Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 12/10/2026undercutting the ability to both explain the causes of Whites' social and political responses and advance theorizing about native majorities' responses to demographic change.” This sentence alone requires two posts on Bluesky. Were the materials easy to read or difficult? 100
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This is a very dense abstract: “But this paradigm considers this "racial shiff" in a single hierarchy-challenging context that produces similar status threat responses across conceptually distinct outcomes,” 200
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 10/10/2026That’s probably a better use of their time, tbh. 110
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026My very national academy member advisor was once told in a review that he did not understand . . . his own dissertation. In life he scoffed, on paper he was genial. 010
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I get the sentiment, but no. Editors should not “clean up” reviews. The author has the right to see what reviewers say, especially when they disqualify themselves with stuff like this. (Truly offensive stuff is different. Dumb ass stuff stays.) 330
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Use it when it’s needed, choose freely when you don’t. By contrast, the Oxford Comma community proposes you must always use it, regardless of functionality. I don’t get it. 010
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Honestly do not understand allegiance to the Oxford comma. The rule “one must use this comma regardless of whether it’s necessary for understanding.” Why is a rule requiring unnecessary punctuation so lovingly endorsed? 121
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Son worth $300 million; he can pay for himself. Second wedding overseas, foreign visit, security, President *should* give it a miss. 010
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Nor will it solve the problem of diabetes. It’s not trying to do either. 100
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I’m going to be slightly pedantic. She’s more a personality psychologist trained by a rat psychologist-turned clinically-oriented psychology. Some of her work is definitely social psychology. But my real point is that she wasn’t trained as a social psychologist (the discussion was about training). 020
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Yes, I’m aware and sympathetic. There are excellent targets on this domain, and you’ve summed at many of the juiciest, with real effect. 020
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 06/09/2026But there’s a number of studies in that paper, and the “fancier cars don’t yield to pedestrians” one is a good companion. Are they studying something matters with methods that illuminate? A case can be made. YMMV. 020
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 06/09/2026There are probably 3,000 experiments carried out every year that match that criticism. Most unpublished, the test mostly unnoticed. It’s the media it attracts that attracts the criticism. I think the study has value—make people feel elite, they treat others worse—the candy as standalone is weak. 110
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Or reading the original research report. Not exaggerated there. They do cite F. Gino, tho. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....pnas.org 000
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Is it fair to limit criticizing a researcher for misdescriptions of their work to the words of the researcher? Or are we blaming the replication crisis on journalists? 110
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Outright fraud is limited, I think. It exists, and often is carried out by highly visible people, I. Part because this is how they *obtain* that visibility. Francesca Gino, Brian Wansink, Marc Hauser, Karen Ruggiero—an All-Ivy team. It’s likely there’s low-level fraud, too, but why fake mediocrity? 010
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Too true! It turns many “great ideas” have been tried, tested, and found wanting—their failure foreseeable. 010
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I still don’t know what “highly dependent” means here. 000
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 29/08/2026This point is well made in Philip Kitcher’s The Advancement of Science: Science without Legend, Objectivity without Illusions (1993). Not enough scientists have absorbed this message. 150
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 29/08/2026“Tightly coupled?” Sounds like you’re saying “redundant.” I’ve never seen that—the paper contexulizes and makes coherent the data and their meaning, don’t they usually? 110
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Also ironic that he has suffered no employment consequences. 030
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I think that’s a pretty narrow spotlight on the evo-approach. There’s some good, novel ideas from the approach. Race and IQ is not one of them. 000
Reposted by Chris CrandallAlexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The contest brought students ages 14 to 17 together from across America to answer the question: What if your high-school gym teacher walked headfirst into a pole and was then asked to throw an Olympics with a budget of exactly $6 and three weeks’ notice?theatlantic.comAre the Patriot Games Great? No. Are They Fun to Watch?Also no. 1132751
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Note: This is not Monty Python. Yes, it has John Cleese and Graham Chapman, but also Marty Feldman and (I think) Tim Brooke-Taylor. They are the authors, and it was performed before MP came into existence. MP later tevitddd the sketch, replacing the other two. 230
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I don’t get it—aren’t you German? Of course it can be done in one sentence—it’s just a long and complex one. Try reading László Krasznahorkai; he could handle a p-value, compare it to Bayes, and still have 100 words left to work with. 150
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Cannot accept your paper: You forget to say thank you at the grocery store. 140
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 31/07/2026As Julia will tell you, a pecan pie is a very fine treat. Just don’t eat too much. Two slices for breakfast approaches too much, but doesn’t quite go over the line. 250
Reposted by Chris CrandallTimothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 20/07/2026As real estate tycoon Trump favored competitive bidding. As president, not so much. The results are predictably shoddy. My latest. newrepublic.com/article/2132...newrepublic.comDonald Trump, the No-Bid PresidentThe trouble with competitive bidding is that it gets in the way of corruption. Our president knows how to solve that. 014
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Solid account of how media create conflict to make their stories “interesting” in a way that misrepresents its subject. Surprise over Algeria’s World Cup welcome shows how media misunderstand Kansas and Lawrence kansasreflector.com/2026/07/24/s...kansasreflector.comSurprise over Algeria's World Cup welcome shows how media misunderstand Kansas and Lawrence • Kansas ReflectorSome media types frequently saw — if not manufactured — something curious as Lawrence happily hosted Algeria for the World Cup 020
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 19/07/2026This should help. Transparency is the hardest thing to fight against. 120
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 19/07/2026This kind of work is both brutal and heroic. Some of the hardest labor there is. Wow! 170
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Here’s the research that shows that Bronze medalists happier than Silver. It’s the comparison you make: Silver to Gold 😟, Bronze to nothing 😊. Medvec et al (1995). When less is more: counterfactual thinking and satisfaction among Olympic medalists. Journal of personality and social psychology 000
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 17/07/2026The first post in the thread leaves one with the impression that is opposite to the findings. This looks really good! 010
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 17/07/2026One large replication effect found a modest effect (Hedges’ g=0.13, p=.045) on the closest replications. I hold no real brief for TMT, but if you're going to make a strong claim about an effect's existence, then one should use the best available data. A gadfly's blog doesn't meet that standard. 010
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 17/07/2026But there is something there. After correcting for many sorts of bias, they found r = .18. The claim that "the effect has never been replicated" is false. There are somewhere between 650-800 published studies in the cited meta-analysis. 110
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 17/07/2026If would be best if hostile comments about terror management theory (e.g., the reply-disallowed post by Maddie Ouranía @maddiequestions.bsky.social) were based not on a blog describing a paper, but on the paper itself. Findings were heterogeneous. Effects modest. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...psycnet.apa.orgAPA PsycNet 110
Chris Crandall @chriscrandall.bsky.social · 17/07/2026As if the two were somehow uncorrelated (in the domains where it's used). 110
