technology, education and training from an industrial/organizational (I/O) psychologist
If you’re physically attractive, the world simply treats you better. But what about virtual attractiveness? Do people react to the attractiveness of virtual people the same way they react to real people?
Use poorly constructed figures in the news media to learn or teach statistics! Because there are certainly plenty of them.
Without a clear rationale for doing so, statistical significance testing on sample-level statistics can mislead and confuse. Schmidt (2010) provides a clear explanation of how to avoid this problem through psychometric meta-analysis.
An upcoming paper in Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking examines participant drop out rates in online surveys. I even made a handy chart!
I began today by drafting a comment response to this article by Rey Junco about “why educators must become hackers,” but after I started writing, it became obvious that this deserved a much more complete response.
Getting rid of performance reviews only tells your employees and your customers that the performance level of your employees doesn’t matter. That’s not the message most organizations want to communicate, is it?