I enjoy reading rationalist and effective altruist blogs. Members of the community usually back their arguments with data and/or other evidence and tend to be scientifically literate. And although no one is a perfect, detached belief updater, I found that rationalists are probably the community that is closest to that...
The replication crisis is a a phenomenon that plagues modern day scientific research. And contrary to popular belief, it has being going on for a long time. The incentive structure within academia seems to reward quantity of publications over quality. This leads to questionable research practices which in turn lead...
Statistics are hard. The more statistics I learn the harder the discipline seems. To truly extract insight form data using statistical methods one has to take many factors and nuances into account, and I discover new ones very week. This is the reason much of the studies published in some...