Identity communities often form based on outsider understandings of fields on the boundary of science and pseudoscience. When I asserted recently that fMRI stuff is largely nonsense, I got many outraged responses, apparently mostly from psychiatrists.https://twitter.com/EikoFried/status/1141015324474712071 …
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Everyone has to decide what to eat, so there’s infinite funding for nutritional research, which was a quasiscience for decades. It seems to be collapsing into a pseudoscience now: no one takes it seriously anymore. It’s just is legitimate to use dowsing.
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Hmm. Seems like you’re conflating application métis and fan theories a bit? Most programmers don’t understand semiconductor manufacturing but build their theories atop abstractions that they trust up to a point. Programming lore does not appear to be a quasiscience in your sense.
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There is a spectrum going from programming lore on one end (based on strong, nearly leakproof abstractions) through fMRIology to social psych and say startupology. The abstractions they depend on get progressively leakier, and conclusions shakier.
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If a quasiscience addresses its foundational problems, it can progress into a real science. Everyone wants to understand individual differences and how to relate better to each other, which makes personality & social psychology interesting, but much of it was nonsense…
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The credibility revolution in personality & social psychology aims to fix the fundamental methodological problems and turn it into a real science. Some participants wonder whether, when the dust clears, anything will be left. But, so far, so good! A model for other fields.
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thinking about situations where supply can't meet demand and this pattern emerges: 1) news/rumors 2) fake antiquities
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all situations where the source of scarcity/value is overwhelmingly information - the difference between a true antiquity and a gorgeous fake is the former carries scarce information about the ancient world (c.f. fake olive oil)
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