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one thing chatbots could stop doing is constantly flattering the user

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all websites hosting journal articles should allow you to hover over a link that serves as a citation within the text and see the reference info, or to be able to control click on it without being sent directly to the bottom of the people. it can come up on the side. this really isn't difficult

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Republicans Really Do Care More About ‘Masculine Energy’ (@tesler.bsky.social @johnsides.bsky.social & Colette Marcellin) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/250227

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a recent study examined the properties of 25 scales race-related scales on a sample of 100k+ (in the US). the best performer on a range of psychometric tests reworked some good general social survey questions to be a difference score between views of black and white people

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seems like a stupid analysis. ppl who are 16-24 and in full time work a minority of the people at that age, they are a miniscule fraction of the overall workforce, that age-range does not constitute a generation, and what happens immediately this window ends changes the picture

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first episode of what will be a 6-part new series on the waterfront dispute is good

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i tend to think a better measure of multidimensional personality (and this is a widely used operationalisation of the dominant framework) wouldn't result in distributions like this.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

i would've signed on to this had i not missed the email last week

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example of a good contribution to the public domain: the O*NET database.. wide consensus of its high quality. its been used in thousands of published papers. this in a field where people's first inclination is often to try to copyright and commercialise their knowledge production

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

those who in psychology study "left wing authoritarianism" are invariably some of the worst people

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"Capitalism’s mode of investment, I assert, entails a loss of collective control over, and involvement in, the valuation and creation of the future. The wrong inhering in this loss is best understood in terms of alienation—an alienated relation between citizens and their sociopolitical order."

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quite a weird one dude - i would suggest to take a breather

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is this a thing in any other discipline? the whole scale/test industry thing is off the charts

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

idgaf if you're aussie. in fact this kind of marketing is a big turn off. prob will look elsewhere

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

this is the chart hamilton would have produced in place of his glaring, context-free, 1 on 1 comparison with the US that was widely disseminated. if he wasn't intellectually dishonest

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The technology brothers have invented “Goons as a Service”

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contemplating full deactivation of the twitter. only thing holding me back is it seems as if australians migrated at a lower rate to bluesky.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

bari weiss's intellectual dark web publication has managed to become one of the 50 english-language news sites with more than 100k paying subscribers. pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/dig...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

iphone is a solid device wiht few flaws. one of the biggest of these, for me, is how methods for blasting through paywalls are basically nonexistent

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

apart from being extremely aggressive this is dumb as dogshit. these demographics are perfectly in line with what is expected given national data from the BLS

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

crazy how many captchas google dishes out to someone using scholar in an entirely innocent way. you can get 10 in one day

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

an example of exemplary practice: every paper written, no matter how recent, or whether the publisher might not be happy, immediately goes up on the personal website with a link to the file on google drive deyoung.psych.umn.edu/publications

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I honestly cannot imagine anyone being this ignorant - and calling for a huge war crime - so maybe it's deliberately hateful? Anyway, the answer to his vile question in the second image. And other population transfers in the 20th century were also horrific. They are exactly what NOT to do.

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

its a breath of fresh air to read a psychology paper where the authors actually gave a shit about the sample they collected.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

this corruption of journalism will likely incur no sanctions by any regulatory body even though its the type of thing that should be punished severely

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“The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, is stealing money from you to put in his pocket” has to be the easiest political argument ever www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

submitted 18 days ago • 121 comments

thinking about muting "coup"

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Good piece. This is such a massive policy failure. Probably only thing that will now work is to slash the excise to get the crooks out of tobacco www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

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maybe david marr. journos have learned that making their views clear is dangerous to career progression but a survey of their political leanings from some time ago found they skewed slightly left (in party support) relative to the general population, but editors were to the right of them

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this level of suggestibility among younger adults seems to fit pretty well with the thesis they don’t read a lot of news

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This is giving strong doomsday clock vibes. Building a scientifically credible measurement scale for socially important events takes a very special kind of disposition, and I do not think this is it.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

the “administrative state” is one of the admirable things about the US model. these independent regulatory agencies predate what existed in europe by decades, and didn’t suffer the same thrashing meted out by thatcher in the uk. it still operates on a rule rather than vague principle basis

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an example of the well-noted aus media thing where they give someone, generally a bloke, an extraordinary run, without bothering to develop young talent: the abc radio science show has been hosted by the same guy since 1975. he’s 81 and still doing the weekly program

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collective bargaining and not redistribution accounts for the lion's share of the difference in income inequality between nordic countries and the US, according to this new review article being published in the journal of econ literature. openaccess.nhh.no/nhh-xmlui/bi...

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doing something about food and groceries prices in remote areas is good and overdue

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

cutting cancer research - famously a long and widely held preference of voters

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

balance has become a kind of doublespeak

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That would be the Adrian Vermeule who (with Cass Sunstein) once proposed having government employees going undercover online ("cognitive infiltration") to rebut conspiracy theories?

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