A few years ago, I caused considerable weeping and gnashing of teeth among psychologists for a piece I wrote explaining why psychology isn't science. It was predicated upon a lengthier argument, which ...

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. ~ Ernest Rutherford Many psychology students (and readers of Psychology Today) hate statistics, p < .05. During my ...

Statistics #1: Students do not want to learn the material. This barrier suggests that there is something uninteresting about the content of the course. It’s perceived as boring and lifeless. This ...

Growth and change in technology have brought a boom in the availability of data and the need for people to shape technologies. Growing areas like machine learning require expertise in programming, ...

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