Yet, to what extent are we transcribing in unequivocal mannerisms to prevail on others our own unadulterated jocularity and brilliance, whereas, in argot the memoranda we pen circumnavigate what fellow didacts can discern?
Why not write simply? No need to dumb down, but write in plain language?
Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.
I’m hiring a PhD student!
The candidate will work alongside @zefreeman.bsky.social, who is joining our research group as postdoc.
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Bluesky folks! Popping in here for a hot minute, I'm trying to look for this particular blog post before (by Thomas? Tom?) it used to be posted on twitter.
Basically the main claim is: X is X because target population Y said so (I think his example here was the concept of a game). Ring any bells?
the great thing about vibe coding is you can't just revert to "last known good" after an error because you don't necessarily know when that is.
you outsourced your unknown unknowns.
original post:
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turkoptican:
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Dissertation:
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'Bubble Hell' refers to online studies that are pages and pages of bubbles. They hate it.
The term was coined by a redditor on the subreddit r/mturk on Mar 4, 2014.
Later picked up by the co-founder of the subreddit Turkoptican, Six Silberman, used in his dissertation.
Now an industry term.
#psych
"you could - by careful choice of an existing scoring method from the literature - find any effect, or nothing, or the reverse of any effect you choose. This is bonkers. ... so extreme as to be farcical."
This is the sentiment we were hoping people would come away with!
w/@anniria.bsky.social
Finally this long-last meta-research is done!
We examine the demographics of subject from 1000 Chinese psych journal articles & 27 big-teams science.
Findings: these participant are not representative of the 🇨🇳population, in terms of sex, age, & edu.
@btscon.bsky.social @sakshighai.bsky.social
Big Team Science version of no real transfer of effects
I love that! I don't come across randomization tests enough.
Qualitative?
An underappreciated #stats point is in the majority of cases we aren't analyzing DATA.
We use data to get means, variances, & covariances.
Then we analyze those to get model parameters.
This is why we can create synthetic data or share means with variance-covariance matrices to reproduce results.
Starting today, if an AI agent is detected in your Prolific study, we’ll give you twice the cost of that non-human participant back.
You pay for human data. You expect human data. We’re backing that with our 100% Human Guarantee.
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New preprint out today (osf.io/preprints/ps...). We tested whether AI agents are actually infiltrating online surveys.
Spoiler alert: they aren't
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A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers has ended with a disturbing finding
go.nature.com/4bZ9k0W
I actually hope I'm wrong here.
We use the correlation (r) a lot.
Test-retest reliability
Prediction/memory accuracy
Trait stability
We should not; in a new simulation study, r is upwardly biased & doesn't tell you what you want.
We show what does (Table 2).
osf.io/preprints/ps...
#psych #stats
Experiments show causality.
Causality requires time.
Therefore, mediation in experiments is not cross-sectional.
That is all.
== Effect Size and Confidence Intervals (ESCI) check ==
Lots improved.
Has a revamped website and R package on CRAN.
Works like statcheck, also checks effect sizes and calculates confidence intervals.
Tricky countless edge cases, but after testing it on 1000s of articles, seems pretty decent.
Come work with us!
Postdoctoral researcher position in metascience on the UKRI-Funded PRIME project (Bath U), evaluating & implementing results‑blind peer review & translating evidence into policy & practice.
FT/PT flexibility possible
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#metasci
Why do we think people who share 1similarity with us are more similar to us in other ways?
We think we have an essence, & they share that same essence.
But if flips if they come from a different political party (e.g. it is a one-off).
From Charles Chu
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#psych
cOMPaRatiVe cOGNitiONHumans share acousticpreferences with other animalsLogan S. James1,2,3,4* Sarah C. Woolley 1,2, Jon T. Sakata1,2,Courtney B. Hilton5,6, Michael J. Ryan3,4, Samuel A. Mehr5,7,8Many animals produce courtship sounds, and receivers prefersome sounds over others. Shared ancestry and convergentevolution may generate similarities in preference across speciesand underlie Darwin’s conjecture that some animals “havenearly the same taste for the beautiful as we have.” In this study,we show that humans share acoustic preferences with a rangeof animals, that the strength of human preferences correlateswith that in other animals, and that humans respond fasterwhen in agreement with animals. Furthermore, we foundgreatest agreement in preference for adorned, ancestral, andlower-frequency sounds. humans’ music listening experiencewas associated with preferences. These results are consistentwith theories arguing that biases in processing sculpt acousticpreferences, and they confirm Darwin’s century-old hunchabout the conservation of aesthetics in nature
out now in Science: @loganjames.bsky.social collected pairs of sounds in 16 species where we *know* which sound is more attractive (to that species)
he played them to ppl on themusiclab.org, asking, in each pair, which was nicer. humans agreed w other animals
doi.org/10.1126/science.aea1202
SSTLNAR
Just ignore it and hope it will go away
A threat to many fields of research wanting to conduct longitudinal evaluations is participants may remember their previous answers.
Retest reliability, memory accuracy, long-term effects of interventions.
We instead show people don't remember what they last said.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
#psych
Ambulance callsigns in a real dataset imported with read.csv (left column, correct) vs read_csv (right column). This one got me.
A Study on Customer Support Team Configuration and Service Quality in Financial Services Enterprises A Study on Dispatcher Scheduling and Service On-Time Rate in Urban Public Transportation Systems A Study on the Impact of Member Mobility on Research Output in University Research Teams Authors Matthew R. Collins1, Daniel T. Harris2, James A. Wilson3* Affiliations Melbourne School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia Corresponding author: james.wilson@unimelb-placeholder.edu Abstract Customer support teams play a crucial role in ensuring service quality in financial services enterprises, and the rationality of their staffing directly affects customer experience. This study analyzes the relationship between staff size and service quality indicators, focusing on the configuration characteristics of customer support teams. Based on 18 consecutive months of operational data from the customer support center of a financial services enterprise, the sample includes 96 service teams, 2,430 customer service personnel, and over 3.2 million customer service records. Service quality is measured by average response time, first-time resolution rate, and customer satisfaction score. A generalized 1 configuration variables on service quality customer service team is controlled withi A Study on the Relationship between Labor Structure and Production Efficiency in Overseas Factories of Multinational Manufacturing Enterprises Authors Sebastian Weber1, Lukas Schneider2, Johannes Müller3* Affiliations Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Munich (TUM), 80333 Munich, Germany *Corresponding author: johannes.mueller@tum-placeholder.edu Abstract Public transportation systems have high requirements for service on-time rate, and the rationality of dispatcher scheduling directly affects operational stability. This study analyzes the relationship between dispatcher scheduling and service on-time rate. The stud…
Someone went to the trouble of creating 5 fake OSF accounts today, linking to 5 fake ORCID accounts, and generating 5 fake papers to submit to SocArXiv, with fake author and emails. Dude, if you are reading this, I hope you get the help you need (or a better job).
Soda Pop was robbed
He didn't even have that last year!
People think investment is riskier when failing is 1-in-X rather than an equal %.
They also over-weigh last digits, so .05 is not seen as < .1.
If you want up play up risk, say 9-in-X; play it down, round to the small digit %( .1%).
From @marklacour.bsky.social
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