technology, education and training from an industrial/organizational (I/O) psychologist
When trying to learn about machine learning, one of the biggest initial hurdles for social scientists, or even traditional statisticians, are the differences in terminology. The gap between the way social scientists talk about...
Occasionally, I see an article in the press that is just so ridiculously misleading in how it treats statistics that I think: “Wow, what a teachable moment.” This is one such moment. The Atlantic recently...
A report from the National Science Foundation recently stated that a majority of young people believe astrology to be scientific, as reported by Science News, Mother Jones, UPI, and Slashdot, among others. Troubling if...
Ah, the end of the academic year. A time for reflection and furious attempts to get some research done. We are in the midst of Spring semester finals here at ODU, and getting ready...
Over the last week or so, I wrote a web-based tool to automatically generate datasets and worked-out solutions. It creates and displays a dataset, a completed solution, and the results of most intermediary computational...
If you think my writing about statistics is clear below, consider my student-centered, practical and concise Step-by-Step Introduction to Statistics for Business for your undergraduate classes, available now from SAGE. Social scientists of all...