More of a Comment Than a Question

This week, we talk about the controversy over a blog by an anonymous person on Twitter, AlvaroDeMenard, about participating in "Replication Markets, a part of DARPA's SCORE program, whose goal is to evaluate the reliability of social science research."
The thread about this on Twitter elicited a response from an editor at Science, Tage Rai, and consequently, multiple responses to that from the Open Science community.


Original thread by @AlvaroDeMenard
https://twitter.com/AlvaroDeMenard/status/1304399437641461760
Associated Blog: https://fantasticanachronism.com/2020/09/11/whats-wrong-with-social-science-and-how-to-fix-it/

Tage Rai's Response
https://twitter.com/tage_rai/status/1304985745157914624

Some notable responses to Tage
Brian Nosek: https://twitter.com/BrianNosek/status/1305319912613838850
Fiona Fidler: https://twitter.com/fidlerfm/status/1305372732889026560
Simine Vazire: https://twitter.com/siminevazire/status/1305703047096532993

Paul Meehl's lecture (starts at 46:13): https://youtu.be/7vx-A8P1BIw?t=2773

This week, we talk about the recent self-exposé of a (now former) African history professor at George Washington University, Jessica Krug, which revealed that she had been pretending to be Black/African-American/Afro-Latinx.



Jessica Krug's medium post: https://medium.com/@jessakrug/the-truth-and-the-anti-black-violence-of-my-lies-9a9621401f85

Medium post outing CV Vitolo-Haddad, grad student at UW Madison: https://medium.com/@polite_keppel_dinosaur_57/cv-vitolo-haddad-another-academic-racial-fraud-c5c41fe32110

Azevedo et al. (2013) Their Pain is Not Our Pain: Brain and Autonomic Correlates of Empathic Resonance With the Pain of Same and Different Race Individuals: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/hbm.22133

This week, we're joined by Alex Koch, Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science at Chicago Booth. We talk about Alex's ABC model of stereotype content, adversarial collaborations, and the utility of social cognition research. 


Ellemers et al. (2020). Adversarial alignment enables competing models to engage in cooperative theory building toward cumulative science: https://www.pnas.org/content/117/14/7561

The ABC of Stereotypes About Groups: https://tinyurl.com/yxnnjlbf

In this episode, we talk to Leif Nelson, professor at Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. We talk about open science, the False Positive Psychology paper and its aftermath, current Data Colada replication efforts, and Paul's undying fascination with Leif.


False Positive Psychology: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797611417632
Data Colada (blog by Leif, Uri Simonsohn, and Joe Simmons): http://datacolada.org/
As Predicted: https://aspredicted.org/ 

In this episode, we discuss the recent decision by University of California to get rid of the SAT test as part of the undergraduate admissions process. We talk about the Psychology Today articles that recently touched on this, the recommendations from the UC Academic Senate's Standardized Testing Task Force (STTF), and the recent lawsuits against universities for discriminating against Asian and Asian-American students.

We also realized that we're no professors at University of Toronto and should probably not drink while podcasting.


Psychology Today articles by Andrew Conway
Part 1: The Decision https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/channel-g/202008/the-university-california-and-the-sat-speaking-the-truth
Part 2: The Reason https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/channel-g/202008/the-university-california-and-the-sat-speaking-the-truth-0

Report of the UC Academic Council's Standardized Testing Task Force: https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/underreview/sttf-report.pdf

On our first guest episode, we talk to our first (and only) fan, Daniël Lakens, an experimental psychologist at Eindhoven University of Technology. We talk about power analyses, sample size justification, SESOI, statistical 'heuristics,' and the broader culture in psychological science.

Inspired by a twitter post by Josh Grubbs: https://twitter.com/JoshuaGrubbsPhD/status/1290652864415707139

Daniël Lakens's blog, The 20% Statistician: https://daniellakens.blogspot.com/

We discuss the recent Blocked & Reported interview of writer Freddie deBoer on his book "The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice."
https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/22


Vaci, N., Edelsbrunner, P., Stern, E., Neubauer, A., Bilalić, M., & Grabner, R. H. (2019). The joint influence of intelligence and practice on skill development throughout the life span. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(37), 18363-18369.
https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/116/37/18363.full.pdf

We discuss the recent paper "Communicating What We Know, and What Isn’t So: Science Communication in Psychology" by Neil Lewis Jr. and Jonathan Wai.

Link to paper: https://psyarxiv.com/cfmzk

We talk about Harper's magazine's open letter on free speech and open debate, and the internet's response to it. 

Open letter: https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/
Response: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/arts/open-letter-debate.html

We discuss James Heathers's Medium post explaining why he's quitting academia (and why he's not).
https://medium.com/@jamesheathers/i-quit-be062295f638