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Richard McElreath 🦔

@rlmcelreath

Director @MPI_EVA_Leipzig. Mostly absent from this site while writing books and maiming code, but still posting occasional links to my content.

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As a sparkly citizen of the world, you must defend yourself against research. You need it, but you can't assume peer review works. But a little knowledge goes a long way. Here is a 15 min video of me explaining one of the most common fallacies, "TABLE 2": youtu.be/uanZZLlzKHw?t=…

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There are individual-group conflicts in all contexts. But academia is the one I personally experience in which people routinely justify doing the wrong thing because the right thing is hard or personally costly. We do the right thing because it is right, not because it is easy!

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Kinds of science True & Replicable: photoelectric effect False & non-Replicable: many priming results F & Replicable: bad analyses like confounded country-level regressions T & non-Replicable: badly documented experiments, unique observations I think there's a lot of F&R

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A history of a popular cross-validation package. Very important aspect is that it is born out of desire to have DIAGNOSTICS that are theoretically valid and interpretable and computable. We need a lot more of this, in all parts of scientific workflow,