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Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 5d

fire, mid and weak sauce career awards

Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 9d

People who have more complex social identities view political identity as a less reliable source of information about others. Therefore they rely less on group-based stereotypes when judging outgroup members.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103125000915

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Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 10d

Irreversible?

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Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 18d

Amazing news!

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Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · Aug 23

Great for the abs.

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Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · Jul 12

Love these.

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Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · Jun 19

Clicked "See All" on Concur but sadly did not become omniscient.

Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · Jun 18

The Vice Dean who gets FOMO from approving travel reimbursements.

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Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · Jun 18

$2,300 for that Barcelona conference...sigh

Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · Jun 18

The Vice Dean who gets FOMO from approving travel reimbursements.

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Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · Jun 13

“Assuming no difference our results are anticipated.”

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Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · May 20

Both 2FA and accepting cookies all day. I predict in 2035 there will be a third thing.

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Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · May 19

Sure QJE has a fabricated data scandal. But once again, they claim this is somehow new, when a few psychologists had been doing this for years.

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Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · May 19

LLMs seem like the human experience of reading aloud when it is going extremely well, as if, to the listener, you could look away from the book and continue reading all the same. Musicians call this "reading ahead". It is predicting the next letter, word, tone, mood from what came before.

Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · May 1

Especially a recording by some one blind to the purpose of the study.

Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · May 1

seems like it could be mitigated with a computerized voice or recording.

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Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · May 1

Reading aloud improves comprehension. In this case, that means reduced confusion and differential response to risk vs mirrors.

files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ8...

Shengwu Li @shengwuli.bsky.social · Apr 30

💡 Open science: A team of researchers at Shandong University has attempted to replicate Oprea (2024 AER). The results do not replicate.

Oprea 2024 reported an online lab experiment, and found that prospect theory anomalies occur not only for lotteries, but also for deterministic 'mirrors'.

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Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · Apr 24

Sigmund and Sinfjotli in Saga of the Volsungs were the first to become wolves after donning wolf skins. ~200 AD

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Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · Apr 19

“Have more kids”. But no one in the community will help you and grandma wants to travel in Europe.

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Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · Apr 19

Many women wore bonnets to hide favus in the 19th century and not because they liked bonnets.

Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · Apr 14

Sending my accountant a long philosophical stream-of-consciousness email a few days before the tax deadline.

Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · Apr 11

People have done worse.

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Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · Apr 11

Soon iPhones and computers will become so expensive that ChatGPT will no longer be an option

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Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · Apr 9

My entire life course revealed by how I relate to marshmallows.

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Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · Apr 9

Live picture of Trump showing his cross-modality matching tariff results where he was asked to adjust the brightness of a light and loudness of a pure tone to generate power functions that would set the tariffs.

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · Apr 8

While markets plunge and retirement accounts reel from Trump’s tariffs:

Elon and DOGE are taking a blowtorch to Social Security

They shut down local offices
They shut down phone services
They shut down website services
And now they’re proposing another round of mass layoffs

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Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · Apr 4

I know it's a rough time to be talking science, but in case anyone wants some distraction, I wrote about the Tan et al (2024) analysis of heritability and polygenic indices for complex human behavior. Title: Is Tan et al The End of Social Science Genomics?

Is Tan et al. The End of Social Science Genomics?

What happens when everything is unconfounded?

open.substack.com

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Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · Apr 5

Sure it's a 1/1000 chance. But, the real question is "What’s the probability of such a bad trading day, given that the economy is actively being destroyed by someone.”

Then it is more like 9/10.

#ForeverBayesian

Ryan Cummings @weakinstrument.bsky.social · Apr 4

The past two days have been nothing short of historically bad. They have been worse than 99.9% of other trading days since 1929. This was the 5th worst 2-day window for stocks since 1945.

It is arguably the singular major drawdown resulting from a policy choice by the President.

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Ryan Cummings @weakinstrument.bsky.social · Apr 4

The past two days have been nothing short of historically bad. They have been worse than 99.9% of other trading days since 1929. This was the 5th worst 2-day window for stocks since 1945.

It is arguably the singular major drawdown resulting from a policy choice by the President.

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Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · Apr 1

"I am joining the FP because you all are lazy and are likely also dumber."

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