Will Watson

📍 Melbourne | sports and music fan

[Will Watson @willwatsonAU]

Cynics sound smart, optimists get paid.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Wow, this study is devastating for cynicism.

Here's a TL;DR:

In studies 1–3, participants indicated they thought cynics would do better on cognitive tasks.
In studies 4–5, cynics were tested and 1 SD of cynicism was associated with 0.25 and 0.17 SDs lower cognitive ability in studies 4 and 5, respectively.
In study 6, cynics were found to be

- less educated in 29/30 countries
- less literate in 28/30 countries
- less numerate in 29/30 countries
- less computer-literate in 23/26 countries
Cynicism is simply not smart.

Source: https://t.co/fk77cy1TV3

[Will Watson @willwatsonAU]

@AdamAlfi @brfootball We would be. Dickhead.

[Will Watson @willwatsonAU]

@elonmusk Pot. Kettle. Black.

[Will Watson @willwatsonAU]

@Gavin_Ingham My hero

[Will Watson @willwatsonAU]

@7AFL @7AFL @AFL - do funds get distributed to the players (via clubs), or straight to the clubs balance sheet? If the latter, what are the guardrails for how the clubs can spend the funds?

[Will Watson @willwatsonAU]

@sirswampthing - how many times have both premiers and runners up missed the next years finals ?

[Stefanos Tsitsipas @stefanos]

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[Will Watson @willwatsonAU]

Rescheduled all my AM meetings this week. ⏰

[US Open Tennis @usopen]

when your boss asks why you've been yawning all week

[ely kreimendahl @ElyKreimendahl]

therapy isn’t about being “fixed.” it’s about being your therapist’s favorite patient

[Will Watson @willwatsonAU]

@Gavin_Ingham Novak > Jesus.

[Dom Alessio @domalessio]

This is one of the most important nights that I can remember for the Australian music industry. Thinking of everyone who came forward for this story, and those who couldn't #4Corners

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

The paradox of our Golden Age of science: more research is being published by more scientists than ever, but the result is actually slowing progress! With too much to read & absorb, papers in more crowded fields are citing new work less, and canonizing highly-cited articles more.

[Scott Pendlebury @SP_10]

What a weekend for sport! NRL, AFL, AJ v Usyk (boxing) tomorrow morning into UFC 266 tomorrow lunch time!!

[Ethics in Bricks @EthicsInBricks]

Publicly funded research should be publicly available.

@ResearchGate @ElsevierNews

[Will Watson @willwatsonAU]

@hawiaancovefe @NeilHubbucks @OhNoSheTwitnt @HoarseWisperer Wholesome, gents. Thankyou 😘

[Will Watson @willwatsonAU]

@EVERALDATLARGE Based on government software experience - it will just crash constantly anyway

[Will Watson @willwatsonAU]

@femmocollective @yodaberg It’s actually 31.42x more than the poverty line / a 3,040% increase. Don’t claim this, it’s insulting to people who are genuinely experiencing poverty.

[Will Watson @willwatsonAU]

@femmocollective @yodaberg Oh come on. $1,100 per fortnight jobseeker payment is so far removed from poverty.

[Will Watson @willwatsonAU]

@yodaberg @femmocollective This literally just happened to me, and the leadership handled it in the same manner. And yes, I’m hindsight, this was the best way to handled this from my perspectives