Marcus Crede
@marcuscrede.bsky.social
Grumpy IO psychologist with an interest in research methods, meta-science and personality. Views are my own and not those of my employer.
Begrawe my hart op Klein Tambotieboom en strooi my as oor die Bosveld horison
Begrawe my hart op Klein Tambotieboom en strooi my as oor die Bosveld horison
Supply chains are completely insane. Here I am, in a small town in central Iowa in November, and I can buy a perfectly ripe Pomegranate for $1 at a store that is a block away from my house.
November 21, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Supply chains are completely insane. Here I am, in a small town in central Iowa in November, and I can buy a perfectly ripe Pomegranate for $1 at a store that is a block away from my house.
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One of the giants of social psychology was a serial sexual harasser.
This new report reveals how Miles Hewstone touched, bullied, and sexual harassed numerous women during his 18 years at the University of Oxford. It's amazing how often bullying and sexual harassment go together in academia.
This new report reveals how Miles Hewstone touched, bullied, and sexual harassed numerous women during his 18 years at the University of Oxford. It's amazing how often bullying and sexual harassment go together in academia.
November 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
One of the giants of social psychology was a serial sexual harasser.
This new report reveals how Miles Hewstone touched, bullied, and sexual harassed numerous women during his 18 years at the University of Oxford. It's amazing how often bullying and sexual harassment go together in academia.
This new report reveals how Miles Hewstone touched, bullied, and sexual harassed numerous women during his 18 years at the University of Oxford. It's amazing how often bullying and sexual harassment go together in academia.
At some point Harvard will surely figure out if they just keep hiring awful people or if they also turn previously non-awful people into awful people.
November 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
At some point Harvard will surely figure out if they just keep hiring awful people or if they also turn previously non-awful people into awful people.
Observational data? ✅
Nonsensical moderated mediation model? ✅
Complete absence of open science practices? ✅
Sample size of 44? ✅
impossible standard deviations? ✅
Publication in management journal? ✅
Exorbitant salary to all involved? ✅
Nonsensical moderated mediation model? ✅
Complete absence of open science practices? ✅
Sample size of 44? ✅
impossible standard deviations? ✅
Publication in management journal? ✅
Exorbitant salary to all involved? ✅
November 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Observational data? ✅
Nonsensical moderated mediation model? ✅
Complete absence of open science practices? ✅
Sample size of 44? ✅
impossible standard deviations? ✅
Publication in management journal? ✅
Exorbitant salary to all involved? ✅
Nonsensical moderated mediation model? ✅
Complete absence of open science practices? ✅
Sample size of 44? ✅
impossible standard deviations? ✅
Publication in management journal? ✅
Exorbitant salary to all involved? ✅
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#AcademicSky
Using PISA data, analysis shows that:
✳️ traditional teaching methods (lecturing, memorization & repetition of tasks) ==> better math learning.
✳️ "Innovative" teaching ==> worse math learning.
Effects amplified among low SES kids.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Using PISA data, analysis shows that:
✳️ traditional teaching methods (lecturing, memorization & repetition of tasks) ==> better math learning.
✳️ "Innovative" teaching ==> worse math learning.
Effects amplified among low SES kids.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The effect of teaching strategies on student achievement: An analysis using TALIS-PISA-link
The present study investigates the effects of different teaching strategies on student achievement using data from the so-called TALIS-PISA link creat…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
#AcademicSky
Using PISA data, analysis shows that:
✳️ traditional teaching methods (lecturing, memorization & repetition of tasks) ==> better math learning.
✳️ "Innovative" teaching ==> worse math learning.
Effects amplified among low SES kids.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Using PISA data, analysis shows that:
✳️ traditional teaching methods (lecturing, memorization & repetition of tasks) ==> better math learning.
✳️ "Innovative" teaching ==> worse math learning.
Effects amplified among low SES kids.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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"Like, you can’t just be e-mailing the most famous sex offender in the world about how you intend to use your professional position to make a woman have sex with you, & then keep that professional position, right?" QTNA by @elienyc.bsky.social
I know that at this point it's a subplot in the Epstein files drama, but I feel compelled to point out, once again, that Larry Summers HAS NO BUSINESS teaching students at ANY university ever again!
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Why Is Larry Summers Still Employed?
The revelations about the economist’s attempts to pressure a women into a “relationship”—with guidance from Jeffrey Epstein—should finally disqualify him from teaching students.
www.thenation.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
"Like, you can’t just be e-mailing the most famous sex offender in the world about how you intend to use your professional position to make a woman have sex with you, & then keep that professional position, right?" QTNA by @elienyc.bsky.social
R - how do I hate thee? Let me count the ways. I hate thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach ...
November 19, 2025 at 4:49 AM
R - how do I hate thee? Let me count the ways. I hate thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach ...
I am hoping to recruit a graduate student for next year. That person would help conduct research on leadership, individual differences, and methodological skullduggery. Please forward to any potentially interested students.
November 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I am hoping to recruit a graduate student for next year. That person would help conduct research on leadership, individual differences, and methodological skullduggery. Please forward to any potentially interested students.
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I’ve been out of fucks for a very long time but if you’re not quite there… give this article a read!
“Aging Out of Fucks: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can’t Pretend Anymore”
www.blog.lifebranches.com/p/aging-out-...
“Aging Out of Fucks: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can’t Pretend Anymore”
www.blog.lifebranches.com/p/aging-out-...
Aging Out of Fucks: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can’t Pretend Anymore
Your brain's middle finger to people-pleasing
www.blog.lifebranches.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I’ve been out of fucks for a very long time but if you’re not quite there… give this article a read!
“Aging Out of Fucks: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can’t Pretend Anymore”
www.blog.lifebranches.com/p/aging-out-...
“Aging Out of Fucks: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can’t Pretend Anymore”
www.blog.lifebranches.com/p/aging-out-...
It's been more than 7 months since I alerted an APA editor to serious statistical impossibilities and discrepancies in papers published in their journal by the same set of authors. How can it take 7 months to "investigate" something that can be confirmed on the back of napkin in 5 minutes?
November 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
It's been more than 7 months since I alerted an APA editor to serious statistical impossibilities and discrepancies in papers published in their journal by the same set of authors. How can it take 7 months to "investigate" something that can be confirmed on the back of napkin in 5 minutes?
I appreciate the intention but I really wish that faculty paid much less attention to these personal statements. You have no idea who wrote them (esp. in the age of LLMs) and applicants for whom English is not their primary language may be stellar but not be able to ace these types of nuances.
It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice.
Caveats:
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> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
November 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I appreciate the intention but I really wish that faculty paid much less attention to these personal statements. You have no idea who wrote them (esp. in the age of LLMs) and applicants for whom English is not their primary language may be stellar but not be able to ace these types of nuances.
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I have the mathematical ability of a marmot and yet my Erdös number is apparently 4.
November 2, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I have the mathematical ability of a marmot and yet my Erdös number is apparently 4.
This. Most "high impact factor" journals publish some absolute BS nonsense and "low impact factor" journals publish stellar stuff. If you want to base your evaluations of an article on citations (please don't) then base it on the citations that the article garners - not on those of other paper.
That merely being “under review” by a Nature family journal is offered as a quality proxy for a paper is a tragic illustration of the extent to which academia is addicted to brands and outsources evaluation
October 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
This. Most "high impact factor" journals publish some absolute BS nonsense and "low impact factor" journals publish stellar stuff. If you want to base your evaluations of an article on citations (please don't) then base it on the citations that the article garners - not on those of other paper.
RIP Daniel Naroditsky.
October 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
RIP Daniel Naroditsky.
Go home APA - you are drunk. Just got an e-mail from an APA journal reminding me that my review was due on 25th October and that it is now -5 days late.
October 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Go home APA - you are drunk. Just got an e-mail from an APA journal reminding me that my review was due on 25th October and that it is now -5 days late.
I've learnt far too late that the secret to being a "successful" academic is making one finding or phenomenon your entire identity and then just cudgeling that thing to death for the next 40 years. Ideally you should be able to report at least 100 p-hacked 2x2 ANOVAs.
October 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I've learnt far too late that the secret to being a "successful" academic is making one finding or phenomenon your entire identity and then just cudgeling that thing to death for the next 40 years. Ideally you should be able to report at least 100 p-hacked 2x2 ANOVAs.
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Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...
October 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...
PROCESS mediation analysis shows ....
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 13, 2025 at 4:38 AM
PROCESS mediation analysis shows ....
Power posing boosts testosterone.
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:
Manuscript Central Account Opened
Manuscript Central Account Opened
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:
The football is open.
The football is open.
October 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Power posing boosts testosterone.
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Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.
We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.
When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
October 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.
I am so pissed that these companies - who must have known about this shit - did not pull their products off the shelves.
For those regularly baking with Casava flour please be aware that many/most commercially available flours appear to be massively contaminated with lead. More than 20 times the recommended daily limit in even a quarter cup.
www.foodandwine.com/lead-contami...
www.foodandwine.com/lead-contami...
Some Popular Gluten-Free Foods Contain Lead Levels 23 Times Higher Than Safe Limits, According to a New Investigation
Though touted as a gut-friendly alternative, cassava may pose hidden risks. Consumer Reports tested 27 cassava-based foods and found several with lead levels far beyond what’s considered safe. The fin...
www.foodandwine.com
October 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I am so pissed that these companies - who must have known about this shit - did not pull their products off the shelves.
For those regularly baking with Casava flour please be aware that many/most commercially available flours appear to be massively contaminated with lead. More than 20 times the recommended daily limit in even a quarter cup.
www.foodandwine.com/lead-contami...
www.foodandwine.com/lead-contami...
Some Popular Gluten-Free Foods Contain Lead Levels 23 Times Higher Than Safe Limits, According to a New Investigation
Though touted as a gut-friendly alternative, cassava may pose hidden risks. Consumer Reports tested 27 cassava-based foods and found several with lead levels far beyond what’s considered safe. The fin...
www.foodandwine.com
October 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
For those regularly baking with Casava flour please be aware that many/most commercially available flours appear to be massively contaminated with lead. More than 20 times the recommended daily limit in even a quarter cup.
www.foodandwine.com/lead-contami...
www.foodandwine.com/lead-contami...
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Why is this not getting more attention in my academic feeds. A professor got doxed and death-threats, tried to leave the US, and is not being allowed to. Connect the dots.
At my institution, a professor is being blocked from leaving the US after death threats for teaching on anti-fascism.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport
Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Why is this not getting more attention in my academic feeds. A professor got doxed and death-threats, tried to leave the US, and is not being allowed to. Connect the dots.
Only very serious management scholars get to conduct an experiment that shows no difference between the treatment and control group and then report that the treatment had an effect because of "mediation" ™.
a poster for only murders in the building shows a man in a blue suit
ALT: a poster for only murders in the building shows a man in a blue suit
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October 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Only very serious management scholars get to conduct an experiment that shows no difference between the treatment and control group and then report that the treatment had an effect because of "mediation" ™.