Robyn E. Blumner wrote an editorial for Free Inquiry (Volume 42, No. 4, June-July 2022) titled Identitarianism Is Incompatible with Humanism.
Continue reading “Identitarianism”The purpose of journalism is to get the story and tell the story.
Peggy Noonan wrote a column titled The Purpose of Journalism Is to Get the Story (27 June 2024).
Continue reading “The purpose of journalism is to get the story and tell the story.”Birds Aren’t Real: how misinformation spreads
Ian Beacock wrote an article for The New Republic titled Birds Aren’t Real: The Prank That Turned Misinformation on Its Head (28 May 2024). « Calling itself Birds Aren’t Real, this group of primarily Gen Z truthers… explain that the U.S. government secretly ran a “mass bird genocide” starting in the late 1950s, replacing the real avian population with sophisticated surveillance-drone look-alikes. Bird-watching now goes both ways. »
Continue reading “Birds Aren’t Real: how misinformation spreads”the propensity to produce bullshit and the tendency to fall for bullshit
Shane Littrell, Evan F. Risko, & Jonathan A. Fugelsang of the Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo (Waterloo, ON, Canada) published an article in the British Journal of Social Psychology (Wiley) titled ‘You can’t bullshit a bullshitter’ (or can you?): Bullshitting frequency predicts receptivity to various types of misleading information (4 February 2021).
Continue reading “the propensity to produce bullshit and the tendency to fall for bullshit”Paltering – to deceive with truthful statements
An article on the American Psychological Association website titled True lies: People who lie via telling truth viewed harshly, study finds (December 15, 2016) defines paltering: “the ability to deceive someone by telling the truth… Rather than misstating facts or failing to provide information, paltering involves actively making truthful statements to create a mistaken impression”
Continue reading “Paltering – to deceive with truthful statements”What is publication bias?
from Statistics How To:
« Publication bias is when studies with positive findings are more likely to be published — and they tend to be published faster — than studies with negative findings. This means that any meta analysis or literature reviews based only on published data will be biased, so researchers should make sure to include unpublished reports in their data as well.
Published vs. Unpublished Studies
The Max Planck/Chauffeur Test
Shane Parrish posted an article on Farnam Street titled The Two Types of Knowledge: The Max Planck/Chauffeur Test. Continue reading “The Max Planck/Chauffeur Test”
P-Hacking
Christie Aschwanden wrote an article for Wired titled We’re All ‘P-Hacking’ Now. Continue reading “P-Hacking”
Confronting indifference toward truth: Dealing with workplace bullshit
Ian P. McCarthy, David Hannah, Leyland F. Pitt, and Jane M. McCarthy wrote a paper titled Confronting indifference toward truth: Dealing with workplace bullshit. Continue reading “Confronting indifference toward truth: Dealing with workplace bullshit”
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