More of a Comment Than a Question

Paul Connor
  • 4.0 (4)
  • Social Sciences

A podcast about psychology, academia, culture, and politics, hosted by Rachel Hartman and Paul Connor.

  1. 2024-12-13

    Why Psychology is Worthless: Super-Duper Extra Special Bonus Final Episode (with Daniël Lakens & Smriti Mehta)

    OK, we may have a problem.  Here, in this, our fourth attempt at a final episode, we welcome our friends from the excellent Nullius In Verba podcast Daniël Lakens and Smriti Mehta (yes THAT Smriti Mehta) to discuss why psychology is worthless. Or whether psychology is worthless. Something like that.  Anyway, enjoy! This is the last one for sure...

    1h 7m

  2. 2024-11-05

    Final Final Final Comments

    Rachel had a baby! Paul left academia! It is all happening and we have the world exclusive scoop for you dear listeners in this ultra special super secret extra extra final episode of MOACTAQ.

    1h 10m

  3. 2023-11-03

    Final Final Comments!

    Super top secret bonus episode because Paul misses Rachel and because we can do what we want you're not the boss of us.

    1h 2m

  4. 2023-05-11

    Final Comments!

    Rachel is leaving academia, and Paul is moving on to a new career stage, so we've decided to put the pod to rest. In this, our last pod, we make some final comments and send out some final thankyous as we cast MOACTAQ gently down the river. Be well, everyone. If you'd like to keep in touch you can contact us at: rachelxhartman@gmail.com, Twitter: @RachelXHartman paulrobertconnor@gmail.com, Twitter: @paulrconnor

    55 min

  5. 2023-03-03

    Letting the Chat Out of the Bag (with Alex Kogan and Luke Hartman)

    Like almost everyone else, we are impressed and a little freaked out by recent advances in AI, particularly in the context of large language models like ChatGPT, so we invited our most AI-obsessed friends and family members (Luke Hartman from Tumult Labs Alex Kogan of Scholar Exchange) on the pod to talk about it. If you missed Alex's back story here's his wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Kogan_(scientist) And here's a link to Luke's app top topic: https://www.toptopicapp.com/

    1h 33m

  6. 2023-01-08

    Waste Management (with Daniël Lakens)

    We chatted with Professor Daniël Lakens from TU Eindhoven about his recent proposal for universities to require scientists to submit their proposed research to methodological review boards before data collection. Read Daniël's proposal here And check out the recent PNAS on the surprising generalizability of results from non-representative samples here

    1h 30m

  7. 2022-10-12

    The Rath of Steve (with Steve Rathje)

    In this episode we were joined by Steve Rathje, a postdoc at NYU, to discuss his research on how intergroup animosity drives virality on social media. Read Steve's work here, Facebook's response here, and Steve's response to the response here.

    50 min

  8. 2022-09-25

    Should scientists be activists? (with Annalisa Myer & Carlos Rebollar)

    We were joined by Annalisa Myer, a grad student from CUNY graduate center, and Carlos Rebollar, lab manager of the Deepest Beliefs lab at UNC, to discuss mixing activism and science, and whether Carlos should go to grad school. The 80,000 hours website Rachel mentioned is here Jennifer Eberhart's book 'Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do' is here

    1h 38m
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A podcast about psychology, academia, culture, and politics, hosted by Rachel Hartman and Paul Connor.

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