Secession?

Yep. I feel exactly the same way... I wish there were more that we all could do to save American academia from this...😠. But instead, I'm hoping to leave the United States.

Glad to finally get this in the wild, as data was collected back in 2021. This project was inspired by a Zoom discussion organized by Beatrice Kuhlmann and Nancy Dennis in January 2021. Also may be of interest to @srndna.bsky.social @dgrand.bsky.social @adamberinsky.bsky.social among others...

Finally, there is evidence against basic MTurk, including an atypical age effect on sustained attention in the MTurk sample, with older adults doing better (rather than no age effect). Overall, cognitive performance was lower than CR or Prolific, with no better representativeness on personality. 4/

Effects of age on cognition did not differ much by platform type. But effects of age on personality measures did -- effects of age on personality were more comparable to traditional samples in panel samples than in crowdsourced samples, particularly for Extraversion and Openness. 3/

More specifically, we tested people on vocabulary, digit symbol coding, paired associate memory, and sustained attention (via @testmybrain.bsky.social). Generally, cognitive performance was better across age groups for participants from @cloudresearch.bsky.social and @joinprolific.bsky.social . 2/