Jelte Wicherts Explained

Jelte Michiel "J.M." Wicherts (born September 13, 1976, in Amersfoort) is a Dutch psychologist and a professor in the Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Tilburg University.[1] [2] His research interests include biases in decision-making, as well as scientific misconduct and reproducibility.[3] [4] [5] [6] He has also studied group differences in IQ scores and the Flynn effect.[7] [8]

Together with van Marcel van Assen he runs the Meta-Research Center at his university.[9] Work by the group on Statcheck has been featured in The Guardian.[10]

Education

Wicherts received his master's degree in psychological methods from the University of Amsterdam in 2002, where he received his Ph.D. in psychological methods in 2007. His Ph.D. thesis was entitled Group differences in intelligence test performance, and his primary Ph.D. supervisor was Conor Dolan.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jelte M. Wicherts CV . 31 May 2017.
  2. Web site: J.M. Wicherts . Tilburg University . 31 May 2017.
  3. Web site: Jelte Wicherts . Stanford University . Metrics . 31 May 2017 . 14 August 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190814062313/http://metrics.stanford.edu/about-us/bio/jelte-wicherts . dead .
  4. Web site: The hi-tech war on science fraud . The Guardian . 1 February 2017 . 31 May 2017 . Buranyi, Stephen.
  5. Web site: Fraud Case Seen as a Red Flag for Psychology Research . The New York Times . 3 November 2011 . 31 May 2017 . Carey, Benedict.
  6. Web site: This research group seeks to expose weaknesses in science—and they'll step on some toes if they have to. Stokstad. Erik. 2018-09-19. Science AAAS. en. 2019-03-22.
  7. Web site: Jelte Wicherts . Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences . 27 January 2017 . 31 May 2017.
  8. Web site: Dumb and Dumber . Foreign Policy . 30 April 2012 . 31 May 2017 . Kenny, Charles . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20141217053851/https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/04/30/dumb-and-dumber-3/ . 2014-12-17.
  9. Web site: Meta-Research Center. Meta-Research Center. en-US. 2019-03-22.
  10. News: Statistical vigilantes: the war on scientific fraud – Science Weekly podcast. Devlin. Hannah. 2017-09-14. The Guardian. 2019-03-22. en-GB. 0261-3077.

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