Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Also: keen angler; ageing cricketer; happy hiker; newbie guitarist. Surrey, UK and Deux-Sevres, France.
@dennyborsboom "The sum score is not just a poor man’s test score but provides a defensible ordinal approximation of the latent variable under surprisingly general conditions."
On classical test theory CTT
"the crucial insight is that CTT can operate in the absence of
assumptions regarding the test’s dimensionality or factorial composition"
"What CTT did right, however, is provide a solid theoretical framework for determining the
degree to which test scores are influenced by random error. "
An excellent, readable & important psychometrics paper (not a combination of words that I have often used or seen elsewhere). Sijtsma, K., Ellis, J. L., & Borsboom, D. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11336-024-09964-7
@dennyborsboom
Highly quotable too.
"<Sum scores> may have been intuitive at the start of psychometrics more than a century ago but ... it proved a highly fortunate hunch that has been substantiated through a century of psychometric theory formation. "
JEP:General has accepted our paper on a possible neural basis for the feeling of agency. Great to work with Greg Ashby again plus new co-authors Heidi Zetzer and Collie Conoley. Accepted version available here
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/rtmfv
Should statistical procedures used in science be evaluated on a statistical level or on the level of the scientific system? In my blog, I argue for a greater role of philosophy of science in evaluating claim-making based on a cut-off (e.g., 0.05). https://daniellakens.blogspot.com/2024/01/surely-god-loves-51-kmh-nearly-as-much.html
Final paper from Dimitra Kale's PhD has just appeared. It was a pleasure to co-supervise Dimitra's PhD. The paper is on links betwen e-cigaratee use, smoking status at follow-up and the role of impulsive personality traits. It's open access. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14659891.2023.2275015
A contribution on modelling creativity with James Lloyd-Cox, Roger Beaty and Joydeep Bhattacharya https://x.com/roger_beaty/status/1717176987167445123?s=48&t=yUSlBGMQ2os9_Jsa67uaAw
a recommendation for a big fat book to take on holiday: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver - an immersive experience.
Particularly good if you know David Copperfield.
Best novel I’ve read this year - see here for background https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/16/barbara-kingsolver-rural-people-are-so-angry-they-want-to-blow-up-the-system
#goodreads #bookclub #novel #bookrecommendation #DemonCopperhead #BarbaraKingsolver
For an update on my 2023 fishing and reading challenge see here: https://samplingdistribution.blogspot.com/2023/05/how-my-2023-challenge-has-been-going.html with short reviews of books by
@FryRsquared (bird site)
@RussInCheshire and #Longmire author Craig Johnson
Our editorial walkout at NeuroImage immortalised by @dglaucomflecken is the absolute icing on the cake 🤌😙
#TheWeekInTory is back. Sorry for the long break, I've been very busy working on a new book.
Now I read the small print more carefully it is still funny but reasonably self-explanatory
This is very clever h/t Caspar Addyman on the other site (@czzpr) for explaining it https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/p-3
@deevybee happy to help too. There are lots of things that are trivial in Matlab that are burdensome in R. Each language of course has its strengths and weaknesses. Matlab online queries aren’t something I’ve posted a lot of ‘cos I can usually find the answer by googling; so I can’t say if there is more passive aggression. Matlab users can feel a bit embarrassed about using proprietary software; so maybe they can be a bit defensive?
Once again, I'm reminded of how much the billionaire space race has absolutely destroyed my love of rockets.
10 years ago, I definitely would have been paying close attention to the current giant SpaceX launch. But because I know it's going to be used to launch hundreds of unregulated, unsafe, polluting, for-profit Starlink satellites at once, I just can't look.
Instead of being excited and awestruck by a new gigantic rocket launch, it just makes me want to puke.
@david_colquhoun @lakens and if you want an object lesson in how important it is to think sensibly about priors you can read my recent blog https://samplingdistribution.blogspot.com/2023/04/fixing-really-ugly-model-post-script-to.html?m=1 where I explain (and correct) the poor choice of prior I had made in an earlier blog. It was only a toy model for illustration but the point still holds.
New blog post: Preventing common misconceptions about Bayes factors: https://daniellakens.blogspot.com/2023/04/preventing-common-misconceptions-about.html
If I missed any important misconceptions, or if I made any mistakes, do let me know!
Mea culpa. My last blog post contains a toy model for #Bayesian inference that was a bit pants. It has been bugging me so much I have tried to fix it while I’ve been on holiday in Japan. The new toy model is much better. You can read about the update here https://samplingdistribution.blogspot.com/2023/04/fixing-really-ugly-model-post-script-to.html
