arkan > Recent Status Updates

* A lot of science in the biomedical and psychological fields aren't rigorous.

* This non-rigorosity is due to a lot of factors, but mainly experimental design, statistical ignorance (including p-hacking).

* Within experimental design, some problems include wrong test subjects, confusion between exploratory and confirmatory science, etc.

* Approximately the no. of uncertainty is very high for even the scientists.

Just completed Part I, now a lot about how the Narrative of Perpetual Progress has distorted many of our incongruities between human nature and civilization

Just finished through the Chinese chapters and now onto the Indian ones. Boy this book isn't transparent.

ngeri bor

Just beginning to get to the policy recommendation: universal basic income

How bullshit jobs occur; the role of the governments, actual corporations, and actual manifestations of bullshit jobs within the creative industry, academia, and healthcare sector

Hits a lot of good points in the first half of the book: about definition, examples, and what is it workers actually do during their work hours.