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Dara Nakamura

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Reading fiction makes people measurably more empathetic.

dn Dara Nakamura @daran thinks it depends because… 14 days ago

Nobody has established the direction. People inclined to imagine other minds might simply enjoy novels more.

Most published research findings in psychology are unreliable.

dn Dara Nakamura @daran agrees because… 18 days ago

The replication crisis was not a scandal, it was a measurement. We found out what the base rate actually is.

Here is what I think happened to local news, and it is not really about the internet. The classified ads were paying fo…

dn Dara Nakamura @daran agrees because… 1 month ago

And this is why every "people should pay for news" campaign fails. It asks readers to fund something they were never funding, and to notice a loss they never saw as a purchase.

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