moin syed

@syeducation.bsky.social

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Professor of Psychology, University of Minnesota. Sporadically writing stuff at http://getsyeducated.substack.com

header shot of the article, Psychology wants to stay WEIRD, not go WILD
…a zealous and clever investigator can slowly wend his way through a tenuous nomological network, performing a long series of related experiments which appear to the uncritical reader as a fine example of “an integrated research program,” without ever once refuting or corroborating so much as a single strand of the network.
Implications of our analysis extend to the broader narrative of replicability crisis. Declarations of crisis rest on the implicit inferential claim that observed replicability rates (such as the 36% reported in the Replicability Project: Psychology, Collaboration, 2015) are meaningfully lower than what a high-replicability literature would produce…. The crisis, if it exists, cannot be established by the methods used to declare it. (p. 28-29, italics in original)
screenshot of article on data viz in R
a figure that distinguishes qualitative and quantitative data from analysis.
description of one reason to sign your reviews--authors often make a lot of assumptions about who the reviewer is, and they are often wrong
no words could possibly describe what this image is, but in short, it's a measurement model
a figure showing the direct replication rate in psychology going from basically nothing in 2010 to slightly more than nothing by 2021.
A figure showing the supposed starting and ending years for the "millennial" generation, showing wide variation in both.
A another figure that makes no sense, celestial mediation and such.
A figure so bizarre and wrong that it cannot be described
A conference session notice that reads, "CANCELLED: ChatGPT Ate My Study: AI and the Future of Data"
Screenshot of job ad for postdoc. Follow link for details.
A crowd holding candles in the night
A tin of jingle jangle
google thinks colonel sanders is paul meehl. to be fair, meehl did write an article called, "wanted: a good cookbook," but to my knowledge he was not a colonel or knowledgeable of herbs and spices (he was from minnesota)
Screenshot of the article, "Psychology wants to stay WEIRD, not go WILD"
A screenshot of the title and abstract for Christopher Green's, Why Psychology Isn't Unified, and Probably Never Will Be
an image showing the different ways one can assess how funny limecat is. no matter how you do it, you will find that it is very funny indeed.
A screenshot from the PCI Psychology editorial
creepy photo of a man smiling maniacally next to a woman who is sleeping, or perhaps dead.
image that says "does it matter if your romantic partner is similar to you"