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In 2007, psychology researchers Michal Kosinski and David Stillwell released a personality testing app on Facebook app called myPersonality.

In December 2015, Robert Cordwell and I cofounded Signal Data Science (website), which we announced on Less Wrong. Our first cohort has ju

Note: We now have a website with up to date information here: http://signaldatascience.com/. (This post is coauthored with Robert Cordwel

Is statistics beyond introductory statistics important for general reasoning? Ideas such as regression to the mean, that correlation does

tl;dr: If you struggle with motivational problems, it's likely that the problem is not intrinsic to you, but instead that you haven't yet fo

I've often heard LWers describe themselves as having autism, or Asperger's Syndrome (which is no longer considered a valid construct, and wa

At age 17, my future looked very promising. I had overcome a crippling learning disability, and discovered how to do research level math on

Something that I've come to realize is that as a practical matter, intellectually gifted people who haven't developed very strong ability in

The social justice movement espouses the notion that people who are privileged are often unfairly judgmental of those who were less privileg

When I state a position and offer evidence for it, people sometimes complain that the evidence that I've given doesn't suffice to establish