Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.
7+ years after I first raised issues with this meta analysis, a correction has been issued.
The correction does not fix the most serious issues, such as half of the “correlations” involving only one variable, having been converted form one-sample t-tests…
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A paper about the effects of generative AI use on confidence in work tasks is under investigation after critics raised questions about the study design, data analysis and ethics approval for the re…
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The paper "The Bots Ruining Social Science Are Not Bots at All" by Jaffe et al. got a lot of attention when it came out in Perspectives on Psychological Science. We read it in our journal club and have a few comments that we now posted to PubPeer
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🎉 We were very happy to host @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social for a guest talk on digital behaviourism, a fascinating approach grounded in operant conditioning that can help explain digital behaviour beyond aggregate measures of screen time.
📖 You can read the preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
This is a really important decision, as it incentivises review authors to do a proper trustworthiness assessment (eg using inspect.sr) and not include studies that are found to be lacking.
As part of our commitment to the highest standards of evidence, Cochrane is strengthening how we identify and manages retracted publications associated with studies included in published or identified in ongoing Cochrane reviews.
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Cochrane has implemented a new system for checking whether any of its thousands of published reviews include retracted studies in their analyses, the organization announced today. The effort already has turned up dozens of reviews that will now get closer scrutiny to ensure their results and recommendations hold up. Cochrane publishes systematic reviews on health-related … Continue reading New system for flagging retracted papers finds scores of them in Cochrane reviews
A paper about the effects of generative AI use on confidence in work tasks is under investigation after critics raised questions about the study design, data analysis and ethics approval for the re…
I learned about behaviorism in my undergrad, but only recently did I learn how powerful it can be to explain and intervene on behavior. Thank you @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social for an insightful talk!
There's an interesting conversation unfolding on PubPeer. Inconsistencies were flagged in a paper by a "global keynote speaker on AI&neuroscience" and then the author casually mentions on LinkedIn that she also has pre-post-fMRI for 300 people 👀>
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There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Generative artificial intelligence reliance and executive function attenuation: Behavioral evidence of cognitive offload in high-use adults (2026)
🎉 We were very happy to host @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social for a guest talk on digital behaviourism, a fascinating approach grounded in operant conditioning that can help explain digital behaviour beyond aggregate measures of screen time.
📖 You can read the preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
