Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist

Scientist doppleganger of @richardbentall, researching social determinants of mental health, clinical interventions for psychosis, delusions & irrational belief

[Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist @BentallProf]

@Beardyface4 @disasterhistory @RichardBentall @Eddystone506 I love the way you say, "We are OUT. It is therefore a complete success. End Of."

You are literally saying that you would consider Brexit a success even if it caused you to live in a cave, and no evidence could change your mind.

A complete admission that Brexit is a cult.

[Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist @BentallProf]

@Deffusible @s_bentall @RichardBentall @brexitblog_info I don't normally use my professional account for political purposes but your failure to understand maths that most 10 year-olds can grasp really could not be ignored.

[Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist @BentallProf]

@Deffusible @s_bentall @RichardBentall @brexitblog_info The amount is about £42 bn (and that's the lowest estimate because some estimates of lost GDP are as high as 8%).

Apparently, you weren't very good at maths at school.

[Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist @BentallProf]

@Deffusible @s_bentall @RichardBentall @brexitblog_info It really is impossible to underestimate the IQ of Brexiters.

The amount is £3T x 0.04 x .33.

This should not be hard.

[Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist @BentallProf]

@Deffusible @wh500w @brexitblog_info When we were in The EU we had no trade barriers for goods of any kind for 30 rich nations (EU+EEA) on our doorstep.

[Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist @BentallProf]

@bjames280961 @Deffusible @s_bentall @wh500w @brexitblog_info Wrong: The UK only has 2 FTAs with countries that the EU doesn't (Malaysia and Brunei). The EU has better FTAs with India, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. It also has an FTA with MERCOSUR (most of South America) which we don't.

[George Pu @TheGeorgePu]

I've been to France. Portugal. Across Europe.

People aren't hustling 70 hours. They're having dinner at 9pm with families.

Walking to the bakery on Tuesdays. Living.

And they're fine. More than fine.

The hustle narrative is an American export. It's not a law of nature.

[Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist @BentallProf]

@MarkVipond It's not nonsense - its based on a very detailed NBER study - but your graph is.

It is egregious cherry-picking to compare the UK to the two worst performing economies in the EU. If one of my students did this, they would fail.

[Sustainable Energy Forum @Eddystone506]

Not a single Brexit dinosaur has ever been able to explain how increasing trade barriers helps the UK grow GDP.

Only reply they have left now is 'but..but..Germany..'

As if that's somehow relevant.

What a bunch of economically illiterate 🤡🤡

[Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist @BentallProf]

@HarryDecote @AEHALL1983 @carlbildt It's based on a completely credible economic analysis by NBER in the United States.

It also accords with what most people are experiencing. Seriously, does our economy look healthy to you?

[Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist @BentallProf]

@MarcusDromgoole @AEHALL1983 @carlbildt @julianHjessop It's not excellent. Julian has a long history of egregious cherry-picking (comparing the UK only to the two worst performing EU economies) so is not an honest comentator.

Someone who did that in my business would never get their work accepted.

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

If you're a Brexit economic impact denialist at this point just block me please. Or reply with your denial and I'll block you. It's so damaging to Britain and such a sign of incapacity for self reflection that I'm not willing to entertain it any more. So sad.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🔵 @jonsopel to Jenrick, “It was about personal ambition!”

“You were a Brexiteer when Boris... You said it's a shame that Liz Truss is still in the Conservative Party- but you voted for her budget. And now, when the Tories are languishing in the polls, which they most certainly are, you've gone to the party that is leading in the polls, and you've got shadow treasury spokesperson job.”

Jenrick gets angry, “I'm not gonna take any lessons from the man who said that Peter Mandelson was a class act, when he was appointed as our ambassador to Washington.
#bbcqt

[Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist @BentallProf]

@julianHjessop Comparing the UK with France and Germany, the two worst performoing economies in the EU, is naked cherry-picking.

[Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist @BentallProf]

@julianHjessop @michael_wheller @nberpubs You think anyone is wrong of they produce analyses with results that you don't like.

In psychology we call this motivated reasoning.

[Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist @BentallProf]

@julianHjessop @s_bentall @michael_wheller That's not a convincing debunk. The fact that two completely different methodologies get comparable results, that these results are plausible (just a 0.7% loss of annual growth = 8% over 10 years) and that others get similar results should tell you something if you were honest.

[Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist @BentallProf]

@julianHjessop @s_bentall All you've done is defended what is blatant cherry-picking, and then you've blocked me (twice) and anyone else who has challenged you.

You clearly have no interest in an honest debate about the impact of Brexit on the UK economy - a typical Brexiter with a total lack of honesty

[Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist @BentallProf]

It would be really great if a few more friends on X completed this survey to help us with our research on political ideologies.

[Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist @BentallProf]

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Dear friends on X.

Colleagues and I are pilot testing questionnaire measures of political ideology in preparation for a large social science project on the nature of mass belief systems. Our 15-minute pilot is ethically approved by Sheffield U.

Next post provides the link

[Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist @BentallProf]

@penelopepriest I think I can say at this point that one of our longterm goals is to find what makes pathological beliefs (associated with psychosis) different from other kinds of extreme beliefs (political and religious ideologies).

[Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist @BentallProf]

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Dear friends on X.

Colleagues and I are pilot testing questionnaire measures of political ideology in preparation for a large social science project on the nature of mass belief systems. Our 15-minute pilot is ethically approved by Sheffield U.

Next post provides the link

[Prof_Richard_Bentall_psychologist @BentallProf]

@penelopepriest When we have enough data, I'll post a thread on here explaining what we hope the scales are measuring and which work best. Selected scales will go through further piloting before included in a national survey of belief systems (political, religious, conspiracy, delusional).