Category: Philosophy of Science

• Should we retire nominal, ordinal, interval, & ratio levels of measurement?

  

  One of the first things all psychology students are taught is levels of measurement. Every student must wrap their heads around the four different forms data can take: nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio. These are the bedrock of a lot of students’ understanding of measurement, including mine. I didn’t realise there were questions about their […]

  PsychBrief

  January 6, 2020

  Philosophy of Science

  Data types, Measurement, Methodology

• Replication and Reproducibility Event II: Moving Psychological Science Forward

  On Friday 26th of January at the Royal Society there was a series of talk on how psychology could progress as a science, with an emphasis on replication and reproducibility. I’m going to summarise the key points from the individual talks and make a few comments. A collection of all the individual videos of the […]

  PsychBrief

  February 15, 2018

  Metascience, Philosophy of Science, Statistics

  Methodology, NHST, Open science, Power, Replication, Replication crisis, Scientific culture