“believed in imaginings”

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

 <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> 
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Roger Critchlow
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2016 11:59 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] power posers in the university of truth

 

That was a subtlety I left out.  Gelman (statistician at Columbia) says that 
Power Pose probably isn't even wrong, that striking a confident pose probably 
does help, but does it make up for a lousy breakfast, or insomnia, or sick 
relatives, or abusive partners, or ...?  There are so many factors that could 
influence how people feel that it's not going to be any low sample number 
quickie experiment that settles the issue.  In fact, it may be one of those 
questions where errors in the measurements of the factors overwhelm the error 
in the measurement of the outcome.

 

So it's not false, it might well be true, but it has not been empirically 
demonstrated as was originally claimed, and empirical demonstration is 
problematic.  

 

It's something a lot of people want to believe, is there a word for that?  
Believable and credible don't convey the desire involved.

 

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On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net 
<mailto:o...@backspaces.net> > wrote:

Are Falsehoods the new Truthy?

 

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Joe Spinden <j...@qri.us <mailto:j...@qri.us> 
> wrote:

Love it.

 

On 12/6/16 9:41 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:

Enter the power pose, the proposition that standing up straight will give you 
the super powers to overcome adversity, except that no one can replicate the 
original experiment, the primary author has disavowed the publication, yet the 
primary advocate is making millions off the idea.

 

When-Big-Ideas-Go-Bad 
<http://www.chronicle.com/article/When-Big-Ideas-Go-Bad/238544?key=yop9k7-B1QiWD6aZpWTJrwQaFFjhgu-cumdsNS97tdI-aTlXSFvHWZIy2iA1Y0UfSDdsb1ZES1NjYnd5QTllSDNlSG9LVjAzRUl3NVNrVGZhUzRMSWJ5Q1BGdw>
 

 

via http://www.aldaily.com/

 

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