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…
Life and neuroscientists: Have 5 minutes to think critically about sample sizes?
This video:
1) Explains why inadequate samples ruin science,
2) Helps you diagnose if you are using adequate samples,
and 3) Gives tips on decreasing sample-size needs.
https://tinyurl.com/sample-size-video
Just started reading this, but it feels so far like some excellent considerations for sample size planning. @KhandisBlake
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0146167220913363
(btw - there should be a plugin for converting author names in a paper into their twitter handles)
We interrupt our regular statistical broadcasting with some auditory therapy for the shelter-in place news. Here's a little slice of musical heaven.
https://soundcloud.com/dr_slug/side-1
This is a transfer from my turntable--you can get the real version legally anywhere
Crowd-sourced list of resources for moving neuroscience courses online, an effort of the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience. (@FUNfaculty). DM for editing privs.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ChuOfTnKwAQqIKcaosrmAtygtxGAfb4MS3M6VMth_Uo/edit?usp=sharing
New Stats blog: The Shape of a Confidence Interval: Cat’s Eye or Plausibility Picture, and What About Cliff? https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2020/03/18/the-shape-of-a-confidence-interval-cats-eye-or-plausibility-picture-and-what-about-cliff/
New Stats blog: The ASA and p Values: Here We Go Again https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2020/03/13/the-asa-and-p-values-here-we-go-again/
This cool site shows the state of various things in the world: https://www.worldometers.info/
How have I never seen this before?
How can I use this in my stats class? (@Notawful)
Will I be able to stop watching the numbers whirl by?
It's the internet's total perspective machine.
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