“To Be” or “I Am Someone Who Tends to Be”: Does the Wording of Personality Items Matter? #RegisteredReport from @cskay.bsky.social, Sara Weston, and David Condon doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Issue 28 of RDM Weekly is out! 📬 ➡️ Can you trust data collected on MTurk? @cskay.bsky.social ➡️ Reproducible Code Guide @britishecologicalsociety.org ➡️ Posit Cheatsheets @posit.co ➡️ Education Data Explorer @urbaninstitute.bsky.social and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

“These findings provide clear evidence that data collected on MTurk simply cannot be trusted.”

📢The 2026 edition of the SPSP Misinformation & Belief Science preconference will be held virtually on Tuesday, February 24.🎉 Submit an abstract for either a single presenter or data blitz presentation by October 23 (link below) and don’t forget to register to attend by February 13!

Opinion Polling for the 2025 Canadian Federal Election (03/09/2025). @ipsoscanada.bsky.social @pollara.bsky.social @pallasdata.bsky.social @mainstresearch.bsky.social @angusreidinstitute.bsky.social @sparkadvocacy.bsky.social

Across two studies--one using a sample of undergraduate students and one using a sample of @cloudresearch.bsky.social #connect participants--we found consistent associations between the tendency to believe in conspiracy theories and a wide range of prejudicial beliefs. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Catching misbehaving survey-takers🔎. Read the new post by Heather Manitzas Hill, covering a #psynomBRM paper by Cameron Kay @cskay. https://buff.ly/3X138iJ