
Episode 143: The Psychology of Personality
Very Bad Wizards
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The Psychology Behind Predatory Journals
Using structural equation modelling, us formerly confirmed this finding. The a i c was 16 forty three, point 23 and the r m s e a was point o two. These are excellent fit statistics, although the model makes little sense. What's the psychology behind deciding to start and run a predatory journal? Like that's really how you're going to make your money? Why not do it in a more interesting way? like just rob old ladies for their jewels something, or like. You know, i think there might be a lot of money in lumping together some of these journals and selling them to libraries,. But also probably get a whole lot of desperate people who are looking to publish in
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