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Scientists excel at finding patterns, but statistical significance isn't always enough to create policy.
-Links for the Curious-
A great summary from UWS about the difference between statistical & clinical significance - https://www.uws.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/P_Values_Statistical_Sig_Clinical_Sig.pdf
Mental rotations, a group test of three-dimensional spatial visualization.
Vandenberg, Steven G.; Kuse, Allan R.
Perceptual and Motor Skills, Vol 47(2), Oct 1978, 599-604. dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.1978.47.2.599
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2009 Dec;97(6):1097-114. doi: 10.1037/a0016786.
The implications of Big Five standing for the distribution of trait manifestation in behavior: fifteen experience-sampling studies and a meta-analysis.
Fleeson W1, Gallagher P.
Scientists excel at finding patterns, but statistical significance isn't always enough to create policy.
-Links for the Curious-
A great summary from UWS about the difference between statistical & clinical significance - https://www.uws.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/P_Values_Statistical_Sig_Clinical_Sig.pdf
Mental rotations, a group test of three-dimensional spatial visualization.
Vandenberg, Steven G.; Kuse, Allan R.
Perceptual and Motor Skills, Vol 47(2), Oct 1978, 599-604. dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.1978.47.2.599
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2009 Dec;97(6):1097-114. doi: 10.1037/a0016786.
The implications of Big Five standing for the distribution of trait manifestation in behavior: fifteen experience-sampling studies and a meta-analysis.
Fleeson W1, Gallagher P.


![257. Orality & Literacy
Our mental landscape is irrevocably bound up in variations of 26 characters, but were historical exceptions.
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11. ‘There’s been a genuine vibe shift and it is no longer “cool” to be—’ You bolt awake. It is 2600 BC in holy Sumer. You are a scribe lately experimenting with rotating pictograms into an abstract, repeatable, recombinant logosyllabary. Your work, all of it, must be destroyed. (Jacob Bacharach [@jakebackpack], 2025) - https://x.com/jakebackpack/status/1878559969735573709
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14. Literacy acquisition facilitates inversion effects for faces with full-, low-, and high-spatial frequency: evidence from illiterate and literate adults (Yang et al, 2023) (Thanks Ripple_Echo!) 257. Orality & Literacy](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/N7Q4yU719FA/mqdefault.jpg)







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