A close relative of “Future studies could try doing the thing that we could and should have done in the present study but couldn’t be bothered”

Essentially Ramscar (2002) presents evidence for semantic partitioning - a snowman is a kind of man and so inherits the -men plural. A lowlife is not a kind of life (but a kind of person) so “needs” a different plural to -lives

I don’t think so - Pinker and Marcus are Canadian, USA, Ramscar is a Brit like me - and I share the intuitions of all (but the theory of only Ramscar!)

Definitely lowlifes - there’s a fascinating literature on this - @garymarcus.bsky.social Steven Pinker, and Michael Ramscar’s 2002 paper

This post prompted me to finally try to understand the difference between an odds ratio and a risk ratio! Finding a good explainer was hard (especially now, with too much AI-generated slop) but I finally understood it after reading this! freerangestats.info/blog/2018/08...

For me, what LLMs tell us is that any abstractions that are good enough to represent language will be too distributed, abstract and complex for satisfying/intuitive/humanly-understandable explanations. I.e that these questions are more or less unanswerable

Mike Tomasello would almost certainly agree with you! But for some of us UB acquisition people the part about building complex syntactic abstractions by compressing stored exemplars is at least as interesting. For all their many faults, LLMs do that bit well!

In the meantime, I'm no expert, but presumably it doesn't have to be this way. I can't see any technical reason why journals that use Editorial Manger HAVE to use a login page that starts with "editorialmanager.com" - @ariessystems.bsky.social please work with them to sort it out! 5/5

And this is ironic (if only in an Alanis Morissette sense) for us Open Source/Open Access fans because the need to keep paying for Editorial Manager is one of the most frequently cited objections to ditching subscription journals/paid Open Access and setting up our own totally free journals. 4/5