Episode 2 - Examining analytic flexibility
Episode 2 - Examining analytic flexibility\n\nThis week discuss analytic flexibility in \u201cFalse-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant\u201d from Simmons, Nelson, & Simonsohn (2011) http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797611417632\n\nHighlights:\n[1:00] What is a false positive anyway?\n[3.30] Dead salmon fMRI study http://prefrontal.org/files/posters/Bennett-Salmon-2009.pdf\n[4:30] Pregnant men as our example of false positives\n[8:30] Garden of forking paths\n[11:00] Gelman & Lokens (2013) http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/p_hacking.pdf \n[18:00] precognition - we needed results that broke physics to show us the problems in psychology\n[21:00] Table 1 and simulating researcher degrees of freedom\n[24:30] \u201cOur goal as scientists is not to publish as many articles as\nwe can, but to discover and disseminate truth.\u201d\n[27:30] you can always get significances with optional stopping\n[29:30] March of the P-values https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OL1RqHrZQ8, \u2018Improving your statistical inferences\u2019 on Coursera with Daniel Lakens (@lakens)\n[32:00] Solutions, inc. transparency and preregistration\n\nMusic credit: Kevin MacLeod - Funkeriffic\nfreepd.com/misc.php