The statistical, the scientific, the social, and p-values

Kino specializes in the philosophy of statistics and its application in the social sciences. She looks at the methodology of social sciences in general but psychology in particular through the lens of data analysis. Kino posts under the banner "Scattered Plot".
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My best effort searching online dates the use of the term “crisis” to describe worries concerning replication failure to an editorial piece by Pashler and Wagenmakers in 2012. The worry was voiced in the context of priming studies in social psychology, triggered by a number of unfortunate events unfolded in 2011: the Diederik Stapel fraud…

On failure to find a cure and the disease model of mental illness

Kino specializes in the philosophy of statistics and its application in the social sciences. She looks at the methodology of social sciences in general but psychology in particular through the lens of data analysis. Kino posts under the banner "Scattered Plot".
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I read a popular article (linked below) by the philosopher of science/statistics, Jacob Stegenga, on the lack of evidence on the effectiveness of antidepressants in treating depression. He presents and explains a number of major problems plaguing this kind of research: industry-funding, publication bias, low study quality, placebo effect combined with blind-breaking, lack of validity…

Spearman’s g and what cross-culture tells us

Kino specializes in the philosophy of statistics and its application in the social sciences. She looks at the methodology of social sciences in general but psychology in particular through the lens of data analysis. Kino posts under the banner "Scattered Plot".
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Saw this today. There exist many similar studies. They seem to say a lot. They seem to say nothing. I’ll comment on some moving parts below. Spearman’s g Found in 31 Non-Western Nations: Strong Evidence That g Is a Universal Phenomenon Abstract Spearman’s g is the name for the shared variance across a set of…