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If there's a hypochondria and hypothesis, there should also be hyperchondria and hyperthesis.

The scientific method most of us learned in school—observation, hypothesis, experiment, conclusion—isn't wrong, but it's woefully incomplete.
https://youtu.be/ulVc6stmrB0?si=brE3SS6qDkKplHF8

"Panel’s chair said that most scientific data supports the hypothesis that coronavirus jumped to humans from animals"
**Covid-19 origin: WHO expert group fails to find a definitive answer** | STAT
https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/27/who-expert-group-fails-to-find-definitive-answer-covid-19-origin/?utm_campaign=rss

Spouse is a psychotherapist. I am a heavily-interdisciplinary computer programmer. We both work with complex systems.
We are diagnosing why the heat pump mini-split isn't working as expected
Their first hypothesis, of course, is "communication breakdown with partner unit"
Mine is "configuration error root-caused to bad UX design"
... We were both right

I found this a nice and interesting video essay about the Dark Forest hypothesis in sci-fi literature:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0SvgT9Lc2M
I usually don't dare clicking on new recommended channels on Youtube because I don't know if that's some crap…

Hypothesis Testing for Quantifying LLM-Human Misalignment in Multiple Choice Settings
Harbin Hong, Sebastian Caldas, Liu Leqi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14997

Hypothesis Testing for Quantifying LLM-Human Misalignment in Multiple Choice Settings
As Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly appear in social science research (e.g., economics and marketing), it becomes crucial to assess how well these models replicate human behavior. In this work, using hypothesis testing, we present a quantitative framework to assess the misalignment between LLM-simulated and actual human behaviors in multiple-choice survey settings. This framework allows us to determine in a principled way whether a specific language model can effectively simulate human…

High Socioeconomic Status is Associated with Diverse Consumption across Brands and Price Levels
Yuanmo He, Milena Tsvetkova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13840

High Socioeconomic Status is Associated with Diverse Consumption across Brands and Price Levels
Consumption practices are determined by a combination of economic, social, and cultural forces. We posit that lower economic constraints leave more room to diversify consumption along cultural and social aspects in the form of omnivorous or lifestyle-based niche consumption. We provide empirical evidence for this diversity hypothesis by analysing millions of mobile-tracked visits from thousands of Census Block Groups to thousands of stores in New York State. The results show that high income is…