Archive

Explanations

• July 5, 2018 - Let’s Poke a Pizza: A New Cartoon to Explain the Strength of Evidence in a Bayes Factor

General

• January 17, 2019 - Is Polya’s Fundamental Principle Fundamentally Flawed?
• January 10, 2019 - Yes, Psychologists Must Change the Way They Analyze Their Data
• January 3, 2019 - The Story of a Lost Researcher Trying to Learn About Disruptive Behaviors During the Full Moon
• December 27, 2018 - A Galton Board Demonstration of Why All Statistical Models are Misspecified
• December 20, 2018 - The Single Most Prevalent Misinterpretation of Bayes’ Rule
• December 10, 2018 - Preprint: Multiple Perspectives on Inference for Two Simple Statistical Scenarios
• December 6, 2018 - Rejoinder: More Limitations of Bayesian Leave-One-Out Cross-Validation
• November 26, 2018 - “Don’t Interfere with my Art”: On the Disputed Role of Preregistration in Exploratory Model Building
• November 15, 2018 - Transparency and The Need for Short Sentences
• October 25, 2018 - “Bayesian Inference Without Tears” at CIRM
• October 18, 2018 - A Bayesian Perspective on the Proposed FDA Guidelines for Adaptive Clinical Trials
• September 20, 2018 - Bayesian Advantages for the Pragmatic Researcher: Slides from a Talk in Frankfurt
• September 13, 2018 - Redefine Statistical Significance XVII: William Rozeboom Destroys the “Justify Your Own Alpha” Argument...Back in 1960
• August 27, 2018 - Redefine Statistical Significance Part XVI: The Commentary by JP de Ruiter
• August 16, 2018 - Replaying the Tape of Life
• August 9, 2018 - A Bayesian Decalogue: Introduction
• August 2, 2018 - A 171-Year-Old Suggestion to Promote Open Science
• July 26, 2018 - Error Rate Schmerror Rate
• July 19, 2018 - The Frequentist Chef
• July 12, 2018 - The Bayesian Chef
• June 8, 2018 - Laplace’s Demon
• June 1, 2018 - Limitations of Bayesian Leave-One-Out Cross-Validation for Model Selection
• May 17, 2018 - On the Importance of Avoiding Shortcuts in Applying Cognitive Models to Hierarchical Data
• May 10, 2018 - Musings on Preregistration: The Case of the Facial Feedback Effect
• May 3, 2018 - Karl Pearson’s Worst Quotation?
• April 26, 2018 - Karl Pearson’s Best Quotation?
• April 19, 2018 - Quantifying Support for the Null Hypothesis in Psychology: An Empirical Investigation
• April 12, 2018 - Bayesian Reanalysis of Null Results Reported in Medicine: Strong Yet Variable Evidence for the Absence of Treatment Effects
• April 4, 2018 - Bayesian Tutorials Galore
• March 23, 2018 - A Holiday in Azkaban: Eight Solid Arguments Against Bayesianism
• March 9, 2018 - The Creativity-Verification Cycle in Psychological Science: New Methods to Combat Old Idols, Part I
• February 9, 2018 - Redefine Statistical Significance Part XV: Do 72+88=160 Researchers Agree on P?
• February 1, 2018 - Redefine Statistical Significance XIV: "Significant" does not Necessarily Mean "Interesting"
• January 26, 2018 - The Case for Radical Transparency in Statistical Reporting
• January 17, 2018 - Replication Studies: A Report from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
• January 11, 2018 - Origin of the Texas Sharpshooter
• December 28, 2017 - Redefine Statistical Significance XIII: The Case of Ego Depletion
• December 21, 2017 - Two Pitfalls of Preregistration: The Case of Ego Depletion
• December 7, 2017 - Redefine Statistical Significance Part XII: A BITSS debate with Simine Vazire and Daniel Lakens
• November 29, 2017 - How to Prevent Your Dog from Getting Stuck in the Dishwasher
• November 23, 2017 - Redefine Statistical Significance Part XI: Dr. Crane Forcefully Presents...a Red Herring?
• October 21, 2017 - A Personal Impression of the ASA Symposium on Statistical Inference: A World Beyond p<.05
• October 5, 2017 - Redefine Statistical Significance Part X: Why the Point-Null Will Never Die
• September 29, 2017 - Redefine Statistical Significance Part IX: Gelman and Robert Join the Fray, But Are Quickly Chased by Two Kangaroos
• September 19, 2017 - Redefine Statistical Significance Part VIII: How 88 Authors Overlooked a Giraffe and Sailed Straight into an Iceberg
• September 15, 2017 - Redefine Statistical Significance Part VII: Bursting the Bubble
• September 8, 2017 - Redefine Statistical Significance Part VI: Another Nail in the .05 Coffin
• September 1, 2017 - Redefine Statistical Significance Part V: A Wizard Walks Into a Sauna and Starts Pawing at a Pizza...
• August 25, 2017 - Redefine Statistical Significance Part IV: A Second Demonstration
• August 18, 2017 - Redefine Statistical Significance Part III: Informed Priors and Oracle Priors
• August 11, 2017 - Redefine Statistical Significance Part II: Caught in a Bad Romance?
• August 3, 2017 - Redefine Statistical Significance Part I: Sleep Trolls & Red Herrings

Misconceptions

• March 14, 2018 - Einstein's Riddle
• February 21, 2018 - Cicero and the Greeks on Necessity and Fortune
• February 16, 2018 - The Merovingian, or Why Probability Belongs Wholly to the Mind
• November 11, 2017 - The Butler, The Maid, And The Bayes Factor
• November 3, 2017 - Bayes Factors for Those Who Hate Bayes Factors
• October 26, 2017 - Popular Misconceptions About Bayesian Inference: Introduction to a Series of Blog Posts

Tools

• November 16, 2017 - Bayes Factors for Stan Models without Tears
• October 11, 2017 - An Interactive App for Designing Informative Experiments