i started graduate school in the fall of 2018 still trying to figure out what the hell happened in the u.s. on november 9, 2016. maybe it’s my non-confrontational nature, but once my initial shock & mourning of the 2016 election passed (after a couple years of course, notwithstanding of the constant political gaslighting & …
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in search of the null hypothesis
one of my favorite poems growing up was “ulysses” by alfred, lord tennyson. for those who’ve haven’t read it, tennyson recounts ulysses’ (odysseus in other longer works by homer & others) return home to ithaca after his decade-long travels. whether ulysses was resolute & heroic or quite the opposite upon his return home has never …
we could be wrong (& that’s okay)
i started my journey in psychology in 2012 as a college freshman, about a year after daryl bem’s infamous 2011 esp paper had been published in jpsp. the implications of this work to everyone already in the field quickly became evident. responses have included attempts to replicate seminal psychology research in 2015 & 2018, pushes for …