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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 8h

@ElenLeFoll it's an interesting thought (to me) - nobody likes being desk rejected, but also nobody likes reviewing a paper which is obviously inappropriate. I wonder how systematic different journals/publishers are about managing this trade off? Don't know!

Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 9h

@ElenLeFoll on the first question, it sounds like they are trying to check if you think you did waste your time. If lots of people answered NO then they would get a signal that they are sending too much stuff out to review, and should desk reject more. Sound plausible?

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I've just discovered that my email had a second, hidden, way of categorising messages as spam, and a folder of ~2500 messages which are 50% real spam and 50% genuine emails.

Amazing that I didn't notice missing so many emails

Also, if I never replied, that may be why

Also, how far back […]

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

"The growth of vaccine hesitance in America may feel inexplicable, ignorant or irrational to those who feel confident in their decisions to vaccinate. Yet my research suggests that this approach to vaccines is entirely logical in a culture that insists that health is the result of hard work and […]

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

If nothing else, this post illustrates something about #dataviz. Compare/contrast the poll results as originally presented and redraw as a graph

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A graph of lines. The red line is clearly in a different place than the blue line

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Monday boost for this:

When half the population don't trust (our collective intelligence is impaired)

https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/when-half-the-population-dont-trust

When half the population don't trust

Reasonable People #77: A Brexit-era survey of who voters trust and what it means for our information environment

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 3d

@olivermantell.bsky.social you're very kind, thank you

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 4d

New newsletter. I couldn't get this survey result from 2016 out of my head, so I wrote about it https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/when-half-the-population-dont-trust

When half the population don't trust
Reasonable People #77: A Brexit-era survey of who voters trust and what it means for our information environment

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 4d

New newsletter. I couldn't get this survey result from 2016 out of my head, so I wrote about it https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/when-half-the-population-dont-trust

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 9d

@nelepoldvere alternative facts require alternative fact-checking

Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Monday boost: The costs of being open-minded

https://mastodon.online/@tomstafford/115275194235549664

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Attached: 1 image New newsletter! https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/the-costs-of-being-open-minded

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11d

New newsletter!

https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/the-costs-of-being-open-minded

The costs of being open-minded
Reasonable People #76: You probably think open-mindedness is a virtue. Be careful. Others may be willing to punish you for it.

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11d

New newsletter!

https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/the-costs-of-being-open-minded

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12d

@samulireijula.net yes, that's a cool project

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12d

@samulireijula.net I'm using Moshidon on android, it's either that or my mastodon server.

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12d

@samulireijula.net sadly my finnish is non existent. I was offered the option in my app to get a translation, and assumed you'd have something worth hearing so i clicked it ;-)

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12d

"In short, the OpenAI paper inadvertently highlights an uncomfortable truth: the business incentives driving consumer AI development remain fundamentally misaligned with reducing hallucinations. Until these incentives change, hallucinations will persist." […]

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12d

@samulireijula.net yes! You can view "plausibility generation" as a feature, not a bug (as long as you appropriately adjust your expectations that the model does plausibility, not accuracy)

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12d

@jjaron.bsky.social Same. Seems to me like a large outlay of direct expense, effort and political goodwill for unclear gains

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13d

Anyone a substack power user? I have a very specific question https://substack.com/@tomstafford/note/c-159712524

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Newsletter writers, how do I get an “upgrade to paid” button at the bottom of my newsletter? When I view my last newsletter (as a free subscriber) I just see a “Subscribed” button, but I want it to appear like this for free subscribers:

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13d

Anyone a substack power user? I have a very specific question https://substack.com/@tomstafford/note/c-159712524

#substack

Tom Stafford (@tomstafford)

Newsletter writers, how do I get an “upgrade to paid” button at the bottom of my newsletter? When I view my last newsletter (as a free subscriber) I just see a “Subscribed” button, but I want it to appear like this for free subscribers:

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13d

Updated my behavioural science "Experiment Design Checklist"

https://tomstafford.github.io/psy-checklist/

Enjoy!

#cogsci #psychologyresearch

Experiment Design Checklist

Atal Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto is a compelling account of how the simple checklist can scaffold expertise and teamwork in complex domains. Good checklists, he says, nudge our memories, prompting us to do what we already know we should do, but risk missing.

Good checklists are also short. 5-9 “killer” items, says Gawande.

So, I got to thinking, what would be on my checklist for experiment design? Additional suggestions welcome, by email or on mastodon, but this is what I got so far:

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16d

The real risk of generative AI is a crisis of knowledge

Universities are often focusing on new technologies’ impact on assessment, but for Joshua Thorpe there are more fundamental questions about how these tools will affect students’ identities as learners […]

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16d

#cambridge, UK, until Wednesday!

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18d

The Intelligence is in the User

https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/the-intelligence-is-in-the-user

Today's newsletter, on ways we underestimate how much user skill goes into getting good results from AI models

#genai #cogsci #llms #chatgpt

The intelligence is in the user
Continuing my series on hooks for thinking about the new AI

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