Nothing brings out the #anecdotal evidence like a post on #climate change. “I felt a breeze today, so it couldn’t have been the hottest day on record ever.” Gtfo. Can we PLEASE start teaching the difference between personal experience and empirical data?

How I Found A New Home Online At Mastodon, After Giving Up On Twitter
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https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25834340-300-how-i-found-a-new-home-online-at-mastodon-after-giving-up-on-twitter/ <-- shared article
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“More like a village than a city, Mastodon has less cruelty and bad-faith debates than Twitter, in my experience Could it be a social media platform to trust?
IT HAS been nearly six months since Twitter’s transformation from iconic social media platform into the eccentric personal project of tech billionaire Elon Musk. [The author] abandoned [their] account last November, save for work announcements – [they] didn’t want to stick around and watch the place fall apart. Still, [they] craved a digital hangout where [they] could connect with friends and colleagues, test out [their] half-baked ideas and look at cute pictures of capybaras…”
#socialmedia #Twitter #change #Mastodon #difference #home #community #badfaith #trust #monitoring #comparasion #anecdotal

#Confabulation, false memory, or less often pseudomemory is a term in cognitive #psychology defined as a recollection of something that never happened. This can range from something as minor as misremembering an item on a list to fabricating an entire detailed, vivid #memory out of whole cloth. While it is intuitively obvious that memory is fallible, a great deal of #pseudoscience and #woo is built on the idea that all or at least some memory is infallible, as in much #anecdotal evidence. This assertion is unsupported by current evidence. Memory, in essence, is not akin to a tape recorder but a process that reconstructs past experience. This makes it highly susceptible to errors.

The foundational works relating to confabulation in #memory were produced by Frederic Bartlett & Elizabeth Loftus.

#RationalWiki #falsememory
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Confabulation

@timrichards I don't fly much, but of 3 flights within the last 2 weeks, only the Qantas one was delayed. #anecdotal

Rejuvenating properties of light, controlling #MitochondrialDysfunction. Note to myself really, but I’m going to be extending my mornings’ #FarRed #LED eye bath as much as I can. If you’ve read this far you might be interested to know my eyes’ prescription improved significantly, after 6m of 5-15mins morning sessions, through closed eyelids, of ~25W 670nm point source (LED cob) @ 20cm distance. #Anecdotal #neuroscience #RetinalHealth https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-022-00340-7

@olyscott
We passed by Mud Bay Tuesday and it was the highest I've ever seen it. Yesterday still high but less so. #Anecdotal

When someone tells us about empirical evidence, how anecdotal does it become?
#empiricism #anecdotal #evidence

@scottspeaking um OK i got Covid less than 30 days after have my bivalent booster. #anecdotal

@42runs I have run some marathons and I have Garmin HR data going back a few years if you're interested. My resting HR has got lower but I haven't really looked at how it behaved specifically after marathons. #anecdotal #runningdata #garmin

#anecdotal #BootsOnTheGroundReport from #kyoto #japan

Office manager at game company here advises on slack chat that Corona cases are increasing in Japan and the Japanese government is considering whether a "State of Emergency" needs to be declared again.

Weekly friday beer bash party advised to stop inviting outside guests, and please wear a mask when talking to other people.