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False Dichotomies (Presentation Slides, German)

2019-10-04 | Reading time: 1 minute

Slides (in German) about false dichotomies (a rhetorical fallacy), expanded to cover false moral dichotomies (going back to Haidt and referring Boghossian's and Lindsay's book «How to have impossible conversations»).
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The Right Kind of Wrong. Or: Using bad practice just because it’s industry standard.

2019-07-30 | Reading time: 1 minute

What do you do when something is "industry standard", but clearly inferior. Yet, you get into trouble when you do it better, because people don't recognize it as better?
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Regulating citizens to the mean (with an SD of 0)

2019-06-05 | Reading time: 5 minutes

There are currently a few ... interesting developments that cast a deep shadow on future creativity. At least, that how it appears to me. It’s not that the situation is a problem now, but there is a trend, and I don’t like where it leads.
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Great Introduction to R (esp when you come from SPSS or the like)

2019-02-05 | Reading time: Less than a minute

The audio is terrible but Hadley Wickham's presentation gives a very good introduction into R — and why it's better than using a GUI based software like SPSS or Excel.
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Recommendation: The Rubin Report (esp. Dr. Everett Piper Interview)

2019-02-05 | Reading time: 1 minute

Can't say I'm a fan of religious institutions, but Dr. Everett Pipers Interview on "The Rubin Report" is worth watching.
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Good academic advisors

2018-12-10 | Reading time: 1 minute

A comment on good academic advisors (leadership) ... and not so good advisors.
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The pathology of ideological possession

2018-12-04 | Reading time: 2 minutes

A short clip from a Jordan Peterson interview — well worth watching.
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Introduction to R presentation (German)

2018-11-09 | Reading time: Less than a minute

Just a short posting about a presentation I did on Friday, 9th of November, 2018.
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Recommendation: «The Fountainhead» by Ayn Rand

2018-10-06 | Reading time: 1 minute

Not the shortest book, and not that easy to read, but totally worth it — among others for its interesting look on creative and non-creative people, and the forces at odds in society.
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Don’t underestimate Ducks

2018-09-02 | Reading time: 1 minute

Students in interdisciplinary subjects can sometimes feel like ducks — they can do everything, but nothing well. Well, they are underestimating ducks.
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