Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist

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Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist

Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist

@BentallProf

Scientist doppleganger of @richardbentall, researching social determinants of mental health, clinical interventions for psychosis, delusions & irrational belief

Katılım Nisan 2020
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George Pu
George Pu@TheGeorgePu·
I've been to France. Portugal. Across Europe. People aren't hustling 70 hours. They're having dinner at 9pm with families. Walking to the bakery on Tuesdays. Living. And they're fine. More than fine. The hustle narrative is an American export. It's not a law of nature.
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Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist@BentallProf·
@MarkVipond It's not nonsense - its based on a very detailed NBER study - but your graph is. It is egregious cherry-picking to compare the UK to the two worst performing economies in the EU. If one of my students did this, they would fail.
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Sustainable Energy Forum
Sustainable Energy Forum@Eddystone506·
Not a single Brexit dinosaur has ever been able to explain how increasing trade barriers helps the UK grow GDP. Only reply they have left now is 'but..but..Germany..' As if that's somehow relevant. What a bunch of economically illiterate 🤡🤡
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ninette hibbs
ninette hibbs@HarryDecote·
@AEHALL1983 @carlbildt What's depressing is the number of people who treat this as fact and quote away . There's a lot of Pro Remain posts on X chipping away to create an anti brexit under current
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Dr Marcus Dromgoole
Dr Marcus Dromgoole@MarcusDromgoole·
@AEHALL1983 @carlbildt @julianHjessop has an excellent explanation of this ‘new study’.
Julian Jessop@julianHjessop

I see the usual suspects (and some new ones!) are again pushing last year's NBER "working paper" which claimed that Brexit has already reduced UK GDP by as much as 8%... 🤔 ICYMI, this figure is derived by comparing growth in UK GDP per capita with the *averages* of a wide range of other countries with many different characteristics. Any UK underperformance since 2016 is then attributed *solely to Brexit*. Other factors which may have impacted different economies in different ways over this period are ignored - notably Covid and the energy crisis. Moreover, these studies gloss over the fact that growth in UK GDP per capita has not been far short of that in France and better than that of both Germany and Canada (which doesn't fit the narrative!). Finally, the results fail a simple smell test. If the UK economy had grown by another 8% since 2016 it would have been the fastest growing major economy in Europe by a long way. UK growth would also not have been far behind that of the US, even though the US economy has benefited from a large fiscal stimulus, relatively low energy costs, and an AI boom. This is all obviously daft.

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Tom Forth
Tom Forth@thomasforth·
If you're a Brexit economic impact denialist at this point just block me please. Or reply with your denial and I'll block you. It's so damaging to Britain and such a sign of incapacity for self reflection that I'm not willing to entertain it any more. So sad.
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Liz Webster
Liz Webster@LizWebsterSBF·
🔵 @jonsopel to Jenrick, “It was about personal ambition!” “You were a Brexiteer when Boris... You said it's a shame that Liz Truss is still in the Conservative Party- but you voted for her budget. And now, when the Tories are languishing in the polls, which they most certainly are, you've gone to the party that is leading in the polls, and you've got shadow treasury spokesperson job.” Jenrick gets angry, “I'm not gonna take any lessons from the man who said that Peter Mandelson was a class act, when he was appointed as our ambassador to Washington. #bbcqt
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Julian Jessop
Julian Jessop@julianHjessop·
I see the usual suspects (and some new ones!) are again pushing last year's NBER "working paper" which claimed that Brexit has already reduced UK GDP by as much as 8%... 🤔 ICYMI, this figure is derived by comparing growth in UK GDP per capita with the *averages* of a wide range of other countries with many different characteristics. Any UK underperformance since 2016 is then attributed *solely to Brexit*. Other factors which may have impacted different economies in different ways over this period are ignored - notably Covid and the energy crisis. Moreover, these studies gloss over the fact that growth in UK GDP per capita has not been far short of that in France and better than that of both Germany and Canada (which doesn't fit the narrative!). Finally, the results fail a simple smell test. If the UK economy had grown by another 8% since 2016 it would have been the fastest growing major economy in Europe by a long way. UK growth would also not have been far behind that of the US, even though the US economy has benefited from a large fiscal stimulus, relatively low energy costs, and an AI boom. This is all obviously daft.
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Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist@BentallProf·
@julianHjessop @s_bentall @michael_wheller That's not a convincing debunk. The fact that two completely different methodologies get comparable results, that these results are plausible (just a 0.7% loss of annual growth = 8% over 10 years) and that others get similar results should tell you something if you were honest.
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Julian Jessop
Julian Jessop@julianHjessop·
Happy to debunk the 6% too.. It's based on data which suggests that companies who traded more with the EU did relatively badly, which can partly be explained by the relative weakness of the EU economies... 🤷‍♂️ They also focus on the initial impact of Brexit uncertainty, then acknowledge that this has already faded!
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Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist@BentallProf·
@julianHjessop @s_bentall All you've done is defended what is blatant cherry-picking, and then you've blocked me (twice) and anyone else who has challenged you. You clearly have no interest in an honest debate about the impact of Brexit on the UK economy - a typical Brexiter with a total lack of honesty
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Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist@BentallProf·
It would be really great if a few more friends on X completed this survey to help us with our research on political ideologies.
Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist@BentallProf

1/2 Dear friends on X. Colleagues and I are pilot testing questionnaire measures of political ideology in preparation for a large social science project on the nature of mass belief systems. Our 15-minute pilot is ethically approved by Sheffield U. Next post provides the link

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Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist@BentallProf·
@penelopepriest I think I can say at this point that one of our longterm goals is to find what makes pathological beliefs (associated with psychosis) different from other kinds of extreme beliefs (political and religious ideologies).
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Dr Priest
Dr Priest@penelopepriest·
@BentallProf Is there a way of being kept informed about the progress of this research? Also, I have feedback on the q'naire...a few design faults, imo, but I've completed and shared.
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Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist@BentallProf·
1/2 Dear friends on X. Colleagues and I are pilot testing questionnaire measures of political ideology in preparation for a large social science project on the nature of mass belief systems. Our 15-minute pilot is ethically approved by Sheffield U. Next post provides the link
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Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist@BentallProf·
@penelopepriest When we have enough data, I'll post a thread on here explaining what we hope the scales are measuring and which work best. Selected scales will go through further piloting before included in a national survey of belief systems (political, religious, conspiracy, delusional).
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Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist@BentallProf·
@kath_brentford Thank you so much. Several of the scales are ones we are not happy with, and some are new scales we hope to replace them with. With enough data, we can use psychometrics (confirmatory factor analysis) to identify those scales which work best.
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John #LUFC
John #LUFC@ElginWhites2022·
@s_bentall @RichardBentall @BenedictSpence That GDP figure is pure BS and disproven. But it was never about economics, unless you were prepared to sell your soul to the commission. Rights are not effected because they are enshrined in uk law and as for opportunities….ffs🤦‍♂️
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Benedict Spence
Benedict Spence@BenedictSpence·
Starmer’s attempts to “realign” Britain with the EU is the first step towards rejoining. One of the reasons we left was to stop incompetent politicians letting Brussels do their jobs for them. No surprise Starmer, more useless than most, is trying to bring that option back.
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@MarkVipond @HarryDecote @AEHALL1983 @carlbildt @MarcusDromgoole @julianHjessop @jonsopel @michael_wheller