@flavioazevedo
Asst Prof in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at Utrecht University https://flavioazevedo.com Director of FORRT @forrt.bsky.social http://forrt.org Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=O2Mp3ygAAAAJ&hl=en
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Thank you John, we didn't know of this very important work. We will incorporate it in the review.
Abstract: This piece critiques the dominant assumption in social and political psychology, as well as in political science and other disciplines, that polarization is inherently undesirable and should therefore be reduced under all circumstances. We argue that this premise reflects a neutrality bias (or depoliticizing bias) that obscures the asymmetrical nature of contemporary political conflict. We distinguish democratic polarization—agonistic contestation among actors who accept multicultural pluralism, democratic institutions and election outcomes, civil and human rights, and epistemic accountability—from anti-democratic polarization, in which conflict is strategically mobilized to delegitimize opponents, erode institutional constraints, and normalize dehumanization, scapegoating, misinformation, anti-scientific, and conspiratorial narratives as a route to political power. In a global context marked by the growing...
“Not all polarization is equivalent nor undesirable”
New preprint by Felipe Vilanova and @flavioazevedo.bsky.social:
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It’s the FORRT that counts…
How the Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training are tackling big problems with a big community. Dr @flavioazevedo.bsky.social, Dr @maddipow.bsky.social, and the @forrt.bsky.social Community.
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
"@forrt.bsky.social's work is, and always has been, driven by a core belief in the power of community to solve the complex problems that no single researcher, lab, or institution can fix alone." Our feature is out today in The Psychologist!
@flavioazevedo.bsky.social❤️ www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
Amazing Maddi is at it again! 💓🥳👏
Economic System Justification Predicts Stigmatization of Mental Illness in the United States -- new article in American Psychologist with Jussi Valtonen and @flavioazevedo.bsky.social
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Paper on statistical power necessary for interaction effects
doi.org/10.1177/2515...
As always amazing work!!
Two preprints from my PhD are now up!
Both ask: is the Statistics Anxiety Rating Scale (STARS) is measuring something distinct from the Revised Mathematics Anxiety Scale (R-MARS), or is this a jangle fallacy?
Study 1: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Study 2: osf.io/preprints/ps...
“Open research is about more than the tightening of analytical and methodological standards. The movement also invites us to reconsider how, and by whom, knowledge is created, shared and evaluated”
By @maddipow.bsky.social, @drcpennington.bsky.social, & @flavioazevedo.bsky.social
#MetaSci #OpenSci
👏 @batoolmm.bsky.social 👏
“We should be careful not to marginalise questions of power, because in wearing that aura of clean objectivity, metascience risks becoming strangely depoliticised.”
By @batoolmm.bsky.social
Happy Valentine's Day from us at FORRT! ❤️
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🎓 This Friday (13.02), we welcome @flavioazevedo.bsky.social as our guest in the #HotPoliticsLab! He will present his work on building academic infrastructures for credibility and inclusivity.
📍 Location: Common Room (REC-B9.22)
💻 Or join us online 👉 teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/...
"Scientific literacy has long been a cornerstone of higher education but the open research movement has redefined what it means to be literate as a researcher" with @flavioazevedo.bsky.social & @drcpennington.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/if-p...
It must be very hard to publish null results Publication practices in the social sciences act as a filter that favors statistically significant results over null findings. While the problem of selection on significance (SoS) is well-known in theory, it has been difficult to measure its scope empirically, and it has been challenging to determine how selection varies across contexts. In this article, we use large language models to extract granular and validated data on about 100,000 articles published in over 150 political science journals from 2010 to 2024. We show that fewer than 2% of articles that rely on statistical methods report null-only findings in their abstracts, while over 90% of papers highlight significant results. To put these findings in perspective, we develop and calibrate a simple model of publication bias. Across a range of plausible assumptions, we find that statistically significant results are estimated to be one to two orders of magnitude more likely to enter the published record than null results. Leveraging metadata extracted from individual articles, we show that the pattern of strong SoS holds across subfields, journals, methods, and time periods. However, a few factors such as pre-registration and randomized experiments correlate with greater acceptance of null results. We conclude by discussing implications for the field and the potential of our new dataset for investigating other questions about political science.
I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.
Dr. Alexandra Zapko-Willmes
Professor Flavio Azevedo
Join us Monday 9th Feb at 1pm for a presentation on Measuring Ideology: Current Practices, Its Consequences, and Recommendations by Alexandra Zapko-Willmes, University of Siegen & Flávio Azevedo @flavioazevedo.bsky.social, Utrecht University
To access the meeting, email maeve.maguire@ul.ie
i'll allow myself a contrived rhetoric for this once
academics: p-hacking should be criminalized. p-hackers should be jailed.
also academics: what if these men weren't pedos themselves but selflessly befriended and took money from one for the benefit of their labs?
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
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A new paper by George Borjas—who served this past year in the Trump White House designing some of its anti-immigration policies—claims to display evidence of ideological bias among researchers who study immigration.
doi.org/10.1126/scia...
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“Sometimes you don’t survive whole. You only survive in part. But the *grandeur* of life is that attempt. It’s not about the solution. It’s about being as fearless as one can and behaving as beautifully as one can under completely impossible circumstances.”
For @liberalcurrents.com fellow @vassar.bsky.social alum @jpygold.bsky.social and I wrote about the Trump administration's gutting of disparate impact liability as another advance in their segregationist agenda.
No economic conservatism, Chris? I replicate(d) these findings, but I always find economic conservatism as a main predictor of authoritarianism.
Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
Our latest Coffee Lecture on Open Science Education is now available as a video: @flavioazevedo.bsky.social “Building the Future of Open Inclusive, Rigorous, and Open Research with FORRT”. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Csp...
