Nathan Nguyen

Interests in psychology and philosophy

[Nathan Nguyen @NathanDNguyen]

@tombibbys Two faces at most should be in the thumbnail, and faces should be more prominent. And title shouldn’t reference a specific movie. Something more like: News anchors laugh at human extinction

[Nathan Nguyen @NathanDNguyen]

@robsica What have been some critical reactions to the book?

[Nathan Nguyen @NathanDNguyen]

@jessesingal Expedition 33!

[Nathan Nguyen @NathanDNguyen]

@StefanFSchubert Is there really that big a trade off between housing and beauty? If you just add a little ornamentation or color to the exterior, I doubt that would add considerably to cost

[Nathan Nguyen @NathanDNguyen]

@jakozloski Life satisfaction probably doesn't dip in middle age.

"Most strikingly, overcontrol bias, endogenous selection bias, and functional form bias drive age trajectories toward a U-shape, the most prominent finding in previous research."
https://t.co/olpJIxcg3w

[Nathan Nguyen @NathanDNguyen]

"[Sowell's] “constrained vision” of human nature pairs two very different kinds of constraints: moral constraints on the one hand, and [...] “epistemic” constraints[...] There is no obvious reason to think that these two constraints must go together."
https://t.co/Dy2yq2AggU

[Nathan Nguyen @NathanDNguyen]

@justin_mogilski @jakozloski Looking into this a little more, I think this is basically just noise mining.

N=47 (and inexplicably N=22 for temp measures)
They test a 2x2 interaction
They don't use difference scores from neutral in their interaction test

[Nathan Nguyen @NathanDNguyen]

@WiborgQ99 @jakozloski Sure, there are also (mistaken) stereotypes about people with high intelligence having more mental health problems

[Nathan Nguyen @NathanDNguyen]

@jakozloski This is an uninformative study.

The key claim rests on an exploratory interaction effect, p = .03, with 13-16 participants per cell, uncorrected for multiple comparisons. And the experiment uses a single female research assistant (rated 64/100 on attractiveness).

[Nathan Nguyen @NathanDNguyen]

@jakozloski Also from their footnote: 16 effect sizes were manually coded as d=0 because the papers listed n.s. results without an effect size.

That is not how any modern researcher would conduct a meta-analysis.

[Nathan Nguyen @NathanDNguyen]

@jakozloski I am skeptical this effect would survive publication bias correction. This kind of research smells a lot like other priming research that supposedly unconsciously affects people's attitudes

[Nathan Nguyen @NathanDNguyen]

Americans have been sleeping for longer over the past two decades

[Rolf Degen @DegenRolf]

Contrary to alarmist claims about an increasingly sleep-deprived society, sleep duration has actually increased among most American demographic groups.
Healthy sleep is essential for physical health, cognitive function, and overall well-being, yet many U.S. adults do not achieve the recommended sleep duration. Some experts warned that longer work hours, ubiquitous electronic media, and the 24/7 lifestyle were eroding time available for sleep, leading to a growing “sleep debt” in the population. Sociodemographic disparities in sleep are well documented, but evidence on long-term population trends are mixed.
In this study [n=239,930], we used two decades of data from the American Time Use Survey, a continuous, nationally representative diary study, to provide an updated assessment of changes in Americans’ sleep duration from 2003 to 2024.
Americans in 2024 slept about half an hour longer per day than they did in 2003. Average daily sleep duration increased significantly over the study period, rising from approximately 8 hours 30 minutes in 2003 to 8 hours 55 minutes in 2024. The modest but steady increase in overall sleep duration included both night sleep and naps.
Improvements were seen across most groups, with no meaningful sex differences in trends and unadjusted age-related divergence was attenuated after adjustment. Higher-income and higher-educated adults consistently slept less, although disparities narrowed modestly.
Our study paints an optimistic yet nuanced picture: Americans are sleeping a bit better overall, a testament to increasing health consciousness and possibly more flexible lifestyles, but significant work remains to ensure these gains are universal.

[Nathan Nguyen @NathanDNguyen]

@langofmind @robsica The quote says “popular” not “consensus”

[Nathan Nguyen @NathanDNguyen]

@SpencrGreenberg Here’s some more data that might be helpful
https://t.co/YjiVgpKUfg

[Nathan Cofnas @nathancofnas]

DEI Fraud and Cover-Up: https://t.co/NAhOyUBWVw

It’s an open secret at Cambridge University, but everyone is afraid to speak out. Newspapers backed away after getting hit with legal threats.

Here, I tell the true story of Jason Arday—DEI superstar and the youngest black professor in the history of Cambridge.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Amazing interview with the head of the American Anthropological Association: "So the idea that there are two sexes is just factually incorrect, and to force biological anthropologists to teach that is the equivalent of turning an astronomy department into an astrology department. So I don’t know why we’re debating that. You may not like it. I don’t know, maybe you want to kill babies that aren’t just XX presenting XX or XY presenting XY"

[Nathan Nguyen @NathanDNguyen]

@sentientist Biological flags are extremely broad. I’d expect anything to do with evolution to switch to opus