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…
Need a lift? Moana's got you.
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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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