Experimental studies keep giving us more and more evidence against the theory that people have two concepts of causation (dependence vs. production) This is a nice window into how recent work in cognitive science of causal judgment is going beyond previous approaches A thread

A thread that brings together a series of posts from my substack Psychiatry at the Margins discussing the genetics of schizophrenia. What’s common about these posts is that they attempt to acknowledge the reality of a non-trivial genetic influence without resorting to genetic

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MInd-map duality: Interesting article in The Boston Globe referencing paper from last year link.springer.com/article/10.118…

In our new PNASNews paper, across 21 experiments with 23,000+ participants, we identify a critical distortion that shapes decisions involving tradeoffs: we find that people systematically overweight quantified information in such decisions. Paper: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… 🧵

verbal probability expressions (likely, maybe, certain etc.) are confuing to laypeople. To hvoid miscommunications, they have been quantified by UK Intelligence. Yet, those values are somewhat different to those assigned by laypeople. Links below Wojciech Milczarski

This thread and especially the underlying LessWrong post are a good demonstration of the IQ super-baby conspiracy theory that seems to be gripping Silicon Valley. Here's how it works ...

Study Provides a Window Into Public Perceptions About Technological Treatment Options for Brain Conditions Published in Device, Rémy Furrer Amanda R. Merner, PhD and colleagues conducted a survey of over 1,000 U.S. adults to examine perceptions of four neurotechnologies: