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…
#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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