About me

My name is Mason Garrison; I am an assistant professor of quantitative psychology at Wake Forest University. My Scholar profile contains a list of my published research in quantitative psychology, biometrically-informed designs, and health inequity.

I have two lines of research that evaluate biometrically-informed designs for psychology and their application to understanding health inequity. In my substantive work, I focus on how individual differences influence the relationship between socioeconomic status and health. In my methodological work, I focus on developing and improving biometrically-informed designs, such as behavior genetic and discordant kin models. These designs strengthen our ability to make causal inferences by leveraging environmental and genetic information.

Major Contributions

Since joining Wikipedia in 2012, I have contributed extensively to:

  • Categorization & Categorization Templates: Systematically improving Wikipedia's category structure, ensuring accurate and consistent classification of articles.
  • AutoWikiBrowser Development: Optimizing the typo plugin for large-scale copy editing improvements.
  • Policy & MOS Compliance: Ensuring adherence to Wikipedia's style guides, particularly in medical and disability-related content.
  • Focused on medical language and careful terminology to avoid dehumanizing people who have such conditions and imply that their existence is one of suffering. See MOS:DISABILITIES, or discussion on the Words to Watch talkpage or WP:MEDLANG
    • Replaced suffering from (WP:SUFFER) with neutral alternatives. AWB replacements.
    • Replaced afflicted by with neutral descriptions.
    • Revised articles to replace substantives with identity- or person-first language, where appropriate (e.g., epileptics instead of people with epilepsy).

I also participate in various WikiProjects, including:

For a summary of my edit count and contributions, see:

Progress

Currently, this editor has earned the Grandmaster Editor service award.

To get to the next level, Grandmaster Editor First-Class, she needs to meet the time requirement.
Progress towards the next level (by time): [ 381 days / 730.5 days ]

52.2% completed

  

Barnstars for me!


Top 10 		Top 10 Medical Editor Barnstar 2024
You were one of the top medical editors on English in 2024.
Thank you for your hard work! —Mvolz (talk) 15:51, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
For your contributions to Wikipedia and humanity in general, you are hereby granted the coveted Random Smiley Award.
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The Special Barnstar
Thanks for keeping me company and giving concrete advice during my (now overturned) perma-ban. That's certainly not something to simply expect from an editor as productive in the content arena as yourself. Biohistorian15 (talk) 16:45, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
The Categorisation Barnstar
Congrats on the big 600 thousand edits! A categorisation barnstar for what I always see you doing.. categorizing! Cowboygilbert - (talk) ♥ 08:27, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

The New Page Patroller's Barnstar

For over 100 article reviews during 2023. Well done! Keep up the good work and thank you! Dr vulpes (Talk) 02:40, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Top 10 		Top 10 Medical Editor Barnstar 2023
You were one of the top medical editors on English Wikipedia in 2023.
Thank you for your hard work! -Mvolz (talk) 12:30, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
Thanks for all the help and kindess you have shown! Take a barnstar from me! Omnis Scientia (talk) 21:14, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Hello, Smasongarrison,

I would think that editors/admins closing CFD discussions would be responsible for carrying out those decisions but I see that you are taking responsibility and handling emptying and merging categories. Thank you for offering to do that, it's appreciated! Liz Read! Talk! 01:16, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Thank you for all of your excellent category work! Marquardtika (talk) 20:13, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
The Disability Barnstar WikiProject Disability Barnstar
Awarded for prodigious amounts of gnome-work, particularly related to categories, contributing to
WikiProject Disability.
Awarded by: Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 17:56, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
The Minor Barnstar
For minor -- but important -- edits keeping the Wikipedia Shipshape and Bristol fashion, in other words All Sir Garnet.
Herostratus (talk) 19:11, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

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