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Berend van der Kolk

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associate professor @vuamsterdam | author @quantifiedsoc @meetboek | fellow @ayoungacademy | studying metrics and their implications | also 🎹

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"When making hiring, donation, and policy decisions, people tend to privilege quantitative information, favoring options that dominate on the dimension described numerically." - Source: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

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On the implications of the absence of fact checking... "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exist." - Hannah Arendt

On the implications of the absence of fact checking...

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exist."
- Hannah Arendt
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For Social Science Space, I wrote a short piece on research credibility/integrity and measuring academic performance. Spoiler: they are related! Link (open access): socialsciencespace.com/2025/01/how-re… Social Science Space The Quantified Society De Meetmaatschappij @businessboek @atlascontact

For Social Science Space, I wrote a short piece on research credibility/integrity and measuring academic performance. 

Spoiler: they are related!

Link (open access): socialsciencespace.com/2025/01/how-re… 

<a href="/socscispace/">Social Science Space</a> <a href="/quantifiedsoc/">The Quantified Society</a> <a href="/meetboek/">De Meetmaatschappij</a> @businessboek @atlascontact
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"Fake news is first of all information. It produces its effect before the process of verification has even begun." - Byung-Chul Han

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Mooie column in de de Volkskrant vandaag over becijferen in het onderwijs, met een gastrol voor De Meetmaatschappij! Link: volkskrant.nl/columns-van-de… AtlasContact @businessboek

Mooie column in de <a href="/volkskrant/">de Volkskrant</a> vandaag over becijferen in het onderwijs, met een gastrol voor De Meetmaatschappij!

Link: volkskrant.nl/columns-van-de…

<a href="/AtlasContact/">AtlasContact</a> @businessboek
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"Healthcare organizations that wish to enhance interpersonal trust and performance should pay much attention to the accuracy, sensitivity, and verifiability of the metrics they use" - doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.…

"Healthcare organizations that wish to enhance interpersonal trust and performance should pay much attention to the accuracy, sensitivity, and verifiability of the metrics they use"
- doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.…
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Leuk nieuws: Het Audioboek van De Meetmaatschappij is nu vrij te beluisteren via Spotify voor iedereen met een premium abonnement. Elk hoofdstuk is een track - misschien aardig voor integratie in onderwijsprogramma's? Spotify link audioboek: open.spotify.com/show/3Nm0PjrpC…

Leuk nieuws: Het Audioboek van De Meetmaatschappij is nu vrij te beluisteren via Spotify voor iedereen met een premium abonnement. Elk hoofdstuk is een track - misschien aardig voor integratie in onderwijsprogramma's?

Spotify link audioboek: open.spotify.com/show/3Nm0PjrpC…
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ℹ️ It's entirely possible to publish AND perish... Check out the increasing numbers of retractions per country and institution in this study in Nature: nature.com/articles/d4158… #quantifiedsociety #meetmaatschappij The Quantified Society De Meetmaatschappij

ℹ️ It's entirely possible to publish AND perish...

Check out the increasing numbers of retractions per country and institution in this study in Nature:
nature.com/articles/d4158…

#quantifiedsociety #meetmaatschappij <a href="/quantifiedsoc/">The Quantified Society</a> <a href="/meetboek/">De Meetmaatschappij</a>
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A new paper suggests that business & economics programs make students less prosocial 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… #econ #education #businessschool #ethics

A new paper suggests that business &amp; economics programs make students less prosocial 👇

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

#econ #education #businessschool #ethics
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Collega's in andere disciplines: spreek je uit tegen de UNL opoffering van psychologie-opleidingen. Vandaag wij, morgen jullie? Laat je stem horen bij je bestuur. Opinie voor ScienceGuide , met Marie Deserno, Bert Bakker Berend van der Kolk scienceguide.nl/2025/04/colleg…