Time to start collecting useful bits of writing, maybe for teaching, but maybe just to think about. Source: Half an Hour: An Ethics Primer
Category: research skills
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Strava maps show where Australian cyclists go
A fitness app is bringing new insights into the way we use bicycles. Source: Strava maps show where Australian cyclists go An interesting example of using “big data” constructively – and maybe a good sort of thing to look at…
The Increasing Problem With the Misinformed
The public is no longer uninformed. They are misinformed, and that requires an entirely different editorial focus. When writing for the uninformed, your focus is to report the news, which is what every newspaper is doing today. But when focusing…
Neuroscience Fiction – The New Yorker
The first and foremost reason why we shouldn’t simply disown neuroscience altogether is an obvious one: if we want to understand our minds, from which all of human nature springs, we must come to grips with the brain’s biology. The…
Stimulus timing accuracy in PsychoPy – an update, and an example of open science in action | Computing for Psychologists
Stimulus timing accuracy in PsychoPy – an update, and an example of open science in action | Computing for Psychologists. However, there’s a wider picture that’s revealed by this little episode, and a very interesting one I think. As a…
On the creation of higher education cartels
From a piece on “The Conversation” written by our Pro Vice Chancellor for research. It is a sobering thought. Another was that PhD students will also incur additional HECS debt for each year of their PhD, and in the meantime…
Dread risk and secondary data analysis
A few meetings back this article/concept came up in discussion and I promised I would post about it for the group. Gigerenzer, G. (2004). Dread risk, September 11, and fatal traffic accidents. Psychological science, 15(4), 286-287. doi: 10.1111/j.0956-7976.2004.00668.x There are…
The R programming language
As a follow up to this week’s meeting, the R programming language is a free statistical programing/data analysis language. You can download the latest version for free from the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) http://cran.r-project.org/ To get R on…
Misunderstanding information needs
When information you need finds you first A disturbing (to me) trend in misunderstanding the way that humans use information – it’s superficially a nice idea to think that technology could determine our information “needs”, but this whole notion discounts…