{"id":561,"date":"2017-05-29T21:06:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T21:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arthurjensen.net\/?p=561"},"modified":"2017-05-29T21:06:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T21:06:33","slug":"jensen-on-physicists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arthurjensen.net\/?p=561","title":{"rendered":"Jensen on physicists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a letter to Rosalind Arden dated August, 1998, Jensen writes (among other things).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I found my audience of mostly physicists at the NBI [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Niels_Bohr_Institute\">Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark<\/a>] to be very receptive, interesting, and quick to grasp what I was talking about. I have always found physicists to be the ideal audience &#8211; far better than most psychologists at understanding the real problems of psychology. They asked very insightful questions. They&#8217;re also very good at translating verbal statements into mathematical ones &#8211; something I&#8217;m in the habit of doing in reverse when speaking to lay audiences and to typical non-quantitative psychologists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Compare with <a href=\"http:\/\/infoproc.blogspot.dk\/2016\/10\/how-brexit-was-won-and-unreasonable.html\">the recent comments<\/a> by Dominic Cummings and Stephen Hsu on physicists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a letter to Rosalind Arden dated August, 1998, Jensen writes (among other things). I found my audience of mostly physicists at the NBI [Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark] to be very receptive, interesting, and quick to grasp what I was talking about. I have always found physicists to be the ideal audience &#8211; far better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthurjensen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthurjensen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthurjensen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthurjensen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthurjensen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arthurjensen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthurjensen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthurjensen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthurjensen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}