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Bullshitters. Who Are They and What Do We Know about Their Lives?John Jerrim, Phil Parker, Nikki Shure‘Bullshitters’ are individuals who claim knowledge or expertise in an area where they actually have little experience or skill. Despite this being a well-known and widespread social phenomenon, relatively few large-scale empirical studies have been conducted into this issue. This paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature by examining teenagers’ propensity to claim expertise in three mathematics constructs that do not really exist. Using Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data from nine Anglophone countries and over 40,000 young people, we find...

Question for ya: Have you arrived at that point in life when you don’t care if the world sees the weird things you do to bend your hair to your will? Although I’m not quite the lady at the supermarket with the giant pink curlers in her hair yet (because she don’t give an eff what people say when she’s buying frozen breakfast burritos!), I’m almost there. I’ve taken to wearing these long hair clips when I’m chillin’ at home, or driving in my car, or taking a walk around the neighborhood. I use ’em on wet hair, along with...

Meow-za! I hope you and yours are having a purr-fectly relaxing Caturday. 😺 You might be wondering about that hot pink and orange tiger up there. Well, Connor keeps asking me to color in her coloring books with her, and these cray-cray animals just keep showing up… Doing so much coloring as of late has taught me a few things, like, 1) I wish that hot pink tigers and rainbow penguins were legit real. 2) I don’t enjoy coloring with El Hub, because he’s too much of a realist with his color choices. He likes his rocks gray, dirt brown...

This month I am CRAZY ABOUT CREAMS. Stay tuned for some of my favorite cream makeup products all throughout January. Waxing philosophical about my favorite MAC cream shadows in a series called “Crazy About Creams” is the right and proper thing to do because I am, indeed, crazy about the MAC Pro Longwear Paint Pots. I almost can’t believe I’m saying this because I remember when I fell in love with them in the mid-Triassic Period (It was actually the Fafi collection in 2008, so it’s been — GULP — more than a decade!) The Paint Pots are staples in...

These are mushrooms… And this is a magical 🍄 mushroom… But this is the most magical mushroom of all… It’s called the TubShroom, and it’s one of those genius “as seen on TV” doohickeys that’ll have you wishing you were the person who invented it, because if you’ve got hair, and that hair clogs the tub drain, this thing will revolutionize your life. This little $13 miracle upgraded my life 1,000%. No, really! No more perpetually clogged bathtub drain, and the TubShroom isn’t gross to clean — hallelujah. Because we used to have a hair stopper that looked like a...