Comments on: Deconstructing the News Media to Learn Statistics

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:00:53 +0000

I just want to know how they calculate the “danger rating”. I’ve done most of these substances and I’m still around to comment on it.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:34:44 +0000

Thank you so much for updating and adding me – I appreciate it and am very flattered! Let’s hope I can educate the masses about the amazing things I-O can do!

By: Richard N. Landers

Richard N. Landers — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:49:44 +0000

Ahh, that is very informative, thank you. It appears my suspicion 5/#1 (“this list was modified by the editor”) is correct – the original paper uses much finer shades of distinction, which changes a lot of my original assumptions. The number of expert raters they used was still 8 to 16 though, depending on the entry – a lot better than 3, but still a fairly small number.

In my undergrad statistics classrooms, I’ve considered a few times looking at how papers are misrepresented in the media (rather than just statistics themselves), but because they don’t have a background in research methods at that point, ultimately concluded it muddied the overall message I wanted to get across.

Maybe in a methods course though…

By: disgruntledphd

disgruntledphd — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:15:23 +0000

The graphic actually comes from a paper published in the Lancet. I believe it was the front page of the London Independent. The paper itself is here: Nutt Development of a rational scale to assess the harm of drugs.pdf

By: Richard N. Landers

Richard N. Landers — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:08:14 +0000

It was odd to me too – that’s what led to the list! I’ve updated your web address on the I/O blogs list and have your RSS in my reader. Looking forward to seeing where you go with Psych at Work.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:28:28 +0000

I couldn’t comment on your page of relevant I/O links so I figured I’d do it here, but I just wanted to say thanks for posting so many amazing resources and that I completely agree that we don’t have nearly enough I-O resources online… it’s odd to me that there isn’t a more centralized way to find Twitter and RSS feeds that are truly I-O (NOT HR, executive coaching that has little to do with any real “evidence” or general business and human capital-related)…

I also wanted to tell you that I’m the owner of Psychology Applied to Life (http://psychoflife.wordpress.com/) and that I’ve more or less moved over to my own domain…. and that I’m doing my best to be a more active blogger and look forward to reading more of your stuff!

By: Shawna

Shawna — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:00:42 +0000

I like the details of your teaching methods and would like to see more posts like this. I’m always interested in hearing about how others run their classrooms.