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Cambridge Analytica Scandal Casts Spotlight on Psychographics
A political data firm’s use of Facebook data for targeted messaging reveals the exploitation of psychometric data that some psychological scientists have warned about.
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March Methodology Madness – 2018
In our annual nod to the United States’ college basketball tournament, the Observer reports on data-analysis techniques, methodological advances, and the latest initiatives for improving reproducibility.
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Run All the Models! Dealing With Data Analytic Flexibility
An analytic approach sheds light on a literature full of contradictory findings, revealing the multiverse of results that can emerge when researchers make different decisions about how to examine the same dataset.
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Measurement Matters
Could replicability issues in psychological science stem in part from problems with measurement? Two scientists explain why strong methods cannot save research from weak measures.
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NIH Releases Adolescent Brain Development Data to Scientists
NIH has released an enormous dataset of high-quality baseline data on a large sample of 9-and-10-year-old children, including basic participant demographics, assessments of physical and mental health, substance use, culture and environment, neurocognition, tabulated structural and functional neuroimaging data, and minimally processed brain images, as well as biological data such as pubertal hormones.
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For Better Science, Bring on the Revolutionaries
A leading biologist at Harvard, Pardis Sabeti, has called out the replication movement in psychology, calling it a “cautionary tale” of how efforts to reform research may “end up destroying new ideas before they are