Wait a second, these are not real error bars … the author literally just put the letter “T” above the bar graphs 😭

Congrats 🥳👏to my coworker Larissa for publishing the questionnaire for quality control in postgraduate medical education in Switzerland tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

It is already clear that Bing AI is a big a leap over ChatGPT as ChatGPT was over the old GPT-3 model It generated paper ideas based on my previous papers, found gaps in the literature, suggested methods "consistent with your previous methods," and offered potential data sources

The psych jokes in the New Yorker are getting really obscure

Unser Beitrag zum Thema Emotionen und Essverhalten im ETH Zürich Globe: ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev…

New research on meat reduction and a new scale to measure decisional balance: doi.org/10.1016/j.appe… in collaboration with Marketing Management

Opportunities in risk assessment, management, and communication of biocidal products. New publication by @a_bearth onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ri…

Reminder that if you conduct an experimental study and conduct ANOVA that aggregates only to the participant, your false positive rate may be as high as 60% [from Judd et al., (2012)]

The two pre-conference workshops (one for early career researchers facilitated by Noah Bosshart @RuiGasparC and one organised by EFSA) have started. Welcome to Lund!

Yesterday I presented the results of my research on childhood poisoning at the SRAEurope conference in Lund! Thanks to everyone who attended my talk and participated in fruitful discussions!

🚨🚨🚨 New Publication Alert 🚨🚨🚨 My study on children's perception of household chemicals got published in SRA - Society for Risk Analysis! You can read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1111/risa.1… Thanks for all the support: Consumer Behavior @a_bearth Kleine Weltentdecker*innen UZH Moritz Daum @moritzdaum.bsky.social stephaniewermelinger

Which factors predict real-life risky choices and how can we investigate these? Aaron Lob presented his research on using think-aloud protocols and ecological momentary assessment to address these questions at SRAEurope. Cognitive and Behavioral Decision Research

Are the risks behavioral scientists typically investigate the same risks that people face in their lives? Olivia Fischer talked about the similarities and differences in three perspectives on risky choices at SRAEurope. More to come! Cognitive and Behavioral Decision Research

Meta-analysis of field studies on gender bias in hiring: Three key findings 1. In male-dominated/gender-balanced fields, male applicants were favoured before 2009, but since then, there’s been no consistent bias or even a weak pro-female bias.

Overpublishing puts enormous stress on students and PIs. And brings tons of money to publishers in STEM. A new study shows that the number of papers is increasing FASTER than the number of #PhD graduates. It’s an amazing work with very useful statistics. Huge kudos to the

Hot take (from personal experience): HARKing for me has been entirely an issue of peer-review. I constantly find I am punished for being honest about exploratory analyses or findings at odds with original hypotheses. Implausibly clean, hand-waving "theory" is what reviewers want.

Several mental health interventions for teens have recently backfired Darby Saxbe argues that teenagers, who are still developing their identities, are especially prone to take psychological labels to heart. Instead of “I am nervous about X,” a teenager might say, “I can’t do X

Remember best practice in a power analysis is to plan not for the effect you expect, but for the smallest effect size of interest. The type 2 error is a conditional inference: If there is an effect I care about, I would have X probability to detect it. lakens.github.io/statistical_in…

It’s bezzle time: The Dean of Engineering at the University of Nevada gets paid $372,127 a year and wrote a paper that’s so bad, you can’t believe it. statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/02/06/its…

Something different than my previous posts. I was at the concert of Leech! A fantastic prog-rock band from switzerland that has a special place in my heart! Thanks for this incredible concert and all the times where your music got me through the hardships of writing papers 😉