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That the United States is not only sanctioning such shocking inhumanity, but is also *paying* for it, is so despicable.

And that silence you hear is not one conservative "Christian" speaking out against it.

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Measurement error, Nobel Prize winning research, friendly disagreements, and more....
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"Well first of all, we need a republicanism scale with an alpha of at least .70"

If OSU, other colleges are brainwashing students, explain Jim Jordan and JD Vance | Opinion Republicans are not under attack in higher education. The General Assembly just wants the right to punish universities for telling the truth

State Senator Bill DeMora holds nothing back about how terrible Ohio's SB1 is, designed to kill higher education in the state.

Opinion | I’ve Covered Authoritarians Abroad. Trump’s Actions Look Familiar. Trump’s actions remind me of authoritarians I’ve covered for four decades around the globe.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/o...

Farmers: “He was supposed to hurt other people, not us.”

Title Authors Abstract (Decision under Risk are Decisions Under Complexity: Comment)

A new working paper with Daniel Banki, @urisohn.bsky.social and Robert Walatka, just submitted to SSRN.

The paper is comment on Ryan Oprea's recent AER paper.

The paper is processing, but you, my friends, get early entry.

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Dear Mexico, Canada, Panama, and Europe:

100 percent tariffs on Tesla.

Important new research by my @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social colleagues: test-optional admission *hurts* the chances of less advantaged applicants, who don't submit scores that would dramatically increase their chance of admission. www.nber.org/papers/w3338...

Items on this (as well as ST ) no longer appear on the licensure test.

The Collapse of Ego Depletion Science's Biggest Self-Control Failure

Roy Baumeister called ego depletion "one of the most replicable findings in social psychology." As someone who spent 20 years studying it—and ultimately had to admit it wasn't real—I have to respectfully disagree. Here's my perspective of what went so wrong.

@drbensearle.bsky.social please include me

“Now there’s nothing stopping me from changing my status to ‘In a Relationship.’” Tim Carabine, Iguana Breeder

Meta To End Fact-Checking
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[122] Arresting Flexibility: A QJE field experiment on police behavior with about 40 outcome variables - Data Colada A forthcoming paper in the Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE), "A Cognitive View of Policing" (htm), reports results from a field experiment showing that teaching police officers to "consider differ...

I'm very much here for the two highlighted cells in this table.
#significancetesting

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Revisiting Stereotype Threat A Reckoning for Social Psychology

Stereotype threat: a once-dominant idea in social psychology that shaped how we think about identity and performance. But what happens when the evidence crumbles? A deep dive into the failed replications, the myths, and what it all means. Read my latest essay: open.substack.com/pub/michaeli...

You gotta admit it’s fascinating watching billionaires overthrow democracy with the aid of the downwardly mobile.

Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia The billionaire has become one of the most prominent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control.
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

Climbing the Ivory Tower: How Socio-Economic Background Shapes Academia Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Some hope for first gens after all! Fabulous new study notes: "academics from poorer backgrounds introduce more novel scientific concepts but are less likely to receive recognition." This is good, not bad, news. Our different view on life is our super power to make change! www.nber.org/papers/w33289

The traditional interview is supposed to measure ability, motivation, and fit simultaneously. Yet it doesn’t outperform a simple measure of contentiousness.

In my psychology intro course, I have talked about the low predictive power of unstructured job interviews. Even made fun of them.

I recently interviewed students for TA positions. One of them noted: "How interesting to be invited for an *interview* by *you*, who do not believe in interviews." :)

Easily the best description of him I’ve ever read.

Ima use this

Why Cohen benchmarks do not apply to the prediction of human performance: www.cambridge.org/core/service...

Don’t understand p-value graph without sample size information

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