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One of the people who most helped me to understand some aspects of these questions was Professor Joel Nigg, who I interviewed at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
It’s 2025 and the American Psychological Association is trying to make implicit bias tests a thing again:
“The IAT has not been without its detractors…Yet various meta-analyses have repeatedly found support for the test’s validity” https://t.co/uiqvT4FxPV
Jury Decision Making: The State of the Science (Psychology and Crime Book 8)
amazon.com
most of us know that disorders of the brain can trump the best intentions of the mind.
Sam Harris • Free Will
Academia/Research
Hilary Gamble • 1 card
A few years ago, a Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, announced that he had produced the world’s first CRISPR-edited humans—twin baby girls. According to He, the girls’ genes had been tweaked to confer resistance to HIV, though whether this is actually the case remains unclear. Shortly after he made the announcement, He was placed under house arrest in
... See moreElizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky
Only the best researchers in a field actually make progress, and the best researchers are already in a field, and probably couldn’t be kept out of the field with barbed wire and attack dogs. If you expand a field, you will get a bunch of merely competent careerists who treat it as a 9-to-5 job. A field of 5 truly inspired geniuses and 5 competent c... See more
Scott Alexander (slatestarcodex) • Is Science Slowing Down?
"More than six decades of sociological research has confirmed that despite laudable norms, scientists do not behave differently from other people. They are motivated by desire for money, success, and recognition and sometimes even cheat to get ahead"https://t.co/d8VSmOi6hW
Rob Hendersonx.comEveryone involved in a university hiring search between 2014-present was witness to deeply unethical and unambiguously illegal practices that virtually no one did anything to contest.
No one ever anticipated that there might someday be accountability. Suing would be career and social death even for someone with a slam ... See more
Wesley Yangx.com