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Hari Tulsidas

The EAST framework, developed by UK behavioural scientists in 2014, distils over a decade of behavioural science into four simple, actionable principles for changing behaviour effectively. It originated from a government initiative to improve public programs by applying psychological insights.

#EASTFramework #BehavioralScience #PublicPolicy

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#malcolmGladwell has another book, I guess trying to rescue his much-nitpicked #TippingPoint.

IDK if he's a net positive force in the world or not. As a #psychologist I've occasionally looked up the original #research he cites. He tends to portray findings in black-and-white terms, like "People do X in Y situation!" when, most often, I've found the research best supports something like "In some studies 12% of people did X in Y situation despite previous #models predicting it should only be 7%" or "The mean of the P group was 0.3 standard deviations higher than the mean of the Q group".

I see many of his grand arguments as built more or less on a house of cards. Or rather, built on a house of semi-firm jell-o that he treats as if it were solid bricks.

I'm not knocking (most of) the #behavioralScience he cites; Hell, I'm a behavioral scientist and I think this meta-field has a ton to offer. I just think it's important to keep #EffectSize and #PracticalSignificance built into any more complex theories or models that rely on the relevant research instead of assuming that #StatisticalSignificance means "Everything at 100%". I'm sure there's some concise way to say this.

Overall, I think he plays fast and loose with a lot of scientific facts, stacking them up as if they were all Absolutely Yes when they're actually Kinda Maybe or Probably Sort Of and I don't think the weight of the stack can be borne by the accumulated uncertainty and partial applicability indicated by the component research.

So I take everything he says with huge grains of salt and sometimes grimaces, even though I think sometimes he identifies really interesting perspectives or trends.

But is it overall good to have someone presenting behavioral research, heavily oversimplified to fit the author's pet theory? It gets behavioral science in the public eye. It helps many people with no connection to behavioral science understand the potential usefulness and perhaps scale of the fields. It also sets everyone--especially behavioral scientists--up for a fall. It's only a matter of time after each of his books before people who understand the research far better than he does show up to try to set the record straight, and then what has happened to public confidence in behavioral science?

Meh.

#statistics#data#competence
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The more I've learned about #psychology the less seriously I take the "big idea" solutions for #economy and #government like unregulated #capitalism, #libertarianism, #communism, and #socialism.

They seem to have conceptions of human behavior that are somewhere between "deeply inadequate" and "fucking stupid."

And don't anyone ever respond to this with the words "freud" or "psychodynamic."

It feels to me that all of these Big Systems go like this:
1. This would solve all of our problems
2. Kill everyone in the way, destroy every system blocking this
3. "If everyone would just ____"
4. Utopia

I want an economic/government system hammered out that truly, at its core, incorporates the past century of #BehavioralScience. I want to see a system that fundamentally, radically deals with knowledge about "human nature" including

1. Cognitive dissonance
2. About 20 serious cognitive biases
3. Group identity, striving for ingroup status, etc.
4. Fundamental irrationality of human cognition (not just "OMG it's irrational," but actually dealing with the specifics; closely related to #2, above)
5. Self-serving bias (like in #2, but this one seems to merit its own bullet point, as it's related to how individuals can be Fausted into doing antisocial things)
6. The "power" of extremely self-serving people (e.g., psychopaths) to hamstring fair and transparent processes
7. A bunch of group dynamics stuff from sociology and political science and anthropology that I don't really know about

If your utopian system has anything in its user manual like "Then all good people will..." it's going to be a disaster. Give me something with a reasonable chance of non-disaster. Give me something based on what we actually know about human nature, not someone's armchair fantasy.

Flipboard Science Desk

Does fidgeting really help you focus? According to science, it depends.

From @popsci: "Both children and adults diagnosed with ADHD who engage in more intrinsic movements (measured with devices placed on the wrists and ankles) during a task perform better, based on two separate studies involving dozens of participants."

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Popular Science · Does fidgeting really help you focus?According to science, it depends.
#Psychiatry#Psychology#Brain
Scientific Frontline

Poor #sleep habits are strongly associated with long-term chronic health conditions, according to decades of research. To better understand this relationship, a team led by researchers in Penn State’s College of Health and Human Development identified four distinct patterns that characterize how most people sleep.
#BehavioralScience #Psychology #Medical #sflorg
sflorg.com/2024/03/psy03122401

www.sflorg.comResearchers identify distinct sleep types and their impact on long-term healthResearchers identify distinct sleep types and their impact on long-term health
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