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Learn more at Stripe.com. Welcome to Rationally Speaking, the podcast where we explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense.

I'm your host, Julia Galef, and I'm here with today's guest, Samin Vizier.

Samin is a professor of psychology at the University of California Davis.

She's the author of the blog, Sometimes I'm Wrong, and the co-host of the Black Goat,

a podcast about doing science.

Samin's research is really interesting.

It's about how accurately we understand ourselves, our personalities

and our behavior, and why that matters. So we're going to talk about that topic. But the way that I first

encountered Samin was in a different role that she plays. She's been a central participant in the

conversation about methodology and the social sciences and where the field

needs to shape up and how. Just to give you an example and a taste of Samin's style, she teaches

a seminar that's titled, Oh, you like that finding, do you? Well, it's probably false. So we'll be

talking about that as well. Samin, welcome to rationally speaking. Thanks. So that's

actually not really the title of my class. That was my joke title. But yeah, that's basically the theme of

the class. I'm not fully calibrated yet on your deadpan on your block. But that does sound like

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