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A reanalysis of an old episode

Posted on Author KinoPosted in Life in Academia, Scattered Plot
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Kino specializes in the philosophy of statistics and its application in the social sciences. She looks at the methodology of social sciences in general but psychology in particular through the lens of data analysis. Kino posts under the banner "Scattered Plot".
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I know it’s been a while. Basically, I want to keep this blog <50% rant. And I felt like I was about 50%, so I didn’t want to post something ranty. Unfortunately, I didn’t have anything non-ranty to post. So I didn’t post. Today I’m writing about an epiphany I just had. You know how…

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Waiting for permission

Posted on Author KinoPosted in Life in Academia, Scattered Plot
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Kino specializes in the philosophy of statistics and its application in the social sciences. She looks at the methodology of social sciences in general but psychology in particular through the lens of data analysis. Kino posts under the banner "Scattered Plot".
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I recently graduated (yay!), which means I am in a long and sometimes painful process of handing over various service obligations to the very few people who, chances are, have already been disproportionally burdened. But this will not be a primarily ranty post; I promise. I have noticed a strange phenomenon lately. As is typical,…

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Six years in retrospect

Posted on Author KinoPosted in For reference, Life in Academia, Scattered Plot
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Kino specializes in the philosophy of statistics and its application in the social sciences. She looks at the methodology of social sciences in general but psychology in particular through the lens of data analysis. Kino posts under the banner "Scattered Plot".
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Alysha Kassam (same cohort as me) and I are the first two women of color ever graduating from my PhD program. I’ve always read about people being firsts and wondered what it’s like, which makes it a little surprising it took me this long to realize that I am one, too. I suppose one reason…

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Troubleshooting is off-CV DEI work

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Kino specializes in the philosophy of statistics and its application in the social sciences. She looks at the methodology of social sciences in general but psychology in particular through the lens of data analysis. Kino posts under the banner "Scattered Plot".
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Diversity statements are becoming common in job searches. Contrary to what you might think, I actually like these statements, in much of the same way as I believe in the value of forcing people to pitch valuable research (aka grant writing). I don’t know how seriously diversity statements are taken — probably somewhere between what…

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Intentions don’t matter part II

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Kino specializes in the philosophy of statistics and its application in the social sciences. She looks at the methodology of social sciences in general but psychology in particular through the lens of data analysis. Kino posts under the banner "Scattered Plot".
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A short thought. But since I haven’t been writing much lately (I, like most people I know, have been politically depressed in the past month or so), I thought I’d start small. Years ago I read Anscombe’s Intention in a reading group. I have no background in anything remotely related to philosophy of action, so my…

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Intentions don’t matter

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Kino specializes in the philosophy of statistics and its application in the social sciences. She looks at the methodology of social sciences in general but psychology in particular through the lens of data analysis. Kino posts under the banner "Scattered Plot".
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I haven’t been blogging much lately because of political depression. I’d like to try to write something I’ve been thinking for quite some time today. I was talking with a friend, who wanted to talk about why some people are “inconsistently good/bad”. There’s a social media post that we both read. The post goes like…

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Community building and staying grounded during the pandemic lockdown

Posted on Author JingyiPosted in Curved Trajectories, Life in Academia
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Jingyi studies the philosophy of physics and social epistemology. She thinks about possibility spaces in spacetime theories, the role of infinite idealizations in scientific explanations, and values in science. She also organizes for MAP International.
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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold, many are scrambling to adjust to the new life under quarantine. For me, UC Irvine announced on March 9 that we’d move all the operations online. During the ensuing three weeks of staying at home, I’ve watched the number of cases in the US surge past that in…

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Some reflections on doing “service” things and getting them done

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Kino specializes in the philosophy of statistics and its application in the social sciences. She looks at the methodology of social sciences in general but psychology in particular through the lens of data analysis. Kino posts under the banner "Scattered Plot".
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The Wonder Philosophy workshop, which aims at helping students from disadvantaged backgrounds (mostly first-gen, but also financial hardship and women of colour) who are interested in applying to philosophy graduate schools to navigate the process, has just concluded this past weekend. (I wrote a post about it back when it was still in the planning…

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