tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post6264019032784206836..comments2024-03-14T09:50:44.315+00:00Comments on Psychological comments: Farewell 2015 and Happy New YearAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09320614837348759094noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-10524753857218527682016-01-01T09:35:51.041+00:002016-01-01T09:35:51.041+00:00@James - Thanks for maintaining this valuable blog...@James - Thanks for maintaining this valuable blog. <br /><br />I would, however, disagree about the *scientific* importance of these mega-papers - they are probably the beginning of the end of real intelligence science; since I would interpret them as merely increasing the statistical precision of measuurements of effect size: the causality which they investigate was mostly defined a century ago. <br /><br />I see a recapitulation of what happened to epidemiology when 'mega-trials' became regarded as the 'gold standard' for measuring therapeutic benefits - a disaster! I was writing about the theoretical aspcets of this twenty years ago <br /><br />e.g. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC59645/<br /><br />And at the end of the day, the cost and rarity of such methods put medical research (and the treatment of actual pateints) into the hands of those who funded the research - which is mostly Big Pharma. This 'evidence' is now enforced on doctors and patients via 'guidelines'. <br /><br />I can see the same happening in Intelligence research - what counts as 'true' (i.e. 'interesting', high status, professionally useful wrt jobs, publications and promotions) is already being defined by a discrete cartel of funders/ researchers/ journal editors/ publishers/ conference managers. <br /><br />The actual 'research' then stops being real science, gets done mostly by teams of 'drones', and becomes just one step of a complex and expensive bureaucratic process which (due to the way in which bureacracies link-up) becoming increasingly politicized. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-47529160998056061292016-01-01T01:17:56.709+00:002016-01-01T01:17:56.709+00:00Happy New Year's doc.
I'm hoping this ye...Happy New Year's doc. <br /><br />I'm hoping this year some of your colleagues get on the internet and start jabbering so us prole types can listen in.Aeoli Perahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12578422091389930117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-83849485521415365372016-01-01T00:16:57.802+00:002016-01-01T00:16:57.802+00:00Happy New Years 2016! Looks like you just got ther...Happy New Years 2016! Looks like you just got there in Merrie England, assuming you're home (Bikini Beach?). I've got 5 hours to go.<br /><br />Whenever you get a chance, I'd be interested to get a review of the data types you referred to having "100,000+ samples".Frank Jnoreply@blogger.com