John Staddon

John Staddon

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John Staddon

Duke Psychologist John Staddon says there is little evidence that demographic diversity strengthens scientific research.

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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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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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John Staddon

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

• American History
• Racism

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John Staddon

Racial and ethnic diversity can contribute to greater intellectual diversity, but there is no guarantee especially if one group is easily offended. 

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John Staddon

The “antiracism” onslaught the U.S. is experiencing is a result of a nation that cannot accept that all attributes are not evenly distributed across human groups.

• Racism
• Equality

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John Staddon

A model much in need in our times, Freeman Dyson challenged received opinion, “but his criticism was always designed to increase the range of thought, rather than reduce it to orthodoxy.”

• Intellectual Diversity

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John Staddon and Peter Morcombe

The case that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are largely determined by human activity, contribute heavily to the earth’s warming, and that this warming portends catastrophic consequence......

• Science
• Climate Change

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John Staddon

Historian of science Naomi Oreskes’s attack on a proposal to raise the scientific standards utilized by federal regulatory bodies—and on the National Association of Scholars, which support......

• Irreproducibility

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