This was an excellent research summary! I love seeing people write up scientific studies from outside the EA-sphere (this one had some EA links, but I wasn’t familiar with either author).
This sort of thing gives Forum readers a better knowledge base on which to build theories and models; even if any individual study might be flawed, I’m still excited to see more of them get written up, since I’d hope that any given study sheds at least a bit of light on net.
If EA gets the tag feature from Lesswrong, there can easily be a repository of summaries of important papers. That seems quite valuable, given the alternative is science journalism which is geared towards random results and a more unsophisticated audience. Update: EA does have tags. I’ll ping in the relevant post for a “research summary” tag.
Mentioning writing summaries of research papers on an EA advice page is a good way to spread the norm. Based on research on learning (and common sense), this will also help the author to consolidate their new insights in their own brain.
This was an excellent research summary! I love seeing people write up scientific studies from outside the EA-sphere (this one had some EA links, but I wasn’t familiar with either author).
This sort of thing gives Forum readers a better knowledge base on which to build theories and models; even if any individual study might be flawed, I’m still excited to see more of them get written up, since I’d hope that any given study sheds at least a bit of light on net.
If EA gets the tag feature from Lesswrong, there can easily be a repository of summaries of important papers. That seems quite valuable, given the alternative is science journalism which is geared towards random results and a more unsophisticated audience. Update: EA does have tags. I’ll ping in the relevant post for a “research summary” tag. Mentioning writing summaries of research papers on an EA advice page is a good way to spread the norm. Based on research on learning (and common sense), this will also help the author to consolidate their new insights in their own brain.