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Supplement For Your Tea
This is meant to clear up some confusion in the Lady Tasting Tea series, which featured a problem people hoped would be easy. Here are two possible outcomes, comparing the…
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Enclothed Cognition—Wearing A Doctor’s Coat Makes You More Careful
I cannot do a better job than Northwestern's Hajo Adam and Adam Galinsky in describing their peer-reviewed paper "Enclothed cognition," which appeared in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. We…
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A Pill To Eliminate Racism? What’ll Science Think Of Next!
Publishable p-values If it weren't for the miracle of statistics, specifically the p-value, a device which can be used to "prove" anything, scientists would have a lot more time on…
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Conservatives Produced By “Low Effort” Thinking: Study
If there is one subject which fascinates academics more than any other, it is why are they so smart and the rest of the populace not. Although there is no…
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Academic Pscyhologists Over-Rely On WEIRD People: Overconfidence Results
It was just over a month ago that tears of joy came to my eyes while reading an academic paper. This was Simmons et alia's "False-Positive Psychology : Undisclosed Flexibility…
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Atheists More Motivated By Compassion Than The Faithful?
Why? (Source) Today's title was swiped, word-for-word, from a Live Science press release. This is important because the point I wish to make has to do with how the press…
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What Organic Boors, Swedish Pronouns, And The Exorcist Have In Common
Not much, except to demonstrate that the natural state of modernity is something closely resembling mass lunacy. To explain. Swedish Pronouns Via Sam Schulman â€(Twitter: @Sam_Schulman) we infer that 1984…
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It’s Time For A New (Old) Kind Of University: Update
Consider these news items: "At Western Michigan University, it is considered harassment to hold a 'condescending sex-based attitude.'...Tufts University in Boston proscribes the holding of 'sexist attitudes,'... At Northeastern University,…
