Replication crisis/decline effect in 1979
I was doing some work on my first name study preparing it for publication and was reading some old papers. McDavid, J. W., & Harari, H. (1966). Stereotyping of names…
Why is Eric Turkheimer so unreasonable about race and intelligence?
Eric Turkheimer is by many counts a good scientist. He has about 11.6k citations on Google Scholar, 6.3 since 2013 (i.e. last 5 years). He is prominent enough that he…
AI stereotype accuracy too
https://twitter.com/timothycbates/status/852778717411659776 Humans have stereotypes, that is, they hold beliefs about groups of people. When examined, these beliefs tend to reflect reality quite well, sometimes very well (for review, see Jussim's…
Stereotypes are relevant for judgments about individuals even when one has individualized information
Title says it all. Apparently, some think this is not the case, but it is a straightforward application of Bayes' theorem. When I first learned of Bayes' theorem years ago,…
Occupations, cognitive ability and stereotypes
It seems that no one has integrated this literature yet. I will take a quick stab at it here. It could be expanded into a proper paper later in case…