BIAS Lab director studying prejudice, discrimination, dehumanization, speciesism, intergroup contact, generalized prejudice. Confirmed Boffin. #PrejudiceResearch #WhyWeLoveAndExploitAnimals (does not online-bicker).
Gordon Hodson is a psychology professor at Brock University, where he directs the Brock Lab of Intergroup Processes. He is known for his research on political ideology and its relationship to prejudice, intelligence, and climate change denial. .. more
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✳️ systematic biases (e.g., racism, sexism)
✳️ poor construct validity
✳️ undermine standards and learning
We should evaluate teaching as seriously as we do research. Or don't do teaching evaluations.
(btw, I'm not suggesting that validity is the same as whether something is falsifiable. Instead I am wondering whether we can call a research finding valid if it's not falsifiable).
That is consistent with what I hear from qualitative researchers.
But is being non-falsifiable essentially cool with qualitative researchers?
(I guess I'm asking: what is "validity" if findings are not falsifiable?)
Truly not looking to fight on this; trying to get my head around it
Please don't bite my head off. Genuine question 👇
I've recently been told by several researchers that because their methods are qualitative, their ideas aren’t falsifiable.
And they're ok w that
This is a head-scratcher to me
Is this really the stance of the qualitative field?
AMPPS is a journal with clear value to the field. I always scour the table of contents.
Many newish journals, if we're honest, we didn't need. We need AMPPS.
... the rest of the world would appreciate you all getting together, hugging, laughing, and humanizing each other.
You must test mediation
You must use implicit measures.
There was a stretch, for a while, where in #SocialPsychology you essentially HAD to test mediation to get into the "top" journals.
You know, like how you had to include an implicit measure too!
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In part bc I know a group of men who get together one weekend each year for a drunken outing.
They call the event SLOP (Stupid Losers on Patrol).
Seems fitting for how we're destroying knowledge & creativity with new tech.
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Toni Morrison: "The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work."
Good lord, Britain.
Might you want to, ummm, do something to save your educational institutions?
If you think that's expensive, contemplate the costs of:
✳️ rebooting these at a later date
✳️ a less educated public
#FundEducation
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Education is something the UK used to excel at. Have a strong global reputation.
You'd think government would want to keep that ship afloat at all costs
Reputations are hard earned, easily lost
Good lord, Britain.
Might you want to, ummm, do something to save your educational institutions?
If you think that's expensive, contemplate the costs of:
✳️ rebooting these at a later date
✳️ a less educated public
#FundEducation
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
How psychologists handle sampling, measurement, & statistical test assumptions
Ummm, I can I put this public service on my Annual Report?
I'd literally explode with joy if I could.
Recap:
🔵 don't use literal when you actually mean its opposite (i.e, figurative)
🔵 don't use literal when there's not needed, bc the action could only be literal (i.e., avoid redundancy)
🔵 use literal when you mean literal, so no-one confuses with figurative sense
Save word "literal" for when could be confusion about whether it happened or not.
🔵 “I literally fell of my chair when I heard the news”.
🔵 “I was literally in the dark when he did [X]”.
🔵 “OMG, I literally forgot to send you that file”
Redundant. The fact that you didn't send the file is the literal aspect.
There is no figurative part that could cause confusion here; there is no figurative forgetting to send files.
Just say you forgot to send the file.
Can we talk #peeves regarding the use of word "literal"?
🔵 “My head literally exploded”
No. Your head didn't explode. That's actually the opposite of literal, it's figurative.
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(which is why forces work SO HARD to eliminate these words and concepts!)
Men preyed on women, with little/no recourse.
Listen to podcast to learn about how term became established, then linked to discrimination & action.
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