Maybe insight is better, but for people who haven’t already studied everything, posts like this save a lot of time and suggest study of things that perhaps they hadn’t realized were there.
Wow. I disagree exactly. It’s a data-dump with little insight. Exactly what I don’t want to see on LW.
“Insight” sounds altogether too much like “Speculative Just So bullshit”.
These are actual empirical findings pertaining to the expected outcomes for executing given behaviors and references to the evidence they are based on. The point isn’t to gain ‘insight’, and any analysis of the data would be best as an investigation in more detail of what the precise indications of the data are, how the indicated behaviors can be most usefully executed and whether any of the summaries given of the findings (and even the findings expressed in the abstracts) are the correct interpretation of the data.
I would have liked some thoughts on/insight into the data posted as well; but all the same, summaries like this, that gather a lot of related but widely-dispersed information together, are very useful (especially as a quick reference or overview, or, as Jonathan says below, as a starting point for further research), and I definitely wouldn’t mind seeing more of them.
This is amazing! Well researched. I want to see an article like this on so many topics.
Wow. I disagree exactly. It’s a data-dump with little insight. Exactly what I don’t want to see on LW.
Maybe insight is better, but for people who haven’t already studied everything, posts like this save a lot of time and suggest study of things that perhaps they hadn’t realized were there.
“Insight” sounds altogether too much like “Speculative Just So bullshit”.
These are actual empirical findings pertaining to the expected outcomes for executing given behaviors and references to the evidence they are based on. The point isn’t to gain ‘insight’, and any analysis of the data would be best as an investigation in more detail of what the precise indications of the data are, how the indicated behaviors can be most usefully executed and whether any of the summaries given of the findings (and even the findings expressed in the abstracts) are the correct interpretation of the data.
I would have liked some thoughts on/insight into the data posted as well; but all the same, summaries like this, that gather a lot of related but widely-dispersed information together, are very useful (especially as a quick reference or overview, or, as Jonathan says below, as a starting point for further research), and I definitely wouldn’t mind seeing more of them.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/a60/quantified_health_prize_results_announced/5wq7
http://lesswrong.com/lw/bdo/rationality_quotes_april_2012/6c7t
http://lesswrong.com/lw/yp/pretending_to_be_wise/