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In this episode, Dan and James are joined by Andy Field (University of Sussex), author of the \u201cDiscovering Statistics\u201d textbook series, to chat about statistical literacy.

Highlights:

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• The story behind Andy\u2019s new book
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• SPSS and Bayesian statistics
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• Andy explains why he thinks the biggest problem in science is statistical illiteracy
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• Researcher degrees of freedom and p-hacking
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• The story behind the the first version of \u2018Discovering statistics\u2019
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• How to improve your statistical literacy
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• Does peer review improve the statistics of papers
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• Researchers will draw different conclusions on the same dataset
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• The American Statistical Association\u2019s statement on p-values
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• How has the teaching of statistics for psychology degrees changed over the years
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• Andy fact checks his own Wikipedia page
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• Andy\u2019s thoughts on Bayesian statistics and how he applied it in a recent paper
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• The peer review of new statistical methods
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• Andy\u2019s future textbook plans
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• The rudeness of mailing lists/discussion forums
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• What is something academia or stats-related that Andy believes that others think is crazy?
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• The one book that Andy recommends that everyone should read
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• We learn the crossover in James and Andy\u2019s taste in metal bands
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Links

Andy\u2019s books: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/author/andy-field-0
\nThe \u2018PENIS of statistics\u2019 lecture from Andy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe3_DeLC2JE
\nDaniel Lakens\u2019 Coursera course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/statistical-inferences
\nThe American Statistical Association\u2019s statement on p-values: http://amstat.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00031305.2016.1154108
\nThe refereeing decision paper: https://osf.io/gvm2z/
\nR stan: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rstan/index.html
\nStatistical rethinking book: https://www.crcpress.com/Statistical-Rethinking-A-Bayesian-Course-with-Examples-in-R-and-Stan/McElreath/p/book/9781482253443

Music credits: Lee Rosevere freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/

Special Guest: Andy Field.

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