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…
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6475/240?utm_campaign=toc_sci-mag_2020-01-16&et_rid=17172836&et_cid=3167079
“In an era when every restaurant is obliged to publish on its front door the hygiene rating in their kitchen, we're seriously not saying whether a trial that costs millions of dollars has broken the law [...] by failing to report its results?”@bengoldacre
More evidence that superstition does not strongly influence performance.
https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/10.1024/1010-0652/a000263
Still, the idea won't die. The original study was cited 29 times last year (2019) vs. 5 cites for the replications I conducted with @Fernie103 showing negligible effect.
Sensible reporting guidelines for exp bio: show the data, make confirm vs. exploratory clear, emphasize effect size and uncertainty. Good resource.
Two colleagues and I just published an editorial/review for how to present data and stats in experimental biology journals. It explains new guidelines adopted by three American pharmacology journals.
http://molpharm.aspetjournals.org/content/molpharm/97/1/49.full.pdf
Polisci types: Beyond voting, what are the most effective things I can do towards the 2020 elections? ($ to a pac? A candidate? Volunteer to canvas? Phone bank?)
What is actually helpful?
Never cared so much before. Not asking for a friend.
(@BrendanNyhan?)
Doing more with confidence intervals. https://replicationnetwork.com/2020/01/10/doing-more-with-confidence-intervals/
New Stats blog: Bushfires and Open Science: A View From Australia https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2020/01/09/bushfires-and-open-science-a-view-from-australia/
Cheers to the guy who made psychological science—the journal and the field—better. https://twitter.com/dstephenlindsay/status/1212063000951021573
My last day as Editor of Psych Science. Whew! Best wishes for new Editor Patricia Bauer!
New publication from our research group in @NatureHumBehav showing that meta-analyses substantially overestimate effect sizes and that commonly used methods for bias adjustment do not substantively improve results: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0787-z
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