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Don’t be tempted to analyse ordinal data like interval or ratio!
Ordinal scales are everywhere in psychology. From mood ratings to pain scales, they are one of the most prevalent tools in the field. They frequently appear in other domains e.g. medicine, education, etc. and most often appear as Likert scales. These scales require participants to give a score (along an increasing scale) in response to…
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Setbacks, learning from mistakes, and my incorrect view of intelligence
Things have been going well professionally for quite a while now. It was therefore only a matter of time before a setback came along. The details are not important but the lessons I’ve learned from my mistakes are. Just over a month ago I was told a project I’d been working on for 11 months…
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Essential R packages for education researchers
The intention behind this is to create an updating well of R resources for scientists who focus on education research. If you have any more suggestions please write a comment below or contact me on social media and I’ll add them. Data manipulation and visualization Tidyverse (Sam Parsons)- A collection of packages which allow for comprehensive data…
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The Death of the Academic Author: why we should focus less on the writer
A recent article exploring the relationship between exercise and mental health (Chekroud et al., 2018) has stirred a lot debate. It was an interesting study and gained a lot of traction, with over 2500 retweets of the original summary thread by Adam Chekroud and multiple articles by various news outlets e.g. the BBC, Time. There was…
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Paul Meehl on philosophy of science: video lectures and papers
After literally 2 years, I’ve finally finished making notes on Paul Meehl’s philosophy of science lectures. This is the portal to all the different lectures. I’ve also included a single sentence summary of them. They are excellent and I strongly recommend you watch them. However, his papers are the best scientific articles I have ever read…
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Notes on Paul Meehl’s “Philosophical Psychology Session” #12
These are the notes I made whilst watching the video recording of Paul Meehl’s philosophy of science lectures. This is the twelfth and final episode (a list of all the videos can he found here). Please note that these posts are not designed to replace or be used instead of the actual videos (I highly…
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Notes on Paul Meehl’s “Philosophical Psychology Session” #11
These are the notes I made whilst watching the video recording of Paul Meehl’s philosophy of science lectures. This is the tenth episode (a list of all the videos can he found here). Please note that these posts are not designed to replace or be used instead of the actual videos (I highly recommend you…
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Notes on Paul Meehl’s “Philosophical Psychology Session” #10
These are the notes I made whilst watching the video recording of Paul Meehl’s philosophy of science lectures. This is the tenth episode (a list of all the videos can he found here). Please note that these posts are not designed to replace or be used instead of the actual videos (I highly recommend you…
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