#Biases

Rachael Tatman

rctatman

One of my research topics in grad school was fairness, accountability and transparency (FAT) in NLP systems. I've kept up with the literature.Here's a quick thread of papers I'd recommend

Return on Capital

CapitalTalk2

In college, I was a behavioral economics major. Those classes taught me more about investing than any finance class ever did. Today I want to share some of the things

nome

NomeDaBarbarian

Unwritten rules of business etiquette - whether to send a follow-up e-mail or not, resume formatting, desired content on an application, anything like that - serve as class filters.They pretty

R.N. Carmona

RNCarmona43

Atheism lacks an object of attachment and as such, we can never be so attached to an argument that we refuse to concede when it’s wrong. The same can’t be

Taté Walker

MissusTWalker

Here’s my kid & I cosplaying Ma’ii & Maggie from Rebecca Roanhorse’s (RR) “Trail of Lightning” at @IndigenousCon in 2018. We devoured her book(s), not just bc it features badass

Fred Destin

fdestin

1/ By definition, VC partnership are only as good a their decision making.Let’s explore 2/ In venture as in startups, there are only decisions, never any certainties. It is

Michelle Huang

michellehuang42

Thread: Can we now answer the age-old question of "free will" with neuroscience? Augustine first asked this question in the 4th centuryFast-forward now 1700+ years, we now have more

Stock-umm

steak_umm

this is the official steak-umm thread of threads to organize our top tweetstorm rants from over the years. topics include scientific literacy, critical thinking, memes, cognitive biases, woke brands, polarization,

Alicia Carlson 💙 🇺🇸

AmicaAli

“If America was your friend, and you knew it had married a psychopath, wouldn’t you urge it to get the divorce?” #Vote It’s not always about politics or policy;

Ritika Goel

RitikaGoelTO

Horrific: Video captures patient crawling out of hospital after staff dismiss pleas for helphttps://www.cbc.ca/news/gopublic/hospital-patient-crawls-out-mental-illness-1.5871307 #sdoh #medtwitter /1 This is 45-year-old David Pontone, who we

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

Overactive cheater detection is at the root of a lot of societal problems. It’s not that people are dumb when acting under biases but that they’re only smart about problems

Ryan Burton King

RyanBurtonKing

It is #BlackHistoryMonth in the USA. #BlackHistoryMonth in the UK is in October, but perhaps some of my American friends would be helped, encouraged, challenged - maybe even

Younes

kmlyounes

I believe I found a severe flaw/lie in white nationalist Sean Last's post linked below :https://ideasanddata.wordpress.com/2019/01/08/nassim-taleb-on-iq/He reports that average statistical power for intelligence research and "group

JPK

therealjpk

It’s that time of the year when workers of the world unite in anxiety. Emails about performance appraisals have started going out. The idea is to make it free and

Michael Eisen

mbeisen

A core problem in science publishing today is that we have a system where the complex, multidimensional assessment of the rigor, validity, utility, audience and impact of a work that

Abdullah al Andalusi

AbdullaAndalusi

I'm often amused at how Atheists + some Christians (despite their Bible!) think they've sufficiently criticised Islam by pointing to its laws on Irtidad (reneging of Islam), adultery & managing

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