{"id":1983,"date":"2016-09-29T11:03:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T18:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=1983"},"modified":"2016-09-29T11:03:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T18:03:14","slug":"concerns-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/concerns-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerns II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2016\/07\/concerns\/\">(Previously.)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I'm concerned about the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Social_desirability_bias\">socially-undesirable<\/a> implications of the correlations documented in these published studies, which seem consistent with my own observations and personal experience.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><em>(studying them)<\/em> &quot;Hey! These correlation coefficients are <em>not equal to one<\/em>! In fact, all of them are <em>substantially less than one<\/em>! How <em>dare<\/em> you try to construct predictive models about how the world works, when <em>you yourself admit<\/em> that your model won't assign literally all of its probability mass to the exact outcome?!&quot;<\/p>\n<p><em>(in despair, as if realizing that the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/hugomercier\/theargumentativetheoryofreasoning\">nature of reasoning as an adaptation for arguing with conspecifics in imperfectly-deceptive social organisms<\/a> implies that no one can ever have a serious, grown-up conversation about anything important)<\/em> &quot;Just kill meeeeeeeeeee&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Previously.) &quot;I'm concerned about the socially-undesirable implications of the correlations documented in these published studies, which seem consistent with my own observations and personal experience.&quot; (studying them) &quot;Hey! These correlation coefficients are not equal to one! In fact, all of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/concerns-ii\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1984,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions\/1984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}