#statstab #528 Survey Bot Detection Workshop

Thoughts: "Pick a cutoff value for detecting random responders" can you spot the bots?

#OpenScience #bots #detection #sample #human #participants #deception #shinyapp #education #tutorial

https://falkcarl.shinyapps.io/BotApp1/

#statstab #527 t is for Trouble (and Textbooks): A Critique of Some Examples of the Paired-Samples t-test

Thoughts: Some issues seem to reappear in the field. We need better training.

#ttest #design #methods #error #analysis #repeatedmeasures
#outliers

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2987888.pdf?casa_token=cJM8NiLV_ygAAAAA:yWSbczJx4y1-PwhXptS3vh7mwzPzJ_VnUoF7w_v8yvKcY6kJku29daCauTL6V6tywgHdAPI8rAZqCLXgBsh873fRUXM8jjpbjRqN0AX-t8I3e-rXMQ

#statstab #526 A Meta-Analysis of the Impact and Heterogeneity of Explicit Demand Characteristics

Thoughts: The impact of the design on conclusions is under-appreciated

#demandcharacteristics #design #methodology #error #bias
#metascience #metaanalysis

https://online.ucpress.edu/collabra/article/11/1/143005/212614/A-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Impact-and-Heterogeneity-of

#statstab #525 What Good Is a Regression? Inference to the Best Explanation and the Practice of Political Science Research

Thoughts: It's interesting to see how other fields consider the problem of knowledge generation

#polisci #epistemology #inference

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/734280

#524 Interactions in Logit Regressions: Why Positive May Mean Negative

Thoughts: Nonlinear models require a bit more caution for new researchers when making inferences.

#logit #inference #causalinference #interaction
#datacolada

https://datacolada.org/57

#statstab #523 Equal vs. Proportional Weighting in Least-Squares Means

Thoughts: Interesting comparisons of bias for the two methods. Complex stuff.

I wonder what people make of this.

#weighting #error #bias #LSM #emmeans #covariates

https://imazubi.github.io/stats/stats_equal_vs_proportional_lsm/index_equal_vs_proportional_lsm.html

🚨 Come to iIIRG 2026 to hear our talk about better methods to analysing interview data! W/ Dr Cody Porter and @mattansb

#belgium #conference #methods #investigativeinterview