I would like to have A Rationalist’s Guide to Reading Science.
Particularly, how to benefit from existing scientific publications and understand them well enough to write a Rationalist’s Guide to X or Much More Than You Wanted to Know About X, where X is some field without common knowledge consensus, like medicine or diet or exercise or psychology.
Reading science news headlines seems suboptimal. How confident can we be in any particular study? We know there are some perverse incentives in science. Publish or perish, new discoveries more valued than replications, p-hacking, etc. What should we be wary of? How much training do we need in the field? Is this impossible without a degree in statistics?
I would like to have A Rationalist’s Guide to Reading Science.
Particularly, how to benefit from existing scientific publications and understand them well enough to write a Rationalist’s Guide to X or Much More Than You Wanted to Know About X, where X is some field without common knowledge consensus, like medicine or diet or exercise or psychology.
Reading science news headlines seems suboptimal. How confident can we be in any particular study? We know there are some perverse incentives in science. Publish or perish, new discoveries more valued than replications, p-hacking, etc. What should we be wary of? How much training do we need in the field? Is this impossible without a degree in statistics?