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Divergent impacts of explainable AI for dermatological diagnosis on clinicians versus lay people
Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly permeating healthcare, from serving as a physician assistant to powering consumer applications. The opacity of AI algorithms makes the ability of humans to interact with AI algorithms challenging. To overcome this limitation, explainable AI (XAI) provides insight into AI decision-making, but evidence suggests that XAI can paradoxically induce bias in the human decision-making process.
Persuading voters using human–artificial intelligence dialogues
Abstract There is great public concern about the potential use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) for political persuasion and the resulting impacts on elections and democracy1,2,3,4,5,6. We inform these concerns using pre-registered experiments to assess the ability of large language models to influence voter attitudes.
An experimental manipulation of the value of effort - Nature Human Behaviour
Abstract People who take on challenges and persevere longer are more likely to succeed in life. But individuals often avoid exerting effort, and there is limited experimental research investigating whether we can learn to value effort. We developed a paradigm to test the hypothesis that people can learn to value effort and will seek effortful challenges if directly incentivized to do so. We also dissociate the effects of rewarding people for choosing effortful challenges and performing well.
How effective are TikTok misinformation debunking videos?
Article Metrics Peer Reviewed TikTok provides opportunity for citizen-led debunking where users correct other users’ misinformation. In the present study (N=1,169), participants either watched and rated the credibility of (1) a misinformation video, (2) a correction video, or (3) a misinformation video followed by a correction video (“debunking”).
The Average Reward Rate Modulates Behavioral and Neural Indices of Effortful Control Allocation
People tend to avoid exerting cognitive effort, and findings from recent behavioral studies suggest that effort allocation is in part determined by the opportunity cost of slothful responding—operationalized as the average reward rate per unit time. When the average rate of reward is high, individuals make more errors in cognitive control tasks, presumably owing to a withdrawal of costly cognitive processing.
Cognitive effort for self, strangers, and charities - Scientific Reports
Abstract Effort is aversive and often avoided, even when earning benefits for oneself. Yet, people sometimes work hard for others. How do people decide who is worth their effort? Prior work shows people avoid physical effort for strangers relative to themselves, but invest more physical effort for charity. Here, we find that people avoid cognitive effort for others relative to themselves, even when the cause is a personally meaningful charity.
Promises and Perils of Experimentation: The Mutual-Internal-Validity Problem
Anderson, C. A., Lindsay, J. J., Bushman, B. J. (1999). Research in the psychological laboratory: Truth or triviality. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 8(1), 3–9. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8721.00002 Google Scholar Andersson, F. N., Holm, H. (2002). Experimental economics: Financial markets, auctions, and decision making: Interviews and contributions from the 20th Arne Ryde Symposium. Springer Science & Business Media. Google Scholar | Crossref Apps, M. A., Rushworth, M. F., Chang, S. W. (2016).
Why Take Notes: 3 Common Misconceptions and 3 Better Mindsets
Note-taking No, retaining shouldn’t be the goal of note-taking. The prolific scholar, Niklas Luhmann, used index cards for his now famous Zettelkasten note-taking system. Photo by Maksym Kaharlytskyi on Unsplash Have you ever asked yourself what’s the point of taking notes? If you think it’s to remember, read on, because it’s a common misconception. Like many things in life, taking notes has become so customary and ingrained in our routines that we’ve stopped reflecting on why we do so.
Take Better Notes With This Free Note-Taking App That Wants to Be Your Second Brain
NOTE-TAKING Obsidian makes connecting ideas easy and helps you think and write better Obsidian’s multi-pane editor and graph view (other themes are available). Screenshot by the author. Obsidian might be the note-taking app we’ve been waiting for. It wants to be your second brain. It lets you capture your ideas and take notes in text (Markdown) files, and most importantly, it easily connects your notes and visualizes connections among them. It’s perfect for discovering insights from your notes.
Reshape R dataframes wide-to-long with melt — tutorial and visualization
The only function and tutorial you’ll ever need Summary of how melt() in R works How do you reshape a dataframe from wide to long form in R? How does the melt() function reshape dataframes in R? This tutorial will walk you through reshaping dataframes using the melt function in R. If you’re reshaping Python pandas dataframes or arrays, check out my tutorials below. Common terms for this wide-to-long transformation are melt, pivot-long, unpivot, gather, stack.
What I’ve Learned After Using Vim 15 Days Straight
Frustrated. Struggled moving the cursor. I learned to navigate and move the cursor with hjkl and about editing modes in Vim: normal, insert, and visual. I also learned how to delete text with d, copy or yank with y, and select with v. I struggled editing text and didn’t get much work done. Most of my time was spent searching for solutions on the internet or staring into my display, struggling to remember which keys to press. Vim users often remap the Caps Lock key to ^ Control Painful and slow.
Make a face mask with just a sock in 5 minutes
Anyone can publish on Medium per our Policies, but we don’t fact-check every story. For more info about the coronavirus, see cdc.gov. Make a reusable mask with just one sock and scissors Make a face mask in 12 easy steps (no sewing required). Only a sock and scissors are necessary. Face masks are becoming the new normal. Instead of buying disposable ones, you can easily make one yourself— with just a sock and a pair of scissors.
How to Have More Willpower By Not Using it
We usually think of willpower as an ability that helps us inhibit and suppress thoughts, temptations, negative emotions, and distractions. Given how frequently we’re tempted or distracted by events every day, it seems like willpower is key to productivity and a good life. But using willpower to resist temptations and distractions is one of the least effective strategies for regulating your behavior. Successful people try to avoid having to use willpower.
New Python library for statistical tests — simpler than statsmodels, richer than scipy.stats
STATISTICAL MODELS IN PYTHON Statistical modeling made easier Pingouin statistical modeling Python library Python’s statsmodels and scipy libraries are incredible. But when it comes to performing simple but the most widely-used statistical tests like the t-test, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and regression, these two libraries seem to do too much and little at the same time. Statsmodels is powerful but its output is an overkill and difficult to parse for beginners.
Reshape pandas dataframe with pivot_table in Python - tutorial and visualization
PYTHON PANDAS DATAFRAME RESHAPING Convert long to wide with pd.pivot_table Visual tutorial on how to use pd.pivot_table() to reshape pandas dataframes from long to wide in Python There are many different ways to reshape a pandas dataframe from long to wide form. But the pivot_table() method is the most flexible and probably the only one you need once you learn it well, just like how you only need to learn only one method melt to reshape from wide to long.
Strong Effort Manipulations Reduce Response Caution: A Preregistered Reinvention of the Ego-Depletion Paradigm
What are the consequences of exerting effort? Many people intuitively believe in ego depletion (Francis & Job, 2018), the idea that exerting effortful control depletes one’s energy (Baumeister & Vohs, 2016).
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