Author Archives: pigee

An interesting little discussion popped up in the wild and wooly new media world in science (e.g., podcasts and twitter) concerning the relative merits of “descriptive” vs “hypothesis” driven designs. All, mind you, indirectly caused by the paper that keeps … Continue reading →

Contributors to this blog (in alphabetical order a la the economists) David Condon, Chris Fraley, Katie Corker, Rodica Damian, M Brent Donnelan, Grant Edmonds, David Funder, Don Lynam, Dan Mroczek, Uli Orth, Alexander Schackman, Uli Schimmack, Chris Soto, Brent Roberts, … Continue reading →

How about a little blast from the past?  In rooting around in an old hard drive searching for Pat Hill’s original CV [1], I came across a document that we wrote way back in 2006 on how to write more … Continue reading →

I seem to replicate the same conversation on Twitter every time a different sliver of the psychological guild confronts open science and reproducibility issues. Each conversation starts and ends the same way as conversations I’ve had or seen 8 years … Continue reading →

A while back, Michael Kraus (MK), Michael Frank (MF) and me (Brent W Roberts, or BWR; M. Brent Donnellan–MBD–is on board for this discussion so we’ll have to keep our Michaels and Brents straight) got into a Twitter inspired conversation … Continue reading →

There have been a slew of systematic replication efforts and meta-analyses with rather provocative findings of late. The ego depletion saga is one of those stories. It is an important story because it demonstrates the clarity that comes with focusing … Continue reading →

At the end of my previous blog “Because, change is hard“, I said, and I quote: “So, send me your huddled, tired essays repeating the same messages about improving our approach to science that we’ve been making for years and … Continue reading →

I reposted a quote from a paper on twitter this morning entitled “The earth is flat (p > 0.05): Significance thresholds and the crisis of unreplicable research.” The quote, which is worth repeating, was “reliable conclusions on replicability…of a finding … Continue reading →

The most courageous act a modern academic can make is to say they were wrong.  After all, we deal in ideas, not things.  When we say we were wrong, we are saying our ideas, our products so to speak, were … Continue reading →

Scientific research is an attempt to identify a working truth about the world that is as independent of ideology as possible.  As we appear to be entering a time of heightened skepticism about the value of scientific information, we feel … Continue reading →