My long-time friend and colleague Mike Sharples told me about the recently released Innovating Pedagogy 2019 report from The Open University (U.K.). It’s the seventh in an annual series initiated by Mike. Each report aims to describe a number of…
Introduction to the New Statistics
The online community and blog for ITNS
Month: January 2019
Sizing up behavioral neuroscience – a meta-analysis of the fear-conditioning literature
Inadequate sample sizes are kryptonite to good science–they produce waste, spurious results, and inflated effect sizes. Doing science with an inadequate sample is worse than doing nothing. In the neurosciences, large-scale surveys of the literature show that inadequate sample sizes…
Sadly, Dichotomous Thinking Persists in HCI Research
A few words about the latest from Pierre Dragicevic. He’s an HCI researcher in Paris who totally gets the need for the new statistics. I’ve written about his work before, here and here. Now, with colleague Lonni Besançon, he reports…
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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