#BayesInPsych: Spiking a slab with sleepless pillow talk and prior inequalities

I recently finished reading Suzanne Buffam’s, A Pillow Book. This is a book of non-fiction poetry about thoughts and musings that may enter the mind as one drifts off to sleep, ranging from the historical consideration of pillows to comprehensive lists of sleeping aids. I’ve spent more than a few nights drifting off to sleep considering […]

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Are your experimental findings better than a guess? Guess what, …

Ask any chemist and she will tell you that an electron microscope needs to be carefully calibrated.  If not, its measurements are not trustworthy enough for research purposes.  As psychologists, our laboratories typically do not include electron microscopes, but we do employ various measurement devices. At the most basic level, this includes our statistical “machinery.” […]

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