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The “Big Lie” is a degenerate research program
January 6, 2022 / Leave a comment
Scientists are concerned with the progress of research programs. A research program that doesn’t make progress in understanding the phenomena it studies wastes valuable professional time and resources. It also is a sink of resources that could be better spent improving the human condition. However, most research programs that don’t progress are unlikely to actively […]
How to justify your alpha: step by step
March 1, 2018 / 5 Comments on How to justify your alpha: step by step
Do you need alpha? | Study goals? | Minimum effect size of interest? | Justify your alpha | Justify your beta | How to control for multiple comparisons? | Examples I joined a panoply of scholars who argue that it is necessary to justify your alpha (that is, the acceptable long-run proportion of false positive […]
Community psychology: Lessons learned from Route 91
December 3, 2017 / Leave a comment
This post is long; the links below will take you to potential topics of interest. BEHIND THE SCENES: Call your IRB & delegate | Justify your statistical decisions ON THE GROUND: Promote your study | Involve the media | Lead with helpful resources | Listen to community reps | Give results back to community | […]
A template for reviewing papers
August 11, 2017 / Leave a comment
The current culture of science thrives on peer review – that is, the willingness of your colleagues to read through your work, critique it, and thereby improve it. Science magazine recently collected a slew of tips on how to review papers, which give people getting started in the process of peer reviewing some lovely overarching […]
Preregistration as a guide to reproducibility and scientific competence
September 2, 2016 / Leave a comment
UPDATE 20190820: This post led to this paper in the special issue of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology about increasing replicability, transparency, and openness in clinical psychological research. In it, we describe a two-dimensional continuum of registration efforts and now describe preregistrations as those that occur before data are collected, coregistrations as those that occur […]
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- How to justify your alpha: step by step
