Love: The excitement of having your hypothesis actually be supported, especially when it is a class project and the students can share your excitement.
Love: The fun of sitting with collaborators/colleagues/researh team and talking shop. cd I have a cold and couldn't leave a voice mail if I wanted. Carol L. DeVolder, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Chair, Department of Psychology St. Ambrose University 518 West Locust Street Davenport, Iowa 52803 Phone: 563-333-6482 e-mail: [email protected] web: http://web.sau.edu/psychology/psychfaculty/cdevolder.htm The contents of this message are confidential and may not be shared with anyone without permission of the sender. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Britt [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wed 12/17/2008 9:29 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] 5 Things I Hate About Psychological Research After a brief email exchange with Blaine Peden I've decided to definitely go ahead with an episode I've been planning on the above topic (although I plan to call it "5 things I hate (and love) about psychological research"). Here's what I've got so far: Hate: 1) the stats are often way to complex even for people trained in the field (my favorite "way out of my league" statistic: the ARIMA - "AutoRegressive Integrated Moving Average"). No wonder our students skip to the Results section! 2) the positive outcome publication bias 3) often boring to read. We tell students research is driven by curiosity about human behavior, but none of the excitement (even interest) is captured when you read a published article 4) significant results perhaps, but small effect sizes (which is often glanced over) Love: 1) playing around with the data once you have it all collected. There's actually a little excitement at that point in the research 2) seeing your name in the final printed article I wanted to take a suggestion from a Tipster after a post I made a few months back (about those horses that were so "insightful" they could train employees to be better workers): I invite anyone to add to my list (if so inclined) by responding to this post, but this might be fun: I'd like to share some of your thoughts with my Psych Files podcast listeners, but instead of me reading your comment, why not record your comment on my website and I'll play it during the episode? I have a "Leave a Voice Message!" recorder on my website. Scroll down and you'll see it on the left side of the page (don't worry - you can record your message several times until you're happy with it, and it won't be "published" until I approve it). I'd love to actually hear your thoughts on this topic (and my listeners too). Michael Michael Britt [email protected] www.thepsychfiles.com --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
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