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New cultural evolution modelling paper with @bdecourson.bsky.social on @pnas.org! "Weak individual preferences stabilize culture" A quick 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

This paper is *so* good! The literature on external & construct validity often feels rather fuzzy to me. This one hits different — this feels like the right framework to reason more clearly about generalization, causality, even replication. It made a lot of things come together in my head!>

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

In this SRMA, @janpfa.bsky.social and @sachaltay.bsky.social find that people rate true news as more accurate than false news and are better at rating false news as false than at rating true news as true. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This paper was a lot of work and hides many cool findings, notably in Supplement. In this thread I present a few findings that you may have missed 👇

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Out in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social Can people tell true from false news? Yes! Our meta-analysis shows that people rate true news as more accurate than false news (d = 1.12) and were better at spotting false news than at recognizing true news (d = 0.32). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

New blog post! Sometimes, when reviewing a manuscript, it's really unclear to me what precisely the authors are trying to do -- which makes it hard to evaluate the work properly. So, here's some advice for how to ensure that readers don't get lost. www.the100.ci/2025/02/17/r...

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

submitted 14 days ago • 50 comments

Rdatasets is a collection of 2300 free and documented datasets in CSV format. It's a great resource for teaching and exploration! The new `get_dataset()` function from the {marginaleffects} 📦 allows you to search and load them directly in #Rstats. vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets/ar...

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Out now open access at @ajpseditor.bsky.social. 194 potential exclusion-restriction violations for studies using weather as an instrumental variable onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 106 days ago • 5 comments

We present: A new instrument to measure people’s science literacy. #OpenAccess in #ScienceCommunication: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 📢 It’s a 14-item #survey scale in English, German, French and Italian covering three key dimensions of science literacy: civic, media and cognitive literacy 💡

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

New WP! The illusory truth effect (repetition -> belief) is core to psych of beliefs, & thought to be a deep bias impacting misinfo, persuasion & advertising Why would cognition include such a flaw? We argue it is a rational adaptation to high-quality info environments 🧵1/

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

📣📣📣 Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!! Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply! More info: disi.org

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳 With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5

submitted 40 days ago • 24 comments

Can we trust a group of people to be right, and to be competent, simply because they agree on something? In a new paper in Cognition, @bdecourson.bsky.social, @hugoreasoning.bsky.social and I argue that yes, in many cases we can. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kA8Q2Hx2x... 1/

submitted 94 days ago • 3 comments

Most of the talks of the 6th Perspectives on Scientific Error conference are now online: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... All these talks, from across scientific disciplines, were so interesting! I’ll link to each talk in this thread: 👇

submitted 360 days ago • 1 comment