José Duarte, PhD

Category: viewpoint diversity

  • New article in Pacific Standard

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    Angela Chen wrote a nice article on our BBS paper over at Pacific Standard Magazine. The article digs into some specific issues that have not been discussed before in general media, like bias in how we measure openness to experience and other variables.

  • Heterodox Academy

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    I’m happy to announce Heterodox Academy. We are a group of scientists and scholars, mostly in the social sciences, who have come together to advocate more intellectual diversity in academia. We include Jonathan Haidt, Steven Pinker, Charlotta Stern, Dan Klein, Jarret Crawford, Lee Jussim, Scott Lilienfeld, April Kelly-Woessner, Gerard Alexander, Judith Curry, and many others.…

  • Scientific American column on Duarte et al

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    Research psychologist Piercarlo Valdesolo wrote a nice guest column on our BBS paper over at Scientific American. Scientific American doesn’t let me comment on their website, rejecting it as spam, even on a new account. This has been true for months – I’m not sure what’s triggering the spam flag. Maybe length. I’ve pasted a…

  • Thoughts on Gelman comment

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    I posted this comment in reply to Andrew Gelman’s post on his website. Neil Gross and Gelman have submitted a Comment to our upcoming BBS paper. I’ll have a lot more to say about our paper in the coming months, especially when it’s officially published:——————————————————————————————————————– Hi Andrew, Thanks for your Comment. A few thoughts:1) We…

  • 37.5%

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    I don’t think I fully processed the implications of the Inbar and Lammers data. 37.5% of social psychologists in their survey explicitly reported a willingness to discriminate against conservative job candidates. These are people who chose the midpoint or higher, where the midpoint was Somewhat inclined to favor a liberal vs. conservative candidate. The 37.5% figure…

  • New Yorker article

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    The New Yorker has a nice article about our BBS paper on the lack of intellectual diversity in social psychology. I cringe a bit at the title: Is Social Psychology Biased Against Republicans? This was never about political parties, and the lack of diversity goes much deeper than even political philosophy (conservative, liberal, libertarian — that…