
Steven Pinker on Rationality, Psychology, Language, & More
The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss
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How to Write a Book in Psychology
I'm always amazed that somehow maybe psychology is less intimidating than physics probably because... I think it's an understatement. You do actually begin the book with puzzles which is a wonderful thing. In certain ways, and in certain ways, as you also point out, it's Bayesian but not Bayesian because the priors are often things we want to be true rather than our true. Now, Bayes has changed... In my own field of physics, it changed everything. And even though I've used it, I still have to always go back and kind of remember its basis every time I think about it. That's why I was so pleased that you actually did that. If people are
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