{"id":1750,"date":"2017-02-25T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T08:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2017-12-28T21:28:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T21:28:03","slug":"cool-nerds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/cool-nerds\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Nerds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1751 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/AdobeStock_78730235_Credit-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"AdobeStock_78730235_Credit\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/AdobeStock_78730235_Credit-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/AdobeStock_78730235_Credit-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a Learning and the Brain devotee, you may have heard about p-values; you may even have heard about the &#8220;p-value crisis&#8221;\u00a0in the social sciences &#8212; especially psychology.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/fredrikdeboer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/The-P-Value-Crisis.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">white paper<\/a> by Fredrik deBoer explains the problem, offers some useful context, and gives you several strategies to see past the muddle.<\/p>\n<p>Although deBoer&#8217;s considering very technical questions here, he writes with clarity and even a bit of humor. If you like digging into stats and research methodology, this short paper is well worth your time.<\/p>\n<p>(As you may know, deBoer writes frequently &#8212; and controversially &#8212; about politics. I&#8217;m neither endorsing nor criticizing those views; I just think this paper makes an abstruse topic unusually clear.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a Learning and the Brain devotee, you may have heard about p-values; you may even have heard about the &#8220;p-value crisis&#8221;\u00a0in the social sciences &#8212; especially psychology. This white paper by Fredrik deBoer explains the problem, offers some useful context, and gives you several strategies to see past the muddle. Although deBoer&#8217;s considering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":1751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,35],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-methodology","tag-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1753,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions\/1753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}