If you espouse equity & charge to apply to your grad program, you are not being equitable. Doesn't matter if you offer some waivers, you're setting systematic barriers on those who come from low to mid SES backgrounds, who have to work full time, who don't have parents to pay the way. #academicsky
Finally some causality!. Playing video games that you were randomly given (won in a lottery; total N = 97,602) causes a decrease in distress and enhances life satisfaction. From Hiroyuki Egami www.nature.com/articles/s41...#psychsky
In 547 kids in border towns, those on the Syrian side were exposed to war and showed higher risk taking 4.5y later than those on the unexposed Turkish side. No differences in IQ or impulsivity or time preference. From Zeynep Ugur & Salih Doganay www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...#psychsky
We just got a Revise & Resubmit from the journal Nature Human Behaviour! For an article published last year. How does that work? Well, it starts with a retraction... osf.io/4k5sf
Only 59% of people redirect a REAL electrical shock from 2 people to 1. Redirectors gave utilitarian reasons, non-redirectors had lots of reasons. When seeing the shocks, 1/2 of people switched their decision to balance it out on a 2nd turn. From @DHBostyn osf.io/sgznt
My minor contribution to the social media -> mental health debate. What's the estimand in time reduction RCTs? With a slightly unorthodox use of DAGs. #statssjwild.github.io/blog/2024/09...
Christian Thurn found effects of early science education, highlighting a mutual interaction between experimentation skills and content knowledge. Interesting insights! #DGPs2024@dgps.bsky.social@univie.ac.at#EduSky
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The law of demand has been disproven! What else could possibly explain how companies had to raise prices to account for inflation, yet we somehow bought so much more that they've been able to achieve record profits? Unless, of course, something else happened...
Did the dismissal of Gino's defamation suit hinge much on her public figure status? It is mentioned a lot by the court in the decision. If it does hinge on this much, it may not be the full-throated validation of academic criticism, and precedent, that I'd like. reason.com/volokh/2024/...
From today's decision by Judge Joun (D. Mass.) in Gino v. President & Fellows of Harvard College: Professor Gino is an internationally renowned