Recommendation requests: Intro to calculus. I know about derivatives and I can use them and I sort of understand integrals but my knowledge is very fragmented. For instance, I don’t know what half of the notation is supposed to actually represent. Also, I want strategies for solving problems rather than being given a bunch of (apparently) unrelated tools and told to just figure it out.… yea, I didn’t have a good math teacher
Set theory and other discrete mathematics.
Psychology.
Something or other on the scientific method (how to design experiments)
Biology. General, human, micro, intro or advanced… Just trying to make the list more comprehensive
Chemistry. See above.
Physics. There are already some here but I want more topics (thermodynamics is the first that comes to mind).
In recommendations, I would suggest another criteria be added related to learning type. Some books are being praised for their concreteness and others for their topical comprehensiveness and others for their pedagogical comprehensiveness (addresses most common misconceptions etc.) and other sometimes mutually exclusive traits. Just a way of systematizing this and making it easier for people to get the type of book that they are looking for.
Edit: Another topic: writing. I have read elements of style but I haven’t read anything else on the subject. I would like to see how it compares to other (newer?) books.
This can get gamed pretty easily though, by selecting things that you have more previous knowledge of or know the actual probabilities of over things that you know are more likely to be wrong.… realization
Except that that could be exactly the point, the ability to identify what you know you are likely to assign accurate probabilities for and identifying when you aren’t as likely. However, there still is the problem of just not reporting certain things to boost your scores. There could be something that takes into account or measures the ability to identify when you are likely to be wrong.