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This week, we talk about the recent self-exposé of a (now former) African history professor at George Washington University, Jessica Krug , which revealed that she had been pretending to be Black/African-American/Afro-Latinx. Jessica Krug's medium post: https://medium.com/@jessakrug/the-truth-and-the-anti-black-violence-of-my-lies-9a9621401f85 Medium post outing CV Vitolo-Haddad, grad student...

In this episode, we talk to Leif Nelson , professor at Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley . We talk about open science, the False Positive Psychology  paper and its aftermath, current Data Colada replication efforts, and Paul's undying fascination with Leif. False Positive Psychology: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797611417632 Data Colada (blog by Leif, Uri Simonsohn,...

In this episode, we discuss the recent decision by University of California to get rid of the SAT test as part of the undergraduate admissions process. We talk about the Psychology Today articles that recently touched on this, the recommendations from the UC Academic Senate's Standardized Testing Task Force (STTF), and the recent lawsuits against universities for discriminating against Asian...

On our first guest episode, we talk to our first (and only) fan, Daniël Lakens , an experimental psychologist at Eindhoven University of Technology . We talk about power analyses, sample size justification, SESOI, statistical 'heuristics,' and the broader culture in psychological science. Inspired by a twitter post by Josh Grubbs: https://twitter.com/JoshuaGrubbsPhD/status/12906528644157...

We discuss the recent Blocked & Reported interview of writer Freddie deBoer on his book "The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice." https://barpodcast.fireside.fm/22 Vaci, N., Edelsbrunner, P., Stern, E., Neubauer, A., Bilalić, M., & Grabner, R. H. (2019). The joint influence of intelligence and practice on skill development throughout the l...

We discuss the recent paper "Communicating What We Know, and What Isn’t So: Science Communication in Psychology" by Neil Lewis Jr. and Jonathan Wai. Link to paper: https://psyarxiv.com/cfmzk

We talk about Harper's magazine's open letter on free speech and open debate, and the internet's response to it.  Open letter: https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/ Response: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/arts/open-letter-debate.html

We discuss James Heathers's Medium post explaining why he's quitting academia (and why he's not). https://medium.com/@jamesheathers/i-quit-be062295f638

We discuss the recent retraction of Clark et al. (2020) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…56797619897915