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January 10, 2023

Stratification Economics: How Social Science Fails

John Staddon

In violation of the most basic tenets of social science, the proposed sub field of “Stratification Economics” seeks to limit, rather than expand, our understanding of income variation betw......

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July 22, 2022

The Faith of Science

John Staddon

It is an old but wise truism that the facts of science cannot provide a set of values by which to live.  But when the motives and values necessary to sustain it are strongly reinforced, scie......

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August 23, 2021

The Devolution of Psychological Science: Memes, Culture, and Systemic Racism

John Staddon

What does a successful model of social science look like, and how far have the social sciences strayed from that model?

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