A Cartoon to Explain How Blinding Works

A Cartoon to Explain How Blinding Works The cartoon presented below is available from the artwork library of BayesianSpectacles.org under a CC-BY license. The cartoon was conceptualized by Alexandra Sarafoglou and was drawn by Viktor Beekman. It is included as an appendix in Dutilh, G., Sarafoglou, A., & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (in press). Flexible yet fair: Blinding analyses in experimental psychology.…

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Flexible Yet Fair: Blinding Analyses in Experimental Psychology

This post is an extended synopsis of Dutilh, G., Sarafoglou, A., & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (in press). Flexible yet fair: Blinding analyses in experimental psychology. Synthese. Preprint available on PsyArXiv: https://psyarxiv.com/h39jt   Abstract The replicability of findings in experimental psychology can be improved by distinguishing sharply between hypothesis-generating research and hypothesis-testing research. This distinction can be achieved by preregistration, a method…

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The Liberating Feeling of Relinquishing Control: Advice for Advisors

Disclaimer: advice based purely on the life and lab of the author. May not generalize to other people and other contexts. No literature whatsoever was consulted. Take advice at your own risk. For most of my life I have had the idea that the key to happiness is control, or at least the illusion of control. What person would delight…

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Preprint: “Because it is the Right Thing to Do”: Taking Stock of the Peer Reviewers’ Openness Initiative

This post is an extended synopsis of Dahrendorf, M., Hoffmann, T., Mittenbühler, M., Wiechert, S., Sarafoglou, A., Matzke, D., & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2019). “Because it is the Right Thing to Do”: Taking Stock of the Peer Reviewers’ Openness Initiative. Preprint available on PsyArXiv: https://psyarxiv.com/h39jt   Abstract In recent years, multiple initiatives have sought to improve the transparency and reproducibility of…

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The Invigorating Pleasure of Witnessing a Well-Contested Rat-Fight

Throughout his books, Bayesian godfather Sir Harold Jeffreys was in the habit of starting each chapter with an epigraph. Usually these epigraphs came from different sources, but not so for his 1935 geophysics book “Earthquakes and mountains”. The book has a total of seven chapters; here are the seven associated epigraphs:   For chapter 1, “Solids and Liquids”: …but who…

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