#Cognitive

In life, you often find yourself having to pick between the lesser of two evils. I can understand after 4 years of the two minutes of hate campaign run by
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1/ Kudos to @CMSGov for following through on intentions to increase relative pay for "the kind of care where clinicians need to spend more face-to-face time with patients, like primary
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I’m not sure why so many of us, at one time or another,find ourselves in such dense thickets of thought about this but let me try&find the nearest secateurs of
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The current FLO / http://FurryLife.Online  discourse really could use a part 2 of this so here we go. This will be a long thread, hope you like reading! https://twitter.com/LDDraws/status/1295583203692916736 The
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10 Cognitive Biases We Should Never Fall Prey To [Thread]1. Anchoring Bias The tendency to place excessive weight on one piece of information - used in sale prices a lot
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One common characteristic of pre-verbal toddler cognition is believed to be poor or absent object constancy: infants and toddlers may not understand that things exist objectively and permanently out of
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Thinking about "API companies", with a strong group of them in the @ycombinator demo days.Thread and assessment of some of those companies: First - a company that has APIs ≠
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There is a concept in physics know as relativity.Here’s how it works and why it’s one of the most useful concepts to understand for everyday life. Relativity says it
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Highlighting researchers studying sex differences: a thread of amazing scientists you should follow! #SABV (@ this account and use #SABVscientists if you'd like to be added!) . @jordanmarrocco is a
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During March 3 briefing when BJ was 'still shaking hands' the upbeat tone stood in sharp contrast with the growing unease of many of the govt’s scientific advisers behind the
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Use of care and mortality due to corona in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Estonia; data from yesterday 8.4 reports. Read the whole thread. (English version)Fig 1. Number of
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I know that it's thematically relevant that Goro is not included in the five VIPs you get letters from but go with me for a second: imagine if he WAS
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A 4-yr old who randomly won a seat in Boston preschool:-likelihood of graduating HS (6 p.p.)-likelihood of attending college (5.4 p.p.)-suspensions and likelihood of juvenile incarceration-likelihood of SAT above bottom
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The CODES trial – an RCT of cognitive behavioural therapy for dissociative (functional) seizures are published in @TheLancetPsych today. This thread will explore the results 1/https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S2215-0366(20)30128-0
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THREAD ON THE SOCIAL DILEMMAInteresting push back against my critique of the self-important Netflix dochttps://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1304796478892843010.htmlI stand by my conclusion that these self-flagellating programmers are delusion
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Over the next months and years, there will be many people exiting cultic bonds and beginning the often torturous process of healing their brains, hearts, and relationships. Some will have
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