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The Flow-Based Neo Pseudo-Scientific Method Approach (Flow-Based Inquiry – KEW Episode 105)

By kpluseiswise | December 29, 2022November 13, 2023 by kpluseiswise

The KEW Acid Tests ask how Nature can inform the big questions humans ask. “Why are we here?”, “Who am I?”, and “What is our purpose” have puzzled humans for years – perhaps millennia. In the past 4,000 years or so, we have employed philosophy, religion, and science as mechanisms to ask and answer these big questions. While we certainly have learned a lot, the questions are too big to have definitive answers. I don’t…

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KEW The Acid Test: The Problem and The Questions (Episode 104)

By kpluseiswise | December 22, 2022December 21, 2022 by kpluseiswise

What is the question!!!???? Say you are studying the effectiveness of a vaccine against some pathogen. What is the question? Too many times we get wrapped up in the specifics. The details. The minutia. We forget WHY we are doing this in the first place. In this case, I would say the question is, does this vaccine help reduce the problems associated with said pathogen? Maybe you’re interested in climate change. So you gather a…

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I Need a Tribe. Where is My Tribe?

By kpluseiswise | November 20, 2022November 20, 2022 by kpluseiswise

I had a massive epiphany today. Maybe it *shouldn’t* have been so massive. I say *shouldn’t* because I hate the word ‘should’, and have podcasted extensively on this topic, and written about it on Medium. But this article is about me, and maybe also about you. So either way, the epiphany is that I realized the source of several of my ‘issues’. These issues may be relatable for you. I seek esteem from outside myself. I do this…

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Would You Rather Be Right, or Happy?

By kpluseiswise | June 15, 2022December 15, 2023 by kpluseiswise

Remember the last time you were at a real life impasse? It’s a cruddy feeling. Especially with someone you love. It’s frustrating to disagree. To reach a moment where you realize there’s no way to resolve the tension in the air. A simple conversation becomes conflict. We understand that the other person is NOT going to see our point of view, NOT going to change their minds, and you are NOT going to walk away…

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“High Achievers Use Bell Curves to Get Ahead of The Pack” Preview KEW Episode 98: The Normal Curve

By kpluseiswise | May 18, 2022May 17, 2022 by kpluseiswise

You hated statistics, right? And probably didn’t care too much about math? That’s how most people are, anyway. I didn’t really see the point in learning much of the numbers stuff, until I needed the knowledge. Household budgeting, running a business, and understanding what other people are trying to say are just three reasons to understand math and mathematical relationships. This Episode is an example. The normal, or ‘bell’ curve, or normal distribution, is a…

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“How Could I Be So Wrong While Being So Confident I Was Right?” KEW Episode 96: Type II Error

By kpluseiswise | May 6, 2022May 3, 2022 by kpluseiswise

You know you do it. You think you are right about something, only to find out you were incredibly, undeniably, 180 degrees wrong. It happens. To all of us. To all of us humans, anyway. We all think we’re right. If we didn’t, we wouldn’t have conviction. We’d be open. We’d be undecided. Once we have made a decision, well, that decision is correct, correct? I mean, right? But not always. Many of us are…

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“I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong” Preview KEW Episode 96: Type II Error

By kpluseiswise | May 4, 2022May 2, 2022 by kpluseiswise

How do you feel about math? How about statistics? If you are like most people, you don’t really care too much about math OR stats. I, myself, did not really like either – until I needed them. As a budding scientist I was really into field work, collecting data, hypothesizing, and playing in streams. But I wasn’t too keen on the writing and data analysis and stuff. Eventually I realized that you are only as…

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FLASHBACK! KEW Episode 6: Competition

By kpluseiswise | February 21, 2022 by kpluseiswise

Often touted as the thing that regulates Capitalism and prevents monopolies (ummm, Amazon.com?). Often brings out the worst in people (ever get in a fight over Monopoly the board game?). Often said to teach our children how to play fair (but check out the parents on the sidelines!). As a retired Ecologist and Evolutionary Biologist, I learned about competition as the thing that creates new species. It’s sort of why or how the whole evolution…

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KEW Episode 78: Assumptions and Core Principles

By kpluseiswise | December 31, 2021 by kpluseiswise

Are you an analytical person? Do you think science is a good way of answering questions? Do you also believe there are things science CAN’T answer? Do you struggle from a mix of pragmatic and spiritual beliefs? Do you consider yourself to be pretty smart? Do you have a strong distrust for the status quo? Have you ever felt like a non-conformist, whether by choice or just because? If you answered any of those questions…

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Preview KEW Episode 78: Assumptions and Core Principles

By kpluseiswise | December 29, 2021 by kpluseiswise

As we figure out exactly what is happening at KEW, which is mostly coming up with workable strategies to help analytical, empathic, and intelligent folks live calmer and more relaxed lives, it’s necessary to state our assumptions and identifying elements. In any good scientific endeavor (and this ISN’T science, but I’m trying to take a standardized and similar APPROACH) it’s nice to state your assumptions up front. It tells the reader/listener/viewer/colleague where your head was…