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Jeremy Cherfas

> the default assumption that everyone should read every comment on a forum is an idea that fails at scale too, as one troll or disruptive person can spoil everyone's reading - the Tragedy of the Comments.

A shame that the link to Tragedy of the Comments is dead, it sounded interesting and prescient.

Jeremy Cherfas

@jessfanzo You've very welcome. And there's more to come.

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

That study of how people from rice- and wheat-growing areas of China differ in social situations is interesting, and part of a long history of trying to make use of the collectivism needed to grow rice well to explain other things. I'm not totally convinced.

Jeremy Cherfas

Thanks @podknife for adding me to your lists. Looking forward to getting to know new listeners.

Jeremy Cherfas

@FranciscoEGZ85 @GuinnessIreland What I had not realised is quite how fast and loose RA Fisher played with Gosset's ideas. Gosset didn't care much about p<0.05 as a number, only about what it might mean in a wider context.

Jeremy Cherfas

Hey @leckerpodcast - You're not so bad yourself!

Jeremy Cherfas

Heh. Good advice. I do in fact use Ryan’s service. One of my links in that piece points to it in case anyone else is curious.

Jeremy Cherfas

I noticed that my Like of this recent post by Chris Aldrich features a photo not from Chris's site, but from the site of the person he is talking about. That's pretty magical.

# indieweb

Jeremy Cherfas

@jgmac1106 Now you force me to be that person who points out that piranha are freshwater fish. I was willing to ignore it before.