[Link] You Have No Idea How Wrong You Are
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8V8rtdXnLA&feature Be sure to make it to the last 5 minutes of the lecture as the tone shifts significantly.
Jul 23, 2012-5
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I'm new to the community so I appreciate your willingness to explain the poor reception this video got. That said I think the point you critique is still valid and that you might be less critical if you'd watched the last 5 minutes of the video. Are we in a "more privileged position"? Yes, and he acknowledges that towards the end. However, "more" is a relative term. In all likely-hood a thousand years from now scientists will look back and say we were less wrong than we had been in the past but still far more wrong than they will be. If with each new revolutionary thought or finding we think... (read more)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8V8rtdXnLA&feature
Be sure to make it to the last 5 minutes of the lecture as the tone shifts significantly.
It would be really nice if studies had a sort of thoroughness check list at the top of the paper next to the abstract clearly stating sample size, sampling process, number of peer reviewers, study methodology(double-blind, panel etc), and any other relevant information to the papers validity. If some sort of crude standardization could even occur within specific fields it would make cross-study comparison much easier. Or what if papers could be published online in a format inviting public criticism and community concerns would be forced to be answered to by authors.
Thanks much for the feedback.