Quentin André
@quentinandre.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. of Marketing @ CU Boulder. Open science, research methods, managerial and numerical cognition. ❤️Python 🐍.
Very important paper, both empirically (for our understanding of human behavior) and methodologicaly (for our future inquiries into human behavior).
Today's SJDM Featured Paper is: Dietvorst, B. J. (in press). Understanding people's preferences for predictions: People prioritize being right over minimizing how wrong they are in expectation. Management Science. doi.org/10.1287/mnsc...
January 8, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Very important paper, both empirically (for our understanding of human behavior) and methodologicaly (for our future inquiries into human behavior).
After a popular psychological manipulation turns out to be non-replicable (e.g., "in a seemingly unrelated task" behavioral priming interventions), it is always fun to go back and find the papers who reported "p < 10e-8" effects.
No, wait, it's not fun actually.
No, wait, it's not fun actually.
January 8, 2026 at 4:30 AM
After a popular psychological manipulation turns out to be non-replicable (e.g., "in a seemingly unrelated task" behavioral priming interventions), it is always fun to go back and find the papers who reported "p < 10e-8" effects.
No, wait, it's not fun actually.
No, wait, it's not fun actually.
This hasn't received much attention, but it looks like scammers also hacked into Francesca Gino's MTurk account, and asked MTurkers to buy her book Rebel Talent to boost the first-week sales of the book.
Poor lady cannot catch a break.
(links in comments)
Poor lady cannot catch a break.
(links in comments)
January 6, 2026 at 9:25 PM
This hasn't received much attention, but it looks like scammers also hacked into Francesca Gino's MTurk account, and asked MTurkers to buy her book Rebel Talent to boost the first-week sales of the book.
Poor lady cannot catch a break.
(links in comments)
Poor lady cannot catch a break.
(links in comments)
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If you want to submit your research to HotFresh Research News or find a boilerplate letter to refuse reviewing for closed journals, visit this link
learnmoore.org/hotfresh.html
learnmoore.org/hotfresh.html
November 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
If you want to submit your research to HotFresh Research News or find a boilerplate letter to refuse reviewing for closed journals, visit this link
learnmoore.org/hotfresh.html
learnmoore.org/hotfresh.html
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For Sunday at the SJDM conference, please note the following changes to the program!
November 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
For Sunday at the SJDM conference, please note the following changes to the program!
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Repost this to let people know you are at SJDM 2025 in Denver!
Tag @sjdm-tweets.bsky.social
if you would like us to repost stuff that you post!
#SJDM2025
Tag @sjdm-tweets.bsky.social
if you would like us to repost stuff that you post!
#SJDM2025
November 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Repost this to let people know you are at SJDM 2025 in Denver!
Tag @sjdm-tweets.bsky.social
if you would like us to repost stuff that you post!
#SJDM2025
Tag @sjdm-tweets.bsky.social
if you would like us to repost stuff that you post!
#SJDM2025
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If you're attending @sjdm-tweets.bsky.social or @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social this week, do not print your poster on site at the convention center -- it's $100 more! There's a FedEx a short walking distance away. Please tell your students!!
November 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
If you're attending @sjdm-tweets.bsky.social or @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social this week, do not print your poster on site at the convention center -- it's $100 more! There's a FedEx a short walking distance away. Please tell your students!!
Halloween is the best holiday. Change my mind.
November 1, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Halloween is the best holiday. Change my mind.
When it's Halloween, but your 2.5yo daughter insists that "we should bring the skeleton inside" and "make it cozy with a blankie and a pillow".
October 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
When it's Halloween, but your 2.5yo daughter insists that "we should bring the skeleton inside" and "make it cozy with a blankie and a pillow".
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take this quiz then tell me you can win over low-info "moderates" on policy
it's just vibes all the way down
it's just vibes all the way down
Take this quiz to die instantly www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/
Beyond the Ballot Quiz - The Survey Center on American Life
www.americansurveycenter.org
October 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
take this quiz then tell me you can win over low-info "moderates" on policy
it's just vibes all the way down
it's just vibes all the way down
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An LLM-produced essay is tangible proof that a student doesn’t care, and yet responding to it properly requires hour upon hour of careful work. It’s asymmetrical and overwhelming.
October 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
An LLM-produced essay is tangible proof that a student doesn’t care, and yet responding to it properly requires hour upon hour of careful work. It’s asymmetrical and overwhelming.
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Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.
I had 9 meetings about students using Chat GPT/LLMs on their papers today.
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
October 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.
Wait until you learn about common ways of doing segmentation analysis in marketing.
"Yeah, we ran a K-means algorithm, gave each cluster a cute name and a persona, and now we're making every decision based on whether Pumpkin-Spice Peggy or Truck-Nut Terry will like it".
"Yeah, we ran a K-means algorithm, gave each cluster a cute name and a persona, and now we're making every decision based on whether Pumpkin-Spice Peggy or Truck-Nut Terry will like it".
It’s astonishing how many researchers seem to believe that a cluster analysis is such a sensible analysis that it needn’t even be justified through a coherent research question. Just cluster analysis go brrrrr
October 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Wait until you learn about common ways of doing segmentation analysis in marketing.
"Yeah, we ran a K-means algorithm, gave each cluster a cute name and a persona, and now we're making every decision based on whether Pumpkin-Spice Peggy or Truck-Nut Terry will like it".
"Yeah, we ran a K-means algorithm, gave each cluster a cute name and a persona, and now we're making every decision based on whether Pumpkin-Spice Peggy or Truck-Nut Terry will like it".
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If, as a reviewer, you see an unusual statistical test being reported in a manuscript, it never hurts to double-check whether the test does what the authors claim.
Who knows, it might help a journal not publish inaccurate results.
Who knows, it might help a journal not publish inaccurate results.
October 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
If, as a reviewer, you see an unusual statistical test being reported in a manuscript, it never hurts to double-check whether the test does what the authors claim.
Who knows, it might help a journal not publish inaccurate results.
Who knows, it might help a journal not publish inaccurate results.
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I have many thoughts about Charlie Kirk—and perhaps even more about the white elites, including some on the left, who insist we can’t hold multiple realities at once. We can. And we must.
A brief 🧵
A brief 🧵
September 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I have many thoughts about Charlie Kirk—and perhaps even more about the white elites, including some on the left, who insist we can’t hold multiple realities at once. We can. And we must.
A brief 🧵
A brief 🧵
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I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
August 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
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Very interesting post, which largely aligns with my views on theory.
I see another danger with Big Beautiful Theories: In a world in which researchers' degrees of freedom are insufficiently constrained, they become self-fulfilling.
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I see another danger with Big Beautiful Theories: In a world in which researchers' degrees of freedom are insufficiently constrained, they become self-fulfilling.
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I just became president of a scientific society and my first act was to disagree with one of my heroes...Arie Kruglanski gave a keynote arguing social psychology needs MORE Big Beautiful Theories. I think that's exactly backwards. Here's why...
Hasty Theories
Why Social Psychology Needs to Stop Rushing to Explain
open.substack.com
July 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Very interesting post, which largely aligns with my views on theory.
I see another danger with Big Beautiful Theories: In a world in which researchers' degrees of freedom are insufficiently constrained, they become self-fulfilling.
1/3
I see another danger with Big Beautiful Theories: In a world in which researchers' degrees of freedom are insufficiently constrained, they become self-fulfilling.
1/3
More from HBS' Amended Complaint. They claim to have evidence that Gino backdated a fabricated file to exonerate herself.
July 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
More from HBS' Amended Complaint. They claim to have evidence that Gino backdated a fabricated file to exonerate herself.
Key claims from HBS
July 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Key claims from HBS
Do you remember Francesca Gino's claim on her website that HBS analyzed the "wrong data file" in their investigation, and that a "real file" proved her innocence?
HBS is now claiming that the "real file" was fabricated by Gino... and thus that Gino's claim was defamatory.
HBS is now claiming that the "real file" was fabricated by Gino... and thus that Gino's claim was defamatory.
July 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Do you remember Francesca Gino's claim on her website that HBS analyzed the "wrong data file" in their investigation, and that a "real file" proved her innocence?
HBS is now claiming that the "real file" was fabricated by Gino... and thus that Gino's claim was defamatory.
HBS is now claiming that the "real file" was fabricated by Gino... and thus that Gino's claim was defamatory.
Looks like the "Tariff" button is back on the resolute desk.
July 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Looks like the "Tariff" button is back on the resolute desk.
Super interesting thread. A stark reminder that any metric of "variance explained" is basically uninterpretable without contextualizing (i) the magnitude and variability of the treatment and (ii) the "baseline" variability of the outcome.
"If we could jointly analyze extended Korean families, we would likely find that the influence of the shared environment – which side of the border you ended up on – is not only real, even for something like height, but possibly trumps genetics."
Another contribution in the heritability debate. Makes a point I agree with: many of the important environmental causes vary by place and time and are marginalized in most h2 studies.
open.substack.com/pub/easthunt...
open.substack.com/pub/easthunt...
July 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Super interesting thread. A stark reminder that any metric of "variance explained" is basically uninterpretable without contextualizing (i) the magnitude and variability of the treatment and (ii) the "baseline" variability of the outcome.