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Worrywarts and Their Grand Statistical Masquerade
« on: February 20, 2025, 07:15:48 am »
Worrywarts and Their Grand Statistical Masquerade
14 hours ago Charles Rotter 

Ah, another study in the well-worn genre of “Let’s Dress Up Emotional Hand-Wringing as Science.” In Worry’s Clout: Concern, not positive affectivity, drives climate activism, Bechtoldt and Schermelleh-Engel give us an exquisite specimen of a paper that would make even the most devout doom-prophet weep with joy. This isn’t science; it’s a therapeutic validation session masquerading as empirical research.


https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494424002901?ref=pdf_download&fr=RR-2&rr=9141e6b3bb8674ba
Let’s slice it apart, shall we?

1. The Authors Swallow More Narratives Than the IPCC Can Churn Out in a Decade

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/19/worrywarts-and-their-grand-statistical-masquerade/
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