The scientific method isn't only for scientists. It can help us all learn faster. Study of 759 startups: teaching scientific thinking boosts revenue. Founders become quicker to abandon bad ideas. A key to good judgment is treating plans as hypotheses and choices as experiments.

Much of the world runs on informal transport networks. However, it's difficult to assess how efficient these are. A new study examines 7,000 bus routes in 36 cities across 22 countries in order to find out. The results are pretty surprising:

Are you excited about the elegant philosophy of Bayesian inference, but struggling to see how it can be applied beyond the idealized examples in introductory texts and tutorials? Over the past few months I’ve released a series of demonstrative analysis that might help. 👇

Check it out! Cover for The Pointillistic City has arrived! Great work by The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social designers capturing the title visually. Coming out in January 2025!

This paper was a long time coming! An empirics-heavy contribution to the question of when ride share competes with or compliments public transit

PNAS special feature: Half a century of cultural evolution pnas.org/topic/565

🌟 Join us tomorrow for a seminar on Participatory Modeling for Collaborative & Equitable Planning with Moira Zellner! 🌍 🗓️ Date: Friday, Dec 6th ⏰ Time: 12 PM ET Explore how participatory modeling fosters collaboration & equity. #Equity #ParticipatoryModeling #ProSocial

Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, clearly explained:

We have a new paper explaining all the ways you can use natural language processing to analyze text data in Nature Reviews Psychology We provide user friendly recommendations for using NLP to ensure rigour and reproducibility Free link: nature.com/articles/s4415… Led by Stefan Feuerriegel

It's been almost 40 years since the New Urbanism was created, so just a few things to set the record straight. The entire reason for this movement was a bunch of people (mostly architects) looking around at older, traditional American small towns and pre-WWII neighborhoods and

Let's review. Game on. The question: Is there evidence that population-level variation exists in susceptibility to visual illusions? Dorsa Amir & Chaz Firestone wrote a fascinating paper to which I will reply in two storm tweets. I see major problems. Storm 1 coming...

New cultural evolution modelling paper with Benoît de Courson on PNASNews! "Weak individual preferences stabilize culture" A quick 🧵 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Our co-founder Mary Camacho shares the frustrating experience that sparked Cirdia's approach to privacy-first wellness technology. Read her personal story of losing years of fitness data and why that experience matters for all of us. cirdia.com/blog/when-my-d…

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Are you interested in hierarchical dimensionality analysis? Here's our new "Taxonomic Graph Analysis" used to model the IPIP-NEO Personality Hierarchy. The project is led by Andrew Samo and Alexander Christensen, with the collaboration of Luis Garrido, Paco Abad, Sam McAbee, and

New paper: Applying computation tools to over 2000 years of textual data in Chinese, we test the hypothesis that the organization of families (kin-based institutions) shapes our psychology. Mohammad Atari Edward Slingerland Kevin Hong Jonathan Schulz

Are you interested in hierarchical dimensionality analysis? Here's our new "Taxonomic Graph Analysis" used to model the IPIP-NEO Personality Hierarchy. The project is led by Andrew Samo and Alexander Christensen, with the collaboration of Luis Garrido, Paco Abad, Sam McAbee, and

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