Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil)

Compared to twenty years ago, kids are eating some types of ultraprocessed foods more and some types less🧵 For example, one thing there's proportionally less of is sugar-sweetened beverage consumption. Meanwhile, there's relatively greater sweet snack consumption. ...

Researchers put together an incredible workplace wellness program that provided thousands of workers with paid time off to receive biometric health screening, health risk assessments, smoking cessation help, stress management, exercise, etc. What did this do for their health?🧵 ...

Does sugar make people fat? That's the thesis of tons of books, articles, and bits of popular writing, but is it true? The answer seems to be "no", but the cross-sectional evidence suggests it's "yes". Why? Because people believe the answer is "yes"!🧵 Consider this data:...

What's more convincing? p = 0.04 in a sample of 10 or p = 0.04 in a sample of 1,000,000? 🧵...

Stereotype threat is a proposed explanation for the Black-White IQ gap. But is it real?🧵 In the original study, the scores for Blacks and Whites in conditions of stereotype threat and without that threat looked like this: ...

The New York times has just published a story supporting standardized testing. Thread ...

Proponents of environmental theories of group differences regularly treat open sharing of code and data like their biggest fear A session at the Behavior Genetics Assn. meeting today included the argument that hereditarians have weaponized transparency (i.e., doing good science)...