Stuart James Ritchie is a Scottish psychologist and science communicator known for his research in human intelligence. He works at the artificial intelligence research company Anthropic.[1]
Career
Ritchie has served as a lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London since the summer of 2018. He was previously active in researching intelligence as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh.[2][3][4] In 2021, his book Science Fictions was nominated for the £25,000 Royal Society Prize for Science Books but lost to Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life.[5] Ritchie writes a newsletter titled Science Fictions for the newspaper i (on Substack prior to 2023) which, like his book of the same name, focuses on scientific controversies and bias and fraud in scientific research.[6]
Publications
- Intelligence: All That Matters (2016, part of Teach Yourself's All That Matters series[7])
- Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth (2020)[8]
References
- ^ Ritchie, Stuart (9 January 2024). "Stuart Ritchie's Tweet". X (formerly Twitter). Retrieved 2 June 2024.
- ^ "Bodley Head signs 'Freakonomics-style' peer-reviews exposé". The Bookseller. 6 June 2018. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
- ^ Mundasad, Smitha (4 August 2014). "Visual process 'key for sharp mind'". BBC News. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
- ^ Smith, Rory (13 June 2018). "IQ scores are falling and have been for decades". CNN. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
- ^ "Sheldrake Wins Royal Society Science Book Prize with 'Illuminating' Fungi Book". The Bookseller. 29 November 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^ Ritchie, Stuart (12 January 2023). "Why it seems we're getting worse at science". i. Archived from the original on 12 January 2023.
- ^ "All That Matters". Teach Yourself. Archived from the original on 3 December 2021.
- ^ Publication announcement at Macmillan
External links
- Stuart J. Ritchie publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Faculty page
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