“We wanted to create a way to celebrate those who have the courage to admit when they’ve made a mistake [...] Correcting the record shouldn’t be seen as a failure, but as a vital part of the scientific process. This award is about recognizing the integrity it takes to prioritize truth over ego”
About two years ago, John Lynch made a broader point that I think also applies here: we are shamefully heuristic.
Wird aber anders geschrieben—was vielleicht ein erstes Indiz dafür ist, dass es gar nicht so leicht ist
Pädagogig?
Academia will form these little pockets -- people whose theorizing is outrageous & supported by methods outdated since the 90s -- but once it reaches a critical size those people just review each others papers & grants, form societies, hand out awards etc, like a self-contained parallel society.
Mediation analysis or "three correlations in a trench coat"
Screenshot of the linked Quarto website, with input checkboxes to change different conditions for a regression model that predicts economic performance based on US political party, with a reported p-value
I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :(
So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
I am wondering how to define _theory_ but what about numerical cognition and lonely numbers? Apparently, one can come up with studies indicating that lonely people dislike prime numbers as they are not connected to other numbers. Hence, I’d rather pay 12 instead of 11 dollars.
