A while back I wrote a post about Pierre Dragicevic, an HCI researcher in Paris who for years has been working to persuade researchers in his field to adopt better statistical methods. I wrote about his wonderful talk that presents …
Pictures of uncertainty: Dancing with Pierre in Paris Read more »
You meet a red-headed person who is a bit short-tempered then, later, another who is similarly touchy. You start to believe that red hair signals ‘watch out’. Really? You are leaping to a conclusion from an extremely small sample! But …
Bob and I are in Boston this weekend for the annual APS Convention. It’s great to catch up, and discuss a million things about ITNS and this blog, and our future plans. Our publisher told us yesterday that early signs …
In my post of a couple of days ago I gave the link to Significance Roulette 1, a video that explains how to generate the roulette wheel for a ‘typical experiment’, by which I meant an independent groups experiment, N = 32 …
If you run an experiment, obtain p = .05, then repeat the experiment–exactly the same but with a new sample–what p value are you likely to get? The answer, surprisingly, is just about any value! In other words, the sampling …
I (Geoff) learned a new word today: Apophenia It was in an article about investing and the stock-market. Apparently, there’s a whole industry devoted to identifying patterns in the price movements of stocks, then using these to guide when to …
“If my department switches to the new statistics, will this tank our majors’ scores on the Major Field Test, which our administration uses as an important assessment tool?” This was one of the first questions asked during a workshop Craig …
The New Statistics seems OK to use with the Psychology Major Field Test Read more »
The first review of ITNS on Amazon: If you are reading ITNS, you too may care to post a review? Geoff