Stephen Hill
@srhastraea.bsky.social
Cognitive psych interested in distributed cognition, memory, weird and non-weird beliefs, cognitive biases, conspiracy belief, misinformation, scientific vs lay cognition, climate change, open science, metascience, 4eCognition.
From Aotearoa/New Zealand
From Aotearoa/New Zealand
I’ve been running a NZ version of this for years with our 50 cent piece. Even though it still exists (unlike our 1, 2, and 5 cent pieces) students (and most other people) hardly ever use cash - and it’s been that way for a decade or more. But performance in the study hasn’t really changed at all!
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I’ve been running a NZ version of this for years with our 50 cent piece. Even though it still exists (unlike our 1, 2, and 5 cent pieces) students (and most other people) hardly ever use cash - and it’s been that way for a decade or more. But performance in the study hasn’t really changed at all!
The consequence is that most of the world’s universities tend to pursue one flavour of ‘excellence’, which looks rather like the old, wealthy, conservative, research-intensive institutions of high-income nations.”
November 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The consequence is that most of the world’s universities tend to pursue one flavour of ‘excellence’, which looks rather like the old, wealthy, conservative, research-intensive institutions of high-income nations.”
“reliance on rankings means that universities are shaped not by the needs of society or by innovations driven from inside the international higher-education community, but by unappointed third-party ranking agencies …
November 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
“reliance on rankings means that universities are shaped not by the needs of society or by innovations driven from inside the international higher-education community, but by unappointed third-party ranking agencies …