FrenziedFelidFanatic

joined 4 months ago

Known, yes. Proven, no.

[–] FrenziedFelidFanatic@pawb.social 84 points 2 days ago (17 children)

Dopamine does a lot of things. It does not cross the blood-brain barrier.

So taking this would be all side effects and no benefits

[–] FrenziedFelidFanatic@pawb.social 37 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It is conceivable that the glue was put there for another purpose, and the pigeons simply landed in it. That’s just not likely in this case

It’s basically a philosophy paper—epistemology, to be specific.

Frequentism and Bayesianism are philosophies of understanding probability and statistics, and this paper argues that Bayesianism provides a more clear understanding of truth.

To summarize their main points: P-values and confidence intervals and their ilk are confusing to the uninitiated and initiated alike, so their use should be discouraged. Undergraduates shouldn’t even be taught them since they confuse most people, causing public harm. All frequentist statistics at this level should be purged from education and replaced with Bayesian statistics.

[–] FrenziedFelidFanatic@pawb.social 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And now we have a nice, comma-separated array of strings for wherever that might be useful ;)