loonsun
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- Comment on It's barely a science. 17 hours ago:
Gary Stevenson is also an overconfident blow hard who thinks because he made money on the stock market he knows more than everyone. I’m a psychologist not an economist, I don’t like economics, but this is all still wildly off base from what actually happens in academia. Economist don’t run randomized control trial (RCT) style experiments. They use completely different techniques with different statistical methods to test assumptions. Are these as high quality for causal reasoning as a RCT study? No absolutely not. However I think the average person would be shocked at how much of every field of science does not confirm their studies to that gold standard and how difficult it is to match that exact specific scenario statistically.
- Comment on Anon gets philosophical 4 days ago:
That’s also a very good point and a problem even within scientific communities. This is partly tribalism, partly jargon, and partly structural. People identify with a discipline or method, dig in their heels, make new terms for old ideas, dont read work outside of their bubble, and everyone is left confused. I agree the scientific method isn’t strict which is a double edged sword. We can’t come to perfect truth but only make good faith efforts to approch the mysteries of the universe.
- Comment on Anon gets philosophical 6 days ago:
I whole heartedly agree, as a social scientist it’s impossible to deny the continued evolution of ideas is as important as the evolution of methods. Its also why techniques of synthesis such as systematic reviews and meta analysis are crucial for the health of science. It’s also why I am always bothered how we tend to in popular discussions of the social sciences continue to refer back to very old rudimentary musing by founders like Freud or Yung as guides to understand a science that had evolved past time for over 100 years. I respect their work but I feel many people never look past early authors of the 19 and 20th century and try to understand modern theories.
- Comment on Anon gets philosophical 6 days ago:
Sadly, I’m a psychologist and not an expert in scientific philosophy. The topic is interesting but I haven’t deeply read into it so sadly can’t help.
- Comment on Anon gets philosophical 1 week ago:
Well there is an entire field of philosophy called the “philosophy of science” which tries to determine the ideal way we should conduct science so it’s an iterative process. Issue with philosophy (and science but more complicated) is that they are simply ideas but many take them as gospel.
- Comment on Warhammer 40K: 'Dark Heresy's Upcoming Alpha Launches Next Week 1 month ago:
I think you’ll enjoy either game really if you end up liking the setting. They are great ways to get introduced as most other options (besides books)focus just on gameplay with setting and story being an afterthought.
- Comment on Warhammer 40K: 'Dark Heresy's Upcoming Alpha Launches Next Week 1 month ago:
I doubt they will connect as I’m fairly certain they take part in different sections of the galaxy
- Comment on posting an actual shitpost each day till I stop seeing regular news posts here #2 1 month ago:
God bless, fighting the good fight
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 1 month ago:
Well yeah any economic system requires government oversight to be effective but that’s because there isn’t really a decoupling of government and economics. Our current governments around the world are primarily representative democratic nation states and they are neoliberal capitalist institutions. These are not separate, both have evolved alongside each other and we are currently seeing them crack under pressure together. There is no point in making this distinction at the macro level.
- Comment on Shut up science!! 1 month ago:
That is under the purview of my field of science (Industrial Organization Psychology), so it can be plenty scientific. However looking at her bio she is not an IO psychologist and has no formal training on the subject so take anything she says with a grain of salt.
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 2 months ago:
In the field of organizational psychology (which research like this is typically done by), the phrase “it depends” is used so often among scientists that it’s a running gag at this point
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 2 months ago:
When you have to conduct a literature review just to find the results of one study there is something deeply wrong
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 2 months ago:
Yeah I’m a researcher in the field that studies stuff like this and it’s infuriating that there is no citation for this. I can probably find it but it’s just horrible “journalism” to have no citation to the subject of your article.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 5 months ago:
- Comment on Not sure about this one 5 months ago:
That’s great honey, by the way did you remember to take your medication this morning?
- Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post) 6 months ago:
I feel attacked, I’m doing my best 😭
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Thus the practice of drag was born
- Comment on I feel attacked 7 months ago:
Me who just went back for their PhD
- Comment on Research reveals “non-existent” enforcement of industry-led standards on loot boxes 7 months ago:
Nah, you should keep posting and people who come at people like they stabbed their mother’s should take a break to touch grass
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 7 months ago:
You’re clearly in need of therapy and a proper support network, I hope you get the help you need before it’s too late
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 7 months ago:
What did drag do?
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 7 months ago:
Because relatedness is a fundamental psychological need and sustained meaningful relationships are the best way to achieve that
- Comment on EA employees "upset and confused" at return to office mandate 8 months ago:
As an organizational psychologist (the people HR people pretend to be when they talk about anything besides paperwork) these stories hurt me to my core. I absolutely despise how much HR lives up to its name of treating people like they are staplers in a supply closet. The way most companies are run is so shitty and short sited it’s unreal.
- Comment on Full Circle 9 months ago:
Why would socialist halt development?
- Comment on I guess I'm just a cubicle monkey now 1 year ago:
“born too late to die in war, born too early to die in war, born just in time to die at my desk”
- Comment on Detecting a theme in GOP Election Turnout Strategy 1 year ago:
Yeah I agree this isn’t even a meme at all, I get Lemmy is a very political group of people but it’s honestly absurd how people post things everywhere without consideration of the theme
- Comment on Breast Cancer 1 year ago:
Yeah that’s an unacceptably low ROC curve for a medical usecase
- Comment on My RuneScape-inspired fitness RPG, WalkScape, has a new Closed Beta wave starting one June 1st! 1 year ago:
Which is kind of what the point is. Start it without a habit, form a habit of playing that makes you want to do the action of exercise
- Comment on Like a Dragon creator talks about Sega “flat out rejecting” the first Yakuza game thinking it wouldn’t sell 1 year ago:
Yeah I really find that 0 is now the definitive series entry. Everything kind of only works if you start with 0 and do Kiwami now. It’s also a much tighter and satisfying character progression for all involved.
