Tag: Criticism
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Summary of a critical discussion of preregistration and Registered Reports
Preregistration and Registered Reports (RRs) are rapidly gaining popularity as a means of asking rigorous scientific questions. I think preregistration, and especially RRs, will positively shape how psychologists engage in scientific work. But critically discussing them is vital for our collective understanding. To this end, I was invited to the Cambridge ReproducibiliTea meeting to chat…
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Best reads of 2019
This is a collection of some of the best things I’ve read this year. Organised alphabetically, they cover a wide range of topics. Hopefully you’ll find them as interesting as I did! Comment saying what you really enjoyed reading, I’ll check it out, and may even add it to my list. Culture ‘Most Money Advice…
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Social media debates and social capital
I like science Twitter. Science social media has pretty much been my education for all things related to statistics, metascience, and philosophy of science. I’ve talked with great people and been exposed to ideas I would almost certainly never encountered otherwise. But the way it, and all mediums through which scientific ideas are informally discussed,…
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Interruptions, gender, social media, and confirmation bias
Interruptions are common in most conversations, but is there are general trend among those talking as to who interrupts whom? Recently David Schmitt tweeted about a paper called “Influence of Communication Partner’s Gender on Language” (Hancock & Rubin, 2014). It gained some traction as it featured a graph purporting to show women interrupt other women more than men. It…
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Does grouping students by ability work?
Academic achievement in England is strongly impacted by class, with those of a higher socioeconomic status (S.E.S.) more likely to achieve than than those of a lower S.E.S. (Clifton & Cook, 2012). These gaps between students can be seen between students as early as three years old (Feinstein, 2003) and continue to widen as the…
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Do video games cause violence? A deeper look at the evidence
For almost as long as there have been video games, there have been people arguing that they are bad for you. There also seems to be a wealth of experimental evidence behind it (Hasan et al., 2013, to name just one of many). But there have been suggestions that these negative outcomes are oversold. Problems…
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