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I went back and recoded the data, looking at the 45 cases of contradiction insights in my sample. In two-thirds of the contradiction instances, the person gaining the insight had a suspicious mind-set rather than an open mind. He or she resisted the popular enthusiasms.

Gary Klein • Seeing What Others Don't: The remarkable ways we gain INSIGHTS

When directly compared or weighted against each other, losses loom larger than gains. This asymmetry between the power of positive and negative expectations or experiences has an evolutionary history. Organisms that treat threats as more urgent than opportunities have a better chance to survive and reproduce.

Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness

This is an interesting and important study. IQ test effort correlates with IQ scores, and they investigate whether it is causal using incentives. However, as far as I can tell, their data analysis is flawed, and when performed correctly the conclusion reverses.

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Research, data, reports

Will Yarnall • 1 card

We do not have data about whether people who consume pornography have better levels of porn literacy.

Roger Ingham • What Do We Know About the Effects of Pornography After Fifty Years of Academic Research? (Focus on Global Gender and Sexuality)

Women refuse to disagree directly

A fascinating aspect of feminine social norms: disagreement may never happen directly. And this is true of feminists or not. Feminism didn’t actually fix any of the stifling social norms we have to deal with daily. If disagreement must be expressed, it must be in the form of a hedging statement to not be too aggress

Empirical Evidence versus Theory, Lore, and Intuition

Henry L. Roediger III • Make It Stick

Drawing Conclusions From Associations Was Dangerous Making definitive health recommendations based only on associative evidence was considered dangerous because of "confounders" - other unmeasured factors that could influence the results.