Month: November 2020

I was rereading the paper ‘The New Statistics: Why and How‘ published in Psychological Science the other day. It’s a great paper and I can highly recommend reading it. If you are busy (and I guess you are), make sure to at least read the 25 guidelines for improving psychological research (in Table 1). Here […]

Dette er en forlængelse af mit forrige indlæg med observationer relateret til COVID-19. Gensyn. Færre film bliver lavet og udgivet i løbet af pandemien. Flere film, der skulle have været ude nu, er blevet udskudt til 2021, og mange projekter er blevet sat på pause. Dette betyder også, at der ganske enkelt er mere tid […]

My previous post with assorted links from various topics was published in 2012. Except for stuff related to statistics, I haven’t kept track of some of the interesting articles and blog posts I’ve read over the years (I wish I had), so here is an attempt at getting started again. 1. “Reality” is constructed by […]

A new paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that politicians who are averse to lying have lower reelection rates. If true, this finding has substantial implications for whether politicians with ambitions of getting (re)elected should lie or not. Accordingly, I found it extra relevant to read this manuscript carefully (in contrast […]