I have to admit that I fell for it. Hardcore confirmation bias, looking for things that give me a positive result and not even one "No". I felt ashamed. Being a scientist and knowing that I should not go this way. A nice reminder to what I am supposed to be doing instead of what I am currently doing. It made me question our weekly discussion in the lab and how much we are plagued by confirmation bias. It doesn't help to have a PI that is a wishful thinker who knits stories like a professional. He is very successful though so I guess that is how the game works nowadays?
I've been reading Bad Blood. I think everyone in any sort of science-based profession needs to read it: it's the metastasization of confirmation bias and really nothing else. There's a girl. She's smart but more important she grew up next to a venture capitalist. So as a freshman at Stanford she says "wouldn't it be cool if there were a patch that could simultaneously diagnose and treat every disease known to man? I'd like a patent for that." And then she charmed her next-door neighbor into giving her millions. And then she charmed the post-doc who ran her Freshman biology lab into jumping ship and starting a company with her. And then she charmed a 40-year-old rich fuck with no people skills into being her boyfriend. And then they charmed a bunch of people into working for them. And never once did the people who knew what was going on tell the people who were working on it and before too long, Safeway was paying $75m to remodel half of its stores to hold Theranos clinics and never once in the entire five year run did they ever have a successful blood test. Not once. Not a single one. Never.
This is what my attempt looked like: wasoxygen made me do it
77% is a surprisingly large number. I'd be more then willing to bet that this game won't be as hard hitting on Hubski just based off of the general population here, but it definitely seems a good indicator of general population.
Right there with youBut most people start off with the incorrect assumption that if we’re asking them to solve a problem, it must be a somewhat tricky problem.