16: What makes a good psych study?
What are the defining characteristics of a good psychology study? We received this excellent question from a listener and decided to do a whole episode on this idea.
\n\nSome of the topics discussed:
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- When\u2019s the last time you saw a psych study that only reported a t-test? \n
- Dan and James\u2019 new paper on worry and heart rate variability \n
- Skepticism towards studies with many variables and \u2018novel\u2019 statistical approaches (that tend to always provide marvellous results) \n
- Repeated measures ANOVAs vs. linear mixed models \n
- Publishing convenient ideas, even if they\u2019re wrong \n
- Fishing expeditions \n
- The \u2018nocebo\u2019 effect in action \n
- What are markers of study quality? \n
- Pre-registering studies - can it be gamed? \n
- The gradual improvement of psychology studies \n
Links
\n\nDan and James' new paper on worry and heart rate variability
\n\nhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27255891
\n\nThe paper that said "Encouraging experimental psychologists to use LMMs was like giving shotguns to toddlers.\u201d
\n\nhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25657634
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