Research shows that few people engage in discrimination but also that marginalized groups experience substantial discrimination. How are both results possible?
Doctors and nurses make mistakes of both practice and judgment. Although this is inevitable, you do not want to be victimized by those mistakes, if you can help it.
A mathematician posted an essay opposing a requirement for faculty applicants to provide diversity statements. This has evoked another academic outrage mob.
There is a need for researchers to adopt standard methods for preventing their own psychological biases from confounding the validity of their research.
There are more studies showing scientists are egalitarian or favor women in peer review. But the studies finding bias against women get disproportionate scientific attention.
I launched this blog primarily to address issues surrounding flaws, biases, and distortions involved in research in social psychology, psychology, and the social sciences, and, secondarily, to bring well-established principles of social psychology to bear on real world issues.
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