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303. How much statistics do psychological scientists need to know? Also, a reading list (De to bøger der nævnes i indlægget, Understanding Psychology as a Science og Statistical Rethinking, kan varmt anbefales.) 304. Defining Open Science Definitions 305. Same Stats, Different Graphs: Generating Datasets with Varied Appearance and Identical Statistics through Simulated Annealing 306. Correlates […]

Da Søren Pape Poulsen i 2014 afløste Lars Barfoed som politisk leder for de Konservative, kunne BT rapportere, at “10 pct. af vælgerne overvejer at stemme på De Konservative”. Artiklen kaldte det for Pape-effekten, altså en fremgang til partiet, der kunne tilskrives den nye partileder. Hvor stor var denne Pape-effekt? Figur 1 viser hvordan det […]

I have a new short paper titled Problems with the Big Five assessment in the World Values Survey in Personality and Individual Differences (co-authored with Steven Ludeke). In the paper, we examine basic psychometric properties of the Big Five personality traits included in Wave 6 of the World Values Survey. The abstract: Publicly-available data from […]

294. UK government using R to modernize reporting of official statistics 295. Seeing Theory: A visual introduction to probability and statistics 296. Excel is threatening the quality of research data — Data Packages are here to help 297. Strange R Things 298. Social Media and Big Data Research 299. Announcing ggraph: A grammar of graphics […]

TV 2 skriver, at halvdelen af alle ægteskaber ender i opløsning, men at det ikke afspejler sig i danskernes vurderinger af deres parforhold. Dette fremstilles som noget tilnærmelsesvist paradoksalt, hvorfor der konkluderes: “Derfor er det også overraskende for eksperter, at danskerne er tilfredse i deres parforhold.” Det interessante er selvfølgelig, at det på ingen måde […]