{"id":727,"date":"2022-03-07T10:53:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T09:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/?p=727"},"modified":"2022-01-30T10:55:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T09:55:05","slug":"rationality-by-steven-pinker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/?p=727","title":{"rendered":"Rationality by Steven Pinker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.se\/Rationality-What-Seems-Scarce-Matters\/dp\/0241380278\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2PT7RQPP2AL6C&amp;keywords=rationality&amp;qid=1643536440&amp;sprefix=rationality%2Caps%2C93&amp;sr=8-1\">Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters : Pinker, Steven: Amazon.se: B\u00f6cker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">I\u2019ve read this book because I wanted to get some inspiration from social sciences. What I ended up with is a book about Bayesian statistics and its consequences. To some extent, I\u2019m happy to have read it, because I got a better view of how to use Bayesian statistics in practice. Yet, I am a bit disappointed. Not about the statistics, but about the book. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A while back I read the book by Judea Pearl about Bayesian networks and this role in statistics. That book was about something new and a bit fresh. It got my interest and I felt refreshed after I read it. This book was a bit too much of a repetition. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I like repetition and I like the style of Steven Pinker (he is one of my role models when it comes to academic writing). \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book is about making inferences by calculating probabilities using Bayes theorem. It explain them very well and shows how they are used and misused in modern society &#8211; from politics to medical diagnoses. The book shows a few tricks to make better decisions and inferences. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I guess I need to read it once more in order to get a better taste of its distinct flavor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters : Pinker, Steven: Amazon.se: B\u00f6cker I\u2019ve read this book because I wanted to get some inspiration from social sciences. What I ended up with is a book about Bayesian statistics and its consequences. To some extent, I\u2019m happy to have read it, because I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/?p=727\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rationality by Steven Pinker&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrics.blogg.gu.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}