The Role of Confidence, not Trust in Science
Why we should care more about how confident people are in our results, not how much trust they have in us.
The current state of psychological research: fun to look at it, but offers only a warped sense of reality.
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How to effectively pre-register your research: a case-study of my own mistakes
Psychology has got some trust issues. It used to be the case that when authors wrote they had a specific hypothesis or they were interested in a specific dependent variable, you just took their word for it. However, there has been a series of high profile articles highlighting how researchers...
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Research lessons learnt the hard way: #1 maintaining organised data files
This is the first post in a (hopefully not long) series of research lessons learned from making mistakes. Most of the lessons have been in various aspects of programming as none of my supervisors or fellow postgraduates have any interest in R or Python, so I have had to learn...
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Tidying and Analysing Response Data using R
You have spent months collecting data, some participants turn up on time, some participants turn up late, and others do not show up at all. After all this, all you want to do is get down to analysing your data and writing up your results. However, before you do all...
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