Ben Ambridge
@ambridge.bsky.social
Prof of Psychology/Child Language, University of Manchester. Author of PSY-Q and Are You Smarter than a Chimpanzee?
A close relative of “Future studies could try doing the thing that we could and should have done in the present study but couldn’t be bothered”
October 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
A close relative of “Future studies could try doing the thing that we could and should have done in the present study but couldn’t be bothered”
Essentially Ramscar (2002) presents evidence for semantic partitioning - a snowman is a kind of man and so inherits the -men plural. A lowlife is not a kind of life (but a kind of person) so “needs” a different plural to -lives
October 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Essentially Ramscar (2002) presents evidence for semantic partitioning - a snowman is a kind of man and so inherits the -men plural. A lowlife is not a kind of life (but a kind of person) so “needs” a different plural to -lives
I don’t think so - Pinker and Marcus are Canadian, USA, Ramscar is a Brit like me - and I share the intuitions of all (but the theory of only Ramscar!)
October 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I don’t think so - Pinker and Marcus are Canadian, USA, Ramscar is a Brit like me - and I share the intuitions of all (but the theory of only Ramscar!)
Definitely lowlifes - there’s a fascinating literature on this - @garymarcus.bsky.social Steven Pinker, and Michael Ramscar’s 2002 paper
October 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Definitely lowlifes - there’s a fascinating literature on this - @garymarcus.bsky.social Steven Pinker, and Michael Ramscar’s 2002 paper
This post prompted me to finally try to understand the difference between an odds ratio and a risk ratio! Finding a good explainer was hard (especially now, with too much AI-generated slop) but I finally understood it after reading this! freerangestats.info/blog/2018/08...
Relative risk ratios and odds ratios
Explanation and demonstration with simulated data of the difference between relative risk ratios and odds ratios, and how to extract them from a generalized linear model.
freerangestats.info
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
This post prompted me to finally try to understand the difference between an odds ratio and a risk ratio! Finding a good explainer was hard (especially now, with too much AI-generated slop) but I finally understood it after reading this! freerangestats.info/blog/2018/08...