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The complex dynamics of wishful thinking: The critical positivity ratio — mentioned by georgecmu

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 21:18:24 GMT

For those curious: The two nonsense papers are: Losada, Marcial. “The complex dynamics of high performance teams.” Mathematical and Computer Modelling 30 (1999): 179-192. | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089571779... Fredrickson, B. L., & Losada, M. F. (2005). Positive Affect and the Complex Dynamics of Human Flourishing. American Psychologist, 60(7), 678–686. | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3126111/ The debunking paper is Brown, N. J. L., Sokal, A. D., & Friedman, H. L. (2013). The complex dynamics of wishful thinking: The critical positivity ratio.…

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The complex dynamics of wishful thinking: The critical positivity ratio — mentioned by throwaway0312

Sun, 04 Mar 2018 19:36:13 GMT

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1307.7006.pdf Such an amusing read!

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The complex dynamics of wishful thinking: The critical positivity ratio — mentioned by Crito

Sat, 27 Jun 2015 19:47:16 GMT

The actual paper by Nick Brown, Alan Sokal, and Harris Friedman (longer, but pretty easy reading): http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.7006 See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_positivity_ratio

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The complex dynamics of wishful thinking: The critical positivity ratio — HN submission

Sun, 20 Oct 2013 13:51:33 GMT

The complex dynamics of wishful thinking: The critical positivity ratio

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