ideological bias Archives - José Duarte, PhD

New article in Pacific Standard

Oct 6, 2015

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in ideological bias, Social Science, viewpoint diversity

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

Sep 22, 2015

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in ideological bias, viewpoint diversity

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.…

ISPP

May 21, 2015

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in ideological bias, Social Science

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

May 20, 2015

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in ideological bias, social psychology

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

May 19, 2015

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in ideological bias, Social Science, viewpoint diversity

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

Apr 30, 2015

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in ideological bias, Social Science, viewpoint diversity

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…

How not to report science

Apr 23, 2015

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in climate change, ideological bias

I was disappointed to see this article by Gayathri Vaidyanathan in Scientific American: How to Misinterpret Climate Change Research. It’s an attempt to defang the recent surge of interest in Bjørn Stevens’ aerosol forcing estimates. To some people, those estimates imply a lower estimate of ECS, and a reduced likelihood of the more extreme future warming scenarios…

Methods

Feb 19, 2015

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in climate consensus studies, ideological bias, scientific validity, Social Science

Let’s say you want to find out what climate skeptics think and why they think it. What’s a better method? 1. Find a registry on the blogosphere where climate skeptics have laid out their views in some detail, and how they came to those views, as well as their educational and professional backgrounds. Read these…

I was denied admission to a PhD program because of my perceived political views: reflections of a sellout; how diversity would strengthen social science (Updated)

Feb 10, 2015

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in academia, ideological bias, Social Science

Some of my mentors advised me to take down the post from July 22, 2014 about discrimination because it would hurt me in the job market – that hiring committees would discriminate against me (again) for my perceived political views, or would discriminate against me for documenting past discrimination. So I took it down last week.…

How one paleo-participant can change the outcome of a study

Jan 6, 2015

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in ideological bias, scientific fraud, Social Science

Lewandowsky, Gignac, and Oberauer (2013) authored “The Role of Conspiracist Ideation and Worldviews in Predicting Rejection of Science” in PLOS ONE. (Paper here.) This study has many of the same features as their Psychological Science scam. In that study, they falsely linked belief in the moon-landing hoax to climate skepticism when in fact only three participants…

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