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NeoAcademic
Personal blog · neoacademic.comcareerscience
NeoAcademic is a personal blog at neoacademic.com about career and science. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link NeoAcademic posts that push back on popular claims in research, including Gladwell's ability-performance argument and an NSF report on American science knowledge. The comments only cite the posts as support.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
technology, education and training research from an industrial/organizational (I/O) psychologist in the ivory tower
What Hacker News says?
You've been Gladwelled man. http://neoacademic.com/2011/10/05/gladwell-was-wrong-high-an... http://pss.sagepub.com/content/22/10/1336 The nature of the relationship between ability and performance is of critical importance for admission decisions in the context of higher education and for personnel selection. Although previous research has supported the more-is-better hypothesis by documenting linearity of ability-p…
Comment linking /2011/10/05/gladwell-was-wrong-high-and-very-high-ability-employees-perform-differently/
on “Beware Isolated Demands For Rigor”Submitted Unfolding the IKEA Effect: Why We Love the Things We Build as a story · 33 points
HN discussionYou'd be right about that: http://neoacademic.com/2014/02/14/nsf-report-flawed-american...
Comment linking /2014/02/14/nsf-report-flawed-americans-do-not-believe-astrology-is-scientific/
on “1 in 4 Americans Don't Know Earth Orbits the Sun. Yes, Really.”Submitted NSF Report Flawed; Americans Do Not Believe Astrology is Scientific as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Online Plagiarism and Cybercheating Still Strong – 61.9% as a story · 2 points
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