One of the things I’ve become slightly obsessed with in recent years is moving my data analysis away from SPSS and over to R. And if I’m obsessed with something, you can be damn sure I’ll be inflicting this on my students too. For the past three years, I’ve embedded R into my From CellContinue reading “Teaching R on my MSc Health Psychology course”
Category Archives: Meta-Science
I was mentioned in The Psychologist
Yes, that magazine that turns up once a month and we never read! And I can’t remember exactly why or how this happened, but I’m counting it as an academic output (because they are few and far between at the moment!). Marcus Munafò reached out to ask how I used open data as a researchContinue reading “I was mentioned in The Psychologist”
Making Research Methods Less Scary
Teaching research methods can be a real challenge, not because the concepts are inherently difficult, but because for many students their first encounter with data analysis software feels intimidating. For a long time, SPSS was the default (and often the only) option, but as open science practices have become more mainstream, a wider range ofContinue reading “Making Research Methods Less Scary”
Are Psychology Journals Anti-replication? A Snapshot of Editorial Practices
By the mid-2010s, psychology was in the midst of what became known as the replication crisis. High-profile findings were failing to replicate, and attention increasingly turned to the incentives shaping academic publishing. One commonly cited explanation was that journals prioritised novelty and positive results over replication, but there was little direct evidence about whether journalsContinue reading “Are Psychology Journals Anti-replication? A Snapshot of Editorial Practices”
Richard M Clarke (PhD) 