User:Smasongarrison
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| Name | Mason Garrison | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current location | Winston-Salem, North Carolina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Occupation | Assistant Professor of Psychology Wake Forest University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | Ph.D in Quantitative Psychology Vanderbilt University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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About me
My name is Mason Garrison; I am an assistant professor of quantitative psychology at Wake Forest University, and an administrator here, as of July 2025. My Google Scholar profile contains a list of my published research in quantitative psychology, biometrically-informed designs, and health inequity. See my GitHub profile, open-source multimedia data science textbook, and latest R package for more about my work.
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 discordant kin models, and pedigree models. These designs strengthen our ability to make causal inferences by leveraging environmental and genetic information, usually using publicly-available data.
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.
Major Contributions
Some of the pages I've started (or significantly expanded) include:
- List of schools for quantitative psychology
- Shari Haji Juma'at
- David Fleischer (judge)
- Archie Wade
- Alan Jackson (lawyer)
- Emily D. Baker
- Sumner v. Shuman
- Edwin Berry Burgum
- Bazemore v. Friday
- Halpern v. Wake Forest University Health Sciences
- US Airways, Inc. v. Barnett
- Mary Marlowe Sommer
- Shani Mott
- Paralyzed Veterans of America v. Ellerbe Becket Architects and Engineers
- Michael Skolnik Medical Transparency Act
- James Sakoda
For a full summary of my edit count and contributions, see:
Progress
7% completed
Barnstars for me!
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| You were one of the top medical editors on English Wikipedia in 2025. Thank you for your hard work! —Mvolz (talk) 10:44, 17 January 2026 (UTC) |
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The Categorisation Barnstar | |
| Thanks for all your improvements to article categorization this year! - RevelationDirect (talk) 03:33, 31 December 2025 (UTC) |
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The admin baton |
| Per ancient tradition, it is my great pleasure to pass on this baton to you, as Curbon7 did to me. It serves as a reminder that, despite dramas petty and grand, we work together to build an encyclopedia. You, holding this baton, are saluted by all its past holders. Enjoy it and then pass it on to the next AELECT admin as soon as you can! jlwoodwa (talk) 00:10, 3 August 2025 (UTC) |
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Siiraaka (talk) has given you a pie! Pies promote the kind of hearty eating that puts a smile on your face and a sustaining meal in your stomach. Hopefully this pie has made your day better. Spread the goodness by giving someone else a pie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy eating!
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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) |
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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) |
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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)  |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
| Thank you for all of your excellent category work! Marquardtika (talk) 20:13, 29 August 2023 (UTC) |
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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) |
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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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