NancyLebovitz, this is a very important question! Yup, we do have methods of checking in on what we are teaching.
For example, let's take our meaning and purpose content, which is essentially about teaching people to be oriented toward the long term and achieving their long-term goals. We have an app that has a psychometric test to measure people's level of meaning and purpose prior to engaging with our content, and then after they engage with our content, including continuing follow-up going forward. The continuing follow-up is meant to address the issue of attention bias and Hawthorne effect, namely to test whether people just got an immediate boost or if there a long-term benefit to people engaging with our content.
We are developing similar apps for other types of content, such as an app for planning fallacy.
We also intend to run randomized control studies on our content's impact, as described in our theory of change. We have written up proposals for those studies, and are currently trying to get funding for these studies.
this is a very important question!
This is a nicety; while appreciated it looks like you are trying to suck up to Nancy.
(taking into account what Lumifier said about the app) in your description;
We also intend to run randomized control studies on our content's impact, as described in our theory of change. We have written up proposals for those studies, and are currently trying to get funding for these studies.
Is the only thing you said are doing to be checking on what you're actually teaching. And it's something that has not happened yet. (granted...
Richard Kennaway has posted about an edit war on the wiki. Richard, thank you.
Unfortunately, I've only used the wiki a little, and don't have a feeling for why the edit history for an article is inaccessible. Is the wiki broken or has someone found a way to hack it? Let it be known that hacking the wiki is something I'll ban for.
VoiceofRa, I'd like to know why you deleted Gleb's article. Presumably you have some reason for why you think it was unsatisfactory.
I'm also notifying tech in the hope of finding out what happened to the edit history.