♕Deborah Mayo♕

professor of philosophy of science, logic, experiment, statistical inference; now an independent philosopher & stock trader; split time in NYC & Va (and London)

[♕Deborah Mayo♕ @learnfromerror]

I just looked around this place Wordle 1,923 3/6

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[♕Deborah Mayo♕ @learnfromerror]

..and repeat
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[♕Deborah Mayo♕ @learnfromerror]

C. S. Peirce's birthday yesterday: C. S. Peirce and the Error Correcting Thesis https://t.co/o4aVQNP2vF

[♕Deborah Mayo♕ @learnfromerror]

Data centers–How about an adversarial collaboration? https://t.co/W44O1MidaS

[♕Deborah Mayo♕ @learnfromerror]

Data centers–How about an adversarial collaboration? https://t.co/W44O1MidaS

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

I can't get enough of this family of illusions (not least because it took me so long to figure out how they work).

[Daniël Lakens @lakens]

I care about reproducibility, but I find it deeply problematic that the British ecological society is trying to extract free labour from academics (oh no, you get free membership for a year!) to work for them for 3 years on reproducibility checks.

https://t.co/t5Qjp9pPot

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Can someone explain how a sitting president can have a prostate cancer metastasize without early detection when it had been symptomatic for a while --and how these moronic doctors can refrain from doing a PSA test!

[♕Deborah Mayo♕ @learnfromerror]

"Can you make me more capable? Of art, astrophysics and AI" In this post I ponder wether we should benchmark AI according to how well it increases human capabilities. I consider the possibility of a personalized instructor who increaess my life-drawing ability in a few months time https://t.co/noqQVugs8H

[♕Deborah Mayo♕ @learnfromerror]

@lakens Of course adversarial collaborators may use existing data (e.g., on salaries, hiring) to test competing views (e.g., of gender bias) where both sides preregister the planned analysis. Maybe you see that as different.

[Daniël Lakens @lakens]

In the last 2 years I (and our lovely collaborators) have been rather obsessively working on Metacheck - a tool to automatically check best practices in papers. In this RIOTS summerschool talk, I walk you through what the tool can do, and future plans https://t.co/ngNtNflRQh

[♕Deborah Mayo♕ @learnfromerror]

@lakens @lukaswallrich you forget self-deception

[♕Deborah Mayo♕ @learnfromerror]

@nntaleb Don't know Dennett, I do know that 99% of criticisms in stat foundations reflect identical misinterpretations, howlers & bad arguments!

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

agreed. which is part of why coating the world in data centers is a profound mistake.

[♕Deborah Mayo♕ @learnfromerror]

Weird. I didn't even know what this was, I once visited a place with swirling water. Wordle 1,867 2/6

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[♕Deborah Mayo♕ @learnfromerror]

I post a Happy (belated) Birthday to Sir David Cox here. https://t.co/A9XS5gMWR0

[♕Deborah Mayo♕ @learnfromerror]

@cshalizi can we talk?

[♕Deborah Mayo♕ @learnfromerror]

In my new blogpost I pull back the cover regarding claims that low powered tests "exaggerate" population effects: "low power and an all too standarderror: continuation of 'don't turn power on its head'. https://t.co/V0XOxKZgwF

[Daniël Lakens @lakens]

With Deborah Mayo, Kent Staley, and Wendy Parker we are editing a special issue of Synthese on "Severity and Learning from Error": https://t.co/6kYVDFlYxN Deadline for submissions is the 15th of December, 2026. If this is a topic that you are interested in, consider contributing!

[CHT @PrometheusCHT]

@ChristosArgyrop @learnfromerror LOL you were probably in school then doc... But I did get the new one today!