Schools proposing to audit pupils' characters should mind their own business
In education, where my own experience lies, a depressingly corporate tone is now the norm.
Emma C Williams
· 5 min read
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Dismiss Radical Feminism
Don’t throw the word ‘misogyny’ at every man with an obtuse opinion. Do so, and you will denude the word of all its meaning and all its power.
Timothy Cootes
· 8 min read
Why distance running is the perfect lab for studying sex differences in competitiveness
What are the psychological differences between women and men? What causes these differences, and are they shrinking over time? The dominant view – held by most scholars and policymakers – is that sex differences are slight and can be rather easily altered. Whether this view is true or not has implications for
Robert Deaner
· 7 min read
The Shame and the Disgrace of the Pro-Islamist Left
The dismal spectacle of radical queer activists, feminists, and sundry other progressives professing solidarity with Islamists is at once fascinating and enraging.
Jamie Palmer
· 7 min read
How a Rebellious Scientist Uncovered the Surprising Truth About Stereotypes
Studying the accuracy of stereotypes is risky business. For many, investigation into stereotypes is tantamount to endorsing bigotry.
Claire Lehmann
· 11 min read
Why Parenting May Not Matter and Why Most Social Science Research is Probably Wrong
Parenting effects usually play some role in our conception of why some people behave differently than others
Brian Boutwell
· 13 min read
Authoritarianism is a Matter of Personality, Not Politics
Because democracy reflects the will of the majority, extremists will never win a fair election.
Adam Perkins
· 4 min read
GI Diets Don't Work – Gut Bacteria and Dark Chocolate are a Better Bet for Losing Weight
The GI theory goes that there are many different types of carbs and they can be graded into how rapidly the body converts them into glucose.
Tim Spector
· 5 min read
The Next War Will Be an Information War, and We're Not Ready For It
Information warfare combines electronic warfare, cyberwarfare and psy-ops (psychological operations) into a single fighting organisation, and this will be central to all warfare in the future.
David Stupples
· 5 min read
Inside the Superforecasters
Tetlock recruited 284 pundits and had them make 82,000 individual predictions from 1983 to 2003.
Michael Story
· 6 min read
On Privilege and Being Human
Our intellectual ascendency defined us as a species and is inextricably linked to our success and our ability to connect with one another.
Emma C Williams
· 4 min read
The Great Statistical Schism
In the early 20th century, this led to a split in the field of statistics, with intense debates taking place about whose methods and ways of thinking were better.
Brendon Brewer
· 7 min read
How Criminologists Who Study Biology are Shunned by Their Field
Biosocial criminologists endure reputational attacks often. The field of criminology is not an especially cordial place to work.
Brian Boutwell
· 11 min read
Why do we get songs stuck in our heads? Explaining your Earworm
It implies the effortlessness in which a fragment of a song, arriving in the inner ear without conscious effort, can continually loop and stick around.
Rebecca Gelding
· 4 min read
What Drives Academics Who Oppose Free Speech?
The tyranny of confirmation bias and the fanaticism of its enforcers are not only a disaster for academics themselves.
Jamie Palmer
· 7 min read