User Researcher. Survey methodologist. Exploring & applying human-centred design, UX & behavioural science.
Canberra, Australia
Joined October 2009
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Steve Cohen retweeted
Years ago when my wife and I we were planning to buy our home, my dad stunned me with a quick mental calculation of loan payments. I asked him how - he said he'd learned the strange formula for compound interest from his father, who was a merchant in 19th century Iran.
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Dating in the age of the Internet: 1995 vs. 2017
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Provocative argument: Google Scholar (and its citation indexing predecessors) is the cause of the great stagnation in breakthrough innovation. By rewarding citation count, science has unknowingly shifted its emphasis from novelty to incremental work. nber.org/system/files/workin…
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The replies in this thread are disappointing. Paper prototyping: 1) is fast & fluid 2) allows u to sketch at speed of thought 3) is not restrained by limits or demands of a digital tool 4) elicits conversation in feedback 5) doesn’t hijack user’s brain like digital does.
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Sad to hear today of the death of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. He contributed so much through his research on creativity, which helped me decide to do a PhD, happiness, his concept of flow - which guides me daily - and more.
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A lot of smart observations in replies.
I think the lesson from Apple is not to forgo user research, but rather to focus on thinking HARD about what you see from users rather than taking it at face value.
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Steve Cohen retweeted
Do you play computer chess?
In 1957 economist and artificial intelligence pioneer Herbert Simon was one of the first people to predict that computer chess would surpass human chess abilities.
The chess set pictured belonged to Simon, who was born #OTD 1916.
Steve Cohen retweeted
*Strongly* recommend this comprehensive review of just how much COVID19 vaccines reduce the risk of transmitting the virus to others. Tell the hesitant: the vaccines protect both you and protect others -- a lot! @mugecevik @AaronRichterman @EricMeyerowitz academic.oup.com/ofid/advanc…
Steve Cohen retweeted
Nice does not equal weak. I hate the double standards that get created! How about we pour our efforts into editing the culture and environment women are in, rather than edit the woman.
Steve Cohen retweeted
Innovation & entrepreneurship is something you learn! The more practice you have, the better you get!
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Public service announcement: You can’t refute evidence with opinions.
When you disagree with data, you have 3 options:
1. Find better data
2. Identify limitations of the existing data
3. Consider the possibility that you were wrong, and have the humility & integrity to admit it
Steve Cohen retweeted
Since all models are wrong, we will never have a grand unifying prescriptive model, and will instead of have an infinite set of of models. And since biases are just deviations from models, the paradigm is not currently set-up to have less than an infinite set of biases.
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Steve Cohen retweeted
Evolution of Bird Brains
🐦 Before the asteroid, birds had similar-sized brains to other dinosaurs
🐦 Afterwards, they diversified
🐦 Some still have relatively small brains
🐦 But others, like corvids and parrots, evolved bigger brains + greater smarts
cell.com/current-biology/ful…
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NOISE: A FLAW IN HUMAN JUDGMENT: After years of intense work , the authors are done. Here's a screenshot of Daniel Kahneman, @SibOliv & yours truly, from yesterday, during an online champagne celebration. The book will be out in May. @lbsparkbooks @WmCollinsBooks @ArabellaPike
Steve Cohen retweeted
OH: Changing random stuff until your program works is bad coding practice, but if you do it fast enough it's Machine Learning.
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The number of people who die from Covid-19 worldwide per day has never been as high as in recent weeks. Over 10.000 each day.
1.5 million people have died so far from confirmed Covid-19 cases. That is almost 4 times more than the number of people who died of malaria last year.
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"Individuals are largely incapable of distinguishing between AI- and human-generated text." cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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Interesting vaccine framing during polio to increase acceptance, pointed out by @cwhe in @WIRED wired.com/story/covid-19-vac…
