Truth Zaddy

Social Science Critic. Former Professor. Interested in gender differences and statistics.

PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology.

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Is there any evidence that Alice Eagly's Role Congruity Theory is correct?

I have not been able to locate a single study that directly tests this hypothesis.

If you know of a study that tests this hypothesis, please reply.

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@charlesmurray Also, is there a human or psychological variable for which this is not the case? The grouping variable will almost always have lower variance.

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@IonaItalia @GrogBogan They're saying the distance from 2 to 3 is greater than -2 to -1 because of how the normal distribution's tails work. In correlations, going from .7 to .8 is much greater than going from .1 to .2. In the correlation example, greater means more shared variance.

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This is something I continue to re-learn. I will procrastinate, but when I'm writing I enjoy it, and I ask myself "why am I avoiding this"?

[˚꩜｡ @yappingwmogu143]

not to be a fucking nerd or anything but writing academic papers is actually super fun when you have a genuine interest in the topic

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@jayvanbavel I'd be curious to know which explains more variance: gender or politics?

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@VividProwess Lost some friends doing this, but it was worth it.

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@LiebermanAustin @FrayedVerity Yes, whenever I'm stressed out from life, I pump my veins full of caffeine to really lean into the anxiety.

[The Math Flow @TheMathFlow]

Sine and cosine are the same wave seen from a different perspective.

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@PastorDScott @Thawnnee @elonmusk I'm referring to the reply by @thawnnee

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@Thawnnee @elonmusk This is not true. The original autopsy showed significant drug-related implications. The faimly of Floyd then sought their own medical examiner and that is what became the report the media ran with.

[Saloni @salonium]

It's unclear to me at the moment whether the view counter on my TED talk is broken or if my aunts and uncles have been frantically refreshing the page thousands of times each

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@ChengWeiLai2 I recommend you delete this thread.

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@IonaItalia The hypocrisy is starting to get tiring.

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@IonaItalia Treating people as individuals is a controversial stance in some circles.

[Helen Pluckrose @HPluckrose]

This is incorrect. Jason Arday was responded to as a symbol of a tribe against whom there is much animus but that tribe was not “black people.” It was Critical Social Justice (woke) activists. And enablement of the wrongdoing was directly tied to the views of that movement
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@lewis_goodall Intellectuals teaching in the world's most prestigious institutions should be held to higher standards. It's in the public interest to maintain the integrity of these institutions.

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People are labeling @nathancofnas a racist. If the worst thing he ever did was discuss statistical disparities, and make a data-driven hypothesis about demographics and the labor market, he doesn't seem to be very racist.

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@moandinga So if I'm understanding the "problem" with Confas correctly, he once made a data-driven hypothesis about demographics and the labor market. Wow, sounds like a real jerk!

[John Pollock @JohnPollock]

Pseudologia fantastica

Powerful & fascinating take: the psychiatrist & writer Dr @MaxPemberton looks at Jason Arday...

"The people I’ve met who fit the description of pseudologia fantastica tend not to stop lying. They are seldom cold or calculating. They tend to be charming and, perhaps most importantly, fragile underneath. What strikes me most is how often they appear to half-believe the story they’ve invented. The lie is not really being told to the listener at all, it is being told to the ego of the person telling it. The listener is only there to confirm it.

"...the tales are about suffering that has been overcome, odds that were insurmountable, the diagnosis nobody believed, the childhood that should not have been survived, and then the triumph over all this. It is a far more effective structure for any fantasy, because it makes doubting it feel like an act of cruelty.

"Why do the stories become so extravagant? Part of it is this notion that an audience gets used to them, just as the exponent of the lie does. So what produced gasps last year produces only nods this time, and applause that has stopped coming leaves an empty feeling.

"So the story has to grow, and it grows in whatever direction was rewarded most loudly last time. You can’t backtrack once a story is out there, you can only embellish and elaborate...

"The only person they picture on the other side of their story is somebody looking impressed. A claim is not weighed for whether it will survive scrutiny, it is weighed for whether it will trigger the required impression and response. The claims that do best in that regard are precisely the ones nobody sensible would invent.

"Every fantasist I’ve known kept going with their stories long past the point where anybody was still convinced, because the alternative was to confess it was a sham and allow people to destroy the false identity they had built for themselves, so become a nobody.

"Which is why I don’t feel triumphant about Jason Arday’s downfall. When a world collapses it is a terrible thing to live through, and no less terrible for having been constructed of tissue paper.

"He built it and must answer for it. But he did not build it on his own, and the institutions – not least Cambridge University and the diversity, equality and inclusion industry – that made him their poster boy and handed him the bricks have gone very quiet.

"For that they bear considerable responsibility in this sorry saga and should reflect on it in shame."

Original: https://t.co/yKN6HQnhXl
Archive: https://t.co/uzFXWnfX0X

[Michael Bailey @profjmb]

Non-heterosexuals tend to have worse mental health compared to heterosexuals. Is this due to minority stress–stigma and discrimination? In a new study, we should that the answer is “mostly not.” Link to the article in the next post, followed by an explanatory thread. (1/n)

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@DavidDecosimo Here

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@DavidDecosimo Why protect the identity of the authors? They published the paper. They are proud of it.