Archaeology?! Yes, but it’s for everyone–registrations are coming from across science, and from students to seasoned researchers. All welcome. Opening keynote by Nicole Lazar of ASA ‘beyond p < .05‘ fame. I’m speaking later on the first day. Feel free …
Online Talks & Workshops, Feb 8-11: Stats Reform, Open Science, R 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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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 …
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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 »
It’s fabulous to see yet one more research field, MRI and fMRI, jumping on board with Open Science. The Workshop runs 13-17 December, 2021, and the site is here. Recall the dead salmon? (tiny.cc/deadsalmon, ITNS p. 485.) Back then, in …
Replicate a study and you are highly likely to get a very different p value. Scarily different. The sampling variability of p values is so great that no p value deserves our trust. Yes, I know, that’s been my mantra …
Concern about publication bias apparently goes back at least as far at Robert Boyle in the 17th century. That’s Barker Bausell’s starting point for his highly detailed account of the replication crisis and rise of Open Science. Bausell, the author …
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Replacement heart valves, bypasses, transplants: Cardiac surgery research has given us these life-saving goodies, and more. Now this vital research field has joined many others in appreciating the damage that reliance on p values can bring. Our critical review (here) …
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This is a post for the nerds, fine people that we are. Actually, everyone needs to think about reporting style, especially for statistical stuff. The APA Publication Manual is the bible of APA Style, also perhaps the bane of some …
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In brief The Journal of Physiology is embracing a number of Open Science practices and has just published an editorial highly critical of the p value. Yay! In less brief Simon Gandevia, of the NeuRA research institute in Sydney, has …
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