Steve Haroz
Visual perception and cognition scientist
(he/him)
My site: http://steveharoz.com
R guide: https://r-guide.steveharoz.com
StatCheck Simple: http://statcheck.steveharoz.com
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Hats off to the great Anne "I don't do fancy" Treisman! - Reposted by Steve Haroz💀
- From the comments: "[T]o be mentioned TWICE as a thorn in the side of pedos. That’s a badge of honor I’d wear everyday. RebeccaWatsonRules" To be called "a rather nasty young woman," by Richard Dawkins is another badge of honor. @skepchick.org, always right about these heinous creatures.
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- Friends don't let friends ask open-ended uninterpretable survey questions.
- Reposted by Steve HarozLet's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...
- I like that this scale doesn't have a neutral "Unsure" or "I don't know" option. Having a neutral options conflates confidence with the decision.
- You can find all the new links on my website at solomonkurz.netlify.app/book/ 2/3
- I was thinking about how to improve the Scoville scale (a measure of spiciness) without relying on chromatography. The scale works by taking a sample of food and adding sugar water until it doesn't taste spicy. That ratio of sugar water to food is the Scoville number.
- "[ML researchers] don’t consider it a priority to get the facts right" Yup.
- "Machine learning research is not serious research & therefore hallucinated references are not necessarily a big deal, agrees prestigious group of ML researchers" I ❤️ when the titles write themselves But seriously, I don't think there's much to debate statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/26/m...
- Reposted by Steve HarozHow do people compute a sense of confidence? This question is usually addressed using very simple images because we don't know how complex stimuli are represented internally. In a new paper, we addressed this question using artificial neural networks (ANNs). journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
- Idea: A list of movies and series where an MRI can easily be turned on or off without a massive cloud of helium. The magnet is ALWAYS on.
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- Reposted by Steve Harozbeyond words to express how much i hate this... looks like "AI summary" not the author's written abstract is displayed by default for all ACM digital library publications. i, for one, didn't ask for it and hate it to my core
- Reposted by Steve HarozPossums in your yard? News got you down? Fear not, I have made playlists for the A and B sections of my ongoing Statistical Rethinking course. Click the section of your choice, sit back, and forget the possums and decay of the international order while your brain updates. github.com/rmcelreath/s...
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- In 1916, The United States bought the Little Saint James island from Denmark. It is now known as Epstein Island. I don't know what to do with that information, so I'm posting it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_...
- Reposted by Steve HarozICE’s actions tear families apart, intimidate communities, & undermine the conditions that make education, research, healthcare, & public trust possible. We’re calling on scientists to join the general anti-ICE strike in Minnesota on January 23rd.
- In the late 90s, many companies did nothing but chase the latest tech fad. What does your company do? We have a website! What does the website do? It uses the latest tech! But what do you do with that? We have a website! The result was the dotcom bust. All these AI startups look the same to me.
- Could be useful for journalists
- There are many terms to refer to a person’s sex: sex, birth sex, natal sex — and more contentiously, assigned sex at birth and biological sex. Here's our expanded guidance for journalists interested in reporting accurately about trans and intersex people: www.transjournalists.org/why-biologic...
- Apologies that the #StatsSky feed is acting finicky. I did some spam cleaning yesterday, but now it's dropping too many posts. I need to debug it, but the UI for that is rough (damn regex). Also there's no source control, so I'm always scared I'll irreparably break it.
- Can someone explain to me what problem this solves? I thought Bayesian analyses were already in plenty of clinical trial papers. Was it previously discouraged? Or often misused? What behavior is expected to change because of this doc? #StatsSky
- Reposted by Steve HarozWe've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n
- I am happy to share that our preprint “𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮: 𝗔 𝗧𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵” is now out. Huge thanks to @bayslab.org, Julie de Falco, Zahara, @cjungerius.bsky.social, @ivntmc.bsky.social, Adam, and Xiaolu for the lovely collaboration. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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- Tiptoeing back onto social media after a year away.
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- Reposted by Steve HarozAre you not a fan of journals' "enhanced online PDF viewers"? Me neither. I put together a little Firefox add-on that helps you skip the "enhanced" reader and download the PDF directly.
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- Reposted by Steve HarozHey #StatsSky, what are you favorite papers to cite when you need to justify something that is obvious (I once had a reviewer ask we justify the use of logistic regression on a binary outcome) or when you need to push-back on silly reviewer requests (e.g., asking for p-values in table 1)?
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- I've settled on an approach to giving up on TV shows: If a show has a serialized plot and goes more than 1 year between seasons, it's dead. It doesn't matter how much I like it, I cannot keep track of characters or follow a plot with a gap of more than one year.
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- Happy New Year
- Everything is more advanced and yet shittier.
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