Some of my favorite #teaching#publicationBias#conflictsOfInterest can cause overrated teaching trends. Parents, educators, and students may be surprised!
How many common teaching techniques have actually been tested? Of those that have been tested, what were the results? The answers may surprise you. They surprised this educator!
A small rant about zombie ideas and the tendency to keep looking for modifications of study methods to avoid concluding that a null result is really null. deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/03/just...#research#nullresults#laterality#handedness#publicationbias
I have a lifelong interest in laterality, which is a passion that few people share. Accordingly, I am grateful to René Westerhausen who ...
Beyond #rationality? https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/beyond-rationalityhttps://fediscience.org/@davdittrich/110135929027833736
Rationality is the central assumption of economics. That makes work that challenges that assumption interesting to economists for at least two reasons. One is that we might be wrong; rationality might not be the best way of predicting and explaining human behavior. The other is that such work might expand our understanding of how it is rational to behave. My favorite example of both is