{"id":559,"date":"2010-04-16T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2010\/04\/16\/over-thinkers-anonymous\/"},"modified":"2010-04-16T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T20:52:00","slug":"over-thinkers-anonymous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2010\/04\/16\/over-thinkers-anonymous\/","title":{"rendered":"Over-thinkers anonymous"},"content":{"rendered":"

I over-think EVERYTHING. It drives Mr E Man crazy. I put it down to my scientific training: you have to consider alternative hypotheses! And state the Potential Pitfalls and Alternative Approaches!<\/p>\n

But apparently, this kind of rigour is not necessarily appropriate when trying to decide what to do at the weekend.<\/p>\n

When Mr E Man told me jokingly (?) to “OMG, GET HELP!!!”, I started to think about what that help might look like….<\/p>\n

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NB: I originally intended this post to be in the form of a cartoon, but it turns out that I can’t draw. At all. I mean, I can draw stick figures that are <\/i>almost as good as the ones on xkcd<\/a>, but I can’t do perspective or anything like that. So please imagine the poster below as part of a cartoon: it’s on a noticeboard in a long corridor of the kind often seen in academic research institutes, and there’s a young student standing in front of it and reading intently with a worried look on their face.<\/i><\/p>\n

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I over-think EVERYTHING. It drives Mr E Man crazy. I put it down to my scientific training: you have to consider alternative hypotheses! And state the Potential Pitfalls and Alternative Approaches! But apparently, this kind of rigour is not necessarily … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-science","category-silliness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}