Puberty is a phase in which individuals often test the boundaries of themselves and surrounding others and further define their identity – and thus their uniqueness compared to other individuals. Similarly, as Computational Social Science (CSS) grows …
Scientists, being human, make mistakes. We transcribe things incorrectly, we make errors in our code, and we intend to do things and then forget. The consequences of errors in research may be as minor as wasted time and annoyance, but may be as …
Pre-requisites:
- Basic research methods knowledge
- Perhaps some basic introductory statistical knowledge
- If running the seminar exercise (extra), basic familiarity with R
Learning outcomes:
1. Students understand that confidence intervals are …
To provide educators with an example of how they can draw resources from FORRT’s educational nexus to integrate open scholarship into their teaching, FORRT has developed an Open and Reproducible Science 101 syllabus.
FORRT’s syllabus was developed …
p-Hacking, the use of analytic techniques that may lead to distorted research results, is widely condemned on epistemic and practical grounds. The prevalent position on this questionable research practice is that p-hacking should be avoided because …
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 …
WHAT ARE THE COURSE’S OBJECTIVES?
After successfully finishing the course, you’ll be able to
[1] find, read, and understand scientific articles and synthesize scientific results;
[2] effectively communicate ideas, critical evaluation, and research …
Efforts to replicate portions of the scientific literature have lead to widely varying and often low rates of replicability. This has raised concerns over a ``replication crisis'' whereby many of the statistically significant claims in the published …