taxometrics
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taxometrics is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between January 21, 2021 and February 11, 2021. The archive places it in contexts such as “I only discovered taxometrics a few months ago and I haven’t talked your ears off about it yet”; “Taxometrics is the study of whether psychiatric conditions are categorical or dimensional”; “[previously in sequence: Taxometrics , Dynamical Systems]“. It most often appears alongside bipolar, Russia, schizophrenia.
Metadata
- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: January 21, 2021
- Last seen: February 11, 2021
Appears In
- Still Alive
- Ontology Of Psychiatric Conditions: Taxometrics
- Ontology Of Psychiatric Conditions: Tradeoffs And Failures
Related Pages
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- bipolar (2 shared issues)
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- Russia (2 shared issues)
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- schizophrenia (2 shared issues)
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- US (2 shared issues)
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- 7500 people signed a petition (1 shared issues)
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- AD (1 shared issues)
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- ADHD (1 shared issues)
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- Alex Tabarrok (1 shared issues)
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- anxiety (1 shared issues)
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- autism spectrum (1 shared issues)
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- Badcock (1 shared issues)
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- Balaji Srinivasan (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
That's taken up most of my time over the past six months. Going back to blog posts like this is a strange feeling. I wondered if I'd enjoy the break. I didn't particularly; it felt at least as much like trying to resist an addiction as it did resting from a difficult task. There's so much left to say! I never got the chance to tell you whether the SSC Survey found birth order effects to be biologically or socially mediated! And the predictive processing community is starting to really chip away at the question of why psychotherapies work - I need to explain this to someone else before I can be sure I understand it! I only discovered taxometrics a few months ago and I haven't talked your ears off about it yet - that will change! I made predictions about Trump - now that he's come and gone I need to grade them publicly so you can raise or lower your opinion of me as appropriate! And there's the book review contest! We are absolutely going to do the book review contest!
[reposted from here, with edits]
Inline links: here
Taxometrics is the study of whether psychiatric conditions are categorical or dimensional.
So taxometrics is the study of whether psychiatric disorders work more like the flu, or more like hypertension.
[previously in sequence: Taxometrics, Dynamical Systems. Epistemic status: speculative. This should go without saying, but when I talk about “failures” in this post, I mean failures of biological processes, as in the term “congestive heart failure”; I don’t mean to accuse people with psychiatric conditions of being failures.]
Inline links: Taxometrics, Dynamical Systems