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"Is p < 0.05 a reasonable threshold?"
Over 500 students and survey workers flipped a coin that never landed on tails.
They recorded how many flips it took to realize the coin was unfair.
On average, it corresponded to p ≈ 0.005.
Is #rationality a normative or descriptive concept?
Kevin Reuter, Lucien Baumgartner, Michael Messerli "present the findings of a #corpusLinguistics study revealing that people commonly perceive the concept of rationality as normative."
In Religious Studies: Analytic #Atheism & Analytic Apostasy...
Steve Stich, Justin Sytsma, and I studied >70k people across the globe.
Apostates were more reflective thinkers.
That explained links between reflection and #religion.
#Preprint + audio: https://byrdnick.com/archives/28471/upon-reflection-ep-14-analytic-atheism-analytic-apostasy-across-cultures
The final typeset version is also freely available (#openAccess) via #CambridgeUP; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412525000198
Nick Byrd, Ph.D. · Why do atheists tend to do better on critical thinking tests?Apostates seem to score better than others. And they tend to be atheists. So "analytic atheism" seems to be explained by analytic APOSTASY.
If you lose 50 pounds (23 kg) after being significantly overweight for years, how praiseworthy are you?
Praise varied by #weightLoss method:
A. #diet + #exercise
B. #semaglutide (e.g., #Ozempic)
C. A and B
So did perceived effort ...and identity?
Some arguments and evidence suggest that intuitions about some philosophical thought experiments are remarkably stable.
Wu et al replicate this for one case (Exp 1), but find arguments changed people's conclusions about 10 cases (Exp 2).
Have you ever wondered what makes art art? Elzė Sigutė Mikalonytė and Markus Kneer investigated the folk concept of art and wrote about their findings on the X-Phi Blog: https://xphi.net/2025/03/05/the-folk-concept-of-art/ #art #aesthetics #xphi #philosophy
xphi.netThe Folk Concept of Art – The Experimental Philosophy Blog
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X-phi hypothesis: Social privilege predicts confidence in one's conceptual intuitions.
Does anyone know any #xphi or #psychology study along these lines?
The idea is that, at least in my experience, people from privileged backgrounds have no problem in saying "This is intuitive to me, therefore it is certainly intuitive in general", where as people from less privileged backgrounds are much less prone to argue in such ways and doubt their own intuitions much more. It makes sense that feeling like you are part of the standard way of thinking give you the confidence to think in that direction.
Do people vacillate more before or after they can decide?
In this paper, most vacillations occurred before people could decide about logic or moral problems, except maybe for moral dilemmas.
Check out the #processTracing method: https://doi.org/10.1017/jdm.2024.15
Can people's desire for control undermine the greater good?
Limiting the control people had in a dilemma's outcome seemed to make more of them choose to optimize their control, even though that resulted in saving fewer lives!
