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At my college, there's a week before Spring Semester each year in which anyone who wants to can teach a class on any subject, and students g

Hey Less Wrong, I'm currently taking a cognitive psychology class, and will be designing and conducting a research project in the field —

Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases is one of the foundational works on the flaws of human reasoning, and as such gets cited a

After seeing it constantly referenced in the Sequences and elsewhere, I've picked up Kahneman and Tversky's book/collection of papers Judgme

I'm seeking suggestions for a calculus textbook that I could use to teach myself the subject. Details: [Personal details removed.] I kno

A major psychology journal is planning to publish a study that claims to present strong evidence for precognition. Naturally, this immediate

All the meetup announcements get promoted, so the front page ends up full of 'em: half of it right now (5/10) is meetup announcements, and w

One unfortunate feature I’ve noticed in arguments between logically well-trained people and the untrained is a tendency for members of the f