#designofknowledge — Public Fediverse posts
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How the Dunning-Kruger effect is just sugar for the ego (but mathematically wrong):
https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-autocorrelation/
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More and more people are preferring to give access to a privacy-unfriendly chat (where you find your answers mostly by chance when there is any) rather than taking the time to write a proper documentation.
That's what I call being a loser.
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I just realized that the official French demographic institute modified its own data on births in November 2022 after it was released.
Even if data can be corrected for some reason, the fact that no info was published about this modification raises the question of data manipulation and furthermore fake data. Indeed, no update is specified on the document and it is explicitly written in the text that this is the first data published, which is false.
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I wrote an article about contextualization:
https://synergeticdesign.substack.com/p/the-art-of-contextI'll probably never talk too much about it since it is a field globally deserted, very badly used, and it shows!
#design #synergeticdesign #contextualization #designofknowledge
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An especially quite long article about the synergetic design of knowledge:
https://synergeticdesign.substack.com/p/the-design-of-knowledgeA summary is available at the beginning of it for people in a hurry.
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Once again, SEO is destroying internet search. I estimate that 1 in 2 of my searches now either go nowhere or take more than 15 minutes of sorting to find the links that actually serve a purpose. And it's getting worse and worse. Having a paper encyclopaedia at home is becoming again the most efficient and reliable way to answer a question as long as the subject lies in it.
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I should create a bot that reminds it every week: if you want your publications to be used and trusted, DATE THEM!
Every content needs a context to be properly understood and used. Dating a work is part of the basics.