #Policy #DigitalEconomy #News #Explained #TechNews #OpenAI #Politics

Happy Birthday, Rosalind Franklin. She captured an X-ray diffraction image of DNA and stated that a helical structure was probable. Watson and Crick then created a detailed model based on her results. They initially received credit for the discovery and were awarded the Nobel Prize after her death.🧪

Thus, perhaps teaching students metacognition more directly, that is what Anatole France emphasized, will also help them pass through life more successfully. /end

Improving General Chemistry Course Performance through Online Homework-Based Metacognitive Training In a first-semester general chemistry course, metacognitive training was implemented as part of an online homework system. Students completed weekly quizzes and multiple practice tests to regularly assess their abilities on the chemistry principles. Before taking these assessments, students predicted their score, receiving feedback after completing the assessment on their prediction accuracy. They also received detailed information regarding their ability for each assessment topic and used this information to create a future study plan. During this study plan, students indicated their general ability by chemistry topic and selected areas they would focus their studying upon. A control section completed the same assessments and received the same feedback of ability by topic, but students did not predict scores or create study plans. Results indicate identical initial assessment performance between the two chemistry course sections. However, metacognitive training resulted in improved assessment performance on each subsequent midterm exam and on the American Chemical Society (ACS) general chemistry final exam. After factoring out the effect of teacher differences, metacognitive training improved student ACS final exam average performance by approximately 4% when compared to the control section. Additionally, metacognitive training targeted the bottom quartile of the course by improving their ACS final exam average performance by approximately 10% when compared to the control section.

Perhaps, as educators, we should spend more effort…
Focusing students on achieving Anatole’s true education. Previous work has shown that requiring intro chemistry students to test what they know before they take exams helps them pass the course. 11/n

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Epistemic Trespassing Abstract. Epistemic trespassers judge matters outside their field of expertise. Trespassing is ubiquitous in this age of interdisciplinary research and rec

At its extreme, it can lead to epistemic trespassing, invading the province of other people’s expertise with what you think is your own, as was notably seen during the COVID epidemic. 10/n
academic.oup.com/mind/article...

Research: Competent Leaders Know The Limits of Their Expertise It is very important as a manager to accurately gauge one’s competence; overconfidence can lead to significant business failures. Self-perceived expertise can cause individuals to overclaim knowledge,...

It does have its side effects, leaving people more expert in what they know than they actually are—in possession of an overly expansive impression of their circle of competence. What is to be done? 9/n
hbr.org/2024/09/rese...

Exactly on those questions when they were prone to extend the knowledge they had learned to circumstances where it didn’t necessarily apply. There, they were confident, but not competent.

So, what to make of education? No doubt, it is invaluable, but…
8/n

Education not only gives a student direct knowledge of specific facts, but shards of information, “schematic knowledge,” that they can use to infer answers to novel questions. In one last GPS study, we showed that participants answered questions overconfidently…
7/n

Miscalibrated about their knowledge about material never covered in the videos. Once again, students had a difficult time recognizing the boundaries of their newly acquired “circle of competence.” Why?
6/n

IWe then took to online studies, giving people brief video courses on global positioning systems (GPS), or a control topic (breadmaking). Afterward, GPS students were not only more confident answering questions about nonexistent terms, but they were also more… 5/n

The same results emerged in a finance class where students rated if they could answer multiple choice items about the terms for candy rewards.

Finance students were less likely to request that questions about nonexistent terms be altered to make them easier. 4/n

But they also did the same to terms never discussed because those terms do not exist. We made them up in the office.

Apparently, students didn't have a completely accurate snapshot of their new “circle of competence.” Students contacted 2 years later continued to “recognize” these bogus terms. 3/n

In one study, students in a psych and law class were asked if they recognized psycholegal terms at the beginning and end of the semester. So was a comparison class.

Good news: By the end of the semester, the psych and law students reported familiarity with the terms taught in class.
2/n

New from the lab, w/@stavatir.bsky.social, in press at Management Science:

Anatole France said that true education isn’t what you commit to memory but the ability to separate what you know from what you don’t.

Does the classroom do that? Well, um, a 🧵… 1/n
pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Equifinality.

I have some good news, and some bad news.

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

True, but an improvement over the Paul Simon, who provided only 4, and they were all Irish goodbyes.

Chart shows Republicans turn less positive about science’s impact on society

Before the pandemic hit, 70% of Republicans said that science has had a mostly positive effect on society. Four years later, fewer than half (47%) said so. 🧪
https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2023/11/14/americans-trust-in-scientists-positive-views-of-science-continue-to-decline/

Yes, finally, the level beyond keto.

Contemplating this evening that in TV political commentary we've evolved from David Gergen to Scott Jennings.

RIP...To whom or what I am referring, I am not sure.

Jesus Christ.

YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News WACTH: Josh Riley Absolutely Explodes At House Republicans During Big Beautiful Bill Debate

youtu.be/MCFPM-87Kgc

WACTH: Josh Riley Absolutely Explodes At House Republicans During Big Beautiful Bill Debate

Arbeit macht frei.

Face it, you're older and have more insurance.

The world of ideas and public engagement feels diminished tonight. RIP.