Maria D. Soto

It is a bit funny seing many people outraged about p-curve, after the well deserved critique by Moorey, but completely unfazed about the still dominant practice of using funnel plots and fail-safe n to claim absence of publication bias.
With common defense "that’s how other studies did it before"...

The Blue Horsehead Nebula IC 4592

A beautiful area in Scorpious constellation. Near the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex adds an amazing object to the already beautiful area. Taken from Atacama.

#Astrophotography #TicosEnAtacama #Astro #Horsehead

Wildfire smoke is a new kind of weather. It can keep us from doing outdoor stuff we enjoy. It can force us to rethink our homes' filtration/ventilation. It can make us, or our kids or elders, sick. Climate change is substantially to blame, but people won't know that until we tell them. Repeatedly.

A small bird with a rounded body and iridescent feathers perches on a branch. Its head and throat shine with deep blue and violet tones, while its chest and sides are covered in soft green and gray. The background is a smooth blur of dark green.

Another nice Costa Rican hummingbird, the tiny Violet-headed Hummingbird. At @tapirvalley.bsky.social

#birds #hummingbirds #nature

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Questionable research practices, QRPs, arising from a theory crisis (via epistemological issues) and replication crisis (via methodological issues) and how they relate to research waste. QRPs concerning the theory crisis relate to poor conceptual design, which comes upstream of the other 3 items of research waste related to QRPs resulting from a replication crisis. Note that selective reporting and incomplete reporting may sound similar, but the former indicates deliberate selection of positive results while the latter represents the lack of culture in providing all the results and associated outcomes, including associated data and code.

New preprint discusses three theory-based QRPs:

🔹 Hypothesizing before understanding theory

🔹 Liberal theory interpretation

🔹 Hypothesis cherry picking

ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

#MetaSci #PhilSci #Methodology #evosky 🧪

A Registered Report of Preregistration Practices in Studies of Electroencephalogram (EEG) and Event-Related Potentials (ERPs): A First-Look at Accessibility, Adherence, Transparency, and Selection Bias

“While preregistration can be a beneficial tool, current practices among authors, reviewers, and editors indicate that this tool is not being used appropriately”

doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

James Webb Satellite took a fantastic shot of the Planet Saturn with it's Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). This is just an Amazing shot that shows the planet and the rings in brilliant detail.

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Excellent and provocative lecture by @ulrichschimmack.bsky.social on measurement at the 4M winterschool. "It is hard to reward people for thinking."

"There is nothing wrong with exploring the data. How else will we discover new things? Especially when your crappy model does not fit."

Great history lesson from @lakens.bsky.social with the @psicostat.bsky.social group at the University of Padova. History is repeating itself, but we also get a little better after each crisis was the positive take away for me.

Carl Sagan tried to warn us.

The Validation Crisis in Psychology Most published psychological measures are unvalid.  (subtitle)*unvalid = the validity of the measure is un-known. 2022/01/01 UPDATE This blog post attracted a lot of attention when it was first pos…

The validation crisis in psychology?
Most measures lack proper construct validation.
Here you can read a summary of the key points (< 2 minute read).
replicationindex.com/2019/02/16/t...

Our article on the reliability of people's susceptibility of #anchoring effects is now published in Meta-Psychology: Reliability is low, personality moderators are puzzling, and we do not know whether it can be measured reliably at all: open.lnu.se/index.php/me...

Writing about technical topics in an accessible manner A wise man – I’m quite sure it was Brian Wansink – once pointed out that it is impossible to both read and write a lot. So, maybe reading a post about how to write just steals time from the more urgen...

Behind the first door of the 100% CI advent calendar is a new blog post! In which I hand out unsolicited writing advice -- with a focus on writing about technical topics in an accessible manner, but most of it is fairly general: www.the100.ci/2024/12/01/w...