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José Duarte, PhD

José Duarte, PhD

Amazon is selling lots of scam books

There’s an ongoing problem on Amazon, the world’s largest bookstore. If you buy a classic work like The Count of Monte Cristo…

9 min readSep 13, 2021

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Amazon is selling lots of scam books

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José Duarte, PhD

How to fix RStudio’s package installation on Windows 10

This is a quick guide on how to solve an annoying flaw in how RStudio works on Windows 10. By default, it places user-installed packages…

3 min readApr 28, 2020

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José Duarte, PhD

America’s nuclear arsenal is old — a false “fact-check” at CNN

CNN’s “fact-checking” effort is remarkable. Today, they purported to fact check President Trump’s claim that our nuclear arsenal is…

2 min readSep 25, 2019

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José Duarte, PhD

False reporting in the New Republic

There are surprising errors in a recent New Republic article titled “Most Veterans Say America’s Wars Are a Waste. No One’s Listening to…

2 min readAug 11, 2019

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False reporting in the New Republic

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José Duarte, PhD

A simple way to get better Amazon search results

When you do a text search on Amazon, by default you’ll usually get suboptimal results. There’s an alternative, much better results page.

3 min readJun 3, 2019

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A simple way to get better Amazon search results

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José Duarte, PhD

A curious case of “fact-checking” at CNN

I’m a social psychologist with a growing interest in how political ideologies compromise fact-checking. Today I’m going to review a very…

4 min readMar 5, 2019

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José Duarte, PhD

Partisan dictionaries, “running train”, and more monkey business

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said that she planned to “run train on the progressive agenda”. The comment made no sense given…

5 min readFeb 28, 2019

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Partisan dictionaries, “running train”, and more monkey business

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José Duarte, PhD

Lewandowsky data altered

This is a quick note on altered data in Lewandowsky, Oberauer, and Gignac (2013). Take a look at these columns below. They’re survey item…

3 min readFeb 20, 2019

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José Duarte, PhD

Pay less

The US government recently brought a fraud case (PDF) against Monex Precious Metals. This reminded me that I’ve wanted to write this quick…

6 min readJan 16, 2019

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Pay less

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José Duarte, PhD

Sites that don’t work in Microsoft Edge (running list)

Disqus: Logging into the Disqus homepage via Twitter does not work. Nothing happens. (The reason you would log into the Disqus homepage is…

2 min readSep 21, 2018

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Sites that don’t work in Microsoft Edge (running list)

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José Duarte, PhD

José Duarte, PhD

Social Psychologist and advocate for scientific validity. I research the psychology of envy. I also develop new theory and tools for methodological validity.

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