Stuart Ritchie

@StuartJRitchie

Lecturer at , King's College London. Looks like a 'cartoonish' 'startled hedgehog'.

London
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Joined August 2010
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Sep 4

    I'm writing a book on fraud/bias/error/hype in science. There are ENDLESS things to discuss, but do you have a story that nobody knows yet? Or a tip on a dodgy/overhyped study, from any field? Tweet me, or send to [mytwittername]1@gmail.com! Thanks, pals!

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  2. 2 hours ago

    To the Spiegel writer who just got busted for gross journalistic malpractice (): Johann Hari had a best-selling book this year with endorsements from, among others, Hillary Clinton! You probably have a bright future!

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    13 hours ago

    Amazing. Train a network to classify papers (accept/reject). Then run the network on the paper describing the network, and it classifies the paper as a strong reject. This is why we can't have nice paper classifiers. (h/t )

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    Dec 19

    So true, Jeet. It's not as if he's written an entire essay criticising Harvard's unmeritocratic admission policies. Oh wait... 🤷🏻‍♀️

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  5. Dec 20

    Word of the day: “nanomafias”.

    Image of the abstract and link to the full article for those who need a laugh. The figures are amazing!:
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  6. Retweeted
    Dec 17

    Donkey Kong Arcade illusion: Horizontally aligned arcades appear to tilt alternately.

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  7. Dec 19

    Finally read this (about Theranos) and it’s brilliant. Astonishing case of how far you can get with lies, bullshit, and hype as long as you target the right influential people.

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  8. Dec 17

    My pals have a single out today, and it’s GREAT!

    Our debut single is out today! Whoop!
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  9. Dec 16

    Just re-reading this 2014 survey of economists, where 1.88% admitted to "Accept[ing] or offer[ing] sex in exchange for (co-)authorship, access to data or promotion". Oh dear.

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  10. Dec 16

    I don’t approve of this (science + any politics = bad, and we shouldn’t encourage people to do this kind of thing), but alas, it IS funny...

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    I have so much respect for whoever pulled this off.
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  11. Dec 16

    I think it might be the former.

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  12. Dec 15

    I'm sure it would be fun if this were true, but the cited study is by Nicholas Guéguen, and, er...

    Attractive man walking a dog 🐶: 28% of women gave him their phone number Same man, no dog: 9% of women gave their number
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  13. Retweeted
    Dec 14

    Breast cancer screening is one of the most tractable uses of risk scoring. Improved predictions, with 32% BC risk in highest 1% PRS.

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  14. Retweeted
    Dec 14

    We're at the Hind's Head in Bray!

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  15. Dec 14

    I'm calling for a total and complete shutdown on academics starting their paper/book titles with "Towards a..." or "On the..." until we can figure out what the hell is going on.

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  16. Dec 13

    This is one of the cringiest, least funny pieces of “satire” I’ve ever read, and the whole thing is made more bizarre given it’s been retweeted by several people who previously appeared to have an actual sense of humour...

    I wrote this important piece for about my recent persecution by Twitter.
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    11 Dec 2015

    His friends just call him "Stan".

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  18. Dec 12

    Just saw the new Lars von Trier. A totally harrowing, revolting experience. 4.5/5

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    Dec 11

    Looking forward to ’s talk this evening!

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  20. Retweeted
    Dec 11

    Dec 20 I will summarize findings from 18 replications we conducted this semester. We wanted prediction markets, but were overwhelmed by work just running the replications. Instead, a Twitter vote, you're welcome to rate replicability. Below are studies we attempted to replicate.

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    Dec 11

    > "conclusion of strong polygenic adaptation now lacks support" > "methods for correcting for population stratification in GWAS may not always be sufficient for polygenic traits" > "claims of differences in polygenic scores between populations should be treated with caution"

    Updated preprint: Reduced signal for polygenic adaptation of height in UK Biobank. , , Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong et al
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