BishopBlog

Ramblings on academic-related matters. For information on my research see https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/research/oxford-study-of-children-s-communication-impairments. Twin analysis blog: http://dbtemp.blogspot.com/ . ERP time-frequency analysis blog: bishoptechbits.blogspot.com/ . For tweets, follow @deevybee.

Friday, 9 February 2018

Improving reproducibility: the future is with the young

I've recently had the pleasure of reviewing the applications to a course on Advanced Methods for Reproducible Science that I'm ru...

Friday, 12 January 2018

Do you really want another referendum? Be careful what you wish for

Many people in my Twitter timeline have been calling for another referendum on Brexit. Since most of the people I follow regard Brexit as an...

Tuesday, 26 December 2017

Using simulations to understand p-values

Intuitive explanations of statistical concepts for novices #4 The p-value is widely used but widely misunderstood. I'll demonstrate th...

Thursday, 21 December 2017

Using simulations to understand the importance of sample size

Intuitive explanations of statistical concepts for novices #3 I'll be focusing here on the kinds of stats needed if you conduct an in...

Monday, 27 November 2017

Reproducibility and phonics: necessary but not sufficient

Over a hotel breakfast at an unfeasibly early hour (I'm a clock mutant) I saw two things on Twitter that appeared totally unrelated but ...

Friday, 24 November 2017

ANOVA, t-tests and regression: different ways of showing the same thing

Intuitive explanations of statistical concepts for novices #2 In my last post , I gave a brief explainer of what the term 'Analysis of...

Monday, 20 November 2017

How Analysis of Variance Works

Intuitive explanations of statistical concepts for novices #1 Lots of people use Analysis of Variance (Anova) without really understanding...

Friday, 3 November 2017

Prisons, developmental language disorder, and base rates

There's been some interesting discussion on Twitter about the high rate of developmental language disorder (DLD) in the prison populatio...

Tuesday, 17 October 2017

Citing the research literature: the distorting lens of memory

Corticogenesis: younger neurons migrate past older ones using radial glia as a scaffolding. Figure from https://en.wikipedia....

Sunday, 1 October 2017

Pre-registration or replication: the need for new standards in neurogenetic studies

This morning I did a very mean thing. I saw an author announce to the world on Twitter that they had just published this paper , and I tweet...

Tuesday, 25 July 2017

Breaking the ice with buxom grapefruits: Pratiques de publication and predatory publishing

Guest blogpost by Ryan McKay, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London and Max Coltheart, Department of Cognit...

Sunday, 2 July 2017

The STEP Physical Literacy programme: have we been here before?

One day in 2003, I turned on BBC Radio 4 and found myself listening to an interview on the Today Programme with Wynford Dore, the founder...

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