Klint Kanopka

PRIISM | Responsible use of Pseudo-Random Number Generators in Applied Scientific Research Join PRIISM and Dr. Charles Rahal to learn how to use pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs) responsibly in research.

Tomorrow at the PRIISM seminar: @crahal.com is going to talk to use about potential pitfalls and sources of error caused by psuedorandom number generation in social science research. Talk is at 11a eastern time on Zoom and open to anyone. RSVP here: steinhardt.nyu.edu/events/respo...

If you like the slides and the site that's hosting them, feel free to check out the code that generated them here: github.com/klintkanopka...

I've said this before, but I really love my statistical computing course. Tomorrow is one of my favorite days, where we start using MCMC.

This semester I've redone all of my slides and am hosting them on a public site, so feel free to check them out: klintkanopka.com/lecture-slid...

Likert is Pronounced "LICK-urt" not "LIE-kurt" and the Data are Ordinal not Interval - PubMed Likert-type scales are popular in educational research and often times analyzed using parametric tests. Implied in this kind of study is a general assumption that these data are interval in nature. Th...

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My co-author demanded that the icon actually be cute instead of the horrific thing I presented at IMPS.

Unified Framework for Computer Adaptive Testing Simulations Provides an extensible framework for conducting simulations to compare data generating processes, item selection algorithms, parameter update algorithms, and stopping rules in computer adaptive testin...

Wanted to hype up a software package I'm debuting today. If you do computer adaptive testing (CAT) research and are developing your own item selection/parameter update/exposure control algorithms, take a look at meow - a unified framework to make CAT simulation easier!

klintkanopka.com/meow/

Same!! Gut feel is that it’s getting attributed to measurement error because they’re not really set up to disentangle the two

“When achievement follows the state-space model and there is no heterogeneity in growth rates”

Apparently some people like listening to me blather on about things!

Thanks to @crahal.com for inviting me, this seminar has some amazing speakers lined up and brilliant attendees.

Incredibly proud of the work @ruitings.bsky.social did, and it’s even more impressive that she just finished the first year of her master’s program!

I gave my first conference paper presentation at IMPS 2025 on process data analysis (credits to my amazing advisor @klint.bsky.social for all his support and advice) I also did my first data challenge and got a third prize (credits to my wonderful teammates Jessie and Na) #IMPS2025 #Psychometrics

@ramina-sotoudeh.bsky.social gave an AMAZING talk yesterday as part of the #metrics-and-models seminar series👏. Next (30.07), we have @klint.bsky.social on "Reproducing Expert Judgement with Shortened Surveys using Simulated Annealing"🔥! See website for more; metrics-and-models.github.io!

Thank you @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social for featuring our study! @jyeatman.bsky.social @klint.bsky.social

I didn’t make it

They aren’t, a common convention in our field is to use thetas for latent qualities of persons

Amazing. I used to have \hat hat I got from mathpix. For some reason the closest thing I have to photographic evidence makes me look like I’m about to “vote by mail.”

I saw Russ Almond wearing a fishing vest at NCME in Toronto and became obsessed with the vibe, but I don’t carry enough snacks.

We are estimating latent traits here

Shoutouts to @pmetricsoc.bsky.social and University of Minnesota Ed Psych for having the most unhinged (free) conference merch I’ve ever seen

🔥Coming July 2: 'Metrics and Models'!🔥

A new seminar series on advanced modelling w/ impact across health/society.

🌍 Open to *ALL*!
🕑 Weds 2pm UK alternating weeks (online)
🔗 metrics-and-models.github.io
📬 metrics_and_models-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk

Brilliant speakers. *Please share*!

YouTube video by Philadelphia Eagles 26 Minutes of the Tush Push

In honor of the failure of 22 cowardly owners: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUHh...

Competitive Self-Presentation and GAI | PRIISM Join PRIISM and Dr. Austin van Loon to learn about an ongoing online experiment investigating how generative AI in college admission essays may reshape the demographic makeup of admitted students and ...

Join us for our last (hybrid) PRIISM seminar of the academic year on 5/7! @austin-van-loon.bsky.social will present an experiment looking at how generative AI in admission essays may reshape the demographics of admitted students and how merit is evaluated.

RSVP: steinhardt.nyu.edu/events/compe...

That's a handsome garment, Andrew. Where might someone be able to obtain one? @ncme38.bsky.social

Two-day online short course: Introduction to Social Network Analysis taught by Tracy Sweet. $395 and $195 student discount!

Anyone interested in learning social network analysis in R? I'll be teaching a workshop soon. May 15/16th.
umd-cilvr.catalog.instructure.com/courses/intr...

Not quite- you’re way closer than you think! What you described is referred to as “differential item functioning.” This talk is about something akin to a specific and narrow version of that.

Not quite - @jbgilbert.bsky.social can chime in, but the application is in RCTs. When the goal is to measure the effect of an intervention or treatment condition, it may be that only a subset of responses to items show a treatment effect. Maybe a math test only shows an effect on geometry items, say

PRIISM | Estimating heterogeneous treatment effects with item-level data Join PRIISM and Josh Gilbert to learn how to unmask hidden treatment effects within individual test items using Item Response Theory and to understand how to overcome the limitations of traditional si...

Join us at the intersection of causal inference and psychometrics as we host Josh Gilbert (@jbgilbert.bsky.social) at the PRIISM Seminar.

Wednesday @ 10a: Estimating heterogeneous treatment effects with item-level data: Insights from Item Response Theory

steinhardt.nyu.edu/events/estim...

Incredibly excited to have this finally come out! Model evaluation should be about comparisons, so we have a metric that puts comparisons in predictive performance on a common scale. I can’t make a thread about this better than @crahal.com, so I’ll let him take it away.

Manhattan of all places. I used to obsessively document them when I lived in Philly. In 2018, there were three between Bryant Park and Radio City, and this is the only still left.

Saw something nice on a walk today