About this Episode
What are the defining characteristics of a good psychology study? We received this excellent question from a listener and decided to do a whole episode on this idea.
Some of the topics discussed:
- When’s the last time you saw a psych study that only reported a t-test?
- Dan and James’ new paper on worry and heart rate variability
- Skepticism towards studies with many variables and ‘novel’ statistical approaches (that tend to always provide marvellous results)
- Repeated measures ANOVAs vs. linear mixed models
- Publishing convenient ideas, even if they’re wrong
- Fishing expeditions
- The ‘nocebo’ effect in action
- What are markers of study quality?
- Pre-registering studies - can it be gamed?
- The gradual improvement of psychology studies
Links
Dan and James' new paper on worry and heart rate variability
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27255891
The paper that said "Encouraging experimental psychologists to use LMMs was like giving shotguns to toddlers.”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25657634
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