Anne Scheel
@annemscheel.bsky.social
Assistant prof at Utrecht University, trying to make science as reproducible as non-scientists think it is. Blogs at @the100ci.
Looks like Study 1E is on executives, N = 44, all others on regular Prolific participants or students. IMO quite misleading to sell this as N=6.4K evidence on “decision makers”. Study 1E asks executives if they’d spend an unspecified (!) amount on sponsored ads on Yelp, where the prior on a causal >
October 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Looks like Study 1E is on executives, N = 44, all others on regular Prolific participants or students. IMO quite misleading to sell this as N=6.4K evidence on “decision makers”. Study 1E asks executives if they’d spend an unspecified (!) amount on sponsored ads on Yelp, where the prior on a causal >
It also reminded me of the “stats maven” concept coined by @sanjaysrivastava.com some very long time ago, I believe here? thehardestscience.com/2014/12/04/s...
October 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
It also reminded me of the “stats maven” concept coined by @sanjaysrivastava.com some very long time ago, I believe here? thehardestscience.com/2014/12/04/s...
And for my long-held theory, though I admit that this perhaps sounds more cynical than it should (i.e., it happens for benign reasons too and reviewer intuitions can be good/correct even when they’re hard to articulate)
October 22, 2025 at 5:30 AM
And for my long-held theory, though I admit that this perhaps sounds more cynical than it should (i.e., it happens for benign reasons too and reviewer intuitions can be good/correct even when they’re hard to articulate)
“Make it rewarding”: Is there a repository out there that gives you easy access to download and traffic figures? Seems like a no-brainer for encouraging data & code sharing (and high-quality documentation!), yet the OSF’s options for this seem quite limited unfortunately
August 16, 2025 at 7:57 AM
“Make it rewarding”: Is there a repository out there that gives you easy access to download and traffic figures? Seems like a no-brainer for encouraging data & code sharing (and high-quality documentation!), yet the OSF’s options for this seem quite limited unfortunately
What a great metaphor!
August 12, 2025 at 6:19 AM
What a great metaphor!
Worth reading in full. Many important implications here:
* Wiley can only publish preprinted papers if final version differs substantially from preprint
* After peer review, preprints are no longer preprints (careful with resubmissions!)
* Wiley will change journal policies without consulting EiC
* Wiley can only publish preprinted papers if final version differs substantially from preprint
* After peer review, preprints are no longer preprints (careful with resubmissions!)
* Wiley will change journal policies without consulting EiC
June 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Worth reading in full. Many important implications here:
* Wiley can only publish preprinted papers if final version differs substantially from preprint
* After peer review, preprints are no longer preprints (careful with resubmissions!)
* Wiley will change journal policies without consulting EiC
* Wiley can only publish preprinted papers if final version differs substantially from preprint
* After peer review, preprints are no longer preprints (careful with resubmissions!)
* Wiley will change journal policies without consulting EiC
To the extent that ChatGPT lets you do stuff faster and turn off your laptop earlier, it looks like it might as well help _save_ energy…
May 6, 2025 at 7:34 AM
To the extent that ChatGPT lets you do stuff faster and turn off your laptop earlier, it looks like it might as well help _save_ energy…
Ah yes, why would open-science ppl be involved with a new journal that’s trying to turn the tide and set new standards re transparency and bias protection in its field, with an EiC (@dangerwhale.bsky.social) who’s been lobbying for RRs and protocol publication for years?
It must be the industry $$$
It must be the industry $$$
April 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Ah yes, why would open-science ppl be involved with a new journal that’s trying to turn the tide and set new standards re transparency and bias protection in its field, with an EiC (@dangerwhale.bsky.social) who’s been lobbying for RRs and protocol publication for years?
It must be the industry $$$
It must be the industry $$$
I recently learned that Danny Kahneman revolutionised the hiring process of the Israelian army with an improvised personality questionnaire when he was 20 #justKahnemanthings
www.moneycontrol.com/news/busines...
www.moneycontrol.com/news/busines...
January 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I recently learned that Danny Kahneman revolutionised the hiring process of the Israelian army with an improvised personality questionnaire when he was 20 #justKahnemanthings
www.moneycontrol.com/news/busines...
www.moneycontrol.com/news/busines...
November 30, 2024 at 8:11 AM
Greenberg (2009) is one of my favourite papers, showing “conversion of hypothesis to fact through citation alone” and jarring citation bias in grant proposals.
Just struck me that it’s about a literature on beta amyloid—not in Alzheimer’s, but maybe still affected by the awfulness of that research?
Just struck me that it’s about a literature on beta amyloid—not in Alzheimer’s, but maybe still affected by the awfulness of that research?
November 30, 2024 at 8:11 AM
Greenberg (2009) is one of my favourite papers, showing “conversion of hypothesis to fact through citation alone” and jarring citation bias in grant proposals.
Just struck me that it’s about a literature on beta amyloid—not in Alzheimer’s, but maybe still affected by the awfulness of that research?
Just struck me that it’s about a literature on beta amyloid—not in Alzheimer’s, but maybe still affected by the awfulness of that research?
Turns out that this conflict/confusion goes back at least as far as Humboldt, who insisted that both the factual and the imagination are crucial for creating scientific knowledge, while others struggled with feeling their imagination threatened by the factual part.
November 9, 2024 at 12:49 PM
Turns out that this conflict/confusion goes back at least as far as Humboldt, who insisted that both the factual and the imagination are crucial for creating scientific knowledge, while others struggled with feeling their imagination threatened by the factual part.
This is how we explained it in our primer for psychologists doi.org/10.1177/2515...
October 31, 2024 at 11:02 AM
This is how we explained it in our primer for psychologists doi.org/10.1177/2515...
Haven’t read the article but I’m a fan of this research line. Very thoughtfully and carefully done, IMO exemplary for how psych research should proceed. They have a nice webpage kamamutalab.org
We used it as an example in this paper journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
We used it as an example in this paper journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
October 27, 2024 at 8:40 AM
Haven’t read the article but I’m a fan of this research line. Very thoughtfully and carefully done, IMO exemplary for how psych research should proceed. They have a nice webpage kamamutalab.org
We used it as an example in this paper journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
We used it as an example in this paper journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Got a print of Alexander von Humboldt’s Geography of Equinoxial Plants from my partner (he’s reading @andreawulf.bsky.social’s Invention of Nature and caused a massive Humboldt craze in our household).
It’s so beautiful! Look at all those details! It’s actually all legible (if you can read German..)
It’s so beautiful! Look at all those details! It’s actually all legible (if you can read German..)
October 10, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Got a print of Alexander von Humboldt’s Geography of Equinoxial Plants from my partner (he’s reading @andreawulf.bsky.social’s Invention of Nature and caused a massive Humboldt craze in our household).
It’s so beautiful! Look at all those details! It’s actually all legible (if you can read German..)
It’s so beautiful! Look at all those details! It’s actually all legible (if you can read German..)
A drama in three acts
September 20, 2024 at 9:25 AM
A drama in three acts
Will, I think the reason for why you may have sensed hostility from parts of the OS community is how you treated your PhD student.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
September 20, 2024 at 7:13 AM
Will, I think the reason for why you may have sensed hostility from parts of the OS community is how you treated your PhD student.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Another* explanation, of course, is that Haidt’s target audience are not other researchers but the general public.
I’ve written about why I think that’s bad for science in this blog: www.the100.ci/2021/07/08/a...
* additional, not necessarily alternative
I’ve written about why I think that’s bad for science in this blog: www.the100.ci/2021/07/08/a...
* additional, not necessarily alternative
August 31, 2024 at 9:17 AM
Another* explanation, of course, is that Haidt’s target audience are not other researchers but the general public.
I’ve written about why I think that’s bad for science in this blog: www.the100.ci/2021/07/08/a...
* additional, not necessarily alternative
I’ve written about why I think that’s bad for science in this blog: www.the100.ci/2021/07/08/a...
* additional, not necessarily alternative
I know statistics is hard! I don’t expect everyone to be a stats genius. Just that after studying psych, doing research for years and passing the tenure bottleneck, you _must_ have learned that you can’t just assume it’s easy and do vibes-based analyses without asking an expert
August 31, 2024 at 7:32 AM
I know statistics is hard! I don’t expect everyone to be a stats genius. Just that after studying psych, doing research for years and passing the tenure bottleneck, you _must_ have learned that you can’t just assume it’s easy and do vibes-based analyses without asking an expert
Somehow I missed the part where Stapel plagiarises James Joyce in the book he wrote about his fraud
www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/der...
www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/der...
August 30, 2024 at 8:20 AM
Somehow I missed the part where Stapel plagiarises James Joyce in the book he wrote about his fraud
www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/der...
www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/der...
Me after learning about collider bias
July 9, 2024 at 6:31 AM
Me after learning about collider bias