Bob and I have been off-air for a while, but we haven’t gone away. I’ve been meaning for ages to blog about a wonderful book. Here it is: Sowey, E., & Petocz, P. (2017). A panorama of statistics: Perspectives, puzzles …
Positive controls are one of the most useful tools for ensuring interpretable and fruitful research. Strangely, though, positive controls are rarely used in psychological research. That’s a shame, but also an opportunity–it would be an easy but substantial improvement for …
Positive Controls for Psychology – My pitch for a SIPS project Read more »
–updated with a link from Ken Kelley to access the functions in the paper, 6/28/2018– In a new-statistics world, the best way to choose N for a study is to use precision for planning (PfP), also known as accuracy in …
For the last 20 years or so, many journals have emphasised the reporting of effect sizes. The new statistics emphasised also the reporting of CIs on those effect sizes. Now Open Science places effect sizes, CIs, and their interpretation centre …
Tamarah Smith and Bob presented a workshop on Teaching the New Stats to an almost sold-out crowd. I wasn’t there, but by all reports it went extremely well. Such a workshop seems to me a terrific way to help interested …
APS in San Fran 3: Workshop on Teaching the New Stats Read more »
Our symposium was titled Open Science and Its Statistics: What We Need to Teach Now. The room wasn’t large, but it was packed, standing room only. I thought the energy was terrific. There were four presentations, as below. Bob and …
APS in San Fran 2: Symposium on Teaching the New Stats Read more »
It was, as ever, a great pleasure to catch up with Bob last weekend. We were in San Francisco for the APS Convention. That convention has been for the last five years or so a hotbed of discussion about Open …
It’s not going to be a popular opinion, but I think MTurk has become a danger to sound psychological science. This breaks my heart. MTurk has helped transform my career for the better. Moreover, MTurk participants are amazing: they are …
The Perils of MTurk, Part 1: Fuel to the Publication Bias Fire? Read more »
It was a shock to receive the very sad news that Tony Hak died last week, unexpectedly. Too young! And only 3 years into an active retirement. Tony was an Emeritus Associate Professor, having retired in 2015 from the Department …
Tony Hak 1950-2018: Champion of Better Methods, Better Statistics Read more »
Here are two screen pics from today’s notice about the latest issue of Psychological Science. Four of the first five articles earned all three badges, including Pre-reg! Gold! (OK, by showing just those five I’m cherry picking, but other articles …
Badges, Badges, Badges: Open Science on the March Read more »