Saloni  

@salonium

Postgrad student. Professional nose-booper. Interested in human behaviour. Genetics, psych, econ, polisci, etc. Here to meme, learn and make friends :)

    
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    Oct 12

    Me: hey do you want your mind to be blown? My dog: woof Me: we live on a ball

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    Oct 1

    Yup, we’re about as good at spotting liars as we should expect given that we rarely get high-fidelity accuracy feedback on our guesses & the super-liars are continually figuring out the cues that super-detectors use and inventing better ways to mislead

    Research shows: We are bad at spotting lies (basically it's a coin-toss). Partly, bc "there’s no systematic un-blinding to tell you when you correctly guessed whether you were being lied to. The feedback we get on this is spotty." Reminds me of
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    Oct 10

    Big news! You can now sue anyone (in all 50 U.S states and 3,000 counties), fight corporations and beat bureaucracy with the DoNotPay App! All 15 of the new products are completely free. (1/15)

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    Oct 12

    Now print: Common genetic variants contribute to risk of rare severe neurodevelopmental disorders Important work from DDD shows common variants contribute to risk & clinical presentation of neurodev disorders, traditionally thought to be monogenic.

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    Oct 4

    "People's trust in strangers and contact with foreigners represent two salient channels through which communism affects people's preferences toward immigration."

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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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    13 Dec 2017

    Our write-up of our research on dehumanization just went up at Aeon. Check it out! Relevant to New Yorker essay on the limits of dehumanization. Our enemies are human: that’s why we want to kill them – via

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    Oct 12

    New paper! - Are deontologists more prosocial than consequentialists? - We measure moral judgm using Trapdoor dilemma, and prosociality with Trust and Dictator game - Result: deonts perceived more prosocial than consequentialists, but they are actually not

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    Oct 12

    Scientists developed a microscope that lets them watch mouse organs develop in real-time. “We have been previously limited to snapshots in time, like reading random pages torn out of a book,” said Kate McDole, one of the researchers.

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    Oct 7

    Infowars' Paul Joseph Watson shared an edited video of a Brazilian voting machine automatically voting for leftist candidate Haddad and it currently has over 3,000 retweets. Globo has a breakdown of how the video was faked here:

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    Oct 11

    Are your children texting about The Wealth of Nations? Learn the signs! IIRC: Incredible Industrial Revolution Coming IMHO: Invisible Mysterious Hand Observed! TLDR: Time to Divide Labour Rapidly BTW: Balanced Trade = Worthless YMMV: Your Mercantilism Must Vanish

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    Oct 10

    ♔♕♗♘♙♚♛♝♞♟♖♜ New : "In contrast to much of the existing literature, we find no evidence of an effect of chess instruction upon children’s mathematics, reading or science test scores" ♔♕♗♘♙♚♛♝♞♟♖♜

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    Oct 11

    Wow! Amazing impact of genetic diagnosis of rare diseases...

    New from the Undiagnosed Diseases Network! In 20 months, 1519 referred, 601 accepted. Diagnoses made in 35%. Almost 80% of diagnoses led to a change in medical management. 31 new syndromes. Healthcare costs after diagnosis: 6% of those before.
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    Sep 19

    New pre-print w/ : People believe that fundamental moral propositions (e.g., "killing for fun is morally wrong") are less mutable than logical propositions (e.g., "2 + 2 = 4") and physical propositions (e.g., "fire requires oxygen to burn").

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    Sep 13

    Just posted a new with . People's expectations influence their reactions to morally consequential events

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    Oct 11

    New post - An evolutionary projection of global fertility and population: My new paper (with ) in Evolution and Human Behavior

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    Oct 10

    every time there's a new piece about how teenagers aren't drinking or taking drugs or w/e these days I get a weird sense of pride like my generation set the high score

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    Oct 9

    🔘41 genetic correlations between depression and other traits 🔘2 causal relationships involving depression

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    Oct 10

    An outstanding, balanced feature on polygenic risk scores, (advanced via efforts) by w/

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    Oct 10

    Note how uses US culture war framing to try to paint a candidate who openly calls for mass killings and said in '90s that if elected Pres he'd start coup on Day 1 as just a regular non-PC conservative, b/c either they're stupid as hell or think their readers are.

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