Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "Hasanabi reacts to "Men's rights vs. feminism"" video.
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@JollyWanker
Question, for someone who has WAY more knowledge on this than me. Should I even bother with learning on my own? From my own pov, I could be learning alot but in actuality it could be bullshit or no one's there to correct my cognitive biases.
Specifically, I want to learn to read through and accurately interpret scientific literature but I've heard that it's (ironically) more of an art than a science because so much context is needed to parse out the information coherently.
Ex: recognize manipulating p-values and correlation coefficients, know whether the organization that funded it has a bias, watch for scale altering in graphs, be able to get through the structure of a paper without falling asleep and/or getting confused, understand the minutia in wording like random sample vs simple random sample, know the hierarchy of information like meta-analysis being more reliable than survey, etc etc.
If there is a way to interpret it better, could you recommend anything? So much news always links back to a scientific paper and it's almost always exaggerated in the article, I want to get past that hopefully.
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