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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
Background: Registered Reports are an emerging publication format, which emphasizes methodological rigor over results. Integrating this format into education allows one to teach research skills when data collection is infeasible.
Objective: To …
While Open Science has arguably initiated positive changes at some stages of the research process (e.g., increasing transparency through preregistration), problematic behaviors during data collection are still almost impossible to detect and pose a …