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Jonas Kristoffer Lindeløv
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Jonas Kristoffer Lindeløv writes Neuroscience, stats, and coding, a personal blog at lindeloev.net about science and data. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “New PNAS paper: Income is a poor way to improve well-being”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Lindeløv's posts criticising a PNAS paper that found well-being rises with income, arguing its tiny effect size and log-scaled income axis undercut its conclusions. Also linked on brain connections and girls maturing faster.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- New PNAS paper: Income is a poor way to improve well-being3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-01-26
What Hacker News says?
This new paper actually makes conclusions that are the opposite of what their own data shows: > Two things to note here. (1) the x-axis is logarithmic. There's a HUGE difference in income between the rightmost points. (2) the y-axis spans a TINY effect size. And TINY / HUGE = EVEN TINIER. 3/7 > A randomly sampled highest-income participant ($480.000) would have lower well-being than a randomly sampled lowest-income…
Comment linking /new-pnas-paper-income-is-a-poor-way-to-improve-well-being/
on “Experienced well-being rises with income, even above $75,000 per year”Submitted New PNAS paper: Income is a poor way to improve well-being as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis new paper actually makes conclusions that are the opposite of what the data shows: * https://twitter.com/jonaslindeloev/status/135383426475696537... * https://lindeloev.net/new-pnas-paper-income-is-a-poor-way-to...
Comment linking /new-pnas-paper-income-is-a-poor-way-to-improve-well-being/
on “Experienced well-being rises with income, even above $75,000 per year”Submitted Income is a poor way to improve well-being as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYes, "shoddy research" is unfair. But the scientists went way overboard with their interpretation, given how tiny the differences were. I don't read Jezebel or Feministe, but here are a couple of less mainstream links on the subject: http://lindeloev.net/?p=64 http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/12/getting-in-a-tangl... There are many interesting analyses linked from this Storify: http://storify.com/deevybee/post…
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on “Brain connections may explain why girls mature faster”