Lars P. Syll

The atomic hypothesis which has worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics. We are faced at every turn with the problems of Organic Unity, of Discreteness, of Discontinuity – the whole is not equal to the sum of the parts, comparisons of quantity fails us, small changes produce large effects, the assumptions of a uniform and homogeneous continuum are not satisfied. Thus the results of Mathematical Psychics turn out to be derivative, not fundamental, indexes, not...

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Eleverna på Römosseskolan i Göteborg har delats upp i grupper efter kön och undervisats separat i bland annat idrott, engelska och slöjd. I en rapport som Skolinspektion gjort framkommer att skolan haft könsseparerade lektioner sedan den startades – för 22 år sedan. Först efter en lagändring gav myndigheten förra året skolan kritik för könsuppdelningen – vilken i våras ännu inte åtgärdats. SVT Nyheter Väst har tidigare berättat om den fristående F-9-skolan Römosseskolan med...

Paul Krugman — a case of dangerous neglect of methodological reflection Alex Rosenberg — chair of the philosophy department at Duke University, renowned economic methodologist and author of Economics — Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns? — had an interesting article on What’s Wrong with Paul Krugman’s Philosophy of Economics in 3:AM Magazine a couple of years ago. Writes Rosenberg: When he accepts maximizing and equilibrium as the...

People who have their heads fuddled with nonsense The Conservative belief that there is some law of nature which prevents men from being employed, that it is “rash” to employ men, and that it is financially ‘sound’ to maintain a tenth of the population in idleness for an indefinite period, is crazily improbable – the sort of thing which no man could believe who had not had his head fuddled with nonsense for years and years… Our main task, therefore, will be...

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RCTs and the limits of evidence-based policies There is something paradoxical about Michael Gove’s recent speech calling for government to be “rigorous and fearless in its evaluation of policy and projects.” It’s that his praise for evidence-based policy has come in a year when we’ve seen that policy should sometimes not be based on rigorous evidence … It’s sometimes hard to extrapolate the results of the RCTs lauded by Gove. They “prove”, for example, that...

 [embedded content] Think of all the hate there is in Red China! Then take a look around to Selma, Alabama! Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space But when your return, it’s the same old place

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