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Infrequent Random Thoughts

DSUS5 has arrived!

Blatant plug for the latest edition of my SPSS textbook

StinkFiske

Research critique

Discussion of Susan Fiske’s ‘methodological terrorists’ comments

If you’re not doing something different, you’re not doing anything at all.

Blatant plug for my new textbook

Max or No Max?

Are sepultura better with or without Max Cavelera?

To retract or to not retract, that is the question

Discussion about retraction

The referee’s a …

Tongue in cheek look at Mike Dean’s refereeing decisions

Perhaps my oxytocin was low when I read this paper

research critique

Critique of work on oxytocin and happiness

Bat cunnilingus and spurious results

Research critique

Critique of work on bat cunnilingus

FAQ #1: K-S Tests in SPSS

Answering a question about the K-S test in IBM SPSS Statistics

You can’t trust your PhD supervisor

Researcher degrees of freedom

Comments on some stuff my ex-PhD supervisor said

Assumptions Part 2: Homogeneity of Variance/Homoscedasticity

OLS linear models

The assumption of homoscedasticity

A discussion of the assumption of homoscedasticity

Assumptions Part 1: Normality

OLS linear models

The assumption of normality

A discussion of the assumption of normality

Side effects

Statistical literacy

A discussion of the importance of statistical literacy

Bonferroni correcting lots of correlations

Bonferroni correction

A discussion of Conferroni corrections

SPSS is not dead

One-tailed tests

A discussion of the use of IBM SPSS Statistics

One-tailed tests

One-tailed tests

A discussion of using one-tailed tests

Rock makes you racist … apparently

Research critique

A critque of research that newspapers claim show that rock makes you rascist