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…
Introduction to the New Statistics
The online community and blog for ITNS
Author: Geoff Cumming
Precision for Planning: Great New Developments
–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…
Effect Sizes for Open Science
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…
APS in San Fran 3: Workshop on Teaching the New Stats
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 2: Symposium on Teaching the New Stats
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 1: Open Science is Maturing
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…
Tony Hak 1950-2018: Champion of Better Methods, Better Statistics
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…
Badges, Badges, Badges: Open Science on the March
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…
ITNS–A New Review on Amazon
The ITNS page on Amazon (U.S.) is here. Scroll down to see the 4 reviews by readers. Recently a five-star review was added by Edoardo Zamuner. Here it is: “I am an experimental psychologist with training in NHST. Cumming’s book…
It’s not just Psychology: Questionable Research Practices in Ecology
Today’s fine article from The Conversation is: Our survey found ‘questionable research practices’ by ecologists and biologists – here’s what that means The authors are Fiona Fidler and Hannah Fraser, of The University of Melbourne. Fidler and Fraser surveyed 807…
Our lab's latest contribution to understanding the mysteries of forgetting, now officially published in Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. Congrats to the many talented students who contributed to this! https://t.co/rNTJz0BuSH
Special issue of Cognitive Development featuring peer-reviewed replication attempts of infant and toddler false belief work (and commentary from original authors) is now complete and online! https://t.co/qtJV4AjEfP
Discussing the RRR of their 10 Commandments study, Amiz Mazar & Ariely list things that could weaken the effect in the RRR. Fine. But then also list things that could strengthen (tighter control) and make case why these aren't balanced out. https://t.co/XQG2bMOrfn
New issue of JUNE (Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education) -- special issue with proceedings of the 2017 Workshop, including articles on inclusive pedagogy, lab activities, curricular blueprints for neuroscience majors, and more. https://t.co/zjNBVzcTUe
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