A trio of business analysts at Duke University has found that people who use AI apps at work are perceived by their colleagues as less diligent, lazier and less competent than those who do not use them. In their study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Jessica Reif, Richard Larrick and Jack Soll carried out four online experiments asking 4,400 participants to imagine they were in scenarios in which some workers used AI and some did not, and how they viewed themselves or others working under such circumstances.
Scientific experiment.
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As part of my doctoral training in clinical psychology, I am conducting research exploring memory and experiences of anxiety.
We are currently recruiting UK adults (18+) who experience unexpected panic attacks that stop them doing things or lead to worry about having another panic attack.
Participation involves a short telephone or video interview alongside questionnaires and will take approximately 30–50 minutes in total.
If phone or video calls are difficult for you, please let me know and we could arrange to do the screening via email instead.
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Blog Editor's Note; While there's a lot of valuable data stemming from this research. I would like to emphasize that one of the benchmark assessment methods used here is not valid for use. The IQ test has been debunked and is an inaccurate standard for testing intelligence. An issue I believe, largely sourced from white supremacist racist colonialism and its colonial standard which is also the basis of pseudosciences like phrenology and eugenics. The forthcoming article presents a convincing case against racist white supremacist systems:
The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point to a vicious cycle, according to lead researcher Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario. Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice, Hodson wrote in an email to LiveScience.
"Prejudice is extremely complex and multifaceted, making it critical that any factors contributing to bias are uncovered and understood," he said.
Controversy ahead
The findings combine three hot-button topics.
"They've pulled off the trifecta of controversial topics," said Brian Nosek, a social and cognitive psychologist at the University of Virginia who was not involved in the study. "When one selects intelligence, political ideology and racism and looks at any of the relationships between those three variables, it's bound to upset somebody."
Polling data and social and political science research do show that prejudice is more common in those who hold right-wing ideals that those of other political persuasions, Nosek told LiveScience.
"The unique contribution here is trying to make some progress on the most challenging aspect of this," Nosek said, referring to the new study. "It's not that a relationship like that exists, but why it exists."
Brains and bias
Earlier studies have found links between low levels of education and higher levels of prejudice, Hodson said, so studying intelligence seemed a logical next step. The researchers turned to two studies of citizens in the United Kingdom, one that has followed babies since their births in March 1958, and another that did the same for babies born in April 1970. The children in the studies had their intelligence assessed at age 10 or 11; as adults ages 30 or 33, their levels of social conservatism and racism were measured.
In the first study, verbal and nonverbal intelligence was measured using tests that asked people to find similarities and differences between words, shapes and symbols. The second study measured cognitive abilities in four ways, including number recall, shape-drawing tasks, defining words and identifying patterns and similarities among words. Average IQ is set at 100. [**]
Social conservatives were defined as people who agreed with a laundry list of statements such as "Family life suffers if mum is working full-time," and "Schools should teach children to obey authority." Attitudes toward other races were captured by measuring agreement with statements such as "I wouldn't mind working with people from other races." (These questions measured overt prejudiced attitudes, but most people, no matter how egalitarian, do hold unconscious racial biases; Hodson's work can't speak to this "underground" racism.)
As suspected, low intelligence in childhood corresponded with racism in adulthood. But the factor that explained the relationship between these two variables was political: When researchers included social conservatism in the analysis, those ideologies accounted for much of the link between brains and bias.
People with lower cognitive abilities also had less contact with people of other races.
"This finding is consistent with recent research demonstrating that intergroup contact is mentally challenging and cognitively draining, and consistent with findings that contact reduces prejudice," said Hodson, who along with his colleagues published these results online Jan. 5 in the journal Psychological Science.
Jason Todd fic idea
Jason rises from his grave, wanders into and around Gotham, is rescued by Talia, is taken to the League, hangs around being non-verbal and minimally self-sufficient, gets dunked in the best/worst natural spring, comes back rejuvenated.
He comes back with near-total amnesia. He remembers flashes of his death, of flying, and of a long, black cape. He has one clear memory - a large man, dressed in a dark costume, telling him that he is not Jason's father, that he doesn't need teenage rebellion.
Jason decides that given the nature of the memory, and Talia's offer of a place in exchange for guarding her son, he'll stay where he is. He is eventually led to the All-Caste, where he gains a taste for moral philosophy and a desire for formal education so that he can explain to Ducra why staying in a cave to cultivate a cult for fighting immortal monsters does not, in fact, solve the problem of evil.
He takes his A levels (since the November exams are a good way to graduate faster) and goes to university. Probably Oxford/Cambridge. Narratively, I'm going for a prestigious institute with credibility both in biotech and in philosophy/social sciences that is outside North America. This is to indicate that despite Jason's talent, Talia's connections were crucial in getting a seat. My hadcanon is that Talia is the most talented biotechnologist on the planet, it's just that Ra's in his obsession with eternal life has ignored her daughter's actual abilities and ideas.
He learns about effective social policy and graduates wanting to change the world with this newfound knowledge. He also learns that he is gay. His choice in boyfriends causes Talia much distress. (She maintains that they were all bad influences. Ronnie crashed his car twice in one semester.)
Once he's back, he convinces Talia that the three of them need to get out. Using whatever plot mechanics are convenient, Talia ends up in Metropolis heading Head Industries, and has to take Damian with herself. She can either try to hide him from Bruce, or rip the band-aid off and let him know.
It is decided that Damian will live with Bruce for a few years. Jason is there as a bodyguard. Jason is given a small brief about Bruce Wayne, and the three of them go to drop Damian and Jason off at Wayne Manor.
It's a weekend. The Bats are eating breakfast together when the summons come through.
The Bats see Batman Junior and have a collective freak-out. They may or may not recognize Jason. The standard fanon first interaction between Damian and the Bats happens. Jason provides unhelpful commentary as he watches Batman struggle to complete a single normal exchange with his newfound son.
Then Jason turns to Talia and tells her:
"You can no longer complain about my taste in men."
Talia raises an eyebrow.
"You had a kid with that guy."
Before Talia or Bruce can muster a response, Jason adds: "He can't be good enough in bed to justify that level of unearned privilege. Even the Eton kids at Oxford were better than this. Hell, I'm sure Ronnie was better than this."
"Ronnie picked up 12 points on his license in-"
"Your beloved has no idea what milk costs. Ronnie never stooped to that level."
The Batkids laugh out loud. Bruce is dumbstruck. Talia sighs.
