Mark O'Brien

[Mark O'Brien @MarkobrienO]

@robertwiblin Surely a very complicated combination of all of the above...as well as purely random historical factors about evolution of humans / the Earth. Suspect changing basically any physical property would affect growth in nonlinear way (with most universes having no life and 0% growth)

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[Mark O'Brien @MarkobrienO]

@quantian1 Bizarre but guessing intuition for this lies in fact OLS always minimises vertical distance? i.e. even though x, y are indep, after rotation the vertical deviations you minimise depend on both

[Mark O'Brien @MarkobrienO]

@Josh_Merfeld Agree it is a false illustration of standard usage of linear regression

[Mark O'Brien @MarkobrienO]

Better test would be to compare with control northern counties like Donegal/Cavan that are in South. Might turn out Irish people just don't travel very far from their home county...

[Mark O'Brien @MarkobrienO]

Given most Southerners live farther from border than all Northerners, I don't think give you can attribute the 'asymmetry' in relations to partition from this data alone...

[Dominic Doherty @DominicDoherty2]

Tell me that you've never been to Derry and Donegal without telling me that you've never been to Derry and Donegal.....

[Mark O'Brien @MarkobrienO]

i.e. if the 70% of Southerners who haven't visited Northern Ireland recently/ever live in the bottom 70% of the Republic, then that's not very surprising

[Andrew Bennett @andrewjb_]

I don’t think people realise just quite how crazy London’s rental market is right now:

[Mark O'Brien @MarkobrienO]

@SWSJohnson @depthsofwiki hahaha

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[Mark O'Brien @MarkobrienO]

@GarethRPearce Apologies I didn't clarify sooner. If it could apply to all empirical beliefs, then wouldn't a prior/a posteriori distinction collapse? If so, I think that should give us pause as to whether cases like this fall under what we originally intended 'a priori' to pick out

[Mark O'Brien @MarkobrienO]

@GarethRPearce Very interesting case. However, arguably any empirical belief could be inherited in this way under right circumstances? i.e I can imagine strange worlds where it is 'fit' for organisms to have inherited belief that nothing travels faster than light

[Mark O'Brien @MarkobrienO]

@ajb_powell Guinness 0.0 is very close to real thing

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

This is a remarkable exchange and explains why Sage always has a bias for gloom.

[Mark O'Brien @MarkobrienO]

@ALogins @StefanFSchubert Moreover it seems like replication crisis really concerns justification for practical methods like this to implement a priori valid techniques like RCTs. I still suspect the analogy is not quite right with this self-undermining argument tho

[Mark O'Brien @MarkobrienO]

@ALogins @StefanFSchubert That's plausible re justification for philosophical claims. However, if you construe 'empirical methods' to include practical implementation (use of measuring devices, unbiased data collection, accurate way to record data, etc.), then seems they do require empirical justification

[Mark O'Brien @MarkobrienO]

@ALogins @StefanFSchubert Could potentially appeal to consistent examples from other fields? Establishing the 'replication crisis' to undermine empirical psychology requires use of empirical methods from psychology itself, but no one thinks this is problematically inconsistent. Not totally analogous tho

[Mark O'Brien @MarkobrienO]

@AmandaAskell True, but don't these debates sometimes have implicit normative consequences i.e. even if video games share same properties as 'true' forms of art, do they deserve the same respect from an aesthetic perspective?

[Sam Dumitriu @Sam_Dumitriu]

I hope the UK will do the same!