Recently in Australia a proposal was made for an “independent science quality assurance agency”. Justification for the proposal made specific reference to “the replication crisis” in science. Surely we can all support a call for quality assurance in science? Not…
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Month: October 2019
New Stats blog: NeuRA Ahead of the Open Science Curve https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2019/12/07/neura-ahead-of-the-open-science-curve/
flashbulb memory: @dstephenlindsay was visiting, and we went to Geoff Cummings’s talk. As it all sunk in, we slid down our chairs in horror. The next day, I starting fixing things in my lab—but Steve started fixing all of psychological science. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797619893653
Bootstrap methods are not a license to use small sample sizes:
“When sample sizes are too small, no amount of bootstrapping can lead to reliable inferences because the skewness and the tails of certain distributions cannot be captured properly.”
https://psyarxiv.com/kxarf/
New Stats blog: I Join an RCT: A View From the Other Side https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2019/11/27/i-join-an-rct-a-view-from-the-other-side/
Back in April the British Neuroscience Association adopted reforms to enhance research credibility (@robustgar):
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2398212819844167
So impressed with this statement.
So envious of the BNA--way ahead of @SfNJournals on these issues (though good steps at eNeuro).
Today I'm thankful for any graduate program whose LoR portal requires only a letter upload and none of those rating scales.
Its only p-hacking if it comes from the pihâque region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling malpractice
New Stats blog: Replications: How Should We Analyze the Results? https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2019/11/22/replications-how-should-we-analyze-the-results/
We examined close to 1 million confidence intervals in PubMed abstracts and found a huge and unbelievable number of intervals that were just below the magic 0.05 statistically significant threshold https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/11/e032506.full, with @Jonathan_D_Wren
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