Let's talk about how critical thinking is more important than ever (Richard Ross
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10:01 As a reefer in science I appreciated this chat. The other thing is with reading papers lay people don't have the 19 years of experience to correctly interpret the data. You need to understand the models, the tools, the limitations. Does the author have credibility, does the journal have credibility? How much did politics withing the field play a role in getting the work in press? Most people don't realize how flawed and corrupt the peer review process can be.
And finally people don't understand how much of a reproducibility issue there is in science right now. A hugh percentage of published papers cannot be reproduced by others
This conversation (which I very much enjoyed) is why I mainly never read a reefing forum and refuse to have a Facebook account. I try to provide feedback to content creators which support them in the algorithm, and that's it.
I really don't enjoy sifting through 15 pages of random, to find one nugget of informed solid information.
Although, some days, it can be fun to argue with Mt. Stupid if I'm in the right mood.
I don’t mind sifting through material, you have to often do that with “professional” writings.
I do not like that it is difficult to have an actual discussion in social media groups. It’s like politics today, everyone wants to tell you what they believe but they don’t want to listen to or discuss other points of view.
@@user-fv8dd9lj7g That's a fair point. And you're right, you do have to sift through material when reading something like scientific journals. And I'd add TH-cam video's for that matter.
I suppose I mind that less, because I have more context to evaluate the claims (not that I do it very often). I can evaluate something like a paper, because of all the accompanying information and I generally have a sense of the writer’s field of study. Similarly, I find video's here on TH-cam provide a level of background information that I can evaluate, and I can get a sense of a content creator based on there track record of video's. Effectively vetting the voices I draw usable information from. I don't trust Marc or Rich's opinion from this one video, I trust there opinions due to there established body of published work both written and video.
I have very little ability to do that on a forum or facebook thread, unless the writer went to great lengths. And while the original poster often does. It's the pages and pages of responses which leave little in the way of evaluating credibility or experience. So I’d rather ignore all of it. And then theirs your point, where so many often want to fight and talk past each other rather than have a conversation.
Bummer I missed it!!! Great video
my 6+ years old fish just died over the past few days... I'm not emotionally distressed but I can't stop thinking about that little fish. Even when I look in the tank now my mind plays tricks on me.
I have check valves.. I have 2 returns and don't know how else to make that work. But I have snail guards. Does that mean I'm on mount stupid?
1:29:18 somethings are more complicated and take longer than 15 mins.
That person missed the point.
1- people present at scientific conferences about super massive black holes, regulatory networks of immunosuppressive receptors, new models of macroeconomic analysis in less time.
2- 15 min talks are designed to be a teaser. Here's a detailed overview, but if you want more come and read the paper, do more research.
3- if you can't understand it in 15 mins one of two things is probably going on, the speaker sucks or your base knowledge isn't high enough to use this talk as an entry point
This is great. Thank you!
Rich, “stewing” is a good description, although my Chef’s mind first thinks “braising” when doing the initial start up🤔
A whole new slew of article ideas on “how to braise your reef aquarium” 🤦♂️
All the advice I've heard in the past few years (not from the forums, just youtube mostly) isn't to keep nutrients low because of algae, it's that the nutrients in the water isn't really what the corals want, and they seem happiest when phosphate is in a range (latest I've heard is .05 - .15).
While it’s likely nutrient levels have some impact on coral growth and calcification rates, there are a number of quite well established reef tanks with healthy, large, colorful coral colonies with N and P levels higher than natural levels that would be commonly found in wild reefs, and other tanks with low levels of N and P similar to what may be found in wild reefs. Studies seem to show that higher P levels may lead to less dense coral skeletons, but the magnitude of that effect may not be large. Most of the research is done to try to estimate the impact of eutrophication on wild reef health, so the results may or may not completely translate to the effect we would see in our glass boxes. I think the importance of maintaining low nutrient levels is usually overstated.
And anecdotally, it seems to me that more people run into trouble trying to run very low nutrient levels, or from trying to lower nutrient levels too rapidly than from running high nutrients. But that could just be cause it’s more fashionable to run low nutrients than higher ones these days.
I’m not anti ginger, but I prefer Mary Ann
TH-cam had an update
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