Stephen Briner

Cognitive scientist; Rowdy like Maureen Dowd-y

[Justin “Hoops” McElroy @JustinMcElroy]

I'm gonna wake up and keep trying to do good and so are you and nobody gets to vote on that.

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@jordanbpeterson I bet you fly into a rage when you see maps of Gaul

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@AdamRutherford I dream of an England that is once again a nation of the Beaker People, for the Beaker People 🙏

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@michaelshermer @billprady 4) So, in the absence of compelling evidence sufficient to reject the null, perhaps all we can say is “further study is needed” /

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@michaelshermer @billprady 1) Seems like we have an empirical question on the table: “do trans women have a distinct across-the-board competitive advantage Vs. cis women in sports?”

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@michaelshermer @billprady 3) and at current, we just don’t have enough evidence to reject the Null. Sure there are anecdotes of some trans women outcompeting some cis women, but then the plural of anecdote is not “data.”

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@michaelshermer @billprady 2) like the good skeptics that we are, let’s start with the null hypothesis, that there is not an empirically measurable advantage. We retain the null until we gather sufficient evidence to reject it in favor of the Alternative Hypothesis.

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@janiehaddad

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@ProfRobAnderson Frankly I find posting a Venmo to be crass and cynical. I use an open guitar case, same as my pappy and my pappy’s pappy.

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@TerranGregory World of Warcraft: I love the fact that we are all in the same place as a whole bunch of different kinds of animals

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Since D&D 5e is trending, I’d like to take the opportunity to say: I really like D&D 5e!

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@coles_nicholas_ This is all great advice! I feel like #5 can get dicey when there are multiple sessions going on, and people are trying to time when to leave one session and make another. Ending early is nice but ending too early can result in people arriving “late” for the next talk.

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@AsianOddBall @pattonoswalt “Remy vs. Colicchio: A Ratatouille Tale”

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@SeanClements And who’s that on woodwind?Desmond Tutu tootin’ on a flute.

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“By the time Number One comes around, you realize there’s only one thing it could be.” @ScottAukerman and @PFTompkins just helped me realize how to explain Degrees of Freedom to my statistics students. @ComedyBangBang

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@sylarruby @atdanwhite Fairly certain pomography is any art depicting apples in France

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@HarlanCoben “Since the dawn of time man has wondered: what is the plot of run away? Webster’s defines run as…”

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@amyhuntindallas @ozze @MEPFuller That’s exactly what Big Celestial WANTS you to think. Wake up, teaple!!

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@Chinchillazllla He has proved it all night beyond the shadow of a reasonable doubt

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Me at the beginning of quarantine vs. me now: