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…
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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…
The National Association of Scholars Weighs in on ‘The Irreproducibility Crisis’
STOP PRESS: Since first writing this post I’ve discovered that all may not be as it seems–especially to me at the other end of the Earth. As ever, we need to be vigilant for any dark forces wishing to use…
Randomistas: Dare we hope for evidence-based decisions in public life?
I’ve just listened to a great 20-min podcast, published by The Conversation. The podcast is here. It’s an interview by my colleague Fiona Fidler with Anthony Leigh, about his recently released book: Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Changed Our World. Published…
Sample-size planning – a short video
Here’s a short talk I gave at the 2017 Society for Neuroscience meeting on sample size planning. The talk discusses: Why you should plan your sample sizes in advance What not to do (how some common approaches can lead you…
Open Science: This Time in Orthodontics
Last month it was the Antarctic Scientists, this month the Orthodontists, and once again I had a most enjoyable time. Lindsay my wife and I are just back from 5 days in Sydney. I was speaking at the 26th Australian…
Open Science Goes to the Antarctic–Well, Nearly
Have you ever met a Professor of Seaweed? No, nor had I, but now I have: Catriona Hurd. More about her in a moment. I’m just back from two highly enjoyable days visiting IMAS, the Institute of Marine and Antarctic…
Not replicable, but citable
What happens to the reputation of a paper when the results reported cannot be replicated? Here’s a graph of citations/year from two studies–an original and a replication study that found little to no effect. It’s just one example, but it…
It’s not all bad news
Here’s a cool pre-print examining the quality of evidence in studies of the genetics of short-term memory in fruit flies (Tumkaya, Ott, & Claridge-Chang, 2018). The paper conducts a meta-analysis of different genes that have been linked to altered olfactory…
New paper out based on a massive sample (n = 355,358) finds that screens explain less than 0.4% of depression AND shows why previous research is deeply flawed - unless you are willing to believe potatoes and eyeglasses are also destroying a generation (Thread 1/13)
2New Stats blog: Sadly, Dichotomous Thinking Persists in HCI Research https://t.co/3sIxbE4Gmc
The Journal of Neuroscience has new guidelines for reporting non-human animal research. Wish it had more detail on sample-size determination, but love this: "Authors are encouraged to provide details on effect sizes and confidence intervals"
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Artificial intelligence turns brain activity into speech | Science | AAAS https://t.co/SwZ1tZbjT2
First thing to do at #NITOP2019? Come to a workshop on how you can re-orient your stats curriculum towards estimation and Open Science:
Thursday (Jan 3), 8:30 AM, Tarpon Room
Materials are here: https://t.co/rOWx1xzeR8
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Anyone headed to #NITOP with family?
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