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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.
- 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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- Sport and Exercise Science: The New Statistics, Videos, and ESCI - It’s a pleasure to see estimation, Open Science, and even use of ESCI spreading across disciplines. This blog has reported various talks and articles I’ve been involved with in fields as diverse as, for example, Antarctic and marine science, orthodontics, physiology, and, most recently, cardiac surgery. Now, I’m pleased to… …
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- One More Time: p Values are Scarily Unreliable - Replicate a study and you are highly likely to get a very different p value. Scarily different. The sampling variability of p values is so great that no p value deserves our trust. Yes, I know, that’s been my mantra for more than a decade, but Steve Lindsay has just… …
- The Diamond Ratio (DR), Our Estimate of Heterogeneity: Accepted for Publication - I’m excited to report that Max Cairns’s PhD work on the Diamond Ratio (DR) has been accepted for publication by the British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology. The preprint of the final accepted version is here. Our preprint, as accepted by BJMSP The Original DR Blog Post …was in… …
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- Open Science: A Detailed Telling of the Story So Far - Concern about publication bias apparently goes back at least as far at Robert Boyle in the 17th century. That’s Barker Bausell’s starting point for his highly detailed account of the replication crisis and rise of Open Science. Bausell, the author of a number of books, brings a broad perspective, across… …
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- Cardiac Surgery: Yet One More Research Field Highly Critical of p Values - Replacement heart valves, bypasses, transplants: Cardiac surgery research has given us these life-saving goodies, and more. Now this vital research field has joined many others in appreciating the damage that reliance on p values can bring. Our critical review (here) in the Journal of Cardiac Surgery has just been released… …
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- Psychological Inoculation? Prebunking? Assessing the Bad News Game That Targets Fake News - Trying to debunk a conspiracy theory by presenting facts and evidence often doesn’t work ☹ Perhaps prebunking, by giving insight into why fake news can appear credible, might help? To put it another way, psychological inoculation presents a mild form of misinformation, preferably with explanation, in the hope of building… …