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Language Log » “Vampirical” hypotheses
april 2011 by cshalizi
Somebody (hopefully not me) really needs to write a book about vampirical hypotheses testing.
bad_data_analysis
bad_science_journalism
why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_academic_publishing_system
funny:geeky
funny:malicious
liberman.mark
gelman.andrew
freese.jeremy
april 2011 by cshalizi
Language Log » Lyrical Narcissism?
april 2011 by cshalizi
I'm tempted to make this into a problem set, but it's probably not challenging enough.
bad_data_analysis
music
poetry
cultural_criticism
liberman.mark
debunking
to_teach:undergrad-ADA
april 2011 by cshalizi
Language Log » Are “heavy media multitaskers” really heavy media multitaskers?
september 2010 by cshalizi
With a gracious comment by one of the authors of the paper in question.
studies_do_not_show
experimental_psychology
debunking
liberman.mark
multitasking
attention
september 2010 by cshalizi
Language Log » Delusions of gender
august 2010 by cshalizi
How could I have forgotten the transdimensional monsters?
bad_science
sex_differences
experimental_psychology
liberman.mark
august 2010 by cshalizi
Language Log » The defend-your-turf area?
march 2010 by cshalizi
Watching MYL debunking tendentious appropriations of neuroscience _again_, the phrase "One must imagine Liberman happy" comes to mind...
debunking
utter_stupidity
sexist_idiocy
neuroscience
sex_differences
rats
liberman.mark
brizendine.louann
blogged
march 2010 by cshalizi
Language Log » Ever get a buzz from reading a press release?
february 2010 by cshalizi
And this, children, is how publicizing scientific findings actually comes to create myths.
bad_science_journalism
experimental_psychology
natural_history_of_truthiness
deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process
evisceration
liberman.mark
february 2010 by cshalizi
Language Log » Conditional entropy and the Indus Script
april 2009 by cshalizi
Having read the papers and re-implemented the method, I now concur with Mark: this is an methodological EPIC FAIL.
information_theory
linguistics
bad_data_analysis
bad_science_journalism
harrapan_civilization
liberman.mark
blogged
why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_academic_publishing_system
april 2009 by cshalizi
Language Log » Passive voice: two out of three isn’t good enough
march 2009 by cshalizi
.... in which Mark L. is polite, but relentless, in driving a wedge between "attributing responsibility to people" and "avoiding the passive voice".
syntax
moral_responsibility
evisceration
liberman.mark
march 2009 by cshalizi
Language Log » Presidential parataxis?
january 2009 by cshalizi
Mark continues his righteous jihad against Stanley Fish.
rhetoric
stylistics
pragmatics
parataxis
obama.barack
fish.stanley
liberman.mark
evisceration
january 2009 by cshalizi
Language Log » The directed graph of stereotypical incomprehensibility
january 2009 by cshalizi
The central role of Chinese in this graph is highly suggestive.
linguistics
funny:geeky
liberman.mark
networks
january 2009 by cshalizi
Language Log » David Brooks, Social Psychologist
august 2008 by cshalizi
Memo to self: Ask Fred what's up with that paper.
evisceration
cultural_differences
social_psychology
nisbett.richard
liberman.mark
brooks.david
august 2008 by cshalizi
Language Log » The happiness gap returns
july 2008 by cshalizi
Why I do have this vivid mental picture of Mark defiantly shouting "¡No pasaran!" as he's overwhelmed by a horde of zombies/science writers?
bad_science_journalism
sex_differences
regression
liberman.mark
july 2008 by cshalizi
Language Log » Pop platonism and unrepresentative samples
july 2008 by cshalizi
Mark continues his lonely crusade to pound some sense and decency into science journalists writing about research on sex differences.
why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps
bad_science_journalism
sex_differences
neuroscience
liberman.mark
july 2008 by cshalizi
Language Log » Language and personality
june 2008 by cshalizi
In addition to all the problems Mark lays out, it seems that the study has no way of differentiating between how people act and how they talk, or between behavior and impressions of norms.
bad_science_journalism
experimental_psychology
linguistic_relativity
liberman.mark
june 2008 by cshalizi
Language Log: Comparing communication efficiency across languages
april 2008 by cshalizi
"English texts are larger than their Chinese counterparts by a factor of between 1.37 and 2.27 before compression, or 1.19 to 1.41 after compression."
liberman.mark
linguistics
data_compression
april 2008 by cshalizi
Language Log: More functional neuroanatomy of science journalism
march 2008 by cshalizi
I'm not sure where Mark finds the patience.
bad_science_journalism
fmri
sex_differences
liberman.mark
march 2008 by cshalizi
Language Log: Listening to Prozac, hearing effect sizes
march 2008 by cshalizi
"But now we're talking about fitting a statistical model to the distribution across studies of effect sizes -- a measure of the difference between the distributions of outcomes in the "drug" and "placebo" groups -- as a function of initial severity. And t
statistics
meta-analysis
antidepressants
bad_science_journalism
liberman.mark
rhetoric
march 2008 by cshalizi
Language Log: Poor, arid, and, in appearance, deformed
february 2008 by cshalizi
Do in Indo-European languages in fact have a vocabulary conducive to modern scientific concepts, or did they in fact have to force their way in?
linguistic_relativity
great_transformation
scientific_revolution
language_history
whorf.benjamin_lee
hobbes.thomas
liberman.mark
february 2008 by cshalizi
Language Log: 60%, 0%, whatever
february 2008 by cshalizi
Truly, a stunning demonstration of the power and precision of behavioral genetics.
theory_of_mind
heritability
human_genetics
bad_data_analysis
liberman.mark
evolutionary_psychology
february 2008 by cshalizi
Language Log: Behindology
february 2008 by cshalizi
"the practical question of how to prevent interpretive abduction from turning delusional hasn't been seriously investigated by any of the various research communities that study communicative interaction"
pragmatics
conspiracy_theories
non-demonstrative_inference
dietrologia
hermeneutics_of_suspicion
liberman.mark
theory_of_mind
intentional_explanation
february 2008 by cshalizi
Language Log: Camp language
december 2007 by cshalizi
Mark Liberman on the history of Urdu
urdu
language_history
south_asia
liberman.mark
december 2007 by cshalizi
Language Log: Rational inquiry: past, present and future
december 2007 by cshalizi
Make your raw data available.
science
liberman.mark
replication
december 2007 by cshalizi
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