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What are some theories you love to hate on that are widespread and are seemingly scientific (and often expressed as such by media) but actually have little or no scientific basis?

I'm thinking of things like
- Maslow's hierarchy of needs
- Stockholm syndrome
- DISC assessment

Book tip: The Cult of Personality Testing: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves, by Annie Murphy Paul

simonandschuster.com/books/The-Cult…

The book I read in January. x.com/axbom/status/1…

If you've followed me for a while you'll not be surprised that this thread was really just a tease to get you to actually read my old thread on the replication crisis... x.com/axbom/status/9…

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"this is no longer my father's company, it's no longer my husband's company... it's my company. And anyone who thinks otherwise probably doesn't belong on my board."

🔥 there it is.

I'm watching The Post and it's reminding me why I really wanted to be a journalist. If anyone ever needs a volunteer to dig through dirt on power I'm there. ✍️

And honestly, sometimes I miss print...

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A few minutes ago I made up a word I’ve needed. ”Search online” is neutral but people don’t get why I don’t say ”google”. So now I’m saying:

”I swoogled it.”

Swoogle = Search without google.

There I go thinking I’m clever… Ha! There was actually a search engine named Swoogle!! SW stood for ’semantic web’.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swoogle

That’s gone though, so I’m still adopting it.

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Doing a talk for 120 people in 90 minutes and here I am in my pajamas. The world is weird.

Okay. Priorities. Coffee.

#PandemicLife

Thank you for the good-lucks and well-wishes friends. I really needed that today I realise. Not only the world is weird… we sometimes don’t recognise ourselves - and that can be daunting.

In the end they were 198(!) people and maxed out their company meeting account. So much fun, great feedback and great discussions around digital ethics and accessibility. Good way to start the day.

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