“It will keep you awake at night!” said Fiona Fidler about the Correcting the Record session. I’d zoomed in to some of AIMOS 2022 (the Meta-science conference in Melbourne last week; my post is here) but had missed that session. …
AIMOS: Correcting the Record… Will Keep You Awake at Night! Read more »
Online and in Melbourne, 28-30 Nov. A vast spread of disciplines. From around the world, numerous young folks–and some oldies–speaking truth to age. Yes, it’s AIMOS 2022. The fourth AIMOS conference! See my posts after the first conference (2019, here) …
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I posted about our preprint a while back, but now it’s refereed and online, open access. The citation: Giofrè, D., Boedker, I., Cumming, G., Rivella, C., & Tressoldi, P. (2022). The influence of journal submission guidelines on authors’ reporting of …
Open Science Practices: Progress, Yes, but Must Do Better Read more »
…even to being a key financial Minister in Federal Parliament. After the recent Australian election, Labor took power. (Hooray!) The new Assistant Minister for Treasury is Andrew Leigh. He’s one of the small team responsible for all things economic and …
Knowing Statistics Can Lead You To the Heart of Government Read more »
Can you help? Surely someone has written about this question? Please let me know where! In the paired design, the two measures, for example Pretest and Posttest, are usually positively correlated. The SD of the paired differences (sdiff), is usually …
The Simple Paired Design: How Does the Correlation Relate to SD(diff)? Read more »
How can I find good recommendations for books on a topic I’m interested in? shepherd.com is a new option to try. It’s a database of brief comments by authors about (i) themselves, (ii) one of their own books, and (iii) …
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Research skills can lead in all sorts of directions. When it really matters, children can be powerful. (Kids: keep up the pressure on climate!) Australian voters have just kicked out a climate-denying, coal-loving Federal Coalition Government. This is the remarkable …
Top Researcher Leaps Sideways into Politics–and Wins! Read more »
(Revised 18 March 2022, to add comments about replication, and the effectiveness of journal-specific guidelines, and badges.) What Progress With Open Science? In Brief: Judging from Psychological Science (PS) and the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (JEPG), during 2013-2020: Reporting …
Open Science Practices: Patchy Progress in Two Psychology Journals Read more »
A few days ago I gave a talk hosted by Valentin Amrhein and his colleagues at the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel. Many thanks to Valentin, Dieter Ebert, and colleagues for the invitation. My slides, which include lots …
Estimation, Intervals, & Beyond: Talking to Basel Read more »
In 2017, I (Bob) attended a National Academies of Science conference on reproducibility in science. Among many memorable events, I saw a talk by David Allison about his efforts to correct simple statistical mistakes in the published literature. He would …
The joke of self-correcting science: The Andero lab and Nature Communications Read more »