[tips] primer on critical thinking in psychological sciences?

2018-04-20 Thread David Epstein
, and, complementarily, (b) what kinds of conclusions you can draw from a given set of data on hand. Ideally, this would cover both randomized experiments/trials and observational/longitudinal studies. What exists? --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail

Re: [tips] EMDR vs CBT

2018-02-21 Thread David Epstein
uthors appropriately refrained from saying so in the context of a noninferiority study). --David Epstein On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Ken Steele went: My first reaction was where is the control group? Both groups are already undergoing treatment. To quote from the article: "Design This st

Re: [tips] statistics teaching: SPSS vs R

2014-08-22 Thread David Epstein
In discussions of R, I tend to think of what programmer Jamie Zawinski once said about Linux: that it's only free if your time has no value. :) --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http

re: [tips] Out with the old, in with the new

2014-08-05 Thread David Epstein
repeatedly asked How happy are you? So the question was asked only while the participants were busy experiencing wins and losses determined by the investigators. Within that context, the study accomplished some neat things, but--that's the context. --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You

Re: [tips] Facebook Emotional Contagion Article

2014-07-07 Thread David Epstein
! --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=37503 or send a blank email to leave-37503-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df

RE:[tips] Facebook Emotional Contagion Article

2014-07-06 Thread David Epstein
direction. That's a study of semantic priming. Whether it has anything to do with mood is an open question. I'm pretty not-convinced. --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id

[tips] Re: [tips] Facebook tinkered with users’ feeds for a massive psychology experiment · Newswire · The A.V. Club

2014-06-28 Thread David Epstein
) tendency to use the same general sort of emotional vocabulary they've recently been exposed to in their Facebook newsfeed. --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id

Re: [tips] Sample sizes

2014-06-15 Thread David Epstein
any such thing a false positive--just more and more precision. --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=37151 or send a blank

[tips] post hoc power vs. confidence intervals (was: Correlation vs.Causation: Is Skipping Breakfast Bad For Weight Control?)

2014-06-06 Thread David Epstein
Intervals When Planning Experiments and the Misuse of Power When Interpreting Results http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=707593 --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id

Re: [tips] What to do with skewed data

2013-11-11 Thread David Epstein
them to your ten-inflated data. --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=30025 or send a blank email to leave-30025

[tips] Satel Lilienfeld book (Re: Watch A Legend In Action)

2013-06-24 Thread David Epstein
by David Brooks or other mass-media mouths. --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=26223 or send a blank email to leave-26223

Re:[tips] Satel Lilienfeld book (Re: Watch A Legend In Action)

2013-06-24 Thread David Epstein
of addiction given use) among socioeconomically disadvantaged people whose options are limited and whose time horizons are short. The prescription for that problem should be social-structural change, not just individual treatment. Satel and Lilienfeld don't say so. --David Epstein da

RE: [tips] What Is Wrong With Harvard?

2013-05-29 Thread David Epstein
) rather than being left to the dry stylings of full-time attorneys. That's part of the reason the Starr Report was so compulsively readable. Richwine either found a guy like that, or *is* a guy like that. --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch

Re: [tips] Who's going to APS in Washington?

2013-05-20 Thread David Epstein
multi-item scales (2:30 PM). And at the Saturday talk on mobile measurement (9:00 AM). --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com On Mon, 20 May 2013, Paul C Bernhardt went: Hi all, I'd love to make sure I recognized and visited with TiPS folks who are at APS in Washington this coming week

Re: [tips] The evidence based bandwagon?

2013-04-12 Thread David Epstein
of those programs by insisting that they are not entitlements! It would be hilarious if there weren't so much at stake. --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id

RE: [tips] Why Neuroscience Research Sucks

2013-04-10 Thread David Epstein
) with a sample size of ten than with a sample size of a hundred. Is that the idea? I'm still struggling with it. --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id

RE: [tips] Why Neuroscience Research Sucks

2013-04-10 Thread David Epstein
participants (each receiving one of the five doses). But with your five-person Latin square, you'd be more vulnerable to nonreplicability due to idiosyncrasies of your sample, which is what Buttons et al. are concerned about. At least, that's my thinking. Someone set me straight if need be. --David

Re: [tips] tipsters at APS

2013-04-06 Thread David Epstein
! (Somehow.) --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=24822 or send a blank email to leave-24822-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df

RE:[tips] Childlessness hits men the hardest (n = 16)

2013-04-06 Thread David Epstein
by far the biggest difference of the half dozen differences he reports. --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=24824 or send

[tips] Childlessness hits men the hardest (n = 16)

2013-04-04 Thread David Epstein
://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130403071957.htm. There is NOT EVEN ONE DIFFERENCE between men and women in the survey. --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id

RE: [tips] Childlessness hits men the hardest (n = 16)

2013-04-04 Thread David Epstein
statements. So what we have here is a failure of quality control at every stage of dissemination. --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl

Re: [tips] Disseminating your published work?

2013-02-07 Thread David Epstein
! pdf attached. Because yeah, that's kinda why science is publicly funded. --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=23549

Re: [tips] Questions about Serotonin and Depression

2012-11-26 Thread David Epstein
, sensitization, and desensitization.) Those changes, which happen in slow and complicated ways in response to SSRIs and other antidepressants, are probably part of what makes the antidepressants work. OK? --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch

Re: [tips] Is p .05 ?

2012-10-08 Thread David Epstein
. --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=20969 or send a blank email to leave-20969-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df

[tips] shutting WHAT whole thing down, now?

2012-08-21 Thread David Epstein
of women in our sample who would likely have been |protected by oral contraception or an IUD. Our analysis suggests that |per-incident rape-pregnancy rates exceed per-incident consensual |pregnancy rates by a sizable margin, even before adjusting for the |use of relevant forms of birth control. --David

Re: [tips] Stats software in grad school..

2012-06-06 Thread David Epstein
to me so I can deal with their data in SAS's Proc Mixed or Proc Glimmix. Oh--many of those procedures can also be done with this freeware http://tigger.uic.edu/~hedeker/mix.html, but I haven't tried it. --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch

RE: [tips] Frequency of Type I errors in published research.

2012-04-02 Thread David Epstein
% an absolute worst-case scenario (if everything is done right). --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=17092 or send a blank email

[tips] stealth post from Mike Palij! (Re: Frequency of Type I errors in published research.)

2012-04-02 Thread David Epstein
Mike's hit his three-post limit, so he's asked me to post this by proxy for him. :) --David Epstein Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu says RE: [tips] Frequency of Type I errors in published research. On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:29:55 -0700, Karl L Wuensch wrote

Re: [tips] Dopamine and Schizophrenia

2012-03-20 Thread David Epstein
such as the caudate nucleus and the putamen. Each of the two neurotransmitters does all sorts of other things--in other places. --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id

Re: [tips] The blank space in replies to TIPS posts

2012-01-29 Thread David Epstein
I see the extra space that Jeff sees, and I'm using Pine on a Unix shell account. --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso

Re: [tips] The blank space in replies to TIPS posts

2012-01-29 Thread David Epstein
On Sun, 29 Jan 2012, Jim Clark went: Messages can sometimes generate the blank if viewed as HTML and NOT if viewed as plain text. Unix-Pine seems to be showing the space for any message that's sent as multipart/HTML. No space for any message that's sent as plain ASCII. --David Epstein da

Re: [tips] Apostrophe Protection Society (apostrophe.org.uk)

2012-01-14 Thread David Epstein
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012, Christopher Green went: As teachers, here's a topic about which we can have a good old fashioned brouhaha! :-) Apostrophe Protection Society http://www.apostrophe.org.uk/ When you're trying to provoke pedantry, do not lead with a misplaced modifier. :) --David Epstein

Re: [tips] OH NO! Not the Wine Research!

2012-01-12 Thread David Epstein
this on someone else's work. (e.g., I have a pub in an obscure journal which was not in the database but, when it was cited by another researcher -- thanks David ;-) Good ol' _Journal of Maintenance in the Addictions_. :) --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips

Re: [tips] Memory for Record Skipping

2011-11-28 Thread David Epstein
. I still wish I were hearing them--and I still half-expect to. Many of the 14,000+ songs on my iPod are tracks that I digitized from vinyl. The sound of the vinyl enhances my pleasure. If I let Apple match my songs to perfect versions in its Cloud, I'd be losing something. --David Epstein da

Re: [tips] Theories of addiction

2011-10-21 Thread David Epstein
should apply the basic principle that the same effect can have different causes. But the natural categories of addiction may or may not correspond to the classes of substances to which people get addicted. --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch

Re:[tips] New York Times and Tips

2011-03-30 Thread David Epstein
NYT archives, including the years 1923-1986, for which you used to have to pay a couple of bucks per article. For me, that greatly sweetened the deal. --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http

Re: [tips] Cold or smelly?

2011-02-17 Thread David Epstein
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, sbl...@ubishops.ca went: I seem to recall that David Epstein, lo, many long years ago, provided us with an exortation (or possibly just a claim) that taking zinc tablets warded off (or possibly just shortened the period of) a cold. [...] Well done, David. Yet I seem

[tips] replaying history via Google News Archive (was Re: Best pun in a long time)

2011-02-12 Thread David Epstein
about the subversion of LBJ's ideals by the expense of the Vietnam War. Here's the search-form link so you can do some experiments of your own: http://news.google.com/archivesearch/advanced_search. Specifying a succession very tight date ranges can take you on a great tour through history. --David

Re: [tips] Phantom (cell phone) vibrations?

2010-12-21 Thread David Epstein
. I've had it when the phone wasn't even there. --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=7422 or send a blank email to leave-7422

RE: [tips] How To Watch Your F'n' Language

2010-09-21 Thread David Epstein
they discovered |its vulgar connotations --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=5026 or send a blank email to leave-5026

Re: [tips] Piaget Examples from Popular Television or Movies

2010-08-04 Thread David Epstein
that she laughed. --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=3997 or send a blank email to leave-3997

Re: [tips] Stossel

2010-07-16 Thread David Epstein
of Stossel broadcasts that I watched years ago. --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=3627 or send a blank email to leave-3627

Re: [tips] Capitalization question...

2010-02-24 Thread David Epstein
are |lowercased when full names are given but usually capitalized when |only the last name is used. | |Joannes van Keulen; Van Keulen |Pieter van den Keere; Van den Keere |Vincent van Gogh; Van Gogh |Gerard ter Borch; Ter Borch --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed