Here is an interview with Peter Wilmshurst, cardiologist, researcher, and courageous advocate for doing science better. He discusses some of the enormous pressures that can be brought to bear to shape the outcomes of industry research, and how, as a…
Introduction to the New Statistics
The online community and blog for ITNS
Month: September 2016
Sample sizes are too dang small…
Here’s another incredible paper by John Ioannidis and associates. This one uses text mining to examining the statistical results of thousands of cognitive neuroscience and psychology papers. It finds that sample sizes being used remain far too small: the typical…
More on the dangers of p values
Here is an interesting new paper in which experienced researchers were asked to make judgements about research results expressed using the NHST approach (p values!). A free copy of the paper is here, but it is easier to read the…
NIH and the push for better science
Science is vital and it is also big business. In the U.S., one of the biggest founders of scientific research is the National Institute of Health (NIH). As the NIH writes the checks, you can imagine that it finds the…
Is Science Sick? Bob’s talk on the replication crisis
Here’s a video of a talk Bob gave to first-year honors students about the replication crisis and what lessons it might have for their own lives. Enjoy!
Good research in the service of more effective activism
Research can be vitally important, helping shape how we see the world and the policies we enact. Here is an example of an applied research lab aiming to use applied research to figure out the most effective ways to lobby…
Get involved: registered replication project on “professor priming”
Registered replication reports are a new initiative sponsored by the APS where labs around the world collaborate to conduct a large-scale, precise replication of an important finding in psychology. The really cool thing about these projects is that they are…
#SIPS2018 is so soon. Shame there is no neuroscience equivalent.. SINS would be great name and neuro really needs it.
Gigerenzer with a great overview of widespread statistical fallacies and how they contribute to poor research: https://t.co/huW3drEnD7
New Stats blog: Effect Sizes for Open Science https://t.co/AcSiNVzTQE
Thinking in effect sizes, my latest in a series on stats education, is now out in JUNE. My favorite part is getting to tell the story of how focusing on effect sizes helped my lab optimize protocols to do more reliable research with fewer animals. https://t.co/FJAVJbPsfB
Hey look: replication research spurs a lab to test additional hypotheses and work out an important methodological moderator! Who could have guessed that direct replication might turn out to be useful in spurring scientific progress? https://t.co/Ccx8shR2Mm
A soon-to-be citation classic from my amazing colleague @Fernie103
Name Norms: A Guide to Casting Your Next Experiment https://t.co/b39XRSm9G1
Helpful when choosing names in your next vignette.
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