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
Time to Go Deeper on Blockchain
Blockchain is important because it provides a way to communicate electronically that mimics face-to-face transacting in the physical world.
Harry Lehmann
· 5 min read
The Paradox of Female Happiness
The decline in female subjective wellbeing was found to cut across both class and race and held true for women of all ages, with children and without.
Claire Lehmann
· 4 min read
When Safe Spaces Collide with Germaine Greer
Strident, inflammatory, provocative, opinionated – in numerous ways, Greer is difficult to like. She annihilates men and belittles other women, shooting down feminist allies from Friedan to Weldon.
Emma C Williams
· 5 min read
Three Sources of Political Polarisation
It is puzzling how smart people can diverge so much on political issues. Especially when their lines of reasoning are completely delineated, covering much of the arguments in dispute.
Jazi Zilber
· 3 min read
Why I am a Eustonite
Why I'm pro-democracy; anti-totalitarianism; and support for universal human rights.
Tomiwa Owolade
· 4 min read
Feminism Must be Reclaimed from Radicals
According to the radicals, the male caste has oppressed the female caste to the point where anything that can be described as ‘feminine’ is evidence of oppression.
Claire Lehmann
· 3 min read
Calm Down, Activists. Science is Not So Sexist
Going into STEM does not define a woman's worth.
Claire Lehmann
· 6 min read
Our Generation Did Not Invent Political Correctness, But We Can Fight It
The problem with P.C. is that it constrains the questions that we feel we can ask both of ourselves, and our superiors. It allows orthodoxy to creep in (as it always does).
Claire Lehmann
· 5 min read
Book Review: Happiness by Design – Experiential Self vs Evaluative Self Explained
Dolan’s proposal is that shifting our attention away from constructed narratives to actual experiences is likely to make us a lot happier.
Claire Lehmann
· 6 min read