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    <title>[2009.13807] Current Time Series Anomaly Detection Benchmarks are Flawed and are Creating the Illusion of Progress</title>
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    <title>Social media-predicted personality traits and values can help match people to their ideal jobs | PNAS</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Work is thought to be more enjoyable and beneficial to individuals and society when there is congruence between one’s personality and one’s occupation. We provide large-scale evidence that occupations have distinctive psychological profiles, which can successfully be predicted from linguistic information unobtrusively collected through social media. Based on 128,279 Twitter users representing 3,513 occupations, we automatically assess user personalities and visually map the personality profiles of different professions. Similar occupations cluster together, pointing to specific sets of jobs that one might be well suited for. Observations that contradict existing classifications may point to emerging occupations relevant to the 21st century workplace. Findings illustrate how social media can be used to match people to their ideal occupation."

--- Some observations:
1. They did not actually measure people's personality traits; they _assumed_ that a commercial IBM product can map word usage to personality traits.
1a. In particular, they _assumed_ that this remains accurate for what people write on Twitter, as opposed to whatever context IBM developed their system in (not specified here).
2. They did not actually measure "ideal" occupations; they saw whether a classifier using the estimated personality traits could map people to their actual occupations.
2a. They artificially balance their 10 professions so that each has 955 members.  (I presume that they randomly sampled the occupations with more members, though I don't quite see them saying that; maybe I missed it.  Also, I presume they did _not_ go hunting for the best group of 10 occupations.)  So the baseline accuracy would be only 10%, and getting about 70% under CV does indeed mean that there's some signal here.
2b. It's good that they include error bars on their accuracy figures!
2c.  Since they include those error bars, we can see that the difference in classification accuracy between the different methods are both small and statistically insignificant.  In particular, good old fashioned logistic regression is pretty much on par with everything else.
2d. They don't seem to have actually tried the obvious classifier here, which would map each person to the occupation whose feature-vector center ("medoid") was closest to the person's feature-vector ("prototype method").  But they did at least use k-nearest-neighbors, which performed about as well as all the others.
3. Calling this evidence that we could go from analyzing Twitter word usage to "ideal" job recommendations presumes that most people are _already_ in their ideal jobs.
4. This was edited by Susan Fiske [https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2017/02/08/authority-figures-spread-happy-talk-still-dont-get-it/].

_Maybe_ people reveal their personalities, in the Big 5 sense, by what they write on Twitter.  (Operationally, "personality" in the Big 5 sense is pretty close to "what words would you use to describe yourself on a questionnaire?")  And _maybe_ the way people reveal their personalities in their word usage on Twitter is so context-independent that it can reliably generalize across all the different sub-cultures and sub-societies and self-organized genre conventions of Twitter, so there is one globally reliable mapping.  (I am not going to repeat all of [http://bactra.org/weblog/770.html], but I could.)  And _maybe_ IBM has provided that mapping with an API.  And _maybe_ people with different personalities select in to different professions.  (As an alternative: different occupations train people differently, which alters their personalities, or at least the verbal expressions thereof, and different occupations expose people to different situations, which alters what they say and maybe even shapes their personalities.)  And _maybe_ people select in to professions where they are happier.  And _maybe_ if we looked at how young people talk on Twitter, before they've chosen an occupation, and extract their personality from it, and map them to a profession with lots of similar personality vectors already in it, they'll be happier in that occupation than in others.  But this study provides at best very, very weak evidence for all this.  (I want to say "no evidence at all", but I also don't want to get into arguments about the theory of evidence.)  What the study does show is that people in different occupations use different words on Twitter, and that these differences are detectable through the filter of IBM's purported personality estimator.

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<item rdf:about="https://retractionwatch.com/2020/02/13/a-paper-on-cats-and-female-students-uses-up-one-of-its-nine-lives/">
    <title>A paper on cats and female students uses up one of its nine lives – Retraction Watch</title>
    <dc:date>2020-02-15T00:42:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://retractionwatch.com/2020/02/13/a-paper-on-cats-and-female-students-uses-up-one-of-its-nine-lives/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>bad_science cats utter_stupidity us_culture_wars</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:3da49117befc/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://theconversation.com/its-time-to-end-the-debate-about-video-games-and-violence-91607">
    <title>It's time to end the debate about video games and violence</title>
    <dc:date>2020-01-26T16:35:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://theconversation.com/its-time-to-end-the-debate-about-video-games-and-violence-91607</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>video_games bad_science psychology moral_panics have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1359105318822045">
    <title>Personality and fatal diseases: Revisiting a scientific scandal - Anthony J Pelosi, 2019</title>
    <dc:date>2019-10-11T18:23:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1359105318822045</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["During the 1980s and 1990s, Hans J Eysenck conducted a programme of research into the causes, prevention and treatment of fatal diseases in collaboration with one of his protégés, Ronald Grossarth-Maticek. This led to what must be the most astonishing series of findings ever published in the peer-reviewed scientific literature with effect sizes that have never otherwise been encounterered in biomedical research. This article outlines just some of these reported findings and signposts readers to extremely serious scientific and ethical criticisms that were published almost three decades ago. Confidential internal documents that have become available as a result of litigation against tobacco companies provide additional insights into this work. It is suggested that this research programme has led to one of the worst scientific scandals of all time. A call is made for a long overdue formal inquiry."

--- But everything he did on IQ is scientifically unimpeachable, I'm sure.]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB have_read utter_stupidity bad_science epidemiology psychology eysenck.hans_j.</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/the-peer-reviewed-saga-of-mindless-eating-mindless-research-is-bad-too/">
    <title>“Mindless Eating,” or how to send an entire life of research into question | Ars Technica</title>
    <dc:date>2017-07-01T21:43:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/the-peer-reviewed-saga-of-mindless-eating-mindless-research-is-bad-too/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>statistics bad_data_analysis psychology bad_science trapped_in_plutos_republic</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f89a9c43999d/</dc:identifier>
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    <title>Tool-box or toy-box? Hard obscurantism in economic modeling - Springer</title>
    <dc:date>2016-07-11T14:15:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-015-0836-8</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["“Hard obscurantism” is a species of the genus scholarly obscurantism. A rough intensional definition of hard obscurantism is that models and procedures become ends in themselves, dissociated from their explanatory functions. In the present article, I exemplify and criticize hard obscurantism by examining the writings of eminent economists and political scientists."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/justice-department-issues-first-standards-for-forensic-science-expert-testimony/2016/06/03/04ab129a-29c4-11e6-a3c4-0724e8e24f3f_story.html">
    <title>Justice Department issues first standards for forensic expert testimony - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2016-06-05T17:35:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/justice-department-issues-first-standards-for-forensic-science-expert-testimony/2016/06/03/04ab129a-29c4-11e6-a3c4-0724e8e24f3f_story.html</link>
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<item rdf:about="https://theintercept.com/2016/03/25/in-las-vegas-embattled-forensics-experts-respond-to-scandals-and-flawed-convictions/">
    <title>In Las Vegas, Embattled Forensic Experts Respond to Scandals and Flawed Convictions</title>
    <dc:date>2016-03-25T17:55:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://theintercept.com/2016/03/25/in-las-vegas-embattled-forensics-experts-respond-to-scandals-and-flawed-convictions/</link>
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    <title>Nate Silver climate change denial: It’s time to dump FiveThirtyEight’s Roger Pielke, Jr.</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-01T02:58:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/03/nate_silver_climate_change_denial_it_s_time_to_dump_fivethirtyeight_s_roger.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>climate_change bad_data_analysis bad_science_journalism bad_science auerbach.david pielke.roger silver.nate why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps disasters</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://psych.utoronto.ca/users/spa/reading/papers/Rodgers2010.pdf">
    <title>The Epistemology of Mathematical and Statistical Modeling: A Quiet Methodological Revolution</title>
    <dc:date>2014-03-18T14:57:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://psych.utoronto.ca/users/spa/reading/papers/Rodgers2010.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Y'know, when your poster-child for the new methodological approach is one part ecological fallacy to one part ignorance of networks to two parts ignorance of causal inference, you might want to reconsider.]]></description>
<dc:subject>bad_data_analysis social_science_methodology statistics social_influence bad_science psychology via:DRMacIver ecological_inference_and_the_ecological_fallacy</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/02/18/number-deconvolution/">
    <title>Number deconvolution | Bits of DNA</title>
    <dc:date>2014-02-19T02:54:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/02/18/number-deconvolution/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>evisceration network_data_analysis graphical_models bioinformatics bad_science</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/why-i-read-the-network-nonsense-papers/">
    <title>Why I read the network nonsense papers | Bits of DNA</title>
    <dc:date>2014-02-19T02:53:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/why-i-read-the-network-nonsense-papers/</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/02/11/the-network-nonsense-of-manolis-kellis/">
    <title>The network nonsense of Manolis Kellis | Bits of DNA</title>
    <dc:date>2014-02-19T02:53:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/02/11/the-network-nonsense-of-manolis-kellis/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>bioinformatics bad_data_analysis graphical_models network_data_analysis bad_science why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_academic_publishing_system have_read evisceration</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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    <title>The network nonsense of Albert-László Barabási | Bits of DNA</title>
    <dc:date>2014-02-19T02:52:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/the-network-nonsense-of-albert-laszlo-barabasi/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dear, dear me.]]></description>
<dc:subject>evisceration network_data_analysis bad_science barabasi.albert-laszlo linear_algebra why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_academic_publishing_system to_teach have_read</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://bahfest.com/">
    <title>BAH! | The Festival Of Bad Ad Hoc Hypotheses</title>
    <dc:date>2013-09-05T15:24:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bahfest.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Festival of Bad Ad Hoc Hypotheses (BAH!) is a celebration of well-argued and thoroughly researched but completely incorrect evolutionary theory. It is put on by Zach Weinersmith (cartoonist of SMBC), breadpig (publishers of SMBC and XKCD), and MIT's Lecture Series Committee. It is sponsored by the EvoS Consortium and This View of Life magazine (Editor-in-Chief David Sloan Wilson). We are also proud to be part of the Cambridge Science Festival.
"It will be held in MIT's Kresge Auditorium on the evening of October 6th, 2013."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20939935">
    <title>A critical review of Richard Lynn's reports on ... [J Biosoc Sci. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-27T18:48:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20939935</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the early 1990s, psychologist Richard Lynn published papers documenting average reaction times and decision times in samples of nine-year-olds taken from across the world. After summarizing these data, Lynn interpreted his results as evidence of national and racial differences in decision time and general intelligence. Others have also interpreted Lynn's data as evidence of racial differences in decision time and intelligence. However, comparing Lynn's summaries with his original reports shows that Lynn misreported and omitted some of his own data. Once these errors are fixed the rankings of nations in Lynn's datasets are unstable across different decision time measures. This instability, as well as within-race heterogeneity and between-race overlap in decision times, implies that Lynn's reaction time data do not permit generalizations about the decision times and intelligence of people of different races."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/korean-plant-compound-researcher-faked-email-addresses-so-he-could-review-his-own-studies/">
    <title>South Korean plant compound researcher faked email addresses so he could review his own studies « Retraction Watch</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-31T13:07:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/korean-plant-compound-researcher-faked-email-addresses-so-he-could-review-his-own-studies/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What it says on the label; but wow, the shamelessness.]]></description>
<dc:subject>fraud bad_science peer_review epic_fail via:phnk science_as_a_social_process his_plan_was_sheer_elegance_in_its_simplicity</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://jonfwilkins.blogspot.com/2012/08/legitimate-rape-seminal-priming-and.html">
    <title>Lost in Transcription: Legitimate rape, seminal priming, and preeclampsia</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-26T16:38:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://jonfwilkins.blogspot.com/2012/08/legitimate-rape-seminal-priming-and.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Oy, oy, oy.]]></description>
<dc:subject>evolutionary_biology bad_science sexist_idiocy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ec5cb5a0cda3/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/humanities-hackathon/">
    <title>Humanities Hackathon « Quomodocumque</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-27T11:41:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/humanities-hackathon/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I came home only to encounter this breathless post from the Science blog about a claim that you can use network invariants (e.g. clustering coefficient, degree distribution, correlation of degree between adjacent nodes) to distinguish factually grounded narratives like the Iliad from entirely fictional ones like Harry Potter.  The paper itself is not so convincing.  For instance, its argument on “assortativity,” the property that high-degree nodes tend to be adjacent to one another, goes something like this:
"Real-life social networks tend to be assortative, in the sense that the number of friends I have is positively correlated with the number of friends my friends have.
"The social network they write down for the Iliad isn’t assortative, so they remove all the interactions classified as “hostile,” and then it is.
"The social network for Beowulf isn’t assortative, so they remove all the interactions classified as “hostile,” and then it still isn’t, so they take out Beowulf himself, and then it is, but just barely.
"Conclusion: The social networks of Beowulf and the Iliad are assortative, just like real social networks.
"Digital humanities can be better than this!"

Well, that's one less stupid paper I've got to post about.]]></description>
<dc:subject>network_data_analysis bad_data_analysis bad_science mythology</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:9cf708677f30/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2012/07/microfounded-and-useful-models.html">
    <title>Brad DeLong: &quot;Microfounded&quot; and Useful Models</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-14T18:54:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2012/07/microfounded-and-useful-models.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What do we keep from the derivation? Two things. First, that it "implies an inverse relationship between" the real interest rate (not the real consol rate, mind you) and aggregate demand; and, second, that for each Old Keynesian conclusion there is a set of (almost surely wrong) microfoundations that gets you into the neighborhood of that conclusion
"Why keep this implication of the microfoundations while rejecting the others? The book is silent."

(Last tag applies to those whom DeLong is righteously chastising.)

Horn-tooting: http://bactra.org/weblog/711.html

]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://mindhacks.com/2012/07/06/made-for-pr-neuroscience/">
    <title>Made for PR Neuroscience « Mind Hacks</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-14T16:35:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mindhacks.com/2012/07/06/made-for-pr-neuroscience/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What’s interesting is that simply making something appear like a neuroscience study is enough to get it and the associated product in the news – to the point where companies can now base their business model on the practice.
"Neuromarketing is the study of the neuroscience of marketing – a genuinely interesting field that, contrary to what neuromarketing companies will have you believe, has absolutely no practical benefit at the moment because no-one has yet demonstrated that a neural response is a better predictor of the key outcomes than a behavioural response.
"This, however, is more like neuro-spin-marketing, as it relies on people believing the hype of neuromarketing to get branded pseudo-studies into the media."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.springerlink.com/content/l617855012511078/">
    <title>Fundamental Limitation on Applicability of Statistical Methods to Study of Living Organisms and Other Complex Systems</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-28T22:38:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.springerlink.com/content/l617855012511078/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Is this a joke?

ETA: See http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10955-012-0647-y for the refutation.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2576">
    <title>Language Log » Delusions of gender</title>
    <dc:date>2010-08-24T13:28:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2576</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[How could I have forgotten the transdimensional monsters?
]]></description>
<dc:subject>bad_science sex_differences experimental_psychology liberman.mark</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9781596916104-0">
    <title>Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M Conway - Powell's Books</title>
    <dc:date>2010-06-04T16:17:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9781596916104-0</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process bad_science history_of_science us_politics natural_history_of_truthiness vast_right-wing_conspiracy books:owned books:recommended</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:5f8c476ec6a9/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/05/28/coyne-on-adaptive-rumination-theory-again/">
    <title>[citation needed]» Blog Archive » Coyne on adaptive rumination theory (again)</title>
    <dc:date>2010-05-28T12:44:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/05/28/coyne-on-adaptive-rumination-theory-again/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Do go through to read the pieces by Coyne in full, they are very good, and quite merciless.  (I am proud to say that the issue of depression massively lowering fitness occurred to me immediately as the chief problem, but I didn't blog about it.)
]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&amp;_udi=B6V9F-4WKS6B9-2&amp;_user=3846826&amp;_rdoc=1&amp;_fmt=&amp;_orig=search&amp;_sort=d&amp;_docanchor=&amp;view=c&amp;_acct=C000061542&amp;_version=1&amp;_urlVersion=0&amp;_userid=3846826&amp;md5=7596bb7f6211783dc7c17a210e25b105">
    <title>Why national IQs do not support evolutionary theories of intelligence</title>
    <dc:date>2009-11-26T13:19:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&amp;_udi=B6V9F-4WKS6B9-2&amp;_user=3846826&amp;_rdoc=1&amp;_fmt=&amp;_orig=search&amp;_sort=d&amp;_docanchor=&amp;view=c&amp;_acct=C000061542&amp;_version=1&amp;_urlVersion=0&amp;_userid=3846826&amp;md5=7596bb7f6211783dc7c17a210e25b105</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In which Denny Borsboom and friends take their turn bashing their heads against the wall.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>iq evisceration utter_stupidity racist_idiocy to:NB to:blog via:flint_riemen bad_science bad_data_analysis</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~jfrankel/Stockman.PDF">
    <title>Zen and the Art of Modern Macroeconomics: The Quest for Perfect Nothingness</title>
    <dc:date>2009-08-12T22:17:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~jfrankel/Stockman.PDF</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The key part is the observation that there is NO POWER to detect reasonably-sized deviations from random walks in only forty years' of data.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics macroeconomics time_series evisceration via:krugman bad_data_analysis bad_science re:your_favorite_dsge_sucks frankel.jeffrey</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://michaelperelman.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/x-eff.pdf">
    <title>Michael Perelman: Harberger Triangles, Okun Gaps, and X-Efficiency: The Rhetorical Application of Data</title>
    <dc:date>2009-08-08T04:26:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://michaelperelman.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/x-eff.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>economics rhetoric political_economy via:jbdelong bad_science monopoly allocative_efficiency innovation productivity perelman.michael tobin.james stigler.stephen</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:65a900d1f537/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2009/02/obesity-virus-new-risk-factor.html">
    <title>Junkfood Science: Obesity virus — a new risk factor?</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-20T19:04:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2009/02/obesity-virus-new-risk-factor.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I forget how I wound up here, but it's well worth reading --- especially when you get to the flogging-of-dubious-products bit.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>obesity viruses bad_science_journalism bad_science experimental_biology biotechnology natural_history_of_truthiness via:? contagion</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/on-the-origin-of-specious-arguments">
    <title>On the Origin of Specious Arguments » American Scientist</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-18T22:45:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/on-the-origin-of-specious-arguments</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It sounds like a bunch of warblogger scientists.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>book_reviews the_continuing_crises utter_stupidity bad_science running_dogs_of_reaction evisceration evolutionary_biology gusterson.hugh</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:bfdf16589c8c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:running_dogs_of_reaction"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://easterncampaign.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/afghanistan-is-a-computer-simulation/">
    <title>Afghanistan is a Computer Simulation « Ghosts of Alexander</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-05T05:24:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://easterncampaign.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/afghanistan-is-a-computer-simulation/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dear God.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>simulation bad_science utter_stupidity afghanistan us_military the_continuing_crises</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:358ea3590df8/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2008/11/the_case_of_m_s_el_naschie.html">
    <title>The Case of M. S. El Naschie | The n-Category Café</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-11T23:46:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2008/11/the_case_of_m_s_el_naschie.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>bad_science funny:academic funny:malicious funny:geeky via:nielsen psychoceramica why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_academic_publishing_system physics mathematics numerology elsevier el-maschie.m.s. baez.john_c.</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:bf337cff9cbb/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:malicious"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:nielsen"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:psychoceramica"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:mathematics"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://whattoeatbook.com/2008/08/20/industry-funding-has-no-effect-on-research-quality/">
    <title>What to Eat » Industry funding has no effect on research quality!</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-21T15:49:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://whattoeatbook.com/2008/08/20/industry-funding-has-no-effect-on-research-quality/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We now have data claiming that there is no difference in the quality of controlled clinical weight loss trials whether they are funded by industry or independently. The senior author on this comparative study is the very same person who was relieved of his responsibilities as head of a national obesity society because he wrote a letter opposing calorie labeling without disclosing that he was paid to do it".
]]></description>
<dc:subject>corruption bad_science deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process via:slaniel nestle.marion</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ae9e6377bfd6/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/06/29/chicks-dig-aholes-evolutionary-psych-on-sex-1/">
    <title>Chicks dig jerks?: Evolutionary psych on sex #1 « Neuroanthropology</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-29T15:44:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/06/29/chicks-dig-aholes-evolutionary-psych-on-sex-1/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>bad_science bad_science_journalism utter_stupidity practices_relating_to_the_transmission_of_genetic_information debunking evolutionary_psychology downey.greg</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:db92b7abc2b9/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=601">
    <title>Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » Big Pharma, Big Wonkery</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-28T01:06:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=601</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>social_life_of_the_mind statistics bad_science bad_data_analysis burke.timothy</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e1a8f057a269/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/nice_guysreg_still_not_vindicated/">
    <title>pandagon.net: Nice Guys Still Not Vindicated</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-25T03:36:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/nice_guysreg_still_not_vindicated/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When oh when will people learn not to confuse self-reports --- especially self-reports about sex, especially self-reports from sub-populations selected for bragging and lying! --- with reality?
]]></description>
<dc:subject>bad_science bad_science_journalism practices_relating_to_the_transmission_of_genetic_information marcotte.amanda</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:4e0e0ee9f18a/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:marcotte.amanda"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/04/neuromarketing_does_.html">
    <title>Mind Hacks: Neuromarketing does great job of selling itself</title>
    <dc:date>2008-04-27T02:22:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/04/neuromarketing_does_.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Despite what these articles in the Guardian and New York Times say, neuroscience has yet to show that directly measuring brain function predicts sales or advertising success better than existing methods."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>bad_science_journalism bad_science decision-making fmri marketing</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:737c880dafa7/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:marketing"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/317/5844/1540?ijkey=S.Kb5wAK45Q5.&amp;keytype=ref&amp;siteid=sci">
    <title>Global Pattern Formation and Ethnic/Cultural Violence -- Lim et al. 317 (5844): 1540 -- Science</title>
    <dc:date>2008-04-26T20:15:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/317/5844/1540?ijkey=S.Kb5wAK45Q5.&amp;keytype=ref&amp;siteid=sci</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The astonishing news is that territorial ethnic conflict requires the geographic proximity of (self-perceived) ethnic groups, and is rare in locales where one group is an overwhelming majority.  The attention paid here seems due to a computational version
]]></description>
<dc:subject>bad_science statistical_mechanics war bar-yam.yaneer lim.may metzler.richard</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:35e7ba7f199d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:bar-yam.yaneer"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:lim.may"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:metzler.richard"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://nordhaus.econ.yale.edu/worlddynamics.pdf">
    <title>&quot;World Dynamics: Measurement Without Data&quot; _Economic Journal_ 83 (1973): 1156-1183</title>
    <dc:date>2008-04-23T03:34:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nordhaus.econ.yale.edu/worlddynamics.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Evisceration, as promised.  Thanks to Matthew Berryman for pointing out this free PDF version.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>nordhaus.william forrester.jay simulation bad_science economics have_read via:krugman evisceration</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:7f17bec41f7e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/limits-to-growth-and-related-stuff/">
    <title>Limits to growth and related stuff - Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2008-04-23T02:06:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/limits-to-growth-and-related-stuff/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Krugman articulates something I've long thought, that technological progress has been much slower since 1950 than in 1850--1950; the Singularity has _happened_.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics nordhaus.william forrester.jay bad_science innovation</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:5e473d807dd1/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Man-accused-of-stabbing-speaker-at-La-Fonda">
    <title>Police arrest suspect after attack at lecture - SantaFeNewMexican.com</title>
    <dc:date>2008-04-04T14:06:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Man-accused-of-stabbing-speaker-at-La-Fonda</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I am really a bad person for finding this funny.  Sheldrake is a quack, but doesn't deserve to be stabbed by crazy people.  But I can't help grinning.  I am a bad person.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>sheldrake.rupert kazuki.hirano santa_fe bad_science psychoceramics funny:malicious not_that_I_approve_of_the_violence</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:a2c728f268b9/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.samefacts.com/archives/science_and_its_methods_/2008/03/misdirection.php">
    <title>The Reality-Based Community: Misdirection</title>
    <dc:date>2008-03-27T23:57:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.samefacts.com/archives/science_and_its_methods_/2008/03/misdirection.php</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>corruption bad_science natural_history_of_truthiness</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://scienceblogs.com/mixingmemory/2008/03/stereotype_threat_happens_in_t.php">
    <title>Mixing Memory : Stereotype Threat Happens in the Brain</title>
    <dc:date>2008-03-23T15:27:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://scienceblogs.com/mixingmemory/2008/03/stereotype_threat_happens_in_t.php</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>stereotype_threat fmri skolnick_effect bad_science experimental_psychology</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.akademiai.com/content/f20402346673868n/?p=8d08e5c9c711406093b3a5d5861349f4&amp;pi=4">
    <title>On sex and suicide bombing: An evaluation of Kanazawa’s ‘evolutionary psychological imagination’</title>
    <dc:date>2008-03-20T02:22:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.akademiai.com/content/f20402346673868n/?p=8d08e5c9c711406093b3a5d5861349f4&amp;pi=4</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>evolutionary_psychology kanazawa.satoshi terrorism bad_science lawson.david_w jordan.fiona_m magid.kesson</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/magazine/02sex3-t.html?pagewanted=print">
    <title>Teaching Boys and Girls Separately</title>
    <dc:date>2008-03-01T17:18:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/magazine/02sex3-t.html?pagewanted=print</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Gaaaaaaaaaargh.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>education us_politics utter_stupidity pseudoscience bad_science sex_differences</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e9fd696f24af/</dc:identifier>
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    <title>The Fenimore Cooper of sociobiology</title>
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    <title>Improbable Research » Blog Archive » Biochemistry Lesson: The manifold uses of hormones.</title>
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    <title>More on junk science about effects on kids</title>
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    <title>Mind Hacks: All walk and no trouser</title>
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    <title>Language Log: The psychodynamics of science in the media</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" focusing on individual failings ignores the fact that all of the people involved -- scientists and journalists and executives and rent-a-weasels -- are responding to the normal economic and psychological forces within their diverse subcultures, which in
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    <title>Computational Neuroscientists' Fallacies</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Many of these apply to any discipline using lots of simulations...
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    <title>JSMF - The Neuro-Journalism Mill (formerly BAD Neuro-Journalism)</title>
    <dc:date>2007-10-12T19:01:02+00:00</dc:date>
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