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2023-11-26

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The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation – Economics from the Top Down

economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-autocorrelation

The Dunning-Kruger effect states that incompetent people overestimate their competence. You've heard of that before, probably. Turns out, there is a major error in the statistics: the effect is actually nothing more than an autocorrelation. If we measure the stuff correctly, the effect disappears.

2023-10-21

790.

In search of the least viewed article on Wikipedia

colinmorris.github.io/blog/unpopular-wiki-articles

2023-05-07

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research!rsc: The Magic of Sampling, and its Limitations

research.swtch.com/sample

A month after reading this article, I learned the same thing at the university.

2023-03-28

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Aaronson Oracle

people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~nick/aaronson-oracle

Press keys D and F. After some time, the site will predict your next presses. I get accuracy 73 %. There is no such thing as human-generated randomness.