No limit on stupid

wildforthecats · Post by **wildforthecats** » Tue Jun 06, 2017 9:22 am

Slowcat's name is really Slowcat...awesome! I'm changing my name to Durin.

stevelee · Post by **stevelee** » Tue Jun 06, 2017 9:49 am

When I met bagelcat in person, I asked his real name. He said that bagel is his real name.

Post by **i77cat** » Tue Jun 06, 2017 9:54 am

Not surprisingly, his real name isn't bagel. The name that everyone calls him is also not his real name.

wildforthecats · Post by **wildforthecats** » Tue Jun 06, 2017 10:09 am

i77cat wrote:Not surprisingly, his real name isn't bagel. The name that everyone calls him is also not his real name.

Everything Bagel.

Post by **dorp** » Tue Jun 06, 2017 10:25 am

stevelee wrote:When I met bagelcat in person, I asked his real name. He said that bagel is his real name.

At the Bosh with JAM1 on Saturday, I said "Say hi to bagel". JAM1 said "I don't want a bagel".

cat44 · Post by **cat44** » Tue Jun 06, 2017 10:39 am

slowcat95 wrote:
slowcat95 wrote:
I got this in my work email today. I usually get one or two solicitations like this a week. This one, however, is particularly amusing. The scary ones are the ones that don't read like they were written by yahoo translate.

"Dear slowcat,

Greetings from Journal of Remote Sensing & GIS

We have read your article “ xxxx ”, it's attention-grabbing and contains a really valuable data. Subsequent to experiencing your article we can't avoid our self to raise you to contribute your knowledge for our journal.

We tend to assure you that we will provide considerable discount on publication fee that may positively satisfy you and can confirm to publish your article as early as possible.

Please reply us on your possibility of contribution, we will be awaiting for your response.

Thanks & Regards,
Elena Evans
Journal Manager
Remote Sensing & GIS
5716 Corsa Ave, Suite 110
Westlake, Los Angeles
CA 91362-7354, USA"

Sounds like the princes who try to send me money, that always get deposited in Spam.

wildforthecats · Post by **wildforthecats** » Tue Jun 06, 2017 10:56 am

dorp wrote:
stevelee wrote:When I met bagelcat in person, I asked his real name. He said that bagel is his real name.
At the Bosh with JAM1 on Saturday, I said "Say hi to bagel". JAM1 said "I don't want a bagel".

Bagel needs to keep his old Wildcat baseball jersey unwashed until Davidson wins the College World Series.

slowcat95 · Post by **slowcat95** » Tue Jun 06, 2017 11:10 am

cat44 wrote:
Sounds like the princes who try to send me money, that always get deposited in Spam.

Yeah...except people routinely fall for these. Especially the ones that are written by native English speakers. Publish or perish, even if it's in a predatory journal.

MLC67 · Post by **MLC67** » Tue Jun 06, 2017 12:14 pm

What's really odd is not that Slowcat really is Slowcat (I'm told the Judge who legally changed her name from Speedy was quite perplexed); instead, it is the very strange name she gave her paper: "XXXX" Was it porn

slowcat95 · Post by **slowcat95** » Tue Jun 06, 2017 12:17 pm

MLC67 wrote:What's really odd is not that Slowcat really is Slowcat (I'm told the Judge who legally changed her name from Speedy was quite perplexed); instead, it is the very strange name she gave her paper: "XXXX" Was it porn

Like they say, it is "attention-grabbing"

Rudy2011 · Post by **Rudy2011** » Tue Jun 06, 2017 12:28 pm

slowcat95 wrote:
MLC67 wrote:What's really odd is not that Slowcat really is Slowcat (I'm told the Judge who legally changed her name from Speedy was quite perplexed); instead, it is the very strange name she gave her paper: "XXXX" Was it porn
Like they say, it is "attention-grabbing"

4 X's...I can only imagine what has to be in there to warrant a 4th X

Post by **dorp** » Tue Jun 06, 2017 1:41 pm

Rudy2011 wrote:
slowcat95 wrote:
MLC67 wrote:What's really odd is not that Slowcat really is Slowcat (I'm told the Judge who legally changed her name from Speedy was quite perplexed); instead, it is the very strange name she gave her paper: "XXXX" Was it porn
Like they say, it is "attention-grabbing"
4 X's...I can only imagine what has to be in there to warrant a 4th X

The 10th video in the series?

stan · Post by **stan** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 12:45 am

Airball50 wrote:"Especially since no one ever checks the statistical work and computer code that is so critical to the results." -- Stan

As each of us knows so well, all generalizations are false.

There is no grant money for replication. Everyone is chasing grant money. That isn't my quote by the way. That's from an academic who spent years trying to get scientists to understand what quality is.

Read the climategate emails to get a real good sense of just how pathetic science has become.

Read Tetlock's work. Or Future Babble written about it by a NY Times science reporter. Read John Ioannidis stuff. Most papers are flawed. The stats are bungled. p values are crap. And no one can predict the future.

stevelee · Post by **stevelee** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 2:09 am

Almost all studies come to the same conclusion, no matter the topic: More research is needed, and therefore more grants should be given to study the question.

The level of unanimity across all disciplines is staggering.

A publish-or-perish system is strongly weighted to facilitate the former. That should surprise no one.

slowcat95 · Post by **slowcat95** » Wed Jun 07, 2017 6:15 am

stan wrote:
Read the climategate emails to get a real good sense of just how pathetic science has become.

Read Tetlock's work. Or Future Babble written about it by a NY Times science reporter. Read John Ioannidis stuff. Most papers are flawed. The stats are bungled. p values are crap. And no one can predict the future.

In my experience, science isn't pathetic. It's difficult, and the best research rarely gets seen publicly. But that doesn't mean science is pathetic. Indeed, the vast majority of science is good, but the vast majority of science isn't what the public The public sees the flamboyant pieces, and those are usually crap. As scientists, we need to do a better job of disseminating our work and making sure its relevant. But we can't help it when bad eggs shamelessly promote bad work (and when the media jumps on it).

You are generalizing from a crappy subset.