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Is it a loss of confidence if you aren't sure you really believed it the first time?
I’m a big fan of the idea behind the loss of confidence project. The idea is basically that researchers who no longer believe their own published findings can say so without stigma. It’s a nice thought – after all, a non-trivial proportion of the scientific literature is probably incorrect. We could quibble over how much, but really who cares about the number? The point is that it would be nice to know which reported phenomena are genuine and which aren’t.
An 'academic' discussion on Twitter
In the upcoming patch we’re going to try to remove the entity that stands in the corner of your room at night. You can’t see it but it’s driving your cats crazy.
- HatTheButcher
Over the last few years I’ve been trying to adopt more open science practices. I post code for my models, experiments and data analyses to GitHub and OSF, I archive the raw data on OSF, functioning demonstrations of my experiments are all archived on my website (hopefully on codeocean too eventually), and I’ve started using PsyArXiv as a better way to archive my manuscripts than relying solely on my own website.
Thoughts on participation
As my teaching for this terribly full semester starts to wind down1 I’ve been thinking a little about what it means to be a good participant in a group discussion. This isn’t a fully developed blog post, so much as a few thoughts that at some point I’ll develop into a guide for students…
Your voice matters! Very often I encounter students who are quiet, thoughtful and tend not to speak much.
A personal essay on Bayes factors
’Cause you’re hot then you’re cold
You’re yes then you’re no
You’re in then you’re out
You’re up then you’re down
You’re wrong when it’s right
It’s black and it’s white
- Katy Perry
I have mixed feelings about Bayes factors. As Katy Perry once observed, it’s extremely hard to make valid inferences when you aren’t even sure what the hell it is you’re trying to make inferences about.
Day 99-100: Small Steps
Sometime back in late April I made a strange decision to try to learn a new R package every day for 100 days. The goal was transparently ridiculous, and even at the time I was aware there was no way I could do it. Of course “a package every day” was never the primary goal. What I’d really hoped to do is get into the habit of trying out new R packages, just for my own curiosity.
