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Professor Timothy Bates

Professor Timothy Bates

How can I motivate my child to learn during the pandemic?

Don’t think about “motivation”, think goal setting and goal attainment.

May 2, 2020

May 2, 2020

Professor Timothy Bates

TLDR: “Inspired by NASA” can mean “graphic like a thermometer”.

foot notes

Apr 27, 2020

TLDR: “Inspired by NASA” can mean “graphic like a thermometer”.

Apr 27, 2020

Professor Timothy Bates

PRINCIPLES AS INEXHAUSTIBLE RESOURCES

Scott Alexander (with whom I most often mostly agree) writes against inviting controversial speakers to bastions of free enquiry out of a…

Jun 17, 2018

PRINCIPLES AS INEXHAUSTIBLE RESOURCES

Jun 17, 2018

Professor Timothy Bates

Why I’m not on strike over UK University Pension changes

Five reasons I came to work

Feb 26, 2018

Why I’m not on strike over UK University Pension changes

Feb 26, 2018

Professor Timothy Bates

Changing the default p-value threshold for statistical significance ought not be done, and is the…

Shockingly, scientists’ claims largely fail to replicate, including claims with expensive social, economic and health consequences. This…

Jul 23, 2017

Jul 23, 2017

Professor Timothy Bates

How google can manage YouTube adverts and we all win

non-monetized videos, consumers, viewing, adverts (and money and society)

Mar 20, 2017

Mar 20, 2017

Professor Timothy Bates

Elsevier, science, & how to deploy one’s moral effort

Stimulated by this thread

Dec 15, 2016

Elsevier, science, & how to deploy one’s moral effort

Dec 15, 2016

Professor Timothy Bates

Small improvements to Android Nougat

Imprint value-add, graphical data improvements…

Nov 4, 2016

Small improvements to Android Nougat

Nov 4, 2016

Professor Timothy Bates

How should we treat replication efforts: As Urgent publications provoking a possible product recall

Imagine… if this was how we handled product recall

Aug 23, 2016

Aug 23, 2016

Professor Timothy Bates

What Keep needs to change, Evernote needs to beat them too, & Dropbox could do with papers

We’ve all been there: You start a new list-making app. And it all seems fine. Until, that is, you end up with… a bunch of lists.

Jun 30, 2016

What Keep needs to change, Evernote needs to beat them too, & Dropbox could do with papers

Jun 30, 2016

Professor Timothy Bates

Professor Timothy Bates

I study how people differ, focussing on positive psychology traits: from Optimism to IQ. Geneticist. Debunking #fakescience

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