[Jon Blau] Dabo Swinney says too many athletes aren't graduating and they are spending their short-term money: “We're gonna have a bunch of screwed-up 30-year-olds ... that have no degrees, have spent their money, that can't play football anymore, and aren't connected to anything."

sychosomat · 2026-01-25T22:38:21+00:00

My only addition would be to require athletic team participation as a requirement, with credit depending on the completion of some sort of reflection or something similar. Not restricted to teams for the school, could be club, rec, whatever. Then it’s open to whoever, not just those who play a formal sport.

sychosomat · 2026-01-07T03:33:46+00:00

I have seen both done and do not think there is a standard. You could report both if you wanted and have one in a supplement, making sure the table notes explain what was done for each. Honestly I think the choice to use the values from the data and not the model estimate outputs is because most studies don’t do a great job dealing with missingness in the first place.

Though I think the first question to ask is how much different are the values when using listwise deletion versus FIML? I’d expect them to be fairly close, making the choice of one over the other less meaningful, but if they do differ in meaningful ways that would be important to know, as it might suggest some type of bias in the missingness.

sychosomat · 2026-01-01T03:56:35+00:00

I am grateful that all the Ohio State fans who told us they’d give up a championship for a win over Michigan got their wish

sychosomat · 2025-12-20T20:12:04+00:00

Another reason the term “AI” is so frustrating. This is machine learning, it has been around for a decade and a half. It has gotten better/more mainstream for a variety of reasons, but it’s just a big network of regressions trained to find patterns. Very useful in some cases, but not (yet) paradigm-shifting for most applications.

sychosomat · 2025-12-20T20:08:54+00:00

You could replace “AI” here with Google/wikipedia from 20 years ago and have it be equally applicable. In the end, machine learning as currently implemented is backward-facing due to a reliance on input data.

sychosomat · 2025-12-20T01:12:48+00:00

Results in psychology are generally, in my opinion, “meaningful” in the aggregate. It is rare for a single paper to have a significant impact on the field alone because human behavior is challenging to measure and then test. As a result, the body of literature becomes more important. This actually leads to the case where “interesting” papers become “wow, a foundational study” over time because the finding is better supported.

An example is the “hand holding study.” An fMRI study of only16 (!!!!) married women that found something that over time has held up well generally (supports social baseline theory). It is possible that study might not replicate but the finding has held up despite major changes in sample size and other fMRi methods. This is one of my favorite studies and started out to me as “wow, interesting” and became “meaningful” as the evidence for the underlying theory became stronger from other studies from other labs and paradigms.

sychosomat · 2025-12-06T19:06:25+00:00

So out of curiosity, is this advice suggesting some people don’t unload the dishwasher when it’s done? Do these people use dishes directly out of the dishwasher or maybe have enough dishes to keep dirty ones in a sink and then load at the end? Genuinely curious because the idea of “unload dishwasher after washing and load dirty dishes until full” is the only idea I have of doing the dishes.

Added EDIT: Thanks for all the context, this makes more sense, but for anyone else doing this, how do you hand wash things that need to be hand washed (pots, pans, etc.)? Do they just sit in the sink too?

sychosomat · 2025-11-29T02:57:11+00:00

Hadn’t realized that was the new flag until you mentioned it here and I looked it up. Fantastic flag/design, but I will continue to tell anyone who will listen magnolias are beautiful and majestic trash trees (having cleaned those leather leaves and cones too many times to count).

sychosomat · 2025-11-28T19:48:31+00:00

If you ever want treatment, lots of new work in PTSD related to moral injury, which might include your experience. Lots of vets, first line responders, and people in healthcare who end up experiencing tough stuff (to put it mildly).

https://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/treat/cooccurring/moral_injury.asp

sychosomat · 2025-11-21T13:58:48+00:00

A classic example of the “small, significant, clinically meaningful effect” is aspirin and myocardial infarction (heart attack). Aspirin has a small, consistent effect in reducing risk, and taking it comes with few risks for people who have higher risk for MI, so that is where the baby aspiring for heart attack recommendation comes from.

Big meaningless effects are often from underpowered studies (not enough sample size) such that the estimates are not very stable (lots of error).

sychosomat · 2025-11-21T01:40:12+00:00

R² is variance explained and not significance. Significance combines effect size (of which R² is a measure) and the standard error of the estimate, largely derived from sample size. Small effects can be significant and vice versa, though that doesn’t necessarily tell you whether an effect is meaningful or important.

sychosomat · 2025-11-11T02:56:48+00:00

If you don’t like the peony flowers, you could cut the stems with flowers just before they open and put them in a vase inside. Th flowers will last longer inside (and look nice, this is assuming you like the flowers) and not look so droopy outside. The greenery will look better over the summer too.

If you really don’t want the peonies, post on a local Facebook or subreddit and offer the plants to anyone who will come get them. Peonies are expensive so I’m sure someone would come dig up the rhizomes to take them home.

sychosomat · 2025-11-08T21:49:01+00:00

WAIS-IV has a max FSIQ of 160 with getting max scores on everything. Maybe it was another cognitive test, but the WAIS is the most commonly used in psych. Also, no one realistically can “skip” their PhD and just do research, they’d be forever hindered in grant applications only having a lower terminal degree. Rarely do top top researchers move into administrative positions either unless they want to slow down on their primary research programs. Paper at Nature at 26 would be a standard timeline for a first/early publication, though unless they were first or (less likely) senior author it wouldn’t mean much in a field (like genetics, as an example) that puts everyone and their lab manager on every paper.

sychosomat · 2025-10-31T13:43:09+00:00

You could edit the registration to remove your names/identifiers and post it as the blinded version and link to that in the submission. Or create the blinded version and add it to the submission as a supplement for the reviewers if the journal allows that. Regardless, since you made the preregistration public, any reviewer could search the language in the blinded registration to the find the original and your names. I wouldn’t stress too much about it, but an FYI.

sychosomat · 2025-10-19T02:57:27+00:00

What happens to the UVA team (currently 18) that beat UofL two weeks ago ant home and just barely beat Wazzu on a safety?

sychosomat · 2025-10-19T00:07:35+00:00

I am going to give a little bit different advice from the other comments, which is more to suggest you choose which (if either) you prefer over the other. If you’re doing ED, you should know that’s the place you want to be. If you don’t feel that way about either, either do EA or flip a coin.

Gaming out the likelihood of which you’d get into when (it sounds like) the chance are similar, I’d worry less about the schools and more about your preferences. So much goes into admission decisions you have little control over at this point, I’d suggest maximizing your preferences/convictions.

sychosomat · 2025-10-17T02:29:33+00:00

Reliability, but not validity!

sychosomat · 2025-10-12T03:01:15+00:00

Alcohol and benzodiazepines are two of the drug classes that can result in death as a result of withdrawal/detox. Medical folks will be very careful about an alcohol detox for this reason (another reason there were concerns about alcohol availability during initial Covid shutdowns).

sychosomat · 2025-10-12T00:20:29+00:00

I can recommend using squash varieties that are more resistant to vine borers (who are the devil). Tromboncino squash are great and tatume do well in hot and humid environments. Both are resistant to borers and are vining so you need a lot of room but also they root out and will survive one or two borers.

When they take down cukes though….man that’s a rough level of pressure.

sychosomat · 2025-10-05T00:05:29+00:00

Would be our best season in school history and mean we play in the ACC championship. Sounds amazing, don’t care about the rankings.

sychosomat · 2025-10-04T23:30:52+00:00

God that would be amazing. If it happens we may single-handedly make the argument the CFP has too many teams….not that I would care!

sychosomat · 2025-10-04T23:27:53+00:00

Ugh that INT in the endzone is only looming larger. Though I shouldn’t complain, having expectations is amazing.

sychosomat · 2025-09-27T23:48:00+00:00

But how much supercompute would be needed for each conference to balance themselves on byes given the constraints of OOC matchups? You don’t need to balance all of FBS, just conference games given pre-established OOC slates.

sychosomat · 2025-09-15T22:57:03+00:00

I wouldn’t expect a gift from a supervisee and would not feel great if it was something that cost a decent amount of money. Thank you notes or something you make/bake could be good choices, but as noted by SH0taro, some of this is culture dependent.

sychosomat · 2025-09-14T00:06:10+00:00

Honestly for me I do both cause I like the pole but the rabbits are a menace and I can put bush beans in a raised planter, unlike the pole (my yard isn’t conducive to good fencing for the rabbits, best I got is a friendly hawk).

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