Reposted by Jason DoctorNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It's amazing how much time and money people can save when a government agency decides to consolidate two applications that go to two desks in the same building into one application that goes to both desks at once. 424140
Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 09/04/2026But if you power pose while reading a disfluent it is a game changer. 010
Reposted by Jason DoctorDan Goldstein @dggoldst.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Nature meta-research project puts claims in social-science paper to the test. Refs in last post I'm interested in Econ and Psych so I focused on that: Econ had about the same rate of "not reproducible" analyses as Psych and a worse rate then Political Science. 36826
Reposted by Jason DoctorGordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · 05/03/2026It's hard to look at things like this and not see a country headed toward some form of collapse. 41811
Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 13/02/2026🚨New Paper🚨: We find that US adults visit self-storage after a negative life event. ~8.9% used self-storage in the past year & 1 in 4 of these report a life disruption (e.g., divorce, eviction) led to use. Missed opportunity for mental health outreach. doi.org/10.1016/j.ws...doi.orgRedirecting 000
Reposted by Jason DoctorHistory of Geology @historyofgeology.bsky.social · 07/02/2026On February 7, 1784, after eight months of activity, the Laki eruption finally came to an end. From a system of 135 fissures and volcanic craters, an estimated 14 km³ of lava poured out, enough to cover the surrounding landscape beneath a100-meter thick lava layer... 13410
Reposted by Jason DoctorProPublica @propublica.org · 23/01/2026NEW: Rx Inspector, our free, searchable tool, allows you to look up where your generic prescription drug was made. From patients and doctors to researchers, it is already reshaping how people make decisions. “This is a godsend,” one professor told us.propublica.org“A Godsend”: ProPublica’s Rx Inspector Tool Is Helping People Find Critical Safety Information on Generic DrugsHealth care workers are changing how they counsel patients. Experts are using our database to support their research. And some consumers report they’ve discovered troubling records at the factories wh... 2326138
Reposted by Jason DoctorColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 03/12/2025"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried 191463306
Reposted by Jason DoctorAlan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses. 751381136
Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 24/11/2025A remarkable finding that the opioid epidemic damage trust in Democrat politics and resulted in increased Republican vote share. 020
Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Just let me use one more p value then I promise I will stop. 010
Reposted by Jason DoctorJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 03/10/2025People who have more complex social identities view political identity as a less reliable source of information about others. Therefore they rely less on group-based stereotypes when judging outgroup members. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103125000915 1358
Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Clicked "See All" on Concur but sadly did not become omniscient. 120
Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 18/06/2025The Vice Dean who gets FOMO from approving travel reimbursements. 120
Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Both 2FA and accepting cookies all day. I predict in 2035 there will be a third thing. 010
Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Sure QJE has a fabricated data scandal. But once again, they claim this is somehow new, when a few psychologists had been doing this for years. 010
Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 19/05/2025LLMs seem like the human experience of reading aloud when it is going extremely well, as if, to the listener, you could look away from the book and continue reading all the same. Musicians call this "reading ahead". It is predicting the next letter, word, tone, mood from what came before. 000
Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Reading aloud improves comprehension. In this case, that means reduced confusion and differential response to risk vs mirrors. files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ8...files.eric.ed.gov 000
Reposted by Jason DoctorGeorge Wu @geowu.bsky.social · 01/05/2025I’ll use this as an opportunity to promote a second independent non-replication. bsky.app/profile/geow... 021
Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Sending my accountant a long philosophical stream-of-consciousness email a few days before the tax deadline. 000
Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Live picture of Trump showing his cross-modality matching tariff results where he was asked to adjust the brightness of a light and loudness of a pure tone to generate power functions that would set the tariffs. 020
Reposted by Jason Doctordarth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 08/04/2025this guy should call his senator tbh 1155383719
Reposted by Jason DoctorEd Hagen @edhagen.net · 06/04/2025When I was in grad school in the 90's the rule of thumb from twin studies was that the heritability of everything was ~50%. It turns out that twin studies are highly confounded, & after unconfounding w/ new genome-based methods (Family-GWAS), the median heritability of behavioral phenotypes is ~5% 🧪 311024
Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Sure it's a 1/1000 chance. But, the real question is "What’s the probability of such a bad trading day, given that the economy is actively being destroyed by someone.” Then it is more like 9/10. #ForeverBayesian 010
Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Mutiny is totally a thing pirates do. Can we blame him? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...nbcnews.comPirate's Booty founder stages Long Island mutiny, declares he's mayor and tries to fire village staffRobert Ehrlich was “falsely asserting his authority as mayor, demanding access to office space, and declaring that the entire Village staff was fired," said officials in Sea Cliff, New York. 010
Reposted by Jason DoctorSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 22/03/2025imagine explaining to someone in 2016 that Bill Kristol had united in a AOC/Bernie popular front against fascism 347161461999
Reposted by Jason DoctorRafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 16/03/2025social scientists should be smart enough not to see broad trends in observational data and conclude it's due to their pet theory BUT ALAS I GUESS 4332
Reposted by Jason DoctorGeorge Wu @geowu.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Now you can read a short version of our comment on the AER paper, "Decisions under Risk Are Decisions under Complexity" on Data Colada. ... or the long version: bsky.app/profile/geow... ... or a follow-up (just posted yesterday): bsky.app/profile/geow... Bonus points for reading all 3. 142
Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 23/02/2025His past drug use does not disqualify him, but his “lived experience” doesn’t speak to the experiences of those who died or otherwise didn’t make it out of that hole. 000
Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Exciting hockey! Like '80 Olympics. But, I worry this time Russia will win. 000
Reposted by Jason DoctorDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Public comment genuinely matters. Courts will overturn rules based on an administration not responding to substantive comments. 11821521
Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 07/02/2025This is a bombshell announcement. Administrative and report burden NIH grants are far greater at NIH than at foundations and foundations do not have a salary cap, while NIH does.grants.nih.govNOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost RatesNIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD 010
Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 07/02/2025This paper convincingly shows that Oprea's complexity hypothesis fails to hold. Comprehension was a confound Also, the within-subject design, contaminated the results: Mirrors followed by gambles increased use of EV across tasks. Gambles followed by mirrors increased use of a PT functional...(1/2) 130
Reposted by Jason DoctorGeorge Wu @geowu.bsky.social · 07/02/2025A new working paper with Daniel Banki, @urisohn.bsky.social and Robert Walatka, just submitted to SSRN. The paper is comment on Ryan Oprea's recent AER paper. The paper is processing, but you, my friends, get early entry. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 210532
Reposted by Jason DoctorShengwu Li @shengwuli.bsky.social · 07/02/2025🚨 Oprea (2024 AER) argued that prospect theory choice anomalies were not due to risk, but due to complexity-driven mistakes. But this new analysis convinces me that Oprea (2024) is substantially wrong. In my opinion, the paper should be retracted. 1010425
Reposted by Jason Doctorjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/02/2025i have been reading the hobbit to my kids and it brings me no shortage of pleasure that they are both really into it 77424230666
Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Slovic's Psychometric paradigm does a lot here to explain why 1% does not feel tiny: Uncontrollable/catastrophic + not observed before = high risk perception 000
Jason Doctor @jasndoc.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Your effects are not synergistic because your scales are ordinal. 231
