Thread IV: The Social Sciences are a Mess, Including But Not Restricted to Psych Science, and It Includes But Goes Well Beyond The Replication Crisis (in general, and not just for things political-see other threads for those).
My very 1st PsychToday blog: psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rabble…
No, they don't. My blog is from 2012 psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rabble…
Paper on right just came out.
You (could have) heard it here first.
This one is spot on, but its also dangerous.
It is NOT an argument to believe in conspiracy theories or data analysis by your libertarian uncle who knows a little stat.
Its more like "treat scientists' with deep skepticism." psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rabble…
Why skepticism about psych science? Here are a SLEW of resources, of veritable bibliography of SCIENTIFIC sources critiquing scientific findings and processes. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rabble…
If you have read the recent Perspectives on Psych Science special issue on microaggressions, you KNOW this is true: psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rabble…
I cannot tell you how many times I have been told:
Not to call my colleagues hypocrites
I would have so much more influence if only I had a better "tone"
It is me, not they, who are biased.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rabble…
I mean, if "self-correction" is some of what gives science its credibility and status, then they should love being corrected, right?
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If you follow science reformers, you know answers include:
sampling, generalizing, theorizing, statistics, and applying academic findings to the real world. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rabble…
An actual undergrad syllabus for exposing students to these sorts of issues. When I have done this, they have loved this course. #livedexperience (and high course evals). psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rabble…
New report w/@ncri_io out.
Assassination Culture: How Burning Teslas and Killing Billionaires Became a Meme Aesthetic for Political VIolence.
Short 🧵
Link to full report, which is not that long and should be pretty readable for most people:
Lots of data, but for X, this will do. About half of those on the left in a national survey expressed at least some support for murdering Musk and Trump. networkcontagion.us/wp-content/upl…
Correlation table. Shows support for political violence is psychologically highly structured. Support for one type of violence strongly corrs with support for other violence AND with leftwing authoritarianism (don't tell John Jost, he thinks LWA does not exist).
You are comparing academics to pop-right writers.
A thread of academics on center/center-right/libertarian books that are at least as high quality as left critiques of the right (but beware of rigorous mortis selectivus: No, Virginia, identifying an actual flaw in one of these books does not make it "worse" than the left critiques of the right; that requires a full-on comparison of strengths and weaknesses).
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@MattPolProf Wonderful new book. Debunks nonsense about a slew of progressive cause celebre's (Trayvon Martin, Amy Cooper, etc.) and "science!" nonsense like implicit bias and stereotype threat.
@MattPolProf Excellent book on the rise of authoritarianism on the U.S. left.
In honor of this stupidity, I thread here an incomplete list of the White administrators and faculty at elite U's that have been forced out for: 1. Ethics violations 2. No ethics violation at all.
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Its worth remembering that, whether or not they "defended" firings, they denied that "cancel culture" was a thing and *justified* punishing targets & *implemented* firings, suspensions & retracting papers) with variations of "look how evil that person is."
🧵w/receipts.
First, the firings. When possible, I purposely chose some of the most obvious glorification of the firings. Like here: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
David Shor, fired for Tweeting a peer reviewed sociology article showing that peaceful protests are more effective than violent ones at persuading people. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Dear Aidan,
Please explain how this ad is NOT in violation of U.S. and Washington DC (where APA, the society sponsoring this journal, is housed) laws prohibiting discrimination based on race.
🧵 ending in END.
The ad, shown in full above, includes:
"In service of APA's commitment to EDI... APA Publishing's fellowship program seeks to elevate leadership opportunities for ECP's (early career psychologists) from communities that have been historically underrepresented..." It explains:
"Such individuals include, but are not limited to, psychologists who are Black, Indigenous, or other people of color and ethnicities..."
Introducing the new Journal of Open Inquiry in the Behavioral Sciences. And we mean "new" not just "another." 1/2
Spread the word to those who pub behavioral sciences.
@lakens @CJFerguson1111 @MattGrossmann @JukkaSavo @JonHaidt @peterboghossian @a_m_mastroianni, @RickCarlsson @CHSommers @chrisdc77 @profyancey @ImHardcory @yorl @minzlicht @MarcusCrede @sociologyWV @primalpoly @SteveStuWill
Also, @HSJSpeaks, @lastpositivist, @Docstockk, @olivertraldi (note to philosophers: We currently have a paper under review by Holly Lawford-Smith). Journal practices inspired by @jon_rauch. @StuartJRitchie (see top tws⬆️).