For en tid tilbake la jeg til Daniel Lakens blogg i bloggrullen. Det er det noen gode grunner til, akkurat som for de andre nye. Siden jeg har lagt ut et foredrag med Dan Kahan, kan jeg jo fortsette med Lakens i kortform.
Med utgangspunkt i Einstein som forsker og kulturelt ikon, snakker han her enkelt om hvordan
We are biased to see patterns where there are none, and do not appreciate or reward randomness. We like to think remarkable things were meant to happen, but is this really true? We would love to be able to predict when remarkable things will happen, but we can’t. Daniel speaks to make you think about whether you should try to do remarkable things, or not, and if we should reward randomness more than remarkableness.