Assistant prof at Utrecht University, trying to make science as reproducible as non-scientists think it is. Blogs at @the100ci.
Anne Scheel
Great and thoughtful post by Daniël, with some shocking stuff in there!
New estimate for residual bias after study registration just dropped
What riles me up about “people tried to shut down PP research” is that Cuddy’s own coauthor-turned-critic Carney guest-edited a whole special issue of Registered Reports on Power Posing (incl a meta-analysis), which shows strong evidence against PP even though most authors clearly weren’t sceptics.
A game of whack-a-mole with methodological confounds.
We saw the same thing in the Botox-for-depression lit
Improvements in attractiveness only matter in Study 1. Expectancies only matter in Study 2. Inability for women to express nonverbal disapproval only matters in Study 3, etc.
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Sometimes co-authors ask me “did you see what they cited us for???” and of course I didn’t, because if you want to keep faith in humanity, you don’t look up what people cite you for, just like you don’t read comment sections.
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Klaus Fiedler passed away two days ago. joachimfunke.de/2026/05/13/n...
In 2017 we did a fun interview for In Mind on the replication crisis. www.in-mind.org/blog/post/we...
We didn't agree on everything, but I greatly respect he took on the role of Devil's Advocate as a scientific principle.
New blog post! Let's say an effect you are interested in varies between countries and you want to explain some of that cross-cultural variation.
What could possibly go wrong?
www.the100.ci/2026/05/20/f...
(for readers who are not able to understand my German words: you can switch language by clicking on the country flag right above) Ich hätte nicht gedacht, dass ich einmal einen Nachruf auf meinen…
Header image: Moderate cross-country slopes (Photo: By Erik W. Kolstad - Flickr, CC BY 2.0,)
Here’s a particular genre of article that relies on multiple data collection sites, such as studies anal...
