For more than two years, I've been aware that two contradictory datasets exist for the Lewandowsky, Oberauer, and Gignac (2013) sham study. One was from UWA and the other from Bristol. The values on some of the variables was altered in at least one of the files. You can read all about in my article at Medium ..read more

Do girls outperform boys on AP Calculus tests if you don't ask for gender before the test? Social scientist Joshua Aronson presented a false "stereotype threat" effect an unknown number of times. He simply flipped the girls and boys bars in his graph, showing the opposite of the true effect. Here's my report on how the false claim spread far and wide ..read more

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Joe is mostly over at Medium, and Twitter. ​I'm sorry for not keeping this page up to date. I'll have lots of detailed updates on various lines of work ASAP. The short version ("short" by Joe standards, at least): I'm in training. I'm building skills for the next phase of my scientific work. In general, social psychologists are poorly trained, and many of their research methods and papers are invalid. They commonly use linear models incorrectly, and their bread-and-butter method is that which requires the minimum possible calorie expenditure: run quick studies using people who are already i ..read more

My new essay is up at Medium ..read more

Hey y'all... If you see weird text formatting on this site, like enlarged text sizes for specific words or phrases, that's not me — it's a Weebly technical error that just randomly enlarged portions of old content on the site. I would never litter a post or essay with enlarged words or phrases — I'm not a crazy person. I've fixed a couple of spots I noticed (e.g. on my About page, which was so embarrassing...), and please email me at jose.duarte@asu.edu if you notice any others. Note: I am not talking about my haiku about Dobby. The variation in text size there is deliberate, carries substan ..read more

I have a new essay up at Heterodox Academy discussing the claim that science is self-correcting. I also dig a bit more into what we mean by "bias". As a reminder, Heterodox Academy is a motley crew of scholars concerned about ideological conformity and intolerance in modern academia. We're privileged to have Jon Haidt, Steven Pinker, Phil Tetlock, Judith Curry, Scott Lilienfeld, Amy Wax, Lee Jussim, Jarret Crawford, and many other outstanding scholars ..read more

I offer some 3 am musings on the possibility ..read more

I wrote this essay last night after reading about survival-relevant memory research (within the broader affective memory paradigm ..read more

Angela Chen wrote a nice article on our BBS paper over at Pacific Standard Magazine. The article digs into some specific issues that have not been discussed before in general media, like bias in how we measure openness to experience and other variables ..read more