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On Elsevier buying Mendeley
[Update: Steve Dennis, a developer for Mendeley, posted a comment explaining a bit more about the data collection and privacy concerns some users have with Mendeley Desktop. It adds some pros and cons...
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On the perils of Express Scribe (software to aid transcription)
As part of the introductory qualitative methods course I am taking, each of us must conduct interviews and transcribe them as part of a larger class project. I recorded the interviews using Easy Voice...
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Another comic related to correlation and causation
Tree Lobsters has another statistics comic related to correlation, causation, and the misconception that they are the same thing. This comic really captures the need for greater statistical and...
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A Comic on Randomness in Sports
I recently heard the Radiolab episode entitled Stochasticity. My feelings on the episode are mixed, and I am currently preparing a post in which I review the episode with some reasonably detailed...
View ArticleSupplementary CD for "Thinking Mathematically"
I need to use Carpenter, Franke, and Levi's Thinking Mathematically: Integrating Arithmetic and Algebra in Elementary School for a course. This textbook includes a supplementary CD with video examples...
View ArticleDetangling Predatory and Fake Journals: My Experience with JETS
A Moment of Excitement Few emails are exciting. When my phone buzzes, I expect messages about meetings, events, homework, projects, or from some list to which I have been subscribed. Oh, a parking lot...
View ArticlePeer Review and Open Access in the Headlines Again
Peer Review and Open Access on the Radio The internal systems used by research and academia are not often the subject of discussion by members of the public. They are, after all, somewhat tedious and...
View ArticlePrudential's "Stickers" Commercial
I spotted a dot plot while watching TV the other day: It isn't too frequently that one sees a dot plot on TV, so this is a good opportunity to discuss something students might have encountered. Using...
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Updates and changes to my ThinkPad T420i
While I haven't been doing much posting recently, I have been doing behind-the-scenes work on this website. The main thing was that I changed quite a few images from being hot-linked (when sites were...
View ArticleListen to your advisor
With three years of grad school under my belt and three to go, I feel like I've accumulated a fair bit of experience that would make for good advice to people starting out. I'm going to start posting...
View ArticleAcademia is a lot more complicated than "publish or perish"
When talking with people about academia and metrics for success, the adage "publish or perish" is often brought up. Even people far removed from academia seem to have heard it. However, simply...
View ArticlePriorities in grad school
I know that I haven’t really been keeping up with this blog, and I’m not making promises to myself to keep up with it in any sort of regularly-scheduled-posting way. I will, however, continue to make...
View ArticleEating in Gainesville
There’s no shortage of good restaurants in Gainesville. Branching out beyond the near-campus and Archer Road selections early was one of the best decisions I made as an undergraduate because, as my...
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Statistics on The West Wing
The United States decennial census features heavily in the sixth episode of The West Wing (S1E6, “Mr. Willis of Ohio”). In particular, the topic of sampling versus a door-to-door headcount is discussed...
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PDF Reader for Windows with Highlighting
Previously, I had been annotating PDFs on my Nexus 7 (2012) using ezPDF Reader Pro (by Unidocs) with good results. The most useful feature was the ability to highlight text in different colors. (This...
View ArticleCrafting a CV: Decisions, decisions…
My curriculum vitae – the Latin origin of “CV”, a term so ubiquitous in academia and so rare outside (in the US) that it may serve as a shibboleth – slowly evolved out of a résumé that I began as an...
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Null (baseline) model RMSEA in Mplus
Familiarity with statistical computing software - particularly programs as flexible and feature-filled as R and the packages on CRAN - has been a tremendous boon. However, this familiarity has sent me...
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Introducing TranscribeSharp
I've previously recounted how I was (am) unsatisfied with ExpressScribe for controlling audio playback for transcribing interviews. Because the basic functionality of the program is so straightforward...
View ArticleAttitudes Toward Statistics Scale (ATS)
A commonly-referenced survey for measuring attitudes about statistics is the Attitudes Toward Statistics Scale (ATS) (Wise, 1985). In their meta-analysis, Nolan, Beran, and Hecker (2012) helpfully...
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