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David Alan Dunning is an American social psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. He is a… more

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The Railway, Édouard Manet, 1873
(been going on for a very long time)
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by David Dunning

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Good night, and good luck.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 6d
"Bari Weiss to become CBS News EIC" has been leaked/rumored a few times but this feels more concrete: nypost.com/2025/10/02/m...
Exclusive | Bari Weiss to be named editor in chief of CBS News as part of major Paramount Skydance shakeup: sources
Weiss will report directly to Paramount Skydance Chief Executive David Ellison as she helps set the editorial direction at the third-place CBS News, a source close to the situation said.
nypost.com
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"Bari Weiss to become CBS News EIC" has been leaked/rumored a few times but this feels more concrete: nypost.com/2025/10/02/m...
Exclusive | Bari Weiss to be named editor in chief of CBS News as part of major Paramount Skydance shakeup: sources
Weiss will report directly to Paramount Skydance Chief Executive David Ellison as she helps set the editorial direction at the third-place CBS News, a source close to the situation said.
nypost.com
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His use of PCR sparked a movement that has freed thousands of wrongfully convicted people. Dr. Blake’s testing alone helped to exonerate more than 50, including several sentenced to death. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/s...
Edward T. Blake, 80, Dies; Forensic Expert Sparked Innocence Movement
www.nytimes.com
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More guns than people…

Is it freedom or a national death cult that keeps growing?
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Massive tone shift in the Portlandia reboot.
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CUBAN: “.. Rich people are doing better. They’re buying everything .. You raise my prices 15% to cover the tariffs? Pffft, not gonna change MY life.

“.. But if you’re a farmer .. if you’re just working your day-to-day job, .. you’re getting toasted.”

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Who consumes news on each social media site? 📱🗞️ The people who regularly get news on different social media sites often differ by gender, age and other factors. 🧵👇

Dive deeper: www.pewresearch.org/...
Bar chart showing the demographic profiles and party identification of regular social media news consumers in the U.S. on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X (Twitter) and Reddit
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by David Dunning

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An astonishing film.

Amazing to believe they were pulling the story and casting together while filming it. But, then again, some of the best music is jazz.
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G @wake3d.bsky.social · 12d
I finally got around to watching "Wings of Desire," a movie I first heard about on @johnfugelsang.bsky.social's show and it's pretty remarkable. It's not a film that can be described by naming any other.
A group of swans on a pond. Still shot from the movie Wings of Desire.
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I finally got around to watching "Wings of Desire," a movie I first heard about on @johnfugelsang.bsky.social's show and it's pretty remarkable. It's not a film that can be described by naming any other.
A group of swans on a pond. Still shot from the movie Wings of Desire.
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by David Dunning

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Overconfidence (and Dunning-Kruger) in chess-players, who typically rate themselves 89 points higher than their ELO rating.

“If I was matched against someone [like that], I would not feel good about that match,” Heck said.

www.psychologicalscience.org/news/2025-se...
Is Overconfidence Avoidable?
New research examines overconfidence among tournament chess players to investigate if it is prevalent in an environment that should discourage it.
www.psychologicalscience.org
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It’s funny that they’re pulling a show about white nationalist terror cells so they won’t offend any Republicans lol
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by David Dunning

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For the record, ER contains 9 chords.
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by David Dunning

daviddunning6.bsky.social
A response that greatly summarizes my sentiments toward all those committees that summarize the worth of one's scientific work via # of pubs and h-statistics...

The direct question on Quora, though, is "Why is Eleanor Rigby (a 2 chord song, 4 at most) considered a great song?"
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by David Dunning

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I'm not making this up.

LLMs always will. Says the math.
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Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 17d
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
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"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
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by David Dunning

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Choose whichever angle you wish.

It still looks pretty.
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Simon @hantsravens.bsky.social · 25d
Zubimendi goal 😮😮😮

#Arsenal #AFC #Gunners #ARSNFO #EPL #PremierLeague
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by David Dunning

daviddunning6.bsky.social
At the end of this week, a change of pace.

For each of us, a New World.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 25d
New article! A lot happened this week, so I wrote about how Antonin Dvorak wrote his greatest works in Spillville, Iowa in the summer of 1893.

And about saying goodbye: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/dvorak-liv...
Dvorak Lived in Iowa
And you once lived with me.
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New article! A lot happened this week, so I wrote about how Antonin Dvorak wrote his greatest works in Spillville, Iowa in the summer of 1893.

And about saying goodbye: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/dvorak-liv...
Dvorak Lived in Iowa
And you once lived with me.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
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hantsravens.bsky.social
Zubimendi goal 😮😮😮

#Arsenal #AFC #Gunners #ARSNFO #EPL #PremierLeague
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by David Dunning

daviddunning6.bsky.social
Psychology of overcommitment.
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StuffbyStef🐚🌊🪸✍🏻🌈 @stephaniebumpus.bsky.social · Sep 7
White text on red background “We do this not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy”
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by David Dunning

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And on the era we are now passing through, note that it seems to be happening upon the passing of the last of the Greatest Generation.
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by David Dunning

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Minsky's theory of financial instability...applied to public health.
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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · Sep 6
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by David Dunning

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Tankbag @tankbag.bsky.social · Sep 4
Senator Kennedy displays a picture of Marjorie Taylor Greene saying, "Release the Epstein files!"
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by David Dunning

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No notes.

No need for comedy material at this time.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Sep 4
"This is a photograph of the alien from the movie Alien..."

gizmodo.com/senator-says...
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"This is a photograph of the alien from the movie Alien..."

gizmodo.com/senator-says...
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by David Dunning

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All true, but I wonder about flipping the script and asking why non-college life is now increasingly so unrewarding.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · Sep 2
It's my kids' first day of school for the year, so let me share with you a summary of the empirical literature I share with them: School can feel like hard work, but it makes you healthier, wealthier, and happier.
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by Justin Wolfers — Reposted by: David Dunning

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It's my kids' first day of school for the year, so let me share with you a summary of the empirical literature I share with them: School can feel like hard work, but it makes you healthier, wealthier, and happier.
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by David Dunning

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Instrumental Variable Estimation.

(Instructors, take note.)
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · Aug 31
You've got 97 seconds to summarize the labor econ literature on how to obtain causal estimates of the returns to education. Go.
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by Justin Wolfers — Reposted by: David Dunning, David Peetz

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You've got 97 seconds to summarize the labor econ literature on how to obtain causal estimates of the returns to education. Go.
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