If you haven’t done so, I do recommend reading the sequences since they do talk a lot about the basic epistemological foundations necessary for that kind of analysis.
After that, I would probably recommend reading “The Book of Why” by Judea Pearl, which is the best accessible analysis and critique of standard methodologies that I know of, maybe together with “How to Measure Anything”. And then I would just try to read as many critiques of studies that you can find as you can. Scott Alexander obviously has many, some of the most important ones are curated in this sequence.
As a concrete training tool, I also think it’s a really good idea to write fact posts. Sarah Constantin has a great explanation and guide on how to write them.
Thanks for the links. I think one concern that keeps popping up is that by reading more analysis of other papers I’m just learning others’ thoughts rather than learning to think my own.
Constantin’s fact post approach does seem like an effective way to cut through that.
If you haven’t done so, I do recommend reading the sequences since they do talk a lot about the basic epistemological foundations necessary for that kind of analysis.
After that, I would probably recommend reading “The Book of Why” by Judea Pearl, which is the best accessible analysis and critique of standard methodologies that I know of, maybe together with “How to Measure Anything”. And then I would just try to read as many critiques of studies that you can find as you can. Scott Alexander obviously has many, some of the most important ones are curated in this sequence.
As a concrete training tool, I also think it’s a really good idea to write fact posts. Sarah Constantin has a great explanation and guide on how to write them.
Thanks for the links. I think one concern that keeps popping up is that by reading more analysis of other papers I’m just learning others’ thoughts rather than learning to think my own.
Constantin’s fact post approach does seem like an effective way to cut through that.