Chris Crandall
@chriscrandall.bsky.social
Social psychologist. Mediocre at so many things. Good at a few, I sure hope.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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would say that for predicting individual behavior, the IAT is a weak instrument.
By contrast, at the population level, comparing states or regions with large samples, the IAT can be pretty useful Trends over time, divergence between race, gender, and fat prejudices can be usefully tracked by IAT.
By contrast, at the population level, comparing states or regions with large samples, the IAT can be pretty useful Trends over time, divergence between race, gender, and fat prejudices can be usefully tracked by IAT.
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 AM
would say that for predicting individual behavior, the IAT is a weak instrument.
By contrast, at the population level, comparing states or regions with large samples, the IAT can be pretty useful Trends over time, divergence between race, gender, and fat prejudices can be usefully tracked by IAT.
By contrast, at the population level, comparing states or regions with large samples, the IAT can be pretty useful Trends over time, divergence between race, gender, and fat prejudices can be usefully tracked by IAT.
Transparency as a key component to reliable science. Not a mini-scintilla of non sequitor.
November 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Transparency as a key component to reliable science. Not a mini-scintilla of non sequitor.
Check out the prejudice and racism literature. IMO, lots of rationalizations in evidence.
November 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Check out the prejudice and racism literature. IMO, lots of rationalizations in evidence.
Thanks. Minor dyslexia and my oversight.
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Thanks. Minor dyslexia and my oversight.
A PhD from a lab? How does that work? (European, maybe?)
November 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A PhD from a lab? How does that work? (European, maybe?)
(Personal attacks on dissent. Violence-promising, sexual attacks threatening, insults abounding, for having a different viewpoint.)
The landscape of Truth Social, esp. as compared to BlueSky.
The landscape of Truth Social, esp. as compared to BlueSky.
November 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
(Personal attacks on dissent. Violence-promising, sexual attacks threatening, insults abounding, for having a different viewpoint.)
The landscape of Truth Social, esp. as compared to BlueSky.
The landscape of Truth Social, esp. as compared to BlueSky.
Say your name, Sam.
November 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Say your name, Sam.
If a person only knows social psychology from the press or the mis-marketed work pioneers in the replication crisis, one might come to your conclusions. But a broader knowledge of the state of the field would offer significantly more confidence.
November 6, 2025 at 12:26 PM
If a person only knows social psychology from the press or the mis-marketed work pioneers in the replication crisis, one might come to your conclusions. But a broader knowledge of the state of the field would offer significantly more confidence.
Whether or not this is true, the swings at social psychology are massively contaminated by including faculty from business schools (e.g., Gino) or trained there (e.g., Wansink), faulty or weak attacks (e.g., on Milgram), or mistaken labels (e.g., social priming, which is not social at all).
November 6, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Whether or not this is true, the swings at social psychology are massively contaminated by including faculty from business schools (e.g., Gino) or trained there (e.g., Wansink), faulty or weak attacks (e.g., on Milgram), or mistaken labels (e.g., social priming, which is not social at all).
I don’t hide my identity. I encourage any and all to replicate published work.
I don’t condescend to others on Bluesky.
I don’t condescend to others on Bluesky.
November 6, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I don’t hide my identity. I encourage any and all to replicate published work.
I don’t condescend to others on Bluesky.
I don’t condescend to others on Bluesky.
Yes. It’s a question of whether one is tainted by the business degree or elevated by the cognitive degree.
Is it easy to stumble?
Is it easy to stumble?
November 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Yes. It’s a question of whether one is tainted by the business degree or elevated by the cognitive degree.
Is it easy to stumble?
Is it easy to stumble?
Try Truth Social—they have perfected the most brutal version of this.
November 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Try Truth Social—they have perfected the most brutal version of this.
Milgram is fine; the “attack” is weak at best.
“Kitty Genovese“ was just a news story (badly reported) that led to a lunch discussion and an extraordinary series of highly reliable studies. The debunking of Rosenthal means nothing to science.
It’s important to get these things right.
“Kitty Genovese“ was just a news story (badly reported) that led to a lunch discussion and an extraordinary series of highly reliable studies. The debunking of Rosenthal means nothing to science.
It’s important to get these things right.
November 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Milgram is fine; the “attack” is weak at best.
“Kitty Genovese“ was just a news story (badly reported) that led to a lunch discussion and an extraordinary series of highly reliable studies. The debunking of Rosenthal means nothing to science.
It’s important to get these things right.
“Kitty Genovese“ was just a news story (badly reported) that led to a lunch discussion and an extraordinary series of highly reliable studies. The debunking of Rosenthal means nothing to science.
It’s important to get these things right.
Ariely has a PhD in business.
November 6, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Ariely has a PhD in business.
Keep calm and pay attention. Vast swaths of psychology and social psychology are stable, reliable, replicable, and form the basis of successful practice in business, government, the military, and education.
Building your epistemology on anecdata is like building a beach house in the Outer Banks.
Building your epistemology on anecdata is like building a beach house in the Outer Banks.
November 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Keep calm and pay attention. Vast swaths of psychology and social psychology are stable, reliable, replicable, and form the basis of successful practice in business, government, the military, and education.
Building your epistemology on anecdata is like building a beach house in the Outer Banks.
Building your epistemology on anecdata is like building a beach house in the Outer Banks.
If 100% was untrue, they weren’t taught very much.
November 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
If 100% was untrue, they weren’t taught very much.
This is fair. But it hardly affects Conway’s argument.
November 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
This is fair. But it hardly affects Conway’s argument.
Why pull rank here? It’s a very light comment.
November 3, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Why pull rank here? It’s a very light comment.
You might be splitting hairs on that last point. Non-transparency is one of the reasons it was retracted—whether it was the main factor (prob not), but an exacerbating factor (prob yes).
There’s a long list of why it needed to be retracted (e.g., for the authors’s own good).
There’s a long list of why it needed to be retracted (e.g., for the authors’s own good).
November 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
You might be splitting hairs on that last point. Non-transparency is one of the reasons it was retracted—whether it was the main factor (prob not), but an exacerbating factor (prob yes).
There’s a long list of why it needed to be retracted (e.g., for the authors’s own good).
There’s a long list of why it needed to be retracted (e.g., for the authors’s own good).
Finding real research with web as search tool is not what’s being criticized.
November 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Finding real research with web as search tool is not what’s being criticized.
It’s quite a different thing to use the internet to find research created for different (e.g., peer-reviewed) outlets, than to find materials created for the internet which lack rigor.
Search for journal articles via internet is diff from reading blogs (as end state) or finding partisan websites.
Search for journal articles via internet is diff from reading blogs (as end state) or finding partisan websites.
November 2, 2025 at 4:05 PM
It’s quite a different thing to use the internet to find research created for different (e.g., peer-reviewed) outlets, than to find materials created for the internet which lack rigor.
Search for journal articles via internet is diff from reading blogs (as end state) or finding partisan websites.
Search for journal articles via internet is diff from reading blogs (as end state) or finding partisan websites.
Maybe it’s another episode I should listen to for discussion of Collins/tacit knowledge?
November 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Maybe it’s another episode I should listen to for discussion of Collins/tacit knowledge?
I just listened to it (#69), and it’s worthwhile, but mentions tacit knowledge only in passing. It does mention that choosing a good/catchy name for a bad practice (e.g., p-hacking) is an effective way to improve science (are creatively good names based in part on tacit knowledge?).
November 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I just listened to it (#69), and it’s worthwhile, but mentions tacit knowledge only in passing. It does mention that choosing a good/catchy name for a bad practice (e.g., p-hacking) is an effective way to improve science (are creatively good names based in part on tacit knowledge?).