Chris Said

Yesterday I posted a very unscientific survey asking researchers to describe how failed replications changed their subjective estimates of effect sizes.

As of yesterday I thought the debate about replication in psychology was converging on consensus in at least one respect.

Next week I’m going to start a new job as a data scientist at Twitter and I am thrilled.

If I had a chance to remake the high school STEM curriculum to reflect the skills that are actually needed in today’s world, my changes might look something like this:

National unemployment is high, but business is booming in some states.

I just finished an excellent fellowship at Insight Data Science.

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Binocular rivalry is a visual illusion that occurs when the two eyes are presented with incompatible images.

The US and Canada have very different systems for funding science.

There is a reproducibility crisis in psychology.

Let’s get one thing out of the way first: There is not a single scientist or science journalist who doesn’t know that correlation does not equal causation.

If there is one thing I have learned recently, it is that autism is a really, really complicated disorder.

Contrast response functions (CRFs) describe how a neuron’s firing rate depends on the contrast, or intensity, of a visual stimulus.

Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and several other elite universities have all recently announced that they will be be offering free online courses.

This is a continuously updated list of responses to questions I get about the main post and Top 8 List, which should be read first.

Another day, another New York Times report on bad practice in biomedical science.