Welcome
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.
The 2nd edition of ITNS will be available for pre-order February 2024 and will ship in March 2024!
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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- The inertia of poor practices: Updated reporting requirements don’t have much impact at JNeuroPhys - Here's a depressing new paper that surveys reporting practices in The Journal of Neurophysiology after it instituted new reporting guidelines for authors (Héroux et al., 2023). Why depressing? Because the updated guidelines seem to have done little to improve reporting, and this was true even for practices the editors had… …
- Geoff’s Stats Passions: A BJKS Podcast - When Benjamin Kuper-Smith kindly invited me to chat with him for his podcast I warned him he'd have trouble shutting me up. Maybe Ben felt that, but I felt we had a pretty interesting chat about lots of great (imho) stats issues. The podcast is here. There's an auto-generated transcript,… …
- Beth Morling on the 2nd edition of ITNS - Yes, we're excited about the upcoming 2nd edition of Introduction to the New Statistics. Though we're not braggarts by nature, hard not to crow from this feedback from Beth Morling, author of the fantastic textbook Research Methods in Psychology, APS fellow, and the 2023 winner of the Charles L. Brewer… …
- Brian Nosek weighs in on the 2nd edition of ITNS - We're so excited about the impending release of the 2nd edition of Introduction to the New Statistics. And we're extremely grateful that some friends of good science have taken the time to look at the new edition and provide some thoughts. Here's an assessment that has us glowing from Brian… …
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- Simine Writes About Our Second Edition - "A clear and accessible introduction to statistics, perfect for beginners. This book covers both the old and the new - giving students the fundamentals they need to understand their field, while equipping them with a more sophisticated understanding of the pros and cons of those established practices. The focus on… …
- Estimation in Neuroscience: Characterizing local circuits in the Inferior Colliculus - Here's more evidence that estimation is catching on in neuroscience, a beautiful paper in from Silveira et al. (2023) in The Journal of Neuroscience. The paper characterizes local functional circuitry in the inferior colliculus (IC), a key processing station for auditory information (Silveira et al., 2023). The authors show that… …
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- Free Online APA Conference on Teaching Research Excellence in Psychology, December 14th 2023 9:00am to 2:30pm EST - If you want to wrap up your winter semester with an invigorating online conference on teaching research excellence, you're in luck, as the APA's Teaching Research Excellence conference will be held via Zoom on December 14th, 2023 from 9:00 am to 2:30pm EST. You can register to attend for free:… …
- Dorothy Writes About Our Second Edition - "If I were teaching introductory statistics to undergraduates, this is the textbook I'd use. The things that make it distinctive are first, the focus on estimation rather than p-values (though the latter are covered), second, the link with free open-source software that allows users to explore analyses and visualisations, and… …
- Checking Data Analysis: Steve’s Campaign - Computational reproducibility is a mouthful but the idea is simple: Use the reported data analysis to get the reported results. Haven't we always assumed that works? Yes, but. Search for "computational reproducibility" and find recent discussions in numerous disciplines. Conclusion: It's often very difficult and we need new practices and… …
- The Latest on esci: Geoff’s Talk to Turku - Yesterday I greatly enjoyed a zoom talk with the Open Science Community of Turku, Finland. Online were good folks from Finland, The Netherlands and I don't know where else. Great questions at the end! My slides and 3 data files (download the lot as a zip) are at osf.io/uhwj2 --… …
- Welcome Simine! Our New Cajoler-in-Chief - Stop Press: Metascience "Is metascience, and promotion of Open Science practices, the most urgent and consequential field for all of science at present? Maybe yes." I wrote that about the latest AIMOS meeting (here). Now a leading metascientist is the incoming Editor-in-Chief of Psychological Science, arguably psychology's flagship journal. Rejoice! Psychological Science leading… …
- ITNS Second Edition: Now the Bookmark - For the second edition we are expecting copy editing in late October, then from late November we have just three weeks to correct the page proofs and make two indexes. Phew. Routledge estimates the book will be released (ebook, softback, hardback) by March. Meanwhile bookmarks for the new edition are… …
- 2nd Edition Now With Routledge! - Bob and I are delighted to report that we've submitted ITNS2 to the publisher. Routledge say to expect it 'early in 2024'. We're hoping they may have something in time for faculty making textbook decisions for the N. Hemisphere Spring Semester. Not only a new cover design, but also: Bob's… …
- Guess what? - I am not a robot, that's what! Here's perhaps the coolest gift I (Bob) have ever received: A rendering of me in a Marina and the Diamonds album cover by multi-talented Dominican University student Theresa Wilsterman. Every detail in this image is something special from our lab, and I am… …
- The New Stats for Motivation - When we wrote Introduction to the New Statistics, we worked hard to make the book engaging and motivating for students: we used real-world examples, built-in lots of good learning techniques, and even had whimsical cartoons. Over the past few years, we've had some good feedback on these efforts. Today, I… …
- Pause, Wonder, and Feel the Awe - Since 1798 The Creation by Haydn has inspired awe. It tells the bible's version of the creation story. Could we have a comparable artistic work based on the stories science now tells about the origins of the universe, our natural world, and us? That, surely, could inspire awe? My highly… …
- 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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