Attacking a study for using a non-representative, typically online convenience sample is common practice. However, for most studies, this is wrong-headed and here I want to argue why that is…
Although Meng Hu has recently provided a very thorough review of test bias methods, I thought it would be helpful to have a more visual, intuitive approach for those not…
One of the things I did to teach myself R programming was to create a bunch of interactive statistics tools written using the awesome R Shiny package. These are still…
I recently posted a book review of Garett Jones' 10% less Democracy. My main beef with the book is that it relies on lots of studies with dubious p values,…
Reporting the proportion of variance explained by some statistical model is ubiquitous. However, just like p-values, it is a misleading metric. I'll try explain why it is used, and why…
Age heaping is a fascinating method. I blogged about it back in 2015, hoping that someone would take up the idea of fusing this literature from historical economics with modern…
OK, it has been written about already by some others, but I also want to talk about this John Protzko pile-on: https://twitter.com/JProtzko/status/1554112968245137408 Here's the original plot in case the tweet…
One of the best things about R is that there is a never-ending stream of new short textbooks being written. Most of these are now written using the neat bookdown…
Reading over some sibling control studies, BIG TOUGH GUY mentioned this quite wrong study: Meier, S. M., Mors, O., & Parner, E. (2017). Familial confounding of the association between maternal…
Cooper, C. (2018). Psychological testing: theory and practice. Routledge. This is a pretty food good introduction to psychometrics (the science of psychological measurement). There is the now customary dislike for…