How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots”

Re:How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots” by yhoiseth on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:15AM (#22065898)

> Unfortunately the books are still sold. I've considered printing stickers that warns about the nonsense and sneak it on to copies in book stores.

Great idea! We should do that for Why We Sleep, too: https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/

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Re:How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots” by OJFord on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:34AM (#22066095)

The article starts by stating fairly that the book's author is a professor of psychology and neuroscience and UC Berkeley.

The article author's homepage says:

> I'm an independent researcher with background in Economics, Mathematics, and Cognitive Science.

Since I don't have any prior knowledge of the area, I'm sure either of them could convince me of their argument. So I'm inclined to believe the published Berkeley professor over the unaffiliated independent reviewer.

(Or perhaps the auto-bio is being too modest?)

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Re:How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots” by DiffEq on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:46AM (#22066214)

Credentials play no role in this fight. There are plenty of examples of credentialed people fabricating and lying. The author documents the lies pretty soundly.

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Re:How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots” by guzey on Monday January 20, 2020 @12:31AM (#22096553)

I cover this objection in section 15.1 https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/#appendix-common-object...

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Re:How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots” by riversflow on Thursday January 16, 2020 @02:13PM (#22067812)

As suggested by sister comment, consider the content of the well-cited review instead of being blinded by credentials.

>or perhaps the auto-bio is being too modest?

Human beings are perfectly capable of autodidactism.

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