Stuart J. Ritchie

Stuart Ritchie
Stuart Ritchie
	Ritchie in 2024
Born	Stuart James Ritchie
Nationality	Scottish
Education	University of Edinburgh
Known for	Research on human intelligence
	Scientific career
Fields	Psychology
Institutions	King's College London; Anthropic
Thesis	Studies concerning the application of psychological science to education (2014)
Doctoral advisors	Sergio Della Sala; Robert McIntosh

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]

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]

^ 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

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