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New comment by dereify in "Whalesong patterns follow a universal law of human language, new research finds"

dereify — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 19:49:42 +0000

Ofc nobody reads papers saying your methods are trash; if they read it they simply ignore it.

Fwiw Pearson correlation does not assume normally distributed variables, what people usually mean is homoscedascity (normality of residuals) is an assumption for parametric hypothesis testing.

New comment by dereify in "Self Learners"

dereify — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 10:35:21 +0000

completely self-taught use of ChatGPT, i assume

New comment by dereify in "Scientists discover links between Alzheimer's disease and gut microbiota"

dereify — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 21:59:41 +0000

i was under the impression that DG adult neurogenesis was pretty much settled? is there any controversy abt this?

New comment by dereify in "Introduction to Modern Statistics"

dereify — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 10:22:09 +0000

fyi many state-of-the-art statistical libraries exist (or are properly maintained) in R only

New comment by dereify in "Finding Language in the Brain"

dereify — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 23:45:59 +0000

For anyone interested in actual neurocomputational theories I can highly recommend the work of Friedemann Pulvermueller.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030100821...