-
Recent Posts
- New York Times: “Study Links Autism with Antidepressant Use During Pregnancy”–Misleading or just plain wrong?
- Nature versus nurture: Questioning a cornerstone of psychology
- Is the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale Outdated (When are Statistics too Simple)?
- What it means when “no significant differences were found”
- How can we study what we can’t measure?
Recent Comments
Archives
Categories
- assumptions
- bell curve
- bell-shaped curve
- Car Fax report
- certification
- change
- credit history
- dimensionality
- experience
- experimental method
- financial reporting
- free will
- God
- grade inflation
- grading
- Great Delusion
- human dimensions
- hypothesis testing
- mixed methods research
- nature vs nurture
- noëtic dimension
- normalization of scores
- prayer
- purpose
- qualitative research
- quantitative research
- regression
- research
- research methods
- standard deviation
- statistical significance
- statistics
- technology
- testing
- Uncategorized
Meta
Monthly Archives: December 2010
What are scaled scores? Uses—and misuses
A friend of mine was taking certification test for a well-known technology certification program. He studied for months, and passed both of them, though, he noted, “just barely.” I asked to see the printouts. There was one word on the … Continue reading