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📢New Preprint!📢 We've developed a behavioural measure of open-mindedness: the 'Ideological Turing Test,' (ITT). 🧵
psyarxiv.com/2e9wn/
with @tomstafford & Daniel Brady from the wonderful @RSE_Sheffield
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Lotty Brand
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Lotty Brand
@LottyBrand
postdoctoral research scientist, human behaviour and evolution, social learning, cultural evolution, open science, secular buddhism
Katılım Ocak 2012
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Career idea: write these papers and collect citations
🔥“Why median splits are amazing”
🔥”The benefits of treating ordinal variables as Gaussian”
🔥”Nearly significant? An important concept”
🔥”The immense epistemic fertility of not sharing code”
Daniel P. Moriarity@dp_moriarity
If I had $10 for every time I found a citation used to rationalize the stratification of a continuous variable, that doesn't actually support said stratification, I could afford a Nature APC for this review.
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There are many claims for the oldest pub in Britain. The most famous is the Trip to Jerusalem at Nottingham: reputedly opened 1189, but this was invented in 1909 by the landlord. In reality its a 17thC building that was used as a pub by 1751. So which is the oldest? ...a thread🧵
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@PoliSciJack @rlmcelreath Was going to say this! Fix our awful political polling that often does more harm than good...! Fun challenge!
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So suppose I were thinking of leaving academia. Would anyone be interested in hiring me? DM and let's chat. I haven't made up my mind, but just trying to assess the landscape, eventually find someplace where I can make a difference
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The hard copy has arrived! It looks lovely (@OpenBookPublish found a great image for the cover) and, once you’ve finished reading, you can use it as a doorstop 😂
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Plan to quote this in an upcoming paper. I think it elegantly showcases issues around biological reductionism, the levels problem (Eronen), and hierarchies of organizations (Wimsatt).
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“Culture War Whack-aMole” sounds familiar: “Every time an egregiously distorted or dishonest publication on colonial history appears from a right wing culture warrior determined to re-legitimate Empire, I've tried to wallop it w/ historical integrity. Immediately up pops another”
Alan Lester@aljhlester
I've spent a lot of time since the BLM protests of June 2020 playing "Culture War Whack-aMole". Every time an egregiously distorted, selective, or downright dishonest publication on colonial history appears from a right wing culture warrior determined to re-legitimate Empire, I've tried to wallop it with some historical integrity. Immediately, up pops another historical negation, from a right wing politician, an obscurely funded 'think tank', a member of History Reclaimed in the right-wing press or an astroturf organisation. I've been contacted by quite a few people working in the fields where these 'moles' pop up - education, heritage, the performing arts etc. - who've said they value the kind of historically-literate responses I've had time to develop after spending 30-odd years specialising in colonial history. So here is a recap of my free, online blogs, for anyone who feels they might be useful. Some are now outdated but might still have useful info: The Common Sense Group of Tory MPs: blogs.sussex.ac.uk/snapshotsofemp… Restore Trust: blogs.sussex.ac.uk/snapshotsofemp… History Reclaimed: blogs.sussex.ac.uk/snapshotsofemp… Policy Exchange and its defence of Winston Churchill’s iconographic status: alanlester.co.uk/blog/winston-c… The Institute of Economic Research and its backing of Kemi Badenoch: Short: bellacaledonia.org.uk/2024/06/05/coo… Long: blogs.sussex.ac.uk/snapshotsofemp… Nigel Biggar’s Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning: Short: bellacaledonia.org.uk/2023/03/07/the… Long: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Nigel Biggar and the Spectator: alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-right… If you want to read a collective of other specialist historians' responses to all this, please see this book, out on 27th June: hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth…
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Like any good research software engineer, the beaver (genus Castor) runs incremental tests after every commit youtube.com/shorts/T_r7SD0…
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There are entire fields in psychology doing research with measures that were never properly validated.
Time for an “expression of concern” for a few thousand papers?
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"I’m a woman, I’m young, I’m Muslim, I’m left-wing. When people attack me, it’s usually for one – or all – of those reasons."
I spoke to @ElleUK about dealing with racism and abuse – and how I won't let that stop me from fighting for social justice:
elle.com/uk/news-politi…
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Who do you think you are? Genetics and identity "what really exists at the genetic level are gradients of genetic variation, not distinct groupings. For this reason, ethnic groups, nations, or races are not biological entities" blog.oup.com/2024/03/who-do…
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We are still looking for a reviewer with expertise in SAS and ideally some domain knowledge in intergroup processes. Please get in touch if that describes you, or kindly help us boost this signal!
ERROR@error_reviews
We are currently looking for a reviewer with expertise in SAS. Domain knowledge in intergroup dynamics would be ideal, but is not a must. If you are interested or know someone who might fit this description, please let us know! Reply here or email: error.reviews/contact/
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If any kid is hurt tonight, responsibility will fall on the mayor and univ presidents.
Other leaders and schools have found a safe, de-escalatory path. This is the opposite of leadership and endangers public safety. A nightmare in the making.
I urge the Mayor to reverse course.
katie honan@katie_honan
NEW - @NYCMayor says Columbia protest has been "co-opted" and is going to share their intel, he says at 1 Police Plaza. He advises students involved in the protest to leave the area and tells parents to tell their kids to leave "before the situation escalates."
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"I got to figure,” the tenant said. "We all got to figure.
There’s some way to stop this. It’s not like lightning or earthquakes. We’ve got a bad thing made by men, and by God that’s something we can change.”
John Steinbeck
Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell)@JPHilllllll
Absolutely insane footage of the NYPD entering Columbia University. It’s endless.
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P.S. It’s Dan Dennett’s birthday so here are his 4 steps to arguing effectively! brainpickings.org/2014/03/28/dan… @OpeningUpMinds
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And of course: Why Inequality is Bad, danielnettle.org.uk/wp-content/upl… , Let Them Eat Cake, Getting Your Head around UBI, and The Mill That Grinds Young People Old. In fact, can we just make Part 2 of HOTTE required reading for all students/politicians/humans?! openbookpublishers.com/product/842
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Progress on making my blog boring vanilla html. If you've not read any of this, I suggest the Regression Fire and Dangerous Things three-part series. It's like a super-condensed version of my book/course, a neutron star of Bayesian causal inference. elevanth.org
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The future of Perspectives on Psychological Science (the journal) is wide open!
Want to be the next Editor in Chief? Have ideas about new directions for the journal? Submit a proposal (2pp) by June 1.
Come join the team of APS journals' Editors in Chief!
psychologicalscience.org/publications/c…
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Really enjoyed this article on uniquely human cognition -> thank you to @CantlonLab & Piantadosi for articulating so eloquently an idea that makes a tonne of sense to me: there are no domain-specific silver bullets when it comes to human cognition. nature.com/articles/s4415…
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