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 »
“It will keep you awake at night!” said Fiona Fidler about the Correcting the Record session. I’d zoomed in to some of AIMOS 2022 (the Meta-science conference in Melbourne last week; my post is here) but had missed that session. …
AIMOS: Correcting the Record… Will Keep You Awake at Night! Read more »
Online and in Melbourne, 28-30 Nov. A vast spread of disciplines. From around the world, numerous young folks–and some oldies–speaking truth to age. Yes, it’s AIMOS 2022. The fourth AIMOS conference! See my posts after the first conference (2019, here) …
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…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 …
Knowing Statistics Can Lead You To the Heart of Government Read more »
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 »
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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Bob tweeted about it, I posted about it, and recently it happened: The AIMOS zoomfest. The program is here. AIMOS, just 3 years old, advances meta-science, a big part of which is the scholarship and advocacy that advances Open Science. …
The brain…, the climate crisis…, sustainability with children…, healthy homes…, RCTs…, statistical reform…, and even golf. If you have a student wondering where a psychology major might lead, suggest they have a veg out and listen to Toby’s story (at …
I’ve just read a great series of papers by Denis Cousineau and Jean-Christophe Goulet-Pelletier. They propose a new way to calculate a CI on Cohen’s d in the paired design (e.g., a pre-post study). It’s an approximation, but they show …
Cohen’s d for the Paired Design: A Better Way to Find the Confidence Interval Read more »