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Making Statistics Personal
Duke University psychological scientist Gregory Samanez-Larkin has developed an accessible way to teach statistical analysis — having students examine data about their own health.
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Upcoming Funding for Institutional Research Programs in Data Analytics for Behavioral Sciences Research
NIH has released a notice of an intent to solicit applications for institutions interested in leading behavioral sciences predoctoral training programs focusing on computational and/or data science approaches.
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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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Preregistration Becoming the Norm in Psychological Science
Psychological researchers are preregistering studies at unprecedented and accelerating rates, setting a model for improving scientific practices.
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Nearly 100 scientists spent 2 months on Google Docs to redefine the p-value. Here’s what they came up with
Psychologist Daniël Lakens of Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands is known for speaking his mind, and after he read an article titled “Redefine Statistical Significance” on 22 July 2017, Lakens didn’t pull any
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Intuition May Overpower Probability in Decision Making
From football to blackjack, simply detecting an error in judgement may not be enough to alter behavior.