[FRIAM] IS: Rhetoric in scientific arguments WAS: FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

[Roger Critchlow]

Sorry, I certainly might have overlooked an earlier posting, even if I made
it myself.  And I'm following McElreath on twitter, but he's a very
unproductive tweeter, so his messages often get lost in the spume.

-- rec --

On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 12:49 PM, glen ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> This one too ... though for some reason I thought someone had already
> posted it.
>
> Incentive Malus
> http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/
> 21707513-poor-scientific-methods-may-be-hereditary-incentive-malus
>
>
> On 03/03/2017 09:37 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
> > The article referenced in that blog post turns out to be open access and
> > pretty pertinent, too.
> >
> >   http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/3/9/160384
> >
> > The natural selection of bad science, Paul E. Smaldino, Richard
> McElreath,
> >
> > -- rec --
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 12:25 PM, Roger Critchlow <rec at elf.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Here's a spin on Eric's question about how is trusting a scientist
> >> different from trusting an authority or a scholar.
> >>
> >>  http://sometimesimwrong.typepad.com/wrong/2017/03/
> >> looking-under-the-hood.html
> >>
> >> concludes
> >>
> >> but, you might say, scientists *are *more trustworthy than used car
> >>> dealers!  sure,****** but we are also supposed to be more committed to
> >>> transparency.  indeed, transparency is a hallmark of science - it's
> >>> basically what makes science different from other ways of knowing
> (e.g.,
> >>> authority, intuition, etc.).  in other words, it's what makes us better
> >>> than used car dealers.
> >>
> >>
> >> The proposal is that authors of papers need to share more about the
> >> context of the paper so journals and readers get stuck with fewer
> lemons.
>
> --
> ☣ glen
>
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