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Brian Nosek was one of the first that I'm aware of to systematically study this, but there are others.

Brian Nosek and the OSF are doing good work here though.

Brian Nosek who is one of the co-authors of the IAT test just released a paper [1] that show that changes in implicit bias don’t lead to changes in behaviour.

When Paypal was first starting up, I saw Luke Nosek give a demo that involved creating an email account for russiandrugdealer@hotmail.com and sending $10 to it.

(I don't think this is very likely, but I trust Brian Nosek a lot more than I trust most startups.) The bigger issue is that VC-funded companies need to keep a tight leash on their product, whereas grant-funded projects are free to grow in a distributed fashion.

PayPal started as Confinity with Levchin/Thiel/Nosek/Howery and had its own set of finance industry investors.

Good point, several mistakes and failures throughout his tech/investing career path too, like that $100K investment in Luke Nosek's startup that failed.

It was founded in December 1998 by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek, initially as a Palm Pilot payments and _cryptography_ company.

So you are contradicting what Luke Nosek, the co-founder of PayPal, said?

PayPal, at Luke Nosek’s urging, became the first company in the history of the world that had cryogenics as part of the employee benefits package.

You can see what I mean, though: people who probably couldn't name 3 important researchers in a field see people working on replications in those fields (Nosek, Errington) as celebrities.

The bottom line is, 3 hyper-smart guys (Thiel, Levchin and Nosek), don't give away essentially 50% of their shares to some someone else (X.com) on a whim.

> "In a study I did with Jesse Graham and Brian Nosek, we tested how well liberals and conservatives could understand each other.

"conservatives understand liberals liberals do not understand conservatives" >In a study I did with Jesse Graham and Brian Nosek, we tested how well liberals and conservatives could understand each other.

Big shout out to the "Reproducibility Project: Psychology" [1] by Brian Nosek and the Center for Open Science in 2015 that started this trend to shine light on "establishment" "conclusions" in the social sciences.

Paypal was a merger or two companies very early on: "The current incarnation of PayPal is the result of a March 2000 merger between Confinity and X.com.[10] Confinity was founded in December 1998 by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Luke Nosek, and Ken Howery, initially as a Palm Pilot payments and cryptography company.[11] X.com was founded by Elon Musk in March 1999, initially as an Internet financial services company.

PayPal started as Confinity with Levchin/Thiel/Nosek/Howery and had its own set of finance industry investors.

Good point, several mistakes and failures throughout his tech/investing career path too, like that $100K investment in Luke Nosek's startup that failed.

It was founded in December 1998 by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek, initially as a Palm Pilot payments and _cryptography_ company.