…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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 »
As part of its strategic planning, APS recently asked members to identify the ‘grand challenges‘ for our discipline. I wrote, of course, about climate change. The latest APS Observer summarised responses from members from all round the world. The article …
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I woke on Christmas morning to a message from Bob with this link, to this editorial: Not just a single journal, but journal editors for a whole discipline! Here’s the first para, highlights added: Null hypothesis statistical tests are often …
Hallelujah! Physiotherapists Join the Christmas Choir of Estimation Angels! Read more »
I recently posted about MRI Together. It was a great global zoomfest, and now videos of the talks are online. The Videos The YouTube site with all the videos is here, but it’s easiest to scan the program and click …
MRI Workshop Videos, Including Two Short ‘p Values Suck’ Talks Read more »