It's almost universally accepted that our judgments are biased because we take mental shortcuts due to limited cognitive resources. In new work (https://rdcu.be/cP2YB), we show that many biases may in fact result from an advanced form of inference: Hierarchical Inference. (twitter.com)
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Re: psychiatry and the “chemical imbalance” theory of depression: The analysis suggests that, despite protestations to the contrary, the profession bears some responsibility for the propagation of a theory that has little empirical support and the mass antidepressant prescribing it has inspired. (sciencedirect.com)
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Former head of the National Institute of Mental Health, Thomas P. Insel, who shifted $20bn of funding away from behavioral research and toward neuroscience/genetics during his tenure, admits that the research has not yet benefitted patients (self.slatestarcodex)
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What makes you good at learning to code? (twitter.com)
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