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neededalj

A Four Line Summary of Ogi and Sai's Plan of Action, and a Useful Comparison to Other Research

Sep 05, 2009 16:25

So for anyone who doesn't want to wade through the entire history of SurveyFail, here is my four line summary of their plans (pulled from my comment to romaine24 here, and with apologies to the underpants gnomesOgi and Sai's Plan of Action ( Read more... )

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mecurtin September 5 2009, 22:07:42 UTC

YES! Just today I was calling them "Underpants Neuroscientists". I still have *no idea* what they're teaching in these schools ...

neededalj September 8 2009, 01:54:32 UTC

No ethics training, unfortunately.

One thing that still sticks about surveyfail, of course, is that we know that Ogi and Sai *did* profit, because they got an advance on their book. I dearly hope the project ends up being killed by the publishing company.

codeman38 September 5 2009, 23:04:16 UTC

LOL, YES. The HealthBase thing is such a wonderful comparison... I don't know why I didn't think to correlate it and SurveyFail myself!

As a grad student studying CS/AI, I am simultaneously laughing and crying at all of this...

neededalj September 8 2009, 01:52:50 UTC

Heh, it hasn't been the best week for public displays of proficiency in your field. I got so very much entertainment out of healthbase; a better example of how much research is still to be done could not be wished for.

elfwreck September 6 2009, 04:39:04 UTC

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slashpine September 6 2009, 21:55:00 UTC

the fact that Ogi and Sai got their PhDs from the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems is somewhat of an academic formality/designation. In lay terms, they were computer scientists or computer programmers.YES. That was one of the first things I noticed. My own research university has a department called "Bioinformatics and Computational Biology." Sounds impressive, but it mainly is the same thing: computer scientists writing complicated programs to try to use models of complex data to predict things. Which could be in any field ( ... )

neededalj September 8 2009, 01:51:18 UTC

I wonder if Ogi and Sai are now the laughingstock of the department. It's certainly possible; I knew of a department where a couple of grad students conducted some research in a stupid and embarrassing manner and the chair had to step in and apologize, and they were laughed at for weeks. Pretty sure their screw-up is a still a punchline there, and what they did was so very minor compared to this.

slashpine September 8 2009, 04:32:37 UTC

Ah, too true. After all, Ogi is already famous there as a successful, but slightly wack game show winner. I mean, from some perspectives everyone in Comp Sci/Engineering/English (or any field, lol) is "wack", but I'll bet Ogi is a bit more out there than most.

Hmm. Fandom vs. academia. Who has longer memories??? WOAH THE EARTH IS NOT OLD ENUF YET TO EMPIRICALLY TEST THIS QUESTION.

*digs out perfect icon with TV, fandom + academia!*

neededalj September 9 2009, 04:09:20 UTC

That icon *rocks*.

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