Tag Archives: Social Psychology
The problem with rooting for science
The idea that trusting in science involves a lot of faith, instead of reason, is lost on most people. More often than not, as a science journalist, I encounter faith through extreme examples – such as the Bloch sphere (used … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Scicomm
Tagged arrow paradox, biopolitics, Bloch sphere, common English, emergent properties, expertise, faith, mathematical physics, pseudoscience, quantum superposition, reason, science communication, science journalism, Social Psychology, statistical significance, trust, uncertainty, wave function
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Priggish NEJM editorial on data-sharing misses the point it almost made
The editorial expresses fear that people who publish in the journal’s pages could be wrong – cleanly forgetting that replication and revalidation are a big part of science. Continue reading
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Tagged data sharing, funnel plot, impact factor, John Ioannidis, New England Journal of Medicine, reproducibility, retraction index, Simone Schnall, Social Psychology
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Psych of Science: Hello World
Hello, world. 🙂 I’m filing this post under a new category on Is Nerd called Psych of Science. A dull name but it’ll do. This category will host my personal reflections on the science in the stories I’ve written or read and, more … Continue reading
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Tagged people, psychology, replications, Science, Social Psychology
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Replication studies, ceiling effects, and the psychology of science
On May 25, I found Erika Salomon’s tweet: Excellent comment thread on replication going on at the SPSP blog http://t.co/9dI72z0LGL — Erika Salomon (@ecsalomon) May 25, 2014 The story started when the journal Social Psychology decided to publish successful and failed replication … Continue reading
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Tagged Analysis, ceiling effect, Daniel Kahneman, false positives, peer review, psychology, replication studies, replications, scientific publishing, Simone Schnall, Social Psychology, Statistics
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