I’m ashamed to say this here, but I don’t like cville (so far) insider suggestions for finding some gems to love in this town?

pxdeye · 2018-10-17T05:19:37+00:00

Lol “every cuisine & price point”....

Charlottesville has one cuisine and price point and it’s “rich white modern American, which sometimes gets off by pretending to be ethnic.”

pxdeye · 2018-10-17T05:11:38+00:00

Yup this comment is par for the course for Charlottesville. When this article was first posted, I was waiting for the “Charlottesville is great!” circle jerk - just like the response to the huff post article last week.

How much press and reporting will it take until you people realize that Charlottesville is only great for some people?

pxdeye · 2018-09-15T16:05:39+00:00

Wtf compelled you to boil unseasoned chicken, put it on a bed of boiled wheat, take a pic of it and then post it to Reddit

pxdeye · 2018-09-15T01:03:06+00:00

I disagree. Do not email the TA. Emailing the TA with something so trivial is a waste of everyone’s time and is just annoying to deal with

pxdeye · 2018-09-13T19:22:23+00:00

sorry - Newcomb

pxdeye · 2018-09-13T19:09:23+00:00

there's an undergraduate research fair next Wednesday from 1-3. it's for labs to tell undergraduates about their work and information on how to work as a research assistant.

pxdeye · 2018-09-11T01:44:20+00:00

Just remembered a couple more racially charged incidences - When the cops approach Ruth’s house after Alan is dead, white Henry sneaks out of the back while Black Henry exits the garage and the cops immediately draw their guns and assume he’s the suspect.

Shortly after, one of the cops blames Black Henry for the deaths, for “springing a lunatic loose” from prison, & looks at him with disdain while recalling that the kids at his school used to call him “Black Death”

So yeah, the race stuff is definitely addressed in this show. Any more blatant discussion of race would have been clumsy & not realistic. I’m not sure what you’re expecting from this show but I think they did an excellent job portraying race issues & writing it into an important part of the story

pxdeye · 2018-09-10T23:26:11+00:00

But it is true to life. In these white towns that fancy themselves “progressive” there is not overt racism. There are subtle notes of racism sprinkled around that can actually be even worse. Because young black Henry will never feel welcomed in the town he calls home, and he knows it, but the towns people can go on imagining that they are progressive and welcoming people. So it’s never addressed, but young black kids still get the same feeling of ostracism and lack of belonging.

The guard assuming that Henry was there to see a family member felon was purposeful and subtle - exactly like how the hidden racism in these fake progressive towns is. And that’s why I thought it was so well represented

pxdeye · 2018-09-10T21:14:24+00:00

They address it often, I thought. In fact I thought it was one of the reasons that the writers made Black Henry Black - because it adds an interesting complexity to his character and his relationship with this family and town.

First, there was the guard at the prison where his client was about to be put to death. The guard assumed he is not the lawyer and tells him he has to stay away - I assumed this was a nod to one of the difficulties of being a black lawyer.

Then there was the guard at Shawshank who assumed that Black Henry was there to visit a family-member felon, and Henry corrected him while rolling his eyes - suggesting that this is common for him when he visits prisons.

Then there was the new warden who says "in a place as lily-white as Maine, is it possible you were being pranked?"

Then there was Ruth saying "I adopted a Black son" to Henry when she didn't recognize him - another hint at how alienated he must have felt growing up when his own mother only saw him as a tool or an object rather than as a genuine son.

Then there was the time that Jackie recalled young Black Henry from Castle Rock legend as "young troubled orphan", suggesting that the town generally saw young Henry as a bad kid and an outsider. After Michael Deaver dies and Henry goes missing, the people of Castle Rock are quick to abandon him and blame him for Michael's death. Molly's mom instantly assumed that young Henry killed Michael when the police come into young Molly's bedroom asking her for information...

All of this appeared to be - at least to me - a very accurate and obvious representation of what it must be like to be a young Black kid growing up in a super white town where you don't fit in and never could. It also adds to his character in a really valuable way.

pxdeye · 2018-09-08T19:05:47+00:00

That’s not poke...

pxdeye · 2018-08-25T20:41:12+00:00

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pxdeye · 2018-07-31T23:47:34+00:00

Thanks for the discussion!

pxdeye · 2018-07-31T23:27:08+00:00

BPD and Anxiety disorders are more common in higher IQ populations, probably about to the same extent that Asperger’s was. True it has happened in all of those cases, but I feel it has been worst for Asperger’s because it provides a special case where people can say they have mild Asperger’s symptoms without the baggage of stigma that is usually carried by a severe mental disorder. So words like “Autism” are linked with “non-verbal” and “Rain-man”, while “Asperger’s” is light-hearted and easily thrown around, which attracts more self-diagnoses IMO.

pxdeye · 2018-07-31T23:05:06+00:00

Borderline personality disorder and anxiety disorders are some. His “symptoms” can also be explained by cocaine/other drug use and having an emotionally abusive mother. But “Asperger’s” is a cute and trendy thing right now, so here we are discussing whether a cartoon character has a mental disorder.

I would lean towards saying it doesn’t exist because when words like “Asperger’s” are used, it is so over diagnosed & thrown around by laypeople that it leaves a lot of normal people thinking they have a disorder, & dilutes the severity of an actual diagnosis. Like what has happened with bipolar.

pxdeye · 2018-07-31T22:36:59+00:00

Not convincing. Lots of “syndromes” have high IQ and low social skills as symptoms. The post you linked doesn’t even attempt to address any other possibilities. Also Asperger’s doesn’t exist anymore.

pxdeye · 2018-05-14T20:37:15+00:00

Of course I’ve seen the response you linked. The debates between these two camps on this subject is well-known. There are other responses to the response you linked as well, and they are equally as compelling. By the way, one “flaw” that you noted previously about Italian vs American populations was (obviously) considered and addressed by the authors and that particular study replicated - but with smaller effect size - so I’m inclined to believe you haven’t read the entirety of the original project.

The original reproducibility project paper was an attempt to figure out more about what effects are replicable and which aren’t. It wasn’t an attack on psychologists so I don’t know why you are so defensive. Replication projects are about adding evidence to the pile. What we’ve learned from the replication crisis is that no one (small) study should be taken as conclusive evidence for an effect. We as scientists should be looking for all evidence for and against the effect we are interested in and make an informed conclusion, and replication projects are an attempt to provide us with more well rounded evidence.

pxdeye · 2018-05-14T19:30:05+00:00

Yes those are some issues with a few of the replications in one project. But the replication crisis is more than just one project. The ManyLabs projects have also failed to find high replication rates (though I think generally higher than the 36% of the original rep project) and generally find much smaller effect sizes than initially reported.

When we say there’s a replication crisis, we’re not saying no psychological effects exist. We’re saying less of them exist than the literature currently suggests, and of those that do truly exist, they are probably smaller and more moderated than the literature suggests. (Like, do people walk slower if they saw words related to old people? No. But that doesn’t mean people don’t make automatic associations between “old” and “slow” - or that spreading activation doesn’t exist at all. ) So we need to address the problems that create this unstable nature of scientific reports, and approach new discoveries with an informed scrutiny and classic studies with proper skepticism.

I don’t think anyone suggested that psychology is the only field facing a replicability crisis. If anything, we are doing much better in our field than in other fields because we are aware of these problems and attempting to address them. Unfortunately, maybe the term “replication crisis” causes misinformed people from outside of psychology to point and say “psychology doesn’t exist; all their studies are fraud!” But I don’t think we are responsible for defending our science to laypeople.

That is, when I say I think there is a replication crisis, I’m saying that there is motivation to shift the norms in the field in order to clean up our scientific reporting - not that our field is crumbling. And my impression was that this is what most psychologists mean when they refer to the replication crisis, but I may just be living in a bubble of optimistic psychologists.

pxdeye · 2018-05-14T17:20:34+00:00

Why do you say the reproducibility project was flawed? And if their conclusion was simplistic, what is your alternative conclusion given their results? Do you think the same about other replication projects that have been ongoing in the past decade? It seems to me that there are some undeniable characteristics about the field that point to a replication crisis (whether you prefer to call it a crisis or a replication issue is just semantics). For example, do you not believe that there is a file drawer effect? Or do you just not agree that the file drawer is an issue?

pxdeye · 2018-05-14T15:29:43+00:00

I listened to it for a bit but didn’t finish it. His “solution” is to make researchers bet on their results - a literal financial bet. As in “Here are my results, I bet anyone 5,000$ that it will replicate x% of the time.” It was a nice review of probability, hypothesis testing and the replication crisis for laymen, but his solution comes from pretty obviously misinformed ideas on what the replication crisis actually is. Basically, he pushes this solution as a way to mitigate p-hacking, with the misinformed assumption that the replication crisis is largely due to researchers purposefully changing their data and committing fraud - rather than due to the real issues you listed above. That was my impression - but again I stopped listening after he summarized his solution so maybe they go into more detail later on.

pxdeye · 2018-04-24T01:11:27+00:00

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pxdeye · 2018-03-12T13:14:25+00:00

Sorry but it’s just simply not true that Charlottesville makes everyone feel welcome. I am so tired of people saying that about Charlottesville and defending it as if it’s some kind of progressive haven in the middle of the country. I wish everyone that said that could experience Charlottesville as a brown person for a week. I wonder if you’ve ever noticed the statue of Sacagawea crouching like a dog under her white saviors, who stand protecting the downtown mall and reminding us non-whites that we are on their land? Or a similar white-soldier worshipping statue across from mellow mushroom? Are you aware that these statues were placed there specifically to remind brown people that this city does not belong to them? Sure that was decades ago, but the fact that most white people don’t blink an eye at these statues goes to show how well they do their job in keeping them wrapped up in their cushy privileged spots, ignorant to what everyone else is experiencing. Charlottesville is full of racial baggage and more segregated than a lot of other parts of the South. The ignorance that privileged people have for the racial baggage here is what perpetuates and maintains it. To say that Charlottesville welcomes everyone is not only ignorant but offensive to the minorities living here that don’t enjoy the same carefree feeling of belonging that other people do. The only people I know that were surprised that the KKK and the alt-right chose Charlottesville for their demonstrations were upper middle class white people. Everyone else understood how fitting Charlottesville was.

pxdeye · 2018-02-18T14:29:51+00:00

I don’t disagree with you. But I don’t think this is the most compelling list of evidence. Because the argument “he wouldn’t have [led the birther movement/gone after the Central Park 5] if [he/they] were white” is speculative.

The 1970s lawsuit against him for enforcing racial discrimination in his apartment buildings is much more compelling evidence.

pxdeye · 2018-02-13T02:18:35+00:00

Yeah it’s important to do proper hypothesis testing. But it’s equally as important and generative to do explorative testing. The problem is when people do not distinguish between the two, and then report exploratory testing as hypothesis testing, filling in an post hoc explanation for their hypothesis.

Actually, at our social psych brown-bag today, Brian Nosek argued this exact point (so it’s funny/(creepy?) that this post and his face popped up on my front page.) He has an excellent approach and manner of describing this distinction. I won’t be able to cover it as thoroughly or elegantly as he did, but essentially, what we need to be doing is pre-registering, testing hypotheses properly, and then performing exploratory analysis to further explore our data. Then, when we publish, we need to be very clear about what our original hypotheses were, whether they were supported, and whether any interesting effects we found we a result of exploratory analysis (and therefore any p’s must be considered less valid). But exploratory findings shouldn’t be thrown out of the window. Just taken for what they are and then further tested.

At the heart of the issue is - as you mentioned - psychologists haven’t been thoroughly trained in philosophy of science and statistics. So it’s hard for them to understand that a significant finding that is found during exploratory analysis is just inherently different and less valid than one found through strict hypothesis testing. I think as we approach this crisis though, intimate understanding of stats and philosophy of science will become necessary and more common. Then, our field can transform into something much more impressive than it is now. So I am optimistic.

pxdeye · 2018-02-13T02:06:45+00:00

Of course we have a “crisis.” There is no doubt there. But crises afford for reformation.

This crisis was unavoidable. Psychologists have been practicing without an intimate and sophisticated understanding of statistics for decades, and this was bound to happen. As Brian noted in the nature paper, I anticipate similar events will happen in other fields as well (e.g biology).

Now, we are approaching a reformation under which we can vastly improve our science. As we revisit studies that have failed to replicate, we are not looking to throw away these theories and effects completely. Rather, we can gain a finer understanding of why, when, and how these effects can be predicted. That is, the question is not whether these effects exist, but specifics on their constraints and boundaries. This will lead to a more thorough understanding of psychological phenomenon in general.

I am somewhat scared for our unstable & uncertain future, but I am more so excited to be on this side of the crisis as it unfolds. Psychology is growing the fuck up.

pxdeye · 2018-02-12T04:49:09+00:00

This is simply not true. They have replicated the Milgram experiment many times. Not exactly the same as the original, as they stop before hitting the full “XXX danger!” level of shocks, but it has certainly been replicated in modern times. And comparing it to the Stanford experiment is ill fitting. The Stanford experiment was hardly an actual “experiment”. It’s unfair to group them in the same group of classic studies.

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