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Textbook Analysis Uncovers Erroneous Explanations of Statistical Significance
An examination of introductory psychology textbooks suggests that prospective researchers may learn to interpret statistical significance incorrectly in their classes.
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Social Psychology Research Today Has More Participants, Online Studies, Self-Report Measures
Collecting data from online participant pools and using self-report measures are two strategies that allow for increased sample sizes while drawing on relatively fewer resources — but have social psychology researchers adopted these strategies?
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Researchers Explore Life Beyond p < .05
Psychology researchers are questioning the overuse of p values in statistical inference in science.
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring similarity grouping of objects, how motion can induce change blindness, and large-scale computational models of dyslexia.
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Insights From High-Risk Fields Can Help Minimize Mistakes in the Lab
In an article published in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, researcher Jeffrey Rouder of the University of California, Irvine and colleagues use principles drawn from high-risk fields to propose best practices for minimizing mundane mistakes in psychology labs.
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NAS Workshop Proceedings on Statistical Reproducibility of Federal Statistics
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recently released proceedings of a workshop on the topic of practices to increase the transparency of federal data.