Expertise isn't about having more working memory, it's about needing less of it. Experts automate many components in long-term memory and can recognise meaningful patterns instantly, bypassing the need to process individual elements. ⬇️ 🧵

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

There's a commonly used method for causal inference that just doesn't work It's called Nonlinear Mendelian Randomization—NLMR—, and the hundreds of papers that have used it need to be investigated🧵 To grok the issue, answer: does something look off about this vitamin D result?

Psychologists & related fields: what is a big methods question that you believe remains somewhat unanswered & that you'd love to see adressed? There may be an opportunity for a large-scale meta-science project w many teams trying to figure out a question. Any thoughts welcome!

Expand the definition of death...so,,,harvesting organs from people who aren't quite dead yet aka "We need to kill more people to save more people". Don't these people hear themselves?

Psychologists have posited hundreds of cognitive biases over the years. A fascinating paper argues that they all boil down to one of a handful of fundamental beliefs coupled with confirmation bias. [Link below.]

You might remember having to buy a Sound Blaster to get decent audio on your PC. On the MSX, Konami just built the upgrade into the cartridge. The SCC added 5 extra channels for games like Gradius 2 and Metal Gear 2. faq.msxnet.org/scc.html

ChatGPT in Education: An Effect in Search of a Cause As researchers rush to investigate the potential of AI tools like ChatGPT to enhance learning, well-documented pitfalls threaten the validity of this emerging research. Joshua Weidlich HDrachsler Dragan Gasevic onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jc…

Our colleagues from CRADLE are organizing a free international symposium entitled ‘Assessment design in higher education: Changing practices for a world with AI’ 🗓 17 September 2025, 2.30 – 4.00 pm (AEST) 📍 Deakin Downtown or online ➡️ More info: bit.ly/3Jwi6Jg

20 years of growth mindset mania, millions of dollars spent on research, interventions, and hype. What have we learned? "We conclude that apparent effects of growth mindset interventions on academic achievement are likely attributable to inadequate study design, reporting flaws,

My favorite part of this study is where they show what really determines if growth mindset interventions work: Having a financial conflict of interest. Financially-conflicted authors found sizable, positive effects of interventions; authors without conflicts got worse results.

Teaching/learning intro stats and R? #rstats Explore my teaching materials, including syllabus, lecture slides, exercises, interactive graphs, and self-graded review exercises: ellaudet.github.io/dss_instructor… Instructors using DSS: source files from PUP have just been updated!

Christian Tarchi and Sarit Barzilai are inviting the EARLI community to submit proposals for empirical papers on multiple document literacy and generative AI that will be included in a special issue proposal for the journal Learning and Instruction. ℹ️bit.ly/4lLcSXN

Interventions aimed at instilling a "growth mindset" in schoolchildren fizzle out completely without effect. The concept of Growth Mindset has gained widespread popularity over the past decade, prompting numerous organisations to offer Growth Mindset interventions.

With only one line of code, you can get access to Google Open Buildings, the largest building dataset, for any country.

Eens. Als het volgende inderdaad geen vrije parafrase is, maar een citaat, moet deze NSDAP zsm verwijderd worden uit het ministerie. “Maar schrijven de ambtenaren, de taak van Veldkamp is niet het belang van het Joodse volk te dienen, ‘maar dat Nederland en haar burgers.’”

Excitd for the SIG1 invited symposium on peer-feedback

One of my favorite studies on the validity of psychological measures was a survey that included 15 commonly-used measures. Virtually all of them were found to be invalid for making comparisons between groups.

Psychology has a selection issue: "Students with poorer performance... transfer into psychology from majors that may be perceived as difficult, whereas higher-performing students appear to leave psychology for these same majors, which may also be perceived as more lucrative."

With new kittens in the house, I’ve been painfully reminded how much a Jew’s morning prayer attire, with all its strings and straps, doubles as a feline jungle gym.