I’m a little late to the game on the new paper A peculiar prevalence of p values just below .05, available to download here for free. The authors gathered 1,092 p-values from the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 1,760 from the … Continue reading
The first paper in the June, 2012, issue of Language (Asymmetries in generalizing alternations to and from initial syllables, by Becker, Nevins, & Levine, henceforth BNL; table of contents pdf here) begins with the typological observation that, in many languages, initial … Continue reading
Suppose you’re doing a meta-analysis and you have a t statistic which you want to use to estimate a Cohen’s measure of effect size. Appendix D in the 2010 meta-analysis by Spada and Tomita gives the following formula (citing Rosenthal, 1991, Meta-analytic … Continue reading
In the new issue of Language, there is an interesting paper titled “A test of the relation between working memory capacity and syntactic island effects” by Sprouse, Wagers, and Phillips. Here’s a preprint pdf of the paper hosted on the first … Continue reading
A post on Neuroskeptic yesterday reminded me of one of my biggest pet peeves in reporting the results of statistical tests. And just to be clear, the point here is not to pick on Neuroskeptic (whose blog I enjoy quite … Continue reading
Jonah Lehrer has a recent article about concussions in football on grantland.com. His description of the “sickness” of football – the frequency and long-term effects of concussions – is awful: …[football] inflicts concussions on its players with devastating frequency. Although estimates … Continue reading
