Stuart Ritchie

@StuartJRitchie

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

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    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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    18 hours ago

    DON'T MISS tomorrow's Neuropsychiatry Meeting with . Should be a great one - do arrive in good time! All KCL staff and students most welcome.

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  3. Oct 20

    Fellowship applications I like: "You have my sword." "And my bow." "And my axe." Fellowship applications I DON'T like: Case for Support; Justification of Resources; Pathways to Impact...

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  4. Oct 19

    In the interests of balance, I should note that this claim, from one of the "Sokal Squared" hoaxers, is just as weird and unevidenced as anything in the Feminist Glaciology paper:

    The reason we are obsessing so much over Trump calling a woman "horseface," and all his other similar jibes against women and minorities, is because our culture has internalized an awful lot of grievance studies. It's a straight line from the scholarship.
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  5. Oct 19

    Lots of folks getting all contrarian about the "Feminist Glaciology" paper last week: "heh, if you actually READ it, it's a good paper". Er, no. It's really weird nonsense, like people said right from the start:

    This is a pretty valiant attempt to defend the "Feminist Glaciology" article, which says conventional wisdom is wrong, and this is a solid piece of scholarship. I'll beg to differ, because I think Jeffery, here, is confusing scholarship with "saying things that seem right".
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    Oct 17

    Great fun playing Queen’s Hall last night with at the Edinburgh launch of ’s new book.

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    Oct 15

    You’ve got to really feel for Tracey Cox, a body language and relationships expert, who yesterday claimed Meghan and Harry are still enjoying the “honeymoon period” and will not bring a Royal child into the world until at least 2021

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    Oct 14

    “For ten years, he ran everything."

    BREAKING: Harvard and the Brigham call for more than 30 retractions of cardiac stem cell research
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    Oct 12

    The band wot I play in, , will be doing a short set at the Edinburgh launch of 's new bestseller on Tuesday. Come along!

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  10. Oct 11

    So, this study in the BMJ saying that standing desks make you healthier, more engaged, etc. Look at the supplementary tables: they did dozens and dozens of tests, but explicitly write "adjustment for multiple comparisons was not performed"! 😳😳😳

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    Oct 11

    How DNA Makes Us Who We Are with Robert Plomin (things start to get feisty around the 53:00 mark) | The Psychology Podcast via

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  12. Oct 11

    I don't think I've ever seen a study that assumes correlation = causation, and totally forgets about genetics, in such a careless way. Really astonishing! (paper here: ) via

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  13. Oct 10

    Let’s all agree that from now on, every genetics paper has to include a gene bat.

    🔘Depression has a heritability of 9% 🔘269 genes for 🔘15 gene-sets
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    Oct 9

    No matter how many times you read the first paragraph of the Wikipedia page of the former Chair of my Dept., it never gets any less remarkable.

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    Oct 9

    Official UK Number One! A huge thank you to everyone who’s bought In A House of Lies!

    A huge THANK YOU to everyone who has bought 's and helped send it straight to the top of the bestseller charts! 🍻🍾 Not read it yet? Here are the links you need to get your copy of the No.1 bestselling new Rebus thriller
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  16. Oct 9

    Looks like a cool dataset, but I've got whiplash from the shifting back-and-forth between correlational and causal language (even just in the Abstract!). It's fully correlational, of course.

    Is your brain getting enough sleep? Almost certainly not according to our study of sleep and cognition in 40,000 people, out today and freely available here:
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    Oct 8

    The Extinction Illusion: The left side and the right side have the same number of black dots

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  18. Oct 7

    Heh, you know the thing about IQ tests is that they only tell you how good you are at doing IQ tests

    you've been kidnapped. your kidnappers allow you to keep tweeting to pretend everything is alright. what would you tweet that would allarm your followers without the kidnappers knowing that you're asking for help. surprise me.
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    Oct 6

    It had to be done

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  20. Oct 6

    If the hoaxers thought in terms of evidence and science, instead of just fetishising the idea of those things, they'd have done this:

    Replying to @StuartJRitchie @olivertraldi and 3 others
    It’s really basic experimental design, no? If the hypothesis is “these journals prioritise political ideology over quality”, it should look something like this
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  21. Oct 6

    This chap () has now written a blog post claiming I called him a "relativist". You've got to laugh, really: you criticise someone for making factual errors (still uncorrected BTW), and they respond by making further false claims!

    I mean, look at this 100% flatly, objectively incorrect assertion (in reality, only a small % of the TEDS sample went to grammar school, because the sample is fairly representative of the UK). Is nobody fact-checking this stuff? At *Nature*?!
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