Episode 2 - Examining analytic flexibility

Published: July 10, 2018, 9:05 p.m.

b'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Garden of forking paths\\n[11:00] Gelman & Lokens (2013) http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/p_hacking.pdf \\n[18:00] precognition - we needed results that broke physics to show us the problems in psychology\\n[21:00] Table 1 and simulating researcher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'