Dr. Ji Y. Son
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Dr. Ji Y. Son
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A cognitive scientist who happened to reproduce! Professor at CalStateLA. Teacher of statistics. Co-founder of CourseKata.org. Khaleesi of Inappropriate Ideas. Mother of Rascals.
Here's the question about #SquidGame I finally had the courage to ask: how are they funding that murder circus?

Turns out capitalism is the real bloodbath.
“Figures have been converted from South Korean won to US dollars during translation.” By Ji Son

Full piece: thebelladonnacomedy.com/memo-from-th...
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I wrote a romance novel called The Long Con… and then got actual romance scammers to promote it!

I wrote about what happened and what it says about the industrialization of modern love for Medium’s Human Parts: humanparts.medium.com/how-i-conned...
How I Conned Scammers into Promoting My Romance Novel
Love in the age of pig-butchering
humanparts.medium.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Reposted by Dr. Ji Y. Son
This piece does a great job explaining how hard it is on faculty with the lower pass rates that often come with corequisite (vs. prerequisite) remediation, even though more students total are passing. buff.ly/RKjrY2l #math #AcademicSky #highered @cogscimom.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
What happens when tech algorithms capture our attention so effectively that we lose agency over our mental lives?

On East LA's "Riding the Wave" podcast, I stepped outside my academic bubble for a convo about the deep things that affect us all!

🎥 Watch the clip: www.youtube.com/shorts/SPL90...

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TikTok isn’t going to like this
YouTube video by Riding The Wave Podcast
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December 2, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Does it feel like the world is algorithmically engineered to stamp out reading--eroding focus and sustained attention to long complex ideas? blog.coursekata.org/teaching-rea...
Teaching Reading in a Distracted World
Are your students struggling to engage with reading? You're not alone! Even though we're a stats & datasci project, we explore the challenges of teaching anything that requires reading.
blog.coursekata.org
November 22, 2024 at 12:52 AM
Reposted by Dr. Ji Y. Son
What does it mean to have truly new objects for research? Fall into geometric wonderland with the ALICE database. #psynomBRM paper by Alice Xu, Ji Y. Son, Catherine M. Sandhofer; post by Ben Wolfe
New objects for new research: The ALICE database
How do we build true novelty? We have new experiences all the time (maybe reading a blog post about a scientific article is one, and if it is, welcome!), but studying how we learn about new items and…
buff.ly
November 12, 2024 at 9:00 PM