I have no idea what the truth is about sleep. But this raises questions like: - How do you judge claims without doing 130hrs of research? - Given studies themselves can be similarly bad, how do we know anything? (Do we?) - how to tune your BS detector - Self-experiment = best?https://twitter.com/alexeyguzey/status/1195380402078265345 …
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I'm not sure. But I glanced at the book & reviews and it looked obviously... well, not wrong, but not very good.https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1176866638278184962 …
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I think my answer is: spend thousands of hours reading papers, trying to sort wheat from chaff and learn as much as you can. At the end, you'll do it very quickly, mostly unconsciously. This isn't very helpful at a process level.
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When I was a grad student I did a bunch of grad-level course work in molbio. The bio dept had a famous course on how to read a scientific paper and figure out whether to believe it. I tried to take it but they wouldn’t let me; it was for ingroup only.
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They swore students to secrecy. I wonder if the contents have leaked since… Anyway, I’ve been thinking ever since about how to teach that for other fields
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I suspect the most important bits can't be reduced to process. You need to do it slowly and carefully a whole bunch of times, and all of a sudden you find yourself glancing at an abstract (or even a title) and going "That's BS", and pointing out likely failure modes...
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It worries me a lot that I mostly developed this filter in certain fields, but apply it in other areas. The sleep book _looks_ wrong, but what the hell kinda business do I have rapidly judging a book on sleep?
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asymmetry- most things are wrong so quickly judging something as wrong is typically fine
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I think I read the abstract and think “yeah, nonsense” and then I look for confirmation :) But sometimes a quick skim does change my mind, do it’s not 100% confirmation bias
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