Recent content by futureapppsy2

From what I’ve seen, the Elon Musk buyout kind of killed academic Twitter/X. It’s still there, of course, but with much, much less engagement and dialogue.

I never said that we shouldn’t do that? In fact, I said above that he most likely did good, legitimate work earlier in his career.

I realized this dude is the unironic embodiment of this old meme trend: Is He Stupid? / Is She Smart? / Are They Stupid?

Yes, but they also have a strong policy against advocating for eugenics or anything like that. I guess the tenure system won out here.

Ugh. :sick:I'm a tad surprised a German university wouldn't crack down on him for attending that conference.

This one is pretty great: "The taxi driver was also a federal wallet inspector, and said he had to send my wallet to his superiors for further investigation. He claimed that it would be returned to me with 5-10 business days, and yet *to date* the Wallet Bureau has failed to do so"

I also like how the cab driver is probably trying to get more money out of him (as cab drivers around the world are wont to do) and he falls for it and then concludes its because the cab driver is stupid and not because he (the author) got played. Like, dude....

A huge problem with cross-group achievement and intelligence research is that pretty much every method we have of assessing intelligence has some heavy linguistic and cultural loading, even nonverbal methods (which also have disability accessibility issues), so it's really hard to do...

And rightfully so, IMO. The author uses random anecdotes from his various vacations over the years (including one where he's pretty clearly getting fleeced by a taxi driver but doesn't seem to realize it at all) to conclude that people in developing countries really are just that dumb. I'm...

FWIW, I did my postdoc at a major research center at a major research university that offered reiki classes to patients. 🤷‍♀️

Nah, they don't need us--they can totally diagnose themselves solely using Tiktoks and Reddit comment sections now. We're just "ableist gatekeepers."

Thanks for coming back with an update!

Political belief isn't a protected class (outside of Washington DC, IIRC), so I'm not seeing how this would be illegal? These sliding scales for certain populations that providers support or want to curry favor with are pretty common in my experience.

Yeah, that’s my understanding as well—that exposure is the mechanism of effect for EMDR, and there’s not strong evidence that the bilateral stimulation adds anything (except maybe increasing patient buy-in in some cases). It seems like if it were truly additive, we would see a strong pattern of...

I mean, there's a decent corpus of articles published to counteract/correct popular misconceptions, so it can be done.