Sunday, December 9, 2018

How to run a study that doesn't replicate, experimental design edition

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(tl;dr: Design features of psychology studies to avoid if you want to run a good study!) Imagine reading about a psychology experiment in ...
Friday, September 7, 2018

Scale construction, continued

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For psychometrics fans: I helped out with a post by Brent Roberts, " Yes or No 2.0: Are Likert scales always preferable to dichotomous ...
Thursday, August 30, 2018

Three (different) questions about development

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(tl;dr: Some questions I'm thinking about, inspired by the idea of studying the broad structure of child development through larger-scal...
Friday, August 10, 2018

Where does logical language come from? The social bootstrapping hypothesis

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(Musings on the origins of logical language, inspired by work done in my lab by Ann Nordmeyer , Masoud Jasbi , and others). For the last c...
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Monday, June 18, 2018

What does it mean to get a degree in psychology these days?

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(I was asked to give a speech yesterday at Stanford's Psychology commencement ceremony. Here is the text).  1. Chair, Colleagues, grad...
Saturday, May 5, 2018

nosub: a command line tool for pushing web experiments to Amazon Mechanical Turk

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(This post is co-written with Long Ouyang , a former graduate student in our department, who is the developer of nosub, and Manuel Bohn , a...
Monday, February 26, 2018

Mixed effects models: Is it time to go Bayesian by default?

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(tl;dr: Bayesian mixed effects modeling using brms is really nifty.) Introduction: Teaching Statistical Inference? How do you reaso...
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