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A new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Contr…

Thinking about evidence and vice versa. Click to read Data Colada, by Uri Simonsohn, a Substack publication.

A few years ago our Journal Club discussed an interesting methods paper entitled, “Putting Psychology to the Test: Rethinking Model Evaluation Through Benchmarking and Prediction” (.htm). This post describes my attempt to understand what’s happening in Figure 1 of that paper, which shows that extremely simple experiments can generate extremely negative R2s. I learned a...

“Any update on the lawsuit?” That is the most common question any of us is asked. It is usually preceded by an apologetic preamble, like, “sorry if this is a sensitive question,” or “I don’t know if you’re tired of talking about this, but…” The reality is that, for the most part, our actual sensitivity...

Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? - Freakonomics

My perspective on the Gino-Ariely scandal, and what we should learn from it.