Tag: Open science

• The lazy person’s perspective on programming: why you should code

  

  Lots of people (myself included) bang on about coding. How great it is, how valuable it’s been, etc. You’re probably a bit bored of it. But if you’re not just yet, allow me to explain why it is probably a good idea for you to pick it up. Why am I uniquely qualified to do…

  PsychBrief

  November 21, 2018

  Metascience, Statistics

  Coding, Open science, R, Scientific culture

• 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…

  PsychBrief

  September 17, 2018

  Statistics

  Bayes, Models, Open science, R

• 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…

  PsychBrief

  August 6, 2018

  Meehl lectures

  Logic, NHST, Open science, Theory

• How I keep track of what I’ve read

  To be a scientist, you need to read a lot. Not just field relevant work, but other topics you need to be familiar with in order to conduct research like statistics, philosophy of science, etc. Unless you have an eidetic memory, you need to have a system of storing what you’ve read. I’ve wasted hours…

  PsychBrief

  February 22, 2018

  Metascience

  Open science

• 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