José Duarte, PhD

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  • Hurricanes as imagined, construed, and filtered

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    Klotzbach and Landsea have published an interesting new paper in Journal of Climate on the frequency and percentage of Category 4-5 hurricanes. Title: Extremely Intense Hurricanes: Revisiting Webster et al. (2005) After 10 Years Abstract: Webster et al. (2005) documented a large and significant increase in both the number as well as the percentage of…

  • Minors, Lewandowsky, and Ceremonial Ethics

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    The Lewandowsky, Gignac, and Oberauer paper in PLOS ONE has been substantially corrected. I had alerted the journal last fall that there were serious errors in the paper, including the presence of a 32,757-year-old in the data, along with a 5-year-old and six other self-reported minors. The paleoparticipant in particular had knocked out the true…

  • Nimble skepticism (Updated)

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    The Karl et al. study highlights something I’ve been thinking about lately. I don’t know if the Karl paper is important, good, or bad. It claims to debunk the slowdown in surface warming. Other papers will claim the opposite. This won’t be the end of it, but imagine that it was – imagine that we…

  • Correction / counting

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    Correction: In one of my posts on the Cook fraud, I listed 19 social science, survey, marketing, and opinion papers that were coded as “climate papers” endorsing of anthropogenic warming. I made a mistake listing this one: Vandenplas, P. E. 1998. “Reflections on the Past and Future of Fusion and Plasma Physics Research.” Plasma Physics…

  • All sides

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    A few days ago on Twitter I said that climate skeptics needed to distance themselves from the conspiracy theorists and harassers. This upset a dozen or so climate skeptics and led to a flurry of rebukes that I had trouble following due to their sheer volume and the constraints of a 140-character medium. I can’t coherently…

  • The climate science consensus is 78 – 84 percent (Updated)

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    I think I’ve been negligent in not making the actual climate science consensus known to people. In one of my projects it occurred to me that no one has made the information readily available, at least not to my knowledge. I’ll save the details for the journal article, but I think a quick snapshot of…

  • Gays, Islam, and the Virtues of Cognition (Updated)

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    Over at EverydayFeminism, Andrew Hernann wrote an article titled “Why the Idea That Islam Promotes Intolerance of the LGBTQIA+ Community Is a Lie” At no point in the article does he present any evidence, even though this is an easy issue to resolve with an evidence-based approach. In the world, there is a resource called…

  • Sam Harris, Jon Haidt, and Bias

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    I was fascinated by my colleague and mentor Jon Haidt’s analysis of the rate of certainty words in Sam Harris’ books, and the reaction it sparked. I recently came upon Daniel Miessler’s post, where he defends Harris thusly: Haidt makes a major mistake here by thinking (and saying) that because individuals are bad at judging…

  • ISPP

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    I’m giving a talk at the International Society of Political Psychology conference on July 4 in San Diego. From the program: Sa4.8 Two Views of Views of Political Bias in Social Science ResearchRoom: Gaslamp 3Section: New Theoretical and Methodological Developments Liberal bias or status bias? Studying psychologists as a social group.*Michal Bilewicz, University of Warsaw How…

  • Ideologically-fueled research

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    In my comment on Piercarlo Valdesolo’s excellent Scientific American guest column on our paper, I wrote up some points that deserve separate post. I’ll expand on these issues in journal publications. Some people come into social psychology with a political agenda – their research and careers are driven by left-wing ideology. A common pattern is…