PsychBrief
Writing about psychology (educational psych), stats, metascience, & philosophy of science. #openscience #Rstats. Fb page: They/them
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Beneath The Replication Crisis
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“Psychologists are simply, on an absolute scale, dullards… They seem to feel, many of them, that all we need to do is consolidate our scientific gains. Their self-confidence astonishes …
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PsychBrief Methodological reforms without theory development will yield very little. Great post by putting the replication crisis and the lack of theory in a historical context. 5d
Impacts of the Intensive Partnerships Initiative
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The Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching initiative enhanced how teachers are evaluated and improved teacher staffing policies but did not lead to gains in student achievement or graduation rates.
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PsychBrief Large-scale implementation of teacher observation designed to improve teaching effectiveness found no effect on student's achievement or graduation rates 10d
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PsychBrief How cognitive biases can impact researcher behaviour at every step of an experiment and how to overcome them Interesting meta psychology preprint from H/T 27d
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PsychBrief Preregistered preprint summarising evidence for the preventative effect of education on cognitive decline due to aging. A lot of heterogeneity but the current evidence doesn't support any protective value By Seblova, Berggren, 27d
SAGE Journals: Your gateway to world-class journal research
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Subscription and open access journals from SAGE Publishing, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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PsychBrief Excellent summary of research on how children learn to read, phonics, and other key findings relating to teaching people how to read by et al H/T 31d
Who & what do methods blogs talk about? Reviewing Nicolas et al. (2019)
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My methods blogs feed was the subject of a recent paper 'Who Posts What about Whom, with What Effect?'. I analyse the paper and provide some context
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PsychBrief There have been quite a few hot takes on the 'who/what do psychology blogs talk about'. If you've not already moved on, I've written some thoughts about it as well as the discussion(s) I've had with lead author Nicolas and senior author Susan Fiske 59d
Exploring Research-Methods Blogs in Psychology: Who Posts What About Whom, and With What Effect? - Gandalf Nicolas, Xuechunzi Bai, Susan T. Fiske, 2019
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During the methods crisis in psychology and other sciences, much discussion developed online in forums such as blogs and other social media. Hence, this increas...
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PsychBrief Who Posts What About Whom, and With What Effect? The paper about my psych methods blog feed has been published! By Nicholas, Bai, & Fiske Data + code 62d
Exploring Research Methods Blogs in Psychology: Who Posts What about Whom, with What Effect
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Hosted on the Open Science Framework
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PsychBrief Who Posts What About Whom, and With What Effect? The paper about my psych methods blog feed has been published! By Nicholas, Bai, & Fiske Data + code 62d
"Destructo-Critics" and Mean Bloggers: The Study
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A couple of years ago, psychologist Susan Fiske launched a broadside against science bloggers – since taken offline – packed with name-calling. That launched a spate of blogging, musing on what it meant to call us and our ilk destructo-critics,...
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PsychBrief Commentary by 62d
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PsychBrief When universities moved towards an incentive system based on quantitative measures, it was intended to improve them. But in reality it has created perverse incentives which favour quantity over quality and worsened conditions for workers 67d
The WORLDBREAKER Heuristic
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Would that reported effect size lead to the downfall of human civilization if transferred to the real world?
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PsychBrief Nice blog post putting effect sizes found in psychological research in context: by . If the effect size you report would likely have enormous real-world consequences if it were true (i.e. greatly impacting human behaviour), then maybe think again 69d
Exclusive: Data reveals poor pupils' Xmas jumper shame
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'Poignant' spike in number of disadvantaged pupils absent on Christmas Jumper Day leads schools to cancel event
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PsychBrief Not something I would have thought of. Excellent way data can be used to help reveal discrimination/disadvantage that often isn't apparent. H/T 79d
How to make your data anonymous/pseudonymous in R
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Making your data anonymous is an important part of ethical scientific practice. I've collected some of the R packages which allow you to do this.
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PsychBrief Data anonymisation is important but can be difficult. In this short blog post, I summarise some of the means of doing so using R, whether anonymised data is truly anonymised, and how to ethically anonymise data 81d
How to judge teacher and school performance
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Professor Daniel Muijs explains the limitations of research and how Ofsted will be seeking out research projects that will be “useful” for the education community
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PsychBrief Accessible interview of by about how research affects teachers and how to conduct studies in the classroom Mentions of and 100d
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PsychBrief Have you ever read a paper so good it was genuinely shocking? I've had that reading 's paper on causality and how difficult it is. I genuinely gasped/said 'oh my god' aloud a few times. Essential reading 109d
R Best Practices
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PsychBrief Some excellent suggestions for those starting out with R to make it easier (I still need to start tracking my package versions, I'll get there eventually!) by 113d
Longitudinal data don’t magically solve causal inference
The 100% CI 124d 5 tweets
While reviewing papers, I’ve noticed some boilerplate that keeps creeping up in the “Limitations” sections of studies using cross-sectional, observational designs: “Of course, we are unable to draw causal conclusions...but future studies with...
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PsychBrief Very clear and valuable post from for the : longitudinal data doesn't give you a free ticket for causality Plus I've learned a new concept: granger causality! 121d
Do bilinguals enjoy enhanced executive functioning?
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Many people believe people who speak two languages are smarter. There's quite a lot of evidence to support this idea. But is it true?
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PsychBrief Updated my post on bilingual advantage (or lack thereof) in executive functioning to feature this great paper by et al. 122d
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PsychBrief Updated my post on bilingual advantage (or lack thereof) in executive functioning to feature this great paper by et al. 122d
Graphing Ordinal Data
廖顯禕 / Shen-yi Liao - Medium 123d 5 tweets
I am convinced that ordinal data—like Likert scale items commonly found in psychology or experimental philosophy—should not be analyzed…
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PsychBrief A really great post by talking about how we graphically represent ordinal data (something I hadn't considered but very important) 122d