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Mark Rubin

@markrubin.bsky.social

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psychology ▪︎ metascience ▪︎ philosophy of science ▪︎ academic life

Professor at Durham University, UK. He/him.

Research website: sites.google.com/site/markrubinsocialpsychresearch/

Critical Metascience substack: markrubin.substack.com/

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Michael Ralph's avatar Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social
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The sneaked references is getting a lot of attention (yeah - they're gross)... but 56% of fair references were not actually indexed?!? That is also a bfd. MOST articles weren't counted for a metric that is the entire focus for tons of academic jobs? Ask me why I'm not in academia.

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Mustafa Özbilgin 's avatar Mustafa Özbilgin @ozbilgin.bsky.social
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Here is another academic fraud example we need to learn and combat. Thank you neoliberal and performative academy. You are a major source of learning. We learn a new technique each day about how academics corrode science to play their silly status games.

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Mark Rubin's avatar Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social
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"Gaming in response to quantified control is symptomatic of the neoliberal moral economy of fraud and the criminogenic marketization of academia."

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Mark Rubin's avatar Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social
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...but nonetheless plays the game (after all, it would be silly, and against one’s self-interest not to) and thus objectively believes."

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Mark Rubin's avatar Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social
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Totally agree! Also similar to Kuldova's (2021) view: "This is symptomatic of the neoliberal academic split subjectivity – the academic knows quite well and does not really (internally) believe in all this...

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Mark Rubin's avatar Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social
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People don't want to lose their score in a game even when they accept the game is silly! We need to change to game!

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Excellent letter in the Guardian encouraging a differentiated approach to the UKHE crisis.

Tories alone are not to blame; financial bail-out alone won't solve our issues. We need an honest reckoning & commitment to public universities.
www.theguardian.com/education/ar...

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Mark Rubin's avatar Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social
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New meta-analysis on prejudice and self-esteem:

"High self-esteem individuals are more likely than low self-esteem individuals to express strong liking for both [in- and out-]groups, but stronger when the target is the ingroup than when it is the outgroup."

doi.org/10.1177/1368...

#SocialPsyc 🧪

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Mark Rubin's avatar Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social
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I’m liking more Clarke’s (2005) description of the “omitted variable bias” as a “phantom menace!”: doi.org/10.1080/0738...

“Including more variables in a regression, even relevant ones, does not necessarily make the regression results more accurate.”

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Mark Rubin's avatar Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social
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I didn’t understand why a significant result based on a regression with “omitted variables” should count as a false positive if it reduces to zero when the omitted variables are included. What does that imply for the interpretation of mediation analyses?! What's meant by "true effect" here?

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"By far the best critical analysis regarding the lack of empirical corroboration of formal models in philosophy of science thus far is to be found in Machery (2023)."

@edouardmachery.bsky.social

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“At present, with a few notable exceptions, the modeling work of philosophers of science rarely involves experimental testing to determine the external validity of our models.”

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Mark Rubin's avatar Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social
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It's weird when people share things as preprints but then say "don't share or circulate!" But yes, will definitely share publicly if I see it's published.

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Mark Rubin's avatar Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social
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Oh good point! I didn't notice that bit saying "please do not circulate or quote without permission." I'll delete the posts now.

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Mark Rubin's avatar Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social
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"For all those reasons, it seems that, as Hacking claimed, 'galactic experimentation is science fiction, while extra-galactic experimentation is a bad joke' (Hacking, 1989 559)."

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"The fact that we are inside the universe is also problematic: is it possible to distinguish the manipulator from the manipulated if they are part of the same system?"

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"Unlike NHST, likelihoodists have the benefit of interrogating hypotheses that were not pre-specified with only a minimal increase in error (called the probability of being led astray; Blume & Choi, 2017)."

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"The likelihoodist approach seems to be the forgotten middle child of statistics. It is mentioned in passing, but not really appreciated or given enough love."

#Stats

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Mark Rubin's avatar Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social
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Sounds promising!

“Opportunity should be for all – not just a lucky few.

That’s why education is at the heart of the change this Labour government will make and will be at the forefront of national life once more.

Let’s get to work.”

x.com/bphillipsonM...

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Bridget Phillipson is the UK’s new education secretary.

“She has said that England’s higher education funding system is ‘clearly broken’ and ‘needs replacing’ while remaining coy on the options she will pursue in power.”

#UKUnis #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EduSky

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Mark Rubin's avatar Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social
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Not sure if this would be of interest...

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Rafa Bastos's avatar Rafa Bastos @rafavsbastos.bsky.social
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Does anyone know any position on metascience/open-science, or labs that accepts (remote) participants from abroad? I want to improve my research skills specific to this areas.. Feel free to DM me!

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Mark Rubin's avatar Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social
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For more of Mariusz’s recent work in this area, please see…

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Mark Rubin's avatar Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social
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Yep! Means that "classic" articles often only become "classic" because they're "early entrants"!

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Mark Rubin's avatar Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social
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“Finally, if the goal of preregistration is to enhance transparency, then disclosing any deviations from the preregistration is an obvious and useful way to further that overarching goal; yet it seems like researchers in gambling studies are not currently doing so for many prereg deviations”

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"...to enable proper evaluation of the extent to which the tests could falsify the predictions made in the preregistration."

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“If the goal is to allow readers to evaluate the severity of hypothesis tests, then this too may not be achieved by current gambling study preregistrations as frequently too few details of planned methods and analyses (e.g., alpha level, stopping rule) are reported...”

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Mark Rubin's avatar Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social
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"...gambling researchers are not currently achieving this goal as their preregistered plans are often vague and lacking in details about the proposed methods."

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Preregistration

“Overall, our findings indicate that, if an overarching goal of preregistration is to reduce RDoF [research degrees of freedom] and this can be achieved via writing highly specific research plans...”

doi.org/10.15626/MP....

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"In this Review, we consolidate research from four domains in social psychology (prejudice reduction, conflict resolution, intergroup reconciliation and affective polarization) to elucidate the critical features necessary for successful intergroup interventions."

#SocialPsyc #Psychology 🧪

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Carl T. Bergstrom's avatar Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com
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There’s a common story that, loosely speaking, the replication crisis occurs when publication bias and questionable research practices fill the literature with false positives. That story motivates a lot of science reform efforts — and it’s wrong. A thread on our new preprint:

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Mark Rubin's avatar Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social
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CUDOS vs PLACE

“An academic science that pursues the CUDOS is being replaced by an industrial or post-academic science, driven by different principles...identified by the acronym PLACE.”

#STS #AcademicSky

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