Hard to believe that there are still so many college instructors assigning take-home exams that are vulnerable to AI-assisted completion. And no, lock-down browsers won't help one bit. All you are doing is punishing those students who are still being honest.

In France, if you want to build a home above a certain size, you’re legally required to use a licensed architect. Can you guess what that size is

NEW: We highlight 3 changes in measurement of religious “nones” & call for organizations that make these changes to study their effects. From Matthew Conrad & me. www.surveypractice.org/article/1595...

Bessent is the higher-order factor explaining the covariation between stupidity, evil, and insanity.

I lol'd at this.😆

An exasperated Jason Collins bangs the drum he’s been beating for 10 years over a pure zombie study. The original research suggesting a little disfluency in communication stimulates more analytical reasoning is a spectacular replication failure: buff.ly/VxIUvYr

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

📄Published Today in Nature: 500 researchers reproduced 100 studies across the social & behavioral sciences to assess their analytical robustness (led by @balazsaczel.bsky.social & @szaszibarnabas.bsky.social). Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Preprint: osf.io/preprints/me... TLDR: 1/11

Timeline of a correction: 1. 8 April 2025: I contact an APA journal editor to inform them of serious statistical impossibilities in two papers by the same authors. Impossibilities that can be verified on the back of a napkin in 2 minutes.

I can't stand real or wannabe kings but I do make one exception.

The favorite part of my job as a Psychology Professor at my institution is knowing that I earn slightly less than half the salary of an Assistant Professor in the Business School with 3 publications.

I've apparently reached the age where I can incur fairly painful back injuries by *checks notes* watching my daughter compete at a Taekwondo tournament.

Brilliant little game: get a google street view image and guess how that county voted in the last presidential election. I scored 740/1000. www.ballotguessr.com/play

I can't stop thinking about this. Imagine: - 2200 studies, as they say >2000 - 2 studies per article given piloting/multi-study articles - No p-hacking (lol); 1 test per study (lol), 5% False Positive Rate That's 55 significant studies that are false positives Actual publications: 64

Great. How about a reward for those people who've spent thousands of hours trying to fix the horrendous bullshit produced by our fields' "thought leaders".

Oh, to publish in a Nature brand journal about how *checks notes* the big math changes to small math.

Ha! The original Lancet article on the dangers of reading in bed is here: doi.org/10.1016/S014...

If you contact an APA journal to note that multiple papers by the same authors claim that 2+2=7 and that all of their inferences are based on this claim what will follow is a year-long "investigation" followed by a correction noting that 2+2=4 but that the inferences are unchanged. Science!

I just received an e-mail suggesting that I follow Snoop Dog on LinkedIn. Does this mean that I am cool?

We recently submitted a commentary on a very influential meta-analysis. We found that: 1) 40% of relevant literature had not been identified because of lazy search, 2) a few large N included studies did not meet stated inclusion criteria, and 3) that almost all sig. moderator findings were wrong.

Users of survey data, lovers of DAGs, and general methodological enthusiasts, gather round! I'm so excited to share this new paper, joint work with my brilliant colleagues @rjsilverwood.bsky.social, @pwgtennant.bsky.social, and Liam Wright. 🧵

Pfft. Mathematically impossible results are not a problem at all. Simply send them to the Journal of Management. They give awards for that kind of stuff.

Plan to take the next day off from work if you are going to get the pneumonia vaccine. Ask me how I know.

The lack of uptake of sequential analysis shows how irrational scientists are, and how their methods are driven by norms. Sequential analyses give you more flexibility and are more efficient than a single hypothesis test, and yet, they are still very rare. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

The best way to make a small fortune is apparently to start with a big fortune and buy an old house. Unfortunately, I did not start with a big fortune.

This is completely bonkers.

A case of nominative determinism in research focus among academics? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What should journals do for papers that: 1) examine an interesting question, 2) but get the analysis wrong so that the conclusion changes from "evidence of effect" to "no evidence of effect" when error is corrected, and 3) the title of the paper states "evidence of effect". Can a title be corrected?

Babbage, 1830, discussing the problem that scientists selectively report findings that they want to be true. Confirmation bias is a strong human tendency. This is why we need to design science in a way that prevents conformation bias from leading us away from the truth.

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

Oh look! I got a "reviewer certificate" from APA. Apparently I can post it on LinkedIn or share it on social media to "showcase my skills". Is someone at APA being paid to come up with this cringey nonsense?

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

The pandemic caused a lot of change. Some changes that show up in survey data result from changes in survey methods. For example, a rise in the share of Spaniards identifying with no religion coincides with a switch from in-person to phone surveys. Read more: sociologicalscience.com/download/vol...

I'm coding articles for a review project and because I am coding alphabetically I am noticing just how often authors basically write the same article year after year after year. No new ideas, recycled writing, same awful methods and/or statistical errors. Great to see peer review at work.

Red red wine by UB40. My wife uses this to punish me.

So so so gross.

Jesus I needed this laugh

Is there anyone willing to take a quick look at a recent paper that seems to make the "difference between significance and non-significance is significant" error? I want to make sure that I've not misread something before proceeding.

Yale - a mediocre TEDx conference with dormitories that costs $90k to attend.

Is it just me or does it seem a little gross when the editor of a leading journal publishes 9 articles in his own journal in the first three years of his editorship?

The people of Mozambique are facing the worst floods in a generation. This is the primary road connecting the country. Communities are cut off from help and food. Absolutely horrific. www.instagram.com/reels/DT5V9-...

The Iowa Gambling Task is an extreme example of Jingle Fallacy and schmeasurement. In 100 articles we found 244 different ways of scoring it, 177 were never reused. Correlations between them range -.99 to .99. At the same time, we show meta-analyses combine these results as if they’re equivalent.

Serious question: I've been reviewing journal submissions for <20 years but this is the first time that I am reading something so clearly duplicitous that I feel that the authors' institutions should be contacted. Is there ever a reason or way to do this?

From a NSF-funded survey sent to me: "Null Results: Findings indicating the lack of a relationship between variables or the lack of an impact of a treatment on an outcome. In common hypothesis testing use cases, null results occur when the statistical inference fails to reject the null hypothesis."

There's the way Trump is gleefully happy to accept someone else's Nobel prize, and then there's the way Richard Feynman viewed Nobel prizes.

1900: Librarian says free libraries = too much reading “Great care must be exercised by parents to see that their children do not read too much” “When visiting a school recently 3 pupils in one room were noticed reading books under their desks"

The thing is, some people can make mistakes, get things wrong, be careless, etc. But that’s not what Jennings did here. Jennings knowingly, purposefully and intentionally lied to utterly distort what was said, which CNN pays him to do every day. CNN is the enabler of this.

I'm very excited to announce that after more than 20 years as an academic I finally have an actual working printer in my office.

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...