I recently received an email telling me that an article I had reviewed for a journal had achieved 10,000 views. The astonishing thing was that the email arrived less than 3 weeks after the article had been published online! Believe…
Introduction to the New Statistics
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Month: February 2017
NIH asks journals to make sure we get the whole story
The Open Science credo is “Get the whole story”–we can only evaluate the claims made from scientific data when we know the whole context of how that data was generated. For example, finding a large effect of a new drug…
Sample Size Planning – Even when required, not usually done well
In many research fields, sample sizes are too small for the research questions being asked. In neuroscience, the field I work in, this problem is now very well documented (see Button et al., 2013; Szucs & Ionnidis, 2016). In response…
Open Science: Who is paying?
It’s the Open Science fairy story: Brian Nosek was one of a number of young researchers worried that all didn’t seem right in the research world. To what extent was research really producing trustworthy findings? To what extent was it…
New Stats blog: NeuRA Ahead of the Open Science Curve https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2019/12/07/neura-ahead-of-the-open-science-curve/
flashbulb memory: @dstephenlindsay was visiting, and we went to Geoff Cummings’s talk. As it all sunk in, we slid down our chairs in horror. The next day, I starting fixing things in my lab—but Steve started fixing all of psychological science. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797619893653
Bootstrap methods are not a license to use small sample sizes:
“When sample sizes are too small, no amount of bootstrapping can lead to reliable inferences because the skewness and the tails of certain distributions cannot be captured properly.”
https://psyarxiv.com/kxarf/
New Stats blog: I Join an RCT: A View From the Other Side https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2019/11/27/i-join-an-rct-a-view-from-the-other-side/
Back in April the British Neuroscience Association adopted reforms to enhance research credibility (@robustgar):
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2398212819844167
So impressed with this statement.
So envious of the BNA--way ahead of @SfNJournals on these issues (though good steps at eNeuro).
Today I'm thankful for any graduate program whose LoR portal requires only a letter upload and none of those rating scales.
Its only p-hacking if it comes from the pihâque region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling malpractice
New Stats blog: Replications: How Should We Analyze the Results? https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2019/11/22/replications-how-should-we-analyze-the-results/
We examined close to 1 million confidence intervals in PubMed abstracts and found a huge and unbelievable number of intervals that were just below the magic 0.05 statistically significant threshold https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/11/e032506.full, with @Jonathan_D_Wren
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