Marcus Crede
marcuscrede.bsky.social
Marcus Crede
@marcuscrede.bsky.social

Grumpy IO psychologist with an interest in research methods, meta-science and personality. Views are my own and not those of my employer.
Begrawe my hart op Klein Tambotieboom en strooi my as oor die Bosveld horison

Psychology 54%
Business 15%

There are support groups for toddlers who have to put up with that kind of nonsense from their parents.

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."

Ha! Max von Laue was my great-grandfather. We (his descendants) recently donated this medal to the Goethe University Frankfurt.
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.
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.
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It's these little victories that keep me going. I dream that one day I will even find working whiteboard markers in the classrooms that I teach in.
a man in a plaid shirt is saying " don 't think that 's gonna happen " .
ALT: a man in a plaid shirt is saying " don 't think that 's gonna happen " .
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IO Psychology prof - happy to guest lecture on anything IO Psychology related or on research methods.

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.
a man in a green elf costume is screaming while standing in a hallway .
ALT: a man in a green elf costume is screaming while standing in a hallway .
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Reposted by Marcus Credé

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"

I've never been able to secure even a dime of funding for my work.

"Rewards are small if not non-existant"?
"Costs and consequences are large and awful" would be a better way of phrasing it.

He always reminds me of Ben in this strip.

But he's at NYU, has executive hair, and charges >$100k to give a talk - so way more impressive than someone who actually knows what they are talking about.

Not sure but vertical apple eating blew my mind the first time I tried it.

Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Stephen M. Walt, Kori Schake , and 88 more

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
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Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
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It's a comparatively small thing when considering the awful state of the world, but a question to those of you who post spoilers to movies or TV shows - "What the fuck is wrong with you?"

I think I may have relapsed and bought more Dill. Not sure where my irrational fear of running out of dill comes from.

Oh no! Whatever are we going to do? Actually talk to people? Observe them?

Seriously though I can't wait for the end of bullshit MTURK, Prolific etc. studies. My favorite ones are those that claim to recruit executives and managers on MTURK and pay them $1 do an hour's work - on the weekend.

Oh, the grit nonsense was fun to write - it's all the stuff that never really made it into the public eye that was so costly to me.

Looks great but the links to codabench and a few other things appear to be broken.

Yeah - the last decade and a bit have not been fun. On the upside there have been attempts to bribe me to shut up 🤔

Thanks - but it is why I caution others so much. There's a bit of survivorship bias at play. We hear about the ones for whom this kind of advocacy works out, but not the many whose lives and careers were very negatively affected. I know a handful who left academia because of the consequences.

It is very hard to anticipate what the consequences might be. My actions killed my career and my mental and physical health.

How about a sternly worded tweet?

I make it a rule to never disagree with you but I would urge researchers to tread carefully here. I got death threats, legal threats, and was pretty much blacklisted from journals by influential scholars when I dared to point out fabricated crap. 100% would not recommend that to anyone.
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."

surreal times

dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
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So this is what Douglas Adams meant when he wrote that 42 was the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

The Journal of Management has known about clear results fabrication in one of their most influential papers for almost 15 years. They even admitted that the results were impossible but then gave the paper an award. Yay science!!
How long should it take to retract a paper with incontrovertible signs of data fabrication? Sleuths think 2 months is too long, particularly when clinical risks are involved. deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/01/an-o...
#retraction #stemcells #cardiology
@erictopol.bsky.social
An Open Letter to the BMJ Editorial Board
to: Editor in chief, Kamran Abbasi , [email protected]      Executive editor, Theodora Bloom , [email protected]      Head of research, Elizab...
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Agree in general, but only 5-15% who cosplay? More like 90%-95%. The incompetent and dishonest make up huge swaths of academic psychology. Around half seem motivated to bullshit their way to a TED talk or b-school gig and almost as many have insufficient training in stats and methods.