I have never blocked you. I unfollowed you once. You tweeted about that to all your followers. Today someone told me they would like to but don't dare to unfollow you because if they do, they fear you will tweet about it and insult them (like you did with me).
Yeah, I know. But I am describing to you how what you say is being perceived. I thought that was the point that you claim that you are perceived as scary? I personally am not scared of you, but I totally get where they are coming from.
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Are there specifics about Daniels scaryness? It might help to narrow focus. Obviously keeping confidences important here
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Ask the man himself. I think given he speaks to these people more than I do prossibly, he might know even more than me!https://twitter.com/lakens/status/1060572438063329280 …
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I was trying to be constructive there. But fair enough
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In my experience it is 1) having a wide reach and criticizing research I think should by now be better, and 2) misunderstanding that are easily cleared up by actually talking with each other in real life instead of at each other on Twitter.
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Whenever I talk to people about this, and I have done so a lot, fears have always been gone after a skype meeting. It always really amazes me how horribly bad twitter is to communicate and how quickly interpersonal views change in a short conversation!
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May I ask why you think women who are active in open science though (this is who we are talking about given you mention the mutual people we know) are scared of you? Do you model them as being scared you will criticise their open work even though they are open?
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Sorry I don't understand that last sentence.
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Twitter communication is hard and I was never formally taught English either which leads to some suboptimality I am sure. Let me try again.
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I also get it. And I have talked to many people about why I can be scary. I am similarly happy to talk to anyone who wants about this - sometimes a lot can be learned in a 30 min skype talk. I try to remember most people are nice. Twitter has a good way of obscuring that.
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I agree that most people are nice. I do struggle to see what nice has to do with the problems we face on Twitter/life though. Pretty much every single human on Earth agrees that being nice is important, and yet here we are!

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Yet here we are ;) There is a reason I believe psychological science is worth improving and a solution to this online communication problem would in my view be quite a useful contribution to society.
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Improving online communication is a great research goal, yes. Not my research interest/expertise but surely something really useful. I have my doubts about Twitter listening to you/anybody though.
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