Conceptual and Statistical Knowledge

 

Defining Effect Sizes

This guide offers detailed instructions for calculating effect sizes and confidence intervals, which are frequently utilized in the social and behavioral sciences. It provides background information, useful tools, and advice for situations in which …

ShareStats - The open statistics assessment itembank

ShareStats is the world’s largest public repository of open-source statistics assessment items, developed to support high-quality, data-informed education. This collaborative initiative brings together multiple Dutch universities and universities of …

The Web of Schizotypal Personality Traits: Frequentist Network Replication and Bayesian Network Re-Analysis

This thesis examines schizotypal personality traits, risk factors for schizophrenia, through both frequentist and Bayesian network models. It replicates a prior frequentist analysis by Dodell-Feder et al. (2019) and introduces a Bayesian re-analysis …

Turtle and Hare Workshops: Exchanging software skills from beginner to experienced

Scientific findings often hinge on a single, opaque set of analytical decisions, obscuring how alternative approaches might affect results. The Journal of Robustness Reports (JRR) directly tackles this issue. As a new Diamond Open Access journal, it …

Can You Trust the Data from Your Wearable? A Critical Evaluation of Heart Rate and HRV Accuracy

This study critically evaluated four wearable devices for their accuracy in measuring heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV) against a gold-standard monitor. Surprisingly, even a widely used research-grade device did not outperform consumer …

Studying the association between loneliness and support for populist radical right using state-of-the art open science practices

This study investigates the relationship between loneliness and support for populist radical right (PRR) parties. Drawing on data from over 40,000 individuals across nine European countries, the researchers conducted 25 preregistered analyses and …

Evaluating What Works

This book is not a how-to-do-it manual, so much as a why-to-do-it. Our main goal is to instill in the reader awareness of the numerous sources of bias that can lead to mistaken conclusions when evaluating interventions. Real-life examples are …

Critical Metascience Articles

Metascience is the science of science. Critical metascience takes a step back to question some common assumptions, approaches, problems, and solutions in metascience. Hence, it has also been described as meta-meta-science! The following is a …

Open Source Research Methods for the Social Sciences (osRMss)

Welcome! This website has all the materials I use for teaching research methods within the Psychology major at Pitt. I don't use a textbook. I'm making the entire course materials public, and calling this project Open Source Research Methods for the …

Research Methods in Social Psychology

This course will acquaint students with the major research designs and procedures in social psychology, as well as explore recent methodological innovations that were designed to address issues unique to social psychological research. The objectives …
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