#Hypothesis

10-K Diver

10kdiver

1/Get a cup of coffee.In this thread, I'll help you understand the basics of Estimation Theory. 2/Life is a series of random events.Estimation theory is the science of figuring out

Mark Rubin

RubinPsyc

***HARKing***A THREADHARKing stands for Hypothesizing After the Results are Known. It occurs when researchers present their post hoc hypotheses as if they are a priori hypotheses. Kerr (1998) wrote the

Andrew Miller

millerak42

1/ Market cap weighting is the approach to use if you don't have an edge or a hypothesis (and its OK not to have one).However, if you have an edge

Dr Helen Gray

Helen_Gray_

My first chicken paper! "Why do hens pile? Hypothesizing the causes and consequences".https://tinyurl.com/y4nk9q6x Myself, Rachel Davies, Ash Bright, @AnnieRayner and @asherblab wrote an article about the phenomena of piling

Chris Nadeau

cpnscience

(1/4) Could evolution INCREASE the negative impacts of climate change on biodiversity? Computer models suggest YES. Our new experiments support the key process driving this surprising pattern: eco-evolutionary priority effects.

Joseph Gagnon

GagnonMacro

Especially since the global financial crisis, the efficient markets hypothesis has not been in high repute. Yet, economists implicitly rely on that hypothesis when they downplay concerns about currency manipulation.

Rachel Tobac

RachelTobac

Twitter Hack update: for ~8 victims, the attackers downloaded the “Your Twitter Data” archive file which includes: DMs, lists created (presumably including private lists), email, phone, history of places been

The Xena Project

XenaProject

Ok so I claim that doing mathematics constructively obscures ideas which, to me at least, feel natural. Let me illustrate with a simple example: a locally open set is open.

Anthony Nine

spaceweather9

While I'm *speculatively* open to the idea that Dee's Enochian gear and cartography played a role in inspiring British colonial expansion in the Elizabethan era, I also suspect that whatever

Dr Dominic Pimenta 💙 *Please* Just Stay At Home

DrDomPimenta

People talk about science as if it’s a body, an organisation :“Scientists say”, “the science says”, “we don’t trust science”.But that’s not what science is. Science is a verb. A

Nath

NathHIH

A Thread: “So who’s running the projector?!”One of the responses I came across about @UFOHermes_17_17 excellent new article https://thehermeticpenetrator.medium.com/on-baiting-the-ufo-trickster-the-control-system-hypothesis-479bd712e7

Eirini Malliaraki

irinimalliaraki

In 1986, Don R Swanson argued that there is a lot of undiscovered public knowledge, i.e. publicly available complementary but *not interactive* academic literatures /1 https://www.jstor.org/stable/4307965?seq=1 the growth of science

New York Magazine

NYMag

For years, scientists have been hot-wiring viruses to be stronger, deadlier, and more transmissible. The bet was that their work would help prevent a global pandemic. But what if it

Mark Rubin

RubinPsyc

Preregistration helps to distinguish planned "confirmatory" tests of a priori hypotheses from unplanned "exploratory" tests of post hoc hypotheses. However, some people argue that this distinction doesn't really matt

Alison

brink

Hypothesis: "eat your own dogfood" starts being bandied about once Conway's law comes home to roost. Unfortunately, business then focuses on the quality of the dogfood rather than address hiring/communication/etc

Dr Dominic Pimenta 💙 *Please* Just Stay At Home

DrDomPimenta

A thread about science. “Science is a verb”. /threadhttps://twitter.com/JaeB_so_nasty/status/1138961066153644033 People talk about science as if it’s a body, an organisation :“Scientists say”, “the science says”, “we don’t

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