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Crystal Prison Zone
Personal blog · crystalprisonzone.blogspot.comsciencecareer
Crystal Prison Zone is a personal blog at crystalprisonzone.blogspot.com about science and career. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “I tried to report scientific misconduct. How did it go?”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on science self-correction, replication and bad research, and on board and video game design. Commenters cite its posts as support or point to its reader comments.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- I tried to report scientific misconduct. How did it go?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-27
What Hacker News says?
The reasonable middle ground is, or probably should be, closer to the latter end than the former end unfortunately. Put simply, science is advertised as self-correcting but in reality it's not. Representative experience documented here: http://crystalprisonzone.blogspot.com/2021/01/i-tried-to-rep... So, the reasons people learn a generalized distrust of science are that often the sausage doesn't get made. Bad scienc…
Comment linking /2021/01/i-tried-to-report-scientific-misconduct.html
on “I can't let go of “The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation””Submitted I tried to report scientific misconduct. How did it go? as a story · 895 points
HN discussionThere's an insightful comment over here: http://crystalprisonzone.blogspot.com/2012/02/whether-they-l... """I think one of the very interesting things about modern single-player game development is that it creates exceptionally expensive content designed to appeal to everyone and be played exactly once for 8-10 hours. As anybody who plays European board games will tell you, making a game (read: the body of rules, th…
Comment linking /2012/02/whether-they-love-or-hate-story-in.html
on “Mining a 1993 game design for innovative game mechanics”Submitted Leaving academic social psychology for industry data science as a story · 3 points
HN discussionComputer games started as implementations of board games. But they have gone very far from each other. This comment nails it: * 2 points by b0rsuk 4 days ago | link | parent | on: Mining a 1993 game design for innovative game mech... There's an insightful comment over here: http://crystalprisonzone.blogspot.com/2012/02/whether-they-l... . """I think one of the very interesting things about modern single-player game…
Comment linking /2012/02/whether-they-love-or-hate-story-in.html
on “Why we still love board games”Submitted I Tried to Report Scientific Misconduct: How Did It Go? as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> I guess we're using the word replication differently. You seem to be using it to mean a general re-review and re-analysis of everything - basically a funded more aggressive peer review followed by an actual re-running of the study sometimes, if it makes sense, whereas I'm using it to just mean re-running the study exactly as originally described to check the results are the same. Yes, I think that this is the crux…
Comment linking /2021/01/i-tried-to-report-scientific-misconduct.html
on “More Fakery”
