José Duarte, PhD

Category: science

  • Is social psychology self-correcting?

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    I have a new essay up at Heterodox Academy discussing the claim that science is self-correcting. I also dig a bit more into what we mean by “bias”. As a reminder, Heterodox Academy is a motley crew of scholars concerned about ideological conformity and intolerance in modern academia. We’re privileged to have Jon Haidt, Steven…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…