Mitch Brown

Evolutionary Psychologist from Cleveland with a big neck @UArkansas #LetsGoOilers

|Social Perception | Mate Preferences | Formidability |Academic Freedom|

[Mitch Brown @ExtravertedFace]

Here's my most recent publication! Four experiments show that recent efforts to limit dissemination of so-called information hazards by academic journals (and championed by a vocal minority) are wildly unpopular with scientists.

https://t.co/VNaXBAx4rn

[Mitch Brown @ExtravertedFace]

WhY aRe YoU sO PiSSy?

[Vasily Billy @keggsports]

Draisaitl laughing at Spec's question... "That's not a thing in hockey." 😂😂😂😂 #letsgooilers

[Captain Jack 🏴‍☠️ @OilersJack]

Evan Bouchard >>>>> Quit Hughes

[Mitch Brown @ExtravertedFace]

@OilersJack The fact that the team protested trading him last year speaks volumes of his character

[Mitch Brown @ExtravertedFace]

@CJFerguson1111 @NicoleBarbaro @sapinker Moderation by length, maybe?

[Mitch Brown @ExtravertedFace]

@LGConwayIII I'm digging the fact that I'm in a thread with so many giants!

[Mitch Brown @ExtravertedFace]

When the solution becomes yet another peripheral cue of social influence.

[Luke Conway @LGConwayIII]

In a prior piece, I argued that “Preregistration Isn’t the Chief Executive of Science, It’s a Small Part of the Quality Control Department.” This piece seemed to really hit a nerve with the preregistration crowd, who pushed back quite a bit against my arguments.

In my follow-up piece, I deal with the rebuttals they sent me. As you’ll see if you read my new post, their evidence moved the needle for me in one (small) regard…but generally was not convincing. If their goal was to persuade me that preregistration can serve a small-but-important function, then yes, this was persuasive. If their goal was to persuade me that preregistration needs to be a central part of psychological science, then this set of evidence and arguments was an abject failure.

A summary of my arguments: (1) The moral panic used to justify preregistration to begin with is largely manufactured and not evidentiary. (2) There is substantially more evidence that stereotype threat is real than there is that preregistration passes its own manipulation check. (3) The primary evidence the preregistration crowd puts forward is not based in the right metric to evaluate science, and they seem curiously disinterested in providing the right tests. (4) A lot of their arguments boil down to declarations of “normative power” that are not persuasive at all. (5) They have created a very stifling, cult-like atmosphere where it is hard for empiricists like me to work.

I present a great deal of evidence and analysis to justify each of the points above. A theme that cuts across many of these arguments is that preregistration advocates really want rigid tests – except for tests that apply to their own beliefs about preregistration. They seem conveniently unwilling to take their own purported standards of science and apply those standards to their own stated beliefs.

Do not read my piece lightly. My prior piece was a quick read designed to start a conversation. This piece is quite different: It is a comprehensive review of the available evidence and argument that is over 23,000 (!) words long. I take pains to cover what I believe are the central issues in great detail.

But if you want a summary, it is this: I do believe preregistration can be valuable if it stays in its lane; but making it the center of any scientific enterprise is an unverified idea at best, and a disastrous idea at worst.

If you want to know the details as to why I think that, read the piece itself. And if you don’t read the piece, then I’d refrain from comment altogether because you don’t even have the basic facts that constitute my arguments.

https://t.co/vMImmUn8YF

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[NE Evo Psych Society @NEEPSoc]

Abstract submissions are now open for #NEEPS2027!

https://t.co/RIUoCmXnL4

[Mitch Brown @ExtravertedFace]

@endofanerajc My biggest challenge of late is confronting the false consensus bias of others who don't realize that my party affiliation is not meant to bolster the other side or that my interest in factual correctness is in the service of keeping moral arguments above-board

[Mitch Brown @ExtravertedFace]

@robsica All the better that they felt brave to share their story

[Mitch Brown @ExtravertedFace]

@endofanerajc Thank you for sharing this internal monologue. It's a snapshot into a manifestation of body dysmorphic traits (I have them, too). An objective viewer could say you look great, but I appreciate it not being your reality

[Mitch Brown @ExtravertedFace]

To the recesses of Academic/Oilers/wrestling/free speech Twitter, I'm doing a comedy show in two months in Fayetteville. They gave me two hours to explain science in the most unhinged way possible. Will my shirt stay on? That's an empirical question. #Scientist

[Mitch Brown @ExtravertedFace]

@endofanerajc Ironically, do the 9-9-9 challenge will get him laid

[Mitch Brown @ExtravertedFace]

It's that time again! Submit your abstracts to #NEEPS2027 (hosted by @NEEPSoc).

We'll be in Fort Myers, FL, June 2-4. Follow the link for submission requirements. Abstracts for talks due January 15 and posters January 31.

https://t.co/F5JbEHgGpZ

[Edmonton Oilers @EdmontonOilers]

Cali cream sweep 🧹 #LetsGoOilers

[Mitch Brown @ExtravertedFace]

@prag_nihilist Did this guy just reinvent the Satanic Panic?

[Mitch Brown @ExtravertedFace]

@NicoleBarbaro I remember being taught that Franklin was hosed in high school bio, only then for my teacher to start calling Crick a misogynist. As an adult, this feels like a lack of critical thinking on the part of my teacher.

[Nicole Barbaro Simovski, Ph.D. @NicoleBarbaro]

"Belief that a woman had her data stolen by two ambitious men who then did not credit her seems to be too powerful to be overcome by mere facts."

[Mitch Brown @ExtravertedFace]

@KirkegaardEmil I stopped reading when he said "but" after the lip service to academic freedom being important

[Mitch Brown @ExtravertedFace]

@KirkegaardEmil @CJFerguson1111 @andbjn I don't want to be antagonistic at other people's research, as I don't like the precedence it starts. This just doesn't jive with me