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Welcome to the ITNS blog, our internet home designed to help students, teachers, and others get the 
most out of Introduction to the New Statistics. For more information about the book, see the publisher’s page for ITNS here. At that page, click ‘Preview this title’ to see the Contents, Preface, and Chapter 1 in full.
What will you find here?
- Newest versions of esci, our free tools for calculating effect sizes and confidence intervals
- All the simulations previously part of esci (like dance of the means) now run directly in your browser: https://www.esci.thenewstatistics.com/
- For data analysis, esci is now a module in jamovi and a package for R. Instructions for installation are here: esci in jamovi
- You can also still download the older excel versions of esci, though these are no longer being maintained. See this page for a listing of all previous excel versions with download links: https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/esci/
- Blog posts from Geoff and Bob with musings and new articles related to the New Statistics and Open Science
- Information about the first book, Understanding the New Statistics
Looking for instructor resources? These are on the publisher’s companion website for the book here.
Are you a student looking to download ESCI, data sets, flashcards, or other resources? These are on the publisher’s companion website for the book here.
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- A Great Introduction to Open Science: The Pennington Book - A clear and highly readable account of the last decade or so, with lots of help to put Open Science into practice. Find details here. A mere 80 pages, but well-informed and comprehensive. Lots of engaging stories, infectious enthusiasm. Numerous links so you can follow up anything of particular interest.… …
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- Online Talks & Workshops, Feb 8-11: Stats Reform, Open Science, R - Archaeology?! Yes, but it's for everyone--registrations are coming from across science, and from students to seasoned researchers. All welcome. Opening keynote by Nicole Lazar of ASA 'beyond p < .05' fame. I'm speaking later on the first day. More info is below and here. (Go here to get times in… …
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- AIMOS: Correcting the Record… Will Keep You Awake at Night! - "It will keep you awake at night!" said Fiona Fidler about the Correcting the Record session. I'd zoomed in to some of AIMOS 2022 (the Meta-science conference in Melbourne last week; my post is here) but had missed that session. The video (here) is now online. It's very much worth… …
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- For the Latest Science About Science Hurry to AIMOS 2022 - Online and in Melbourne, 28-30 Nov. A vast spread of disciplines. From around the world, numerous young folks--and some oldies--speaking truth to age. Yes, it's AIMOS 2022. The fourth AIMOS conference! See my posts after the first conference (2019, here) and third (2021, here). Registration Register for AIMOS 2022 here.… …
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- Open Science Practices: Progress, Yes, but Must Do Better - I posted about our preprint a while back, but now it's refereed and online, open access. The citation: Giofrè, D., Boedker, I., Cumming, G., Rivella, C., & Tressoldi, P. (2022). The influence of journal submission guidelines on authors' reporting of statistics and use of open research practices: Five years later.… …
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- Knowing Statistics Can Lead You To the Heart of Government - ...even to being a key financial Minister in Federal Parliament. After the recent Australian election, Labor took power. (Hooray!) The new Assistant Minister for Treasury is Andrew Leigh. He's one of the small team responsible for all things economic and financial, at the heart of Government. I've posted about him… …
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- The Simple Paired Design: How Does the Correlation Relate to SD(diff)? - Can you help? Surely someone has written about this question? Please let me know where! In the paired design, the two measures, for example Pretest and Posttest, are usually positively correlated. The SD of the paired differences (sdiff), is usually less than sPre and sPost. That small SD or, equivalently,… …
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- How Do You Find a Good Book to Read? Try shepherd.com - How can I find good recommendations for books on a topic I'm interested in? shepherd.com is a new option to try. It's a database of brief comments by authors about (i) themselves, (ii) one of their own books, and (iii) their choice of five related books. Search by author, book,… …
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- Top Researcher Leaps Sideways into Politics–and Wins! - Research skills can lead in all sorts of directions.When it really matters, children can be powerful. (Kids: keep up the pressure on climate!) Australian voters have just kicked out a climate-denying, coal-loving Federal Coalition Government. This is the remarkable story of a distinguished medical researcher who was so enraged that… …
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- Open Science Practices: Patchy Progress in Two Psychology Journals - (Revised 18 March 2022, to add comments about replication, and the effectiveness of journal-specific guidelines, and badges.) What Progress With Open Science? In Brief: Judging from Psychological Science (PS) and the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (JEPG), during 2013-2020: Reporting of Confidence Intervals (CIs) increased markedly from 2013 to 2015… …
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- Estimation, Intervals, & Beyond: Talking to Basel - A few days ago I gave a talk hosted by Valentin Amrhein and his colleagues at the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel. Many thanks to Valentin, Dieter Ebert, and colleagues for the invitation. My slides, which include lots of links, are here. The first slide: And here are… …
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- The joke of self-correcting science: The Andero lab and Nature Communications - In 2017, I (Bob) attended a National Academies of Science conference on reproducibility in science. Among many memorable events, I saw a talk by David Allison about his efforts to correct simple statistical mistakes in the published literature. He would notice a clear and obvious error, like a claimed interaction… …
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- The Grand Challenges of Psychological Science: Climate Change - As part of its strategic planning, APS recently asked members to identify the 'grand challenges' for our discipline. I wrote, of course, about climate change. The latest APS Observer summarised responses from members from all round the world. The article is here. These are the grand challenges discussed in the… …
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- Hallelujah! Physiotherapists Join the Christmas Choir of Estimation Angels! - I woke on Christmas morning to a message from Bob with this link, to this editorial: Note the number of Physio Journals represented in the authorship! Not just a single journal, but journal editors for a whole discipline! Here's the first para, highlights added: Null hypothesis statistical tests are often… …
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- MRI Workshop Videos, Including Two Short ‘p Values Suck’ Talks - I recently posted about MRI Together. It was a great global zoomfest, and now videos of the talks are online. The Videos The YouTube site with all the videos is here, but it's easiest to scan the program and click on any talk title to go to the video. It's… …
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- AIMOS: Recorded Session Gems Now Online - Bob tweeted about it, I posted about it, and recently it happened: The AIMOS zoomfest. The program is here. AIMOS, just 3 years old, advances meta-science, a big part of which is the scholarship and advocacy that advances Open Science. This is the third conference, and now, supported by a… …
- Where a Psychology Major Might Lead - The brain..., the climate crisis..., sustainability with children..., healthy homes..., RCTs..., statistical reform..., and even golf. If you have a student wondering where a psychology major might lead, suggest they have a veg out and listen to Toby's story (at that page, scroll down a little). A few waypoints: 0.50… …
- MRI Analysis, Now With Open Science - It's fabulous to see yet one more research field, MRI and fMRI, jumping on board with Open Science. The Workshop runs 13-17 December, 2021, and the site is here. Recall the dead salmon? (tiny.cc/deadsalmon, ITNS p. 485.) Back then, in 2009, a common way to analyse fMRI data relied on… …
- Meta- and Open Science at AIMOS, Soon: Get Pumped - Bob recently tweeted: "I just registered for AIMOS, the meta- and open-science conference, Nov 30-Dec 3. https://aimosconference.com/register.html ... Looking through the program, pretty easy to get pumped about AIMOS." Indeed! And not only because Bob is presenting. See the full four-day program here, including brief abstract of many contributions. Pro… …
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- The Diamond Ratio (DR), Our Estimate of Heterogeneity: Now Published Online - I recently posted about our DR article being accepted by BJMSP. It has now been published online, here. It's behind a paywall, but here is the full pdf that we are allowed to share; it has only a few limitations, including no local file download. Again, well done Max! Enjoy,… …
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