Each year I teach my students that correlation does not mean causation, using a ridiculous example: the more appliances in a household there are, the more women in that household are likely to use birth control. If this were causation, that would mean we should give out toasters to prevent teenage pregnancy! Here’s a Covid-relevant … More Correlation does Not mean Causation

By now I’m sure you’re all aware of the controversy surrounding Amy Cuddy’s power posing research. For a great history of the debate, see here:  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/magazine/when-the-revolution-came-for-amy-cuddy.html Now, when a scientist hears the phrase ‘power-posing,‘ they all cringe, and some have outright labelled the research as “crap.”  I recently ran a study using Galinksy’s (Galinsky, Gruenfeld … More What to do when someone calls your research BS

The simple answer is fear. Fear, that if my real image appears, there will be harassment or worse.  This fear has been with me since December 6, 1989. My parents’ generation remembers exactly where they were when Kennedy was shot. I remember exactly where I was December 6 1989. I was in my basement apartment in Ottawa … More Why I look like a cartoon