I really enjoyed the 2006 Science paper by Dijksterhuis, Bos, Nordgren and van Baaren on deliberation without attention.  Then came Acker (2008) with a meta-review and the suggestion that there is “little evidence” of an advantage of deliberation...

Playing around with rggobi at the moment, the R package which interfaces with the interactive graphics package GGobi.  Installation very easy; just needed the command: source("http://www.ggobi.org/downloads/install.r") Followed by a restart of...

What’s the point of Bayes’ rule?  This web page by Eliezer S. Yudkowsky gives a long intuitive explanation (thanks to Keith Frankish for pointing to it).  This blog post is an attempt at a slightly shorter version with a bit more maths, and a bit of...

I’ve moaned a bit about (what felt at the time to be a religion of) “effect size”. Recently Thom Baguley has published a paper on the topic, comparing standardised effects measures, which involve scaling with respect to the sample variance, with simple...

Another brief interlude from the stats and cog psych, but related to individual differences in reasoning I think! Interesting aside in a book by Robert Sutton on dealing with assholes (technical term here) in the workplace. He clarifies his defintion...