Tag: media

  • New article in Pacific Standard

    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.

  • Scientific American column on Duarte et al

    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…

  • How not to report science

    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…

  • New Yorker article

    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…