How Do We Trust What We "Know"?
Mar 7, 2016 10:23:40 #
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story/2016/03/ego_depletion_an_influential_theory_in_psychology_may_have_just_been_debunked.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=digg
You have to wonder how many billions of tax $$$ have been spent on solving problems that might not really be problems.
You have to wonder how many billions of tax $$$ have been spent on solving problems that might not really be problems.
Mar 7, 2016 10:38:44 #
davefales wrote:
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story/2016/03/ego_depletion_an_influential_theory_in_psychology_may_have_just_been_debunked.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=digg
You have to wonder how many billions of tax $$$ have been spent on solving problems that might not really be problems.
You have to wonder how many billions of tax $$$ have been spent on solving problems that might not really be problems.
And many more billions on "solutions" that don't work or create bigger problems than they were intended to solve.
All government programs should be reqired to run scientifficaly controlled pilot testing before National or State wide roll out.
This case shows how difficult that can be. Of course many government programs are not based on research at all and many more on at most one flaky test. All that matters is to tell a good story.
Mar 8, 2016 08:11:29 #
davefales wrote:
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story/2016/03/ego_depletion_an_influential_theory_in_psychology_may_have_just_been_debunked.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=digg
You have to wonder how many billions of tax $$$ have been spent on solving problems that might not really be problems.
You have to wonder how many billions of tax $$$ have been spent on solving problems that might not really be problems.
"We all have a limited supply of willpower, and it decreases with overuse." Nonsense! I think the opposite is true.
That's what the scientific method is all about - proposing a theory and then testing it and being able to repeat it.
Mar 9, 2016 15:56:46 #
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right;
but a single experiment can prove me wrong.
-Albert Einstein
but a single experiment can prove me wrong.
-Albert Einstein
Mar 9, 2016 15:59:36 #
MtnMan wrote:
And many more billions on "solutions" that don't work or create bigger problems than they were intended to solve.
All government programs should be reqired to run scientifficaly controlled pilot testing before National or State wide roll out.
This case shows how difficult that can be. Of course many government programs are not based on research at all and many more on at most one flaky test. All that matters is to tell a good story.
All government programs should be reqired to run scientifficaly controlled pilot testing before National or State wide roll out.
This case shows how difficult that can be. Of course many government programs are not based on research at all and many more on at most one flaky test. All that matters is to tell a good story.
With government funding of science it usually boils down to giving the government what it wants to hear, so the money keeps coming. Facts be damned, telling them what they don't want to hear is a sure way to lose funding of your work.
Mar 9, 2016 16:29:41 #
MtnMan wrote:
All that matters is to tell a good story.
Which seems to define modern politics.
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