Academic
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So firstly, thinking just about precognition, as it turns out, just last year a researcher called Daryl Bem conducted a piece of research where he found evidence of precognitive powers in undergraduate students, and this was published in a peer-reviewed
academic
journal and most of the people who read this just said, "Okay, well, fair enough, but I think that's a fluke, that's a freak, because I know that if I did a study where I found no evidence that undergraduate students had precognitive powers, it probably wouldn't get published in a journal.
So this is already evidence of how, in the
academic
literature, we will see a biased sample of the true picture of all of the scientific studies that have been conducted.
But it doesn't just happen in the dry
academic
field of psychology.
It also happens in the very real, flesh and blood of
academic
medicine.
The
academic
publishing environment is very different now.
There are
academic
journals like "Trials," the open access journal, which will publish any trial conducted in humans regardless of whether it has a positive or a negative result.
The classic model is, you get a bunch of studies where you know that they've been conducted and completed, and then you go and see if they've been published anywhere in the
academic
literature.
And then they went to see if these trials had been published in the peer-reviewed
academic
literature.
But when they went to look for these trials in the peer-reviewed
academic
literature, what they found was a very different picture.
Now if we just flick back and forth between those two, you can see what a staggering difference there was between reality and what doctors, patients, commissioners of health services, and academics were able to see in the peer-reviewed
academic
literature.
So I'm an
academic
at MIT, and I'm a mechanical engineer, so I can do things like look at the type of terrain you want to travel on, and figure out how much resistance it should impose, look at the parts we have available and mix and match them to figure out what sort of gear trains we can use, and then look at the power and force you can get out of your upper body to analyze how fast you should be able to go in this chair as you put your arms up and down the levers.
So people like me in the
academic
space, we can do things like innovate and analyze and test, create data and make bench-level prototypes, but how do you get that bench-level prototype to commercialization?
That's where you can take a guy like me, an academic, but analyze and test and create a new technology and quantitatively determine how much better the performance is.
This visualization was done by an Italian
academic.
It's called
academic
innovation.
How do I raise the self-esteem of a child and his
academic
achievement at the same time?
Let's look at the best
academic
performer: the province of Shanghai, China.
He became an effective altruist when he calculated that with the money that he was likely to earn throughout his career, an
academic
career, he could give enough to cure 80,000 people of blindness in developing countries and still have enough left for a perfectly adequate standard of living.
It's a standard practice in the
academic
world.
I took school seriously, and for the first time ever in my life, I received an
academic
award for excellence, and made dean's list from the first semester in high school.
I worked in mental health services, I spoke at conferences, I published book chapters and
academic
articles, and I argued, and continue to do so, the relevance of the following concept: that an important question in psychiatry shouldn't be what's wrong with you but rather what's happened to you.
My name is Dan Cohen and I am an academic, as he said.
And I'm not just an academic, I'm a philosopher, so I like to think that I'm actually pretty good at arguing.
I'm interested in
academic
arguments, and here are the things that puzzle me.
Well, I went back and became an
academic
at Melbourne's Monash University, and for those 25 years, tape recorders were everything to me.
Together with two
academic
institutions, Michael Porter at Harvard Business School, and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, BCG has formed something we call ICHOM.
And so I found an
academic
who was doing a research project in slums outside of D.C., where she picked up women who had come in for other health problems and diagnosed them with depression, and then provided six months of the experimental protocol.
So we published some articles in the
academic
press, in medical journals, in finance journals.
Just like in Silicon Valley, some of the seismic shifts in technology and consumer behavior have been driven by
academic
research, have been driven by enterprise desires, with the whims of privilege and youth sprinkled in every once in a while.
He said, "You mean as an academic, it's not your field?"
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