I have tips if you’re seriously planning to teach it. We learnt a lot in the first few years!

That said, it *is* hard to fend off the existential angst!

Again, anecdotally … I see a portion of students who are unreachable with this sort of appeal. But a large portion want to do the right thing and are trying to navigate a fast changing landscape. They are reachable and It’s important not to abandon them.

Yeah, stats modules teaching R. Over the past few years I spend increasing amounts of time trying to police AI use within a system that is not fit for purpose. Anecdotally the thing I think helps most is trying to explain (worse than you do) to students the things you cover in your excellent piece.

Quick update on the update: my companion website is now complete! (Also, fYI @sagepub.com)

I should be thanking you - it’s a beautiful and succinct piece🙂

I’m considering whether I could set this up as required reading for students to gain access to my module canvas sites. Such a great summary of important issues.

Thanks for letting me know!

@sagepub.com are you aware of this?

I've just made live the updated website that accompanies my R book (www.discovr.rocks) - it's mostly finished: almost all of the chapter solutions/task solutions are done, data are live, updated info about the `discovr` package of interactive tutorials, and it's had a face lift.

That said, I’d also be interested in a template for a Bayesian UG curriculum if only so I can become even less popular among colleagues!

One issue when teaching UGs is you not only have the goal of teaching ‘how to do stats’ but also ‘how to understand the stats that others do’. psych students need to understand psych research, which is 95+% frequentist. Not a reason to avoid Bayes, but at some point you need to explain ps CIs etc

A wooden table with two books stacked on top of each other. The bottom book is the hardback edition of Discovering Statistiocs using R and RStudio by Andy Field, on top of it is the paperback edition. the hardback has a blue cover with plain text, the paperback has a he§xagonal pattern and a graphic-novel style female space pirate weirlding a futuristic gun out of which smoke forms the capital letter R.

Publication date looms ever closer ... physical copies exist (at the @sagepub.com London office, I await my own copy with excitement).

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I believe this so strongly that the update of my textbook (aimed at non-STEM newbies) is almost entirely tidyverse/easystats.

As someone who has overseen an entire curriculum change from SPSS to R on a UG psych programme, it’s a no brainer to use tidyverse and @easystats.github.io if your goal is doing stats. Substantially reduces cognitive load for students through readable code and consistent workflow.

I don't have a copy of the kindle edition and won't be given one so I can't check these examples unfortunately - @sagepub.com can you assist with this? If you email me I can reply and cc someone at SAGE who can possibly help.

I have these 2 tracks on a bootleg 7” from back in the day.

“We don’t waste time, or lives” … because schoolchildren’s lives don’t count.

Very different to last weekend’s musical experience but Courtney Marie Andrews was amazing in Brighton tonight. Great setlist too!❤️

Workshop 4: Thursday August 27th and Friday August 28th, the annual workshop “Theory and Practice of Bayesian Hypothesis Testing with JASP”. The main purpose of this workshop is to familiarize participants with key Bayesian concepts in hypothesis testing.

Workshop 3: Wednesday August 26th “A Crash Course in Machine Learning with JASP”. This workshop will explain the key concepts of machine learning and take full advantage of the extensive machine learning techniques that are available in JASP.

Workshop 2: Tuesday August 25th, “State-of-the-Art Meta-Analysis using JASP”. This workshop will present both frequentist and Bayesian methods for meta-analysis.

Workshop 1: Monday August 24th, “Discovering Statistics using JASP” based on my textbook with Johnny van Doorn, and @ejwagenmakers.bsky.social. Ideal for teachers who want to teach with the book, and students (and others) who wish to improve their stats knowledge. [NB, I'm not running the workshop.]

Workshops - JASP - Free and User-Friendly Statistical Software The JASP team is excited to support four workshops this year (2026). Each of these workshops can be attended either in person (at the University of Amsterdam) or online: On Monday August 24th, we orga...

Interested in finding out more about @jaspstats.bsky.social? The Psych Methods Group at the University of Amsterdam is running four hands-on workshops (in person or online) this summer (@ejwagenmakers.bsky.social, @fbartos.bsky.social). More information at jasp-stats.org/workshops/ but to sum up:

Incredible show tonight by my guitar hero❤️

I updated on CRAN last week. You can email me at my Sussex uni address.

Also I rewrote discovr last summer and have been tweaking since then so worth checking issues are still Relevant to the most recent version.

Discovr package stuff use GitHub issues please. Book stuff if it’s specific to kindle then sage, if it’s my mistakes DM or email but if this is the R book Ed 1 no point because Ed 2 is out imminently.

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