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Michael Noetel

3 months

Finally, proof that running from my problems isn't as bad as it sounds. This project was a massive lift 💪 by @TarenSanders @DanielG12754470 @PaulGTaylor_ACU @BorjadelPozoCr1 @lonsdale_c @stuart_biddle @JordanJsmith88 @jwjmahoney @Vasconcellos_Ro and the rest of the team 🙏

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@EricTopol

3 months

An effective treatment for depression from a systematic review of >200 unique RCTs: Exercise Benefit proportional to intensity of exercise prescribed @bmj_latest @mnoetel @UQPsych

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

1 year

Can we run from #depression ? Yes, says our new analysis of 177 studies and 10,673 people. #Exercise seems as good as therapy and medication, especially for #Dance , #strength training, #running and #walking . Aim for >30mins per day. See our preprint:

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

2 months

@cremieuxrecueil First, I want to reiterate that I love people like you holding science to these standards of openness and transparency. As you can tell from our pre-registration, open data and code, we value the same thing. We want people re-analysing this question. Responses to your concerns 🧵

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

4 years

Dear #Academia , we're better on YouTube. See our new systematic review: It's probably because we can edit and students can skip. If you want to make better #distancelearning videos during #COVID19 , this might be a good start #Video

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

2 years

Teachers can learn to be more motivating but what behaviours matter most? @asghar_ahmadi1 got 30+ #SelfDeterminationTheory experts to agree on what behaviours help, what hurt, and why. Very useful for researchers and teachers who want to be more motivating

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

3 years

Most of us use multimedia every day. Our new paper shows how to use to use it best. As you'll see in this 🧵you might do some things right, but there are lots of ways to get even better. Read the full paper or

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

3 years

5 years ago today I took the @givingwhatwecan pledge to donate 10% of my income to the world's most effective charities (via @GiveWell @EA_Aus ). I'm both proud and grateful that I've been able to do my bit for the world. It's been awesome: 1,826 days without a single regret.

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

2 years

When I would try to talk to others about doing good—donating to charity, eating less meat, caring for the future—I have been guilty of using guilt. Our new meta-analysis says, overall, we should avoid the 'should's. Instead, show people they have choices aligned to their values.

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

1 year

Schizophrenia is rare but very disabling. The @WHO list lots of treatments, but not exercise (yet). Our new meta-analysis of 28 studies in @Euro_Psychiatry shows #exercise can help treat schizophrenia (esp. negative symptoms) while also nurturing health

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

2 months

@adhderall @cremieuxrecueil Based on my reaction time, I think this might be a bad idea

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

4 years

I think we did the first prospectively registered, double-blind sport-psych intervention. Mindfulness improved golfers' swing but not their accuracy (our primary outcome), despite recruiting ~2.5x the projected sample size. Basically: a swing and a miss.

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

6 months

Screen time is the #1 health concern parents have about their kids, according to some polls. But, how bad is it really? @TarenSanders , the team and I summarise findings from 1,937,501 participants in @Nature Human Behaviour Brief:

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

2 years

"Future people count, there could be a lot of them, and we can make their lives better." @willmacaskill shows what could be doing for our great, great grandchildren. We can give them an amazing future, and we should try harder to get there. Read my book review @ConversationEDU

The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

@ConversationEDU

2 years

"It’s hard to feel for future people." Our great grandchildren are powerless in today’s society, but what we do now can influence them, for better or worse, as @mnoetel ( @ACUmedia ) writes. What happens when we consider them while we make decisions today?

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

3 years

Aussie kids are now ranked 140th out of 146 countries for physical activity. The government throws millions at the problem, but does it help those who need it most? Supporting teachers in primary schools looks much more cost-effective: via @ConversationEDU

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

3 years

Most people I know want to make a difference in the world. If we want to help others, how do we help in ways that work? In this article for @ABCReligion & Ethics, I bust some EA-myths, & lay out how #EffectiveAltruism tries to help us all do good better

How to do good better - ABC Religion & Ethics

Combining science, reason, and the desire to do good leads to effective altruism. It’s not just about individuals donating small amounts of money on the basis of randomised trials. It’s about doing...

www.abc.net.au

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

2 months

@cremieuxrecueil We have provided the code via the OSF to reproduce the other effect sizes. Your analysis doesn't reproduce the results because you haven't done a meta-analysis. Calculating the range of effects doesn't conduct an inverse-variance multi-level weighting of effects sizes.

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

2 months

@cremieuxrecueil You say ‘The included studies are under-powered’. Removing under-powered studies is not recommended for meta-analyses. We tested for publication bias in three ways and didn’t find it to be of concern: “statistically significant results would need to be reported 58 times more...”

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

3 years

Really honoured by this #AAUT . Thank so much to everyone who has supported my teaching over the last few years. Too many to name— @jwjmahoney @ProfDGreene @gjpepping @lonsdale_c @PhilParker_IPPE have all been critical—but good teaching's definitely a team effort.

Sally Kift

@KiftSally

3 years

Huge congrats to fabulous @uniaus #AAUT National ACT & NT Citation Winners!!! @ACUmedia - @mnoetel @ANUmedia - @gemma_s_king - @samkbennett - @SofiaSamperCarr @CDUni -Fabo #StudentSuccess Teams Outstanding contributions to student learning! @aauniteachers

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

2 years

Looking to do a PhD? Interested in helping more people into #STEM ? @JiesiGuo is one of the most productive and capable ed. psych researchers I've met. He's offering a PhD scholarship valued at ~$100,000AUD over three years to work on his new DECRA:

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

2 months

@cremieuxrecueil You say some effects are 'too big to be real.' As we say in the paper: “We preregistered informative priors...” These attenuate the influence of outliers on pooled effects. When our priors on Hedges’ g have a mean of 0 and sd of 1, then the influence of an outlier is attenuated

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

2 months

@cremieuxrecueil You talk about how we report change scores instead of post-test mean differences. Using change-scores is called an 'arm based' network meta-analysis. It's an orthodox way of assessing treatment effects, and allows for dose-response analyses in ways contrast-based methods can't.

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

8 months

When older adults end up in hospital, why do we keep them in bed? It doesn't decrease risk: it makes many risks worse. It only takes 25 min of slow🚶to improve function. For best results,🎯 50 m/d of slow 🚶 or mix 20 min 💪🏻 + 20🚶Read more @BJSM_BMJ

Optimal dose and type of physical activity to improve functional capacity and minimise adverse...

Objective To identify the optimal dose and type of physical activity to improve functional capacity and reduce adverse events in acutely hospitalised older adults. Design Systematic review and...

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

2 months

@cremieuxrecueil Ultimately, we decided not standardise the change scores in the final version of the analyses. We deemed it added complexity and made effects less interpretable, and less comparable to existing studies. You even described it as 'odd'.

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

2 months

@cremieuxrecueil We've taken some time because we want to be right rather than be fast. We've requested an erratum for one problem: In an early draft of our analyses we had standardised change scores for different depression scales and had written the following sentence in the manuscript:

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

2 months

@cremieuxrecueil You claim we made 'citation errors.' For example, we cited the corresponding author instead of ‘lookhead group’. Many studies had multiple publications. Sometimes we made a judgement about labelling a reference to reduce errors in analysis. Sorry if this made it hard to x-check

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

5 years

If we get our kids moving, it's likely to change their brain structure for the better. Exercise doesn't take away from learning time. It seems to build their brains to make learning easier. Check out our latest systematic review for the details:

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

3 years

We thought empathy and rationales would get people to follow their leaders during COVID-19. We were surprised to find it didn't matter, short-term, but something else did... Cool paper by @emmalbrads @richardmryan3 @aksaeri @PeterSlattery1 @Rafael_A_Calvo

Communicating in a crisis? Focus on safety. Results from two random...

We thought messages that were autonomy supportive would get more compliance, but over the short term, it didn't matter. It was far more important to make peo...

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

3 years

You're probably sick of me tweeting about this paper but it's now got a DOI, published in RER today. Really proud of the team getting it in here. Now, go back to making your videos before this next semester. I know it's harder, but know that it's better.

Video Improves Learning in Higher Education: A Systematic Review - Michael Noetel, Shantell...

Universities around the world are incorporating online learning, often relying on videos (asynchronous multimedia). We systematically reviewed the effects of vi...

journals.sagepub.com

AERA

@AERA_EdResearch

3 years

A new review of research found that replacing current teaching methods in college classes w/ pre-recorded videos leads to small learning improvements and that supplementing existing content w/ videos results in strong learning benefits. Read more: @mnoetel

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

2 years

Effective altruism can teach people powerful skills to help them act on their prosocial values. But, looked at it this way, we as a community can teach a lot better. I applied all the best educational psych meta-analyses to how we can better teach in EA:

We all teach: here's how to do it better — EA Forum

Summary: we need to learn to teach better Education is the #2 focus area for the Centre for Effective Altruism. Many of us educate, from field build…

forum.effectivealtruism.org

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

2 months

@cremieuxrecueil “Using National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines,42 we standardised change scores for different depression scales (eg, [...]) using an internal reference standard for each scale (for each scale, the average of pooled standard deviations at baseline)...”

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

2 years

And they wonder why I like commas: "This book is dedicated to my parents, Ayn Rand and God." "Highlights of Peter Ustinov’s global tour include encounters with Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod and a dildo collector." "We invited the strippers, JFK and Stalin"

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

2 months

New @ConversationEDU article: 80% of Australians say preventing catastrophic risks from advanced AI should be a top global priority, but is the government doing enough? A new representative survey of Aussies reveals a big gap between expectations & policy

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

4 years

How our students will feel when we stop giving our lectures via video... HT @TarenSanders Learn why video works in universities and colleges with this meta-analysis:

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

2 years

This amazing video from @givingwhatwecan is the one of the best I've seen about humanity's future: why it's at risk today and what we can do to protect it. Concise, comprehensive, and compelling. Well done GWWC!

How you can help protect the future of humanity

Safeguarding the future of humanity from existential risks is one of the most important challenges we currently face. In this video, we talk about what some ...

www.youtube.com

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

4 years

@eric_mazur Yes, @eric_mazur ! Here's a new systematic review saying exactly that: From >80 randomised trials, when it can be recorded, students learn better.

Video improves learning in higher education: A systematic review

Universities around the world are incorporating online learning, often relying upon videos (asynchronous multimedia). We systematically reviewed the effects of video on learning in higher education....

osf.io

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

2 years

Thanks also to @Haerens_MPE , @lucas_jeno , @AndreKoka1 , @ChristaKrijgsm , @jody_langdon , @RhiannonLWhite , @davidlubans , @jwjmahoney , @ElQuested , @Martyn_Standage , @D_a_m_T_e_s , @HTilga , @Vasconcellos_Di

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

2 years

Just finished What We Owe the Future. @WillMacaskill lays out such a compelling, reasoned case for us ensuring a good future, not only for our kids, but their kids, and the generation after that. We can and really should do more to protect them. Great read

What We Owe the Future

Check out this great listen on Audible.com.au. An Oxford philosopher makes the case for “longtermism”—that positively influencing the long-term future is a key moral priority of our time The fate of...

www.audible.com.au

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

3 years

These comparisons are pretty surprising: the 'coal of food' isn't good branding for @BeefAustralia . I find it hard to sit with both caring about the planet 🌏 and enjoying beef 🍔 Next time we have 🥩, Mel, TJ and I might split it 3 ways

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

1 year

@cmarkn @zacseidler @TarenSanders @DanielG12754470 @PaulGTaylor_ACU @BorjadelPozoCr1 @jwjmahoney @ACU_HDR @stuart_biddle @lonsdale_c @JordanJsmith88 @Vasconcellos_Ro I can see how this is confusing, that's why we added the legend at the bottom. Because high depression scores are bad, bigger reductions in depression are good. Placebo is better than a waitlist, but it's not better than therapy or medication or exercise.

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

5 years

Many mums-to-be worry about doing vigorous exercise late into pregnancy. Is it safe? How meta-analysis says it is! Check it out in The @ConversationEDU :

Is vigorous exercise safe during the third trimester of pregnancy?

It’s normal for expectant mums to worry about how their activities might affect their baby’s health. But when it comes to vigorous exercise, the evidence shows there’s nothing to worry about.

theconversation.com

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

2 months

@cremieuxrecueil The step was not pre-registered, and removing it did not lead to material changes in the findings so we presented the simpler, more orthodox methods from ref. 46 in the paper. Unfortunately, we neglected to remove the above sentence from the paper we submitted [hence the request]

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

2 years

Both the methods and findings from this meta-analysis are awesome. Not only did @DanielG12754470 and @jdelpozocruz reveal the surprising power of, say, resistance training for staving off dementia, he used sophisticated, interpretable models to say how much is enough.

Borja del Pozo Cruz

@BorjadelPozoCr1

2 years

What is the optimal dose and exercise type to improve cognition in older adults? Find out in this novel dose-response meta-analysis led by raising star @DanielG12754470 ! @jdelpozocruz @mnoetel

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

4 years

Using #Video in #HigherEducation ? Didn't have time to read our systematic review ? Here's a video about our meta-analysis on video... very meta 😅

Video improves learning in higher education: A systematic review

Universities around the world are incorporating online learning, often relying upon videos (asynchronous multimedia). We systematically reviewed the effects of video on learning in higher education....

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

3 months

@cremieuxrecueil @DanielG12754470 @TarenSanders @PaulGTaylor_ACU @BorjadelPozoCr1 @lonsdale_c @stuart_biddle @JordanJsmith88 @jwjmahoney @Vasconcellos_Ro Thanks for chasing this up Crémieux. I'm a big fan of the work of people like you and Data Colada. I think we need more openness and transparency in science. Daniel's code was superseded prior to submission last year. The latest formula we used are here

calculating_smd_and_sesmd.Rmd

Presented by OSF

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

4 years

It's easy to focus on bozos who do the wrong thing—idiots like these flaunting the rules. This is a problem, because it can normalise these behaviours. Almost everyone is doing the right thing—even young people—as our article in today's Conversation shows:

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

1 year

@VanceLocke @TarenSanders @DanielG12754470 @PaulGTaylor_ACU @BorjadelPozoCr1 @jwjmahoney @ACU_HDR @stuart_biddle @lonsdale_c @JordanJsmith88 @Vasconcellos_Ro I was not expecting dance to fare so well. There are likely a range of mechanisms that many of the modalities share (e.g., social interaction, music, relatively rapid indicators of increased competence) where Dance inherently contains all of them.

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

1 year

If a Nature Human Behaviour paper was a Netflix comedy special by Christopher Nolan, it'd be this paper. Ironically, I can't think of any ways this paper could be better. @PsyArXiv Perfection.

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

3 years

Just read @andykollmorgen 's report on where to donate money. Do overheads matter if the programs don't work? Homeopaths without borders is a thing... For what works, would it be worthwhile pointing people to @GiveWell / @LifeYouCanSave ? They're the @choiceaustralia for charities

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

3 years

Think economic growth is going to just keep ticking along at 2% per year? There isn't enough matter in the universe for that to go on for much longer. All the views of our future are wild. A compelling summary of why we're in the most important century

The Most Important Century (in a nutshell)

I've spent most of my career looking for ways to do as much good as possible, per unit of money or time. I worked on finding evidence-backed charities working on global health and development...

www.cold-takes.com

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

3 years

Beautiful, powerful video about how the world changed in an instant. We wouldn't exist without the meteor that took out the dinosaurs. Their world was more fragile than they knew, and ours might be too.

Kurzgesagt

@Kurz_Gesagt

3 years

NEW VIDEO: The Day the Dinosaurs Died – Minute by Minute

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

3 years

@BenJaneFitness It works

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

4 years

Wow @_MMathur , what an awesome meta-meta analysis: "The mere act of performing a meta‐analysis with a large number of studies ... may largely mitigate publication bias in meta‐analyses, suggesting optimism about the validity of meta‐analytic results."

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

4 years

@BJSM_BMJ Thanks @BJSM_BMJ your tweet was the cherry on top

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

3 months

@cremieuxrecueil @DanielG12754470 @TarenSanders @PaulGTaylor_ACU @BorjadelPozoCr1 @lonsdale_c @stuart_biddle @JordanJsmith88 @jwjmahoney @Vasconcellos_Ro Again happy to spend more time on this later, but on first glance there seem to be major problems in the way your code is synthesising effects (e.g., you look to be double-counting rows, meaning multiple measures from one study are treated as independent).

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

3 years

4/ Our brains struggle to connect dots that don't happen at the same time. Make it easier for us to connect what we hear to what we see by making the bullets come out as you speak to them

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

3 years

12/ I know you're gorgeous, but they don't need to see us the whole time. It can be distracting, taking their attention away from the images or text. Use a face occasionally so they connect with you, and if you want to point to something, but otherwise use images or slides

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

3 years

This great article by @OurWorldInData exemplifies the old quote: "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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@mnoetel

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@cremieuxrecueil @DanielG12754470 @TarenSanders @PaulGTaylor_ACU @BorjadelPozoCr1 @lonsdale_c @stuart_biddle @JordanJsmith88 @jwjmahoney @Vasconcellos_Ro All the files need to reproduce the analyses are on osf?

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

3 years

13/ That's it: every finding about designing multimedia that's supported by a meta-analysis. There is other stuff that might work (e.g., using conversations or misconceptions) but starting with those 10 or so points will be the most reliable for your presentations

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

3 years

12/ Break your lectures up with discussions, your videos into smaller chunks, or add breaks for multiple choice questions. There's no 'right size' chunk (e.g., 10 minutes); choose something small but meaningful.

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

4 years

@BorjadelPozoCr1

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

4 years

Won't come as a surprise to all the awesome creators out there! @veritasium @scishow @3blue1brown @bigthink @cgpgrey @TheCrashCourse @Kurz_Gesagt @MinuteEarth @minutephysics @HCTriage @smartereveryday @TEDTalks @TEDchris @TEDx @voxdotcom @tweetsauce @timschmoyer @JEverettLearned

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

2 years

@ecrisp Thanks @ecrisp and @EDUCAUSEreview for trying to help pull videos out of the naughty corner. Excellent article, and love the framing of balancing authenticity and effectiveness. You might have seen this new paper about how to make it more effective:

Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

3 years

Most of us use multimedia every day. Our new paper shows how to use to use it best. As you'll see in this 🧵you might do some things right, but there are lots of ways to get even better. Read the full paper or

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@mnoetel

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9/ We're often trying to explain how things are done or how they work together, so show the audience, rather than making them imagine how it works. Grab a gif or YouTube video for what you're trying to explain. Videos are great

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

3 years

11/ Yes, we're trying to teach people the jargon: the language needed to understand key concepts. But, don't start with that language. Start by explaining the concept in simple words that connect to what the learner already knows.

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

4 years

@DanielGucciardi @lonsdale_c @Jciarrochi @jamesconigrave Yeah, very possible Gooch! We looked at what happens if you drop the third time point (so basically ignore the crossover and treat it as between groups) but no results changed. Maybe the Greg Norman docco (control) was so mindless it washed out the effects...

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

2 years

If you're donating to charity this end of financial year, this explainer on @abcnews shows how much you can achieve with your donation, and how to achieve the most good (Nice one Martin from @EA_Aus )

Looking for a last-minute tax deduction? This one makes your money help twice

If you have a little bit of cash to spare, a donation to charity can be a great way to give back. And if you make sure the donation is finalised before the end of the financial year it might save you...

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

3 years

6/ If you can't make things come out one bit at a time, at least show the audience where to look using arrows, colours, your voice, animations, or a laser pointer

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

2 years

I totally buy that PDFs are horrid, but even the ArXivs save/share PDFs. What are some good alternatives? Blog post? Forum post? Can they have DOIs? @lonsdale_c @TarenSanders @PhilParker_IPPE

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@Tom_Westgarth15

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@wonkwatch Totally agree. This also reminds me of an @80000Hours interview between @robertwiblin and @MaxCRoser , where they talked about how pdfs are awful for reach. They are terrible for SEO, they don’t have a share with thumbnail function, can’t be updated etc

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

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10/ Sure, we're teaching abstract concepts, sometimes, but try to make it more real and human. Give things faces, needs, or goals. Don't talk abstractly about a virus replicating, say it wants to attack a host cell.

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

10 years

Hey SYD #exsc296 , the method section for your report is now on LEO FYI. Hope your weekend fills you with vigor ;)

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

2 years

I never thought watching my nails grow would give me such awe for science: "Today, each transistor in a state-of-the-art chip measures only 5 nanometers (nm) — the length a human fingernail grows in five seconds." From

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

3 months

@cremieuxrecueil @DanielG12754470 @TarenSanders @PaulGTaylor_ACU @BorjadelPozoCr1 @lonsdale_c @stuart_biddle @JordanJsmith88 @jwjmahoney @Vasconcellos_Ro We calculated smd and smd of change scores on a per-arm level using the formula from I agree it would be helpful to clarify this in the manuscript. It's very early on a weekend over here so I'll chat to the team next week how best to do that.

Chapter 3 Effect Sizes | Doing Meta-Analysis in R

I n the last chapter, we were able to familiarize ourselves with the R universe and learned a few helpful tools to import and manipulate data. In this second part of the book, we can now apply and...

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@CC_Walton @jmacshine What was your question again? I only remember the gif 😉

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@mnoetel

3 years

5/ Our brains need to work to connect things in space too, so if you've got labels, put them on the image itself, rather than in a legend all the way over there (applies to plots in scientific papers too)

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Big milestone for @EvidenceAction , delivering over 1 billion treatments. What's the treatment? School-based deworming, which MIT lists as one of the 'best buys' for improving both education and global health: Want to help? Go to

EA Australia

@EA_Aus

3 years

The deworm the world program by @EvidenceAction , one of our larger partner charities have made leaps and bounds since 2014, with over a billion treatments delivered!😆 This is an amazing feat and an example of the impact that donating effectively can achieve. 📢

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@DanielGucciardi @roxannefelig +1 for @DanielGucciardi 's paper and this book is gold if you have a handle on R: This paper has a legit excel spreadsheet that does a lot of work, but without all the bells and whistles you can use in R

Introduction, comparison, and validation of Meta‐Essentials: A free and simple tool for meta‐anal...

We present a new tool for meta-analysis, Meta-Essentials, which is free of charge and easy to use. In this paper, we introduce the tool and compare its features to other tools for meta-analysis. We...

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

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@robertwiblin The longitudinal effects of games on most outcomes are incredibly small, see I have more trust in meta-analyses like this one, which say generally suggest games lead to a tiny positive *increase* in depression

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@mnoetel

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@TBMcGuckian Want more choices? All the interventions on givewell are the most cost effective according to RCTs but there's a wider range of really effective organisations that do great work here The book is great and free too.

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@mnoetel

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7/ Memes are fun, but *because* they're fun, we remember the memes, and not what you were trying to say. Make all stories, images, and text relate to the core thing you want people to learn.

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

10 years

Pakistan Offers up to 250% Bonuses to Players? This is great news for Australia, isn't it, @CricketAus ? http://t.co/suDrtq0XcJ

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@mnoetel

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@BorjadelPozoCr1 @katy_milkman @24hourfitness @Nature @angeladuckw @ChangeBcfg @BazermanMax @johnbeshears @GretchenChapman @RobertCialdini @hengchen_dai @ayeletfishbach @deankarlan @AriellaKristal @lonsdale_c Thanks Borja! You know me too well. I put it on our journal club list yesterday!

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@mnoetel

11 years

@jdelmarmol thanks for the question mate. Yes, #exsc296 lp1 media articles need to be from week 1.

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

10 years

Seth's take on a growth mindset, a good read: Is better possible? http://t.co/g2VxPC07kV

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

3 years

@rusyans Thanks @rusyans ! Congrats on being the 5th person to ever read it 😅

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

11 years

Hi @hesmith13 , for #exsc296 LP3 you don't need to include any sheets because we put all the questions on ppt slides instead of printing 200.

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@mnoetel

3 years

3/ And if there are no meaningful images that make sense, then just add some key words to the slides, so the audience can catch-up if their attention wanders for a moment

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

10 years

@AHPRA thank you for chasing that up. Appreciate knowing the application was received.

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

10 years

Hello again #exsc296 . Tutorials with me today are in TS03 not SDA04. See you soon!

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

10 years

Some great research from Dan Ariely: even the top 20 NBA athletes don't perform BETTER under pressure. http://t.co/xosj73VrSn

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

2 years

@TBMcGuckian @BeefAustralia This came out today, and looks to control for the energy/nutrient density of the food: Still doesn't make stake look any good 😬

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

3 years

The haters hated the reproducibility project ("err you didn't do it right") so Many Labs 5 got peer review first. New, peer reviewed replications supported the existing replications; original studies still show massively inflated effects. Amazing work all @_MMathur @BrianNosek

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

5 years

Looks like you were right, @kayla_itsines @emilyskyefit @tammyhembrow8 , vigorous exercise is safe all the way through pregnancy. Here's some new top level research done here in Australia

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

4 years

When the air quality is hazardous, would you want your kids to stay physically active? Our new paper found exercise hardly changed despite really hazardous air during the #bushfires last year. Not sure how I should feel about that... @BorjadelPozoCr1

No, don't run in smog

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

3 years

"They are no longer being asked to sacrifice for the future, but to enhance their own sense of meaning and purpose in their present." Sounds pretty good to me.

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Michael Noetel

@mnoetel

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@jmacshine @CC_Walton This has been the hardest one for me to stomach, too

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