In this week’s episode Greg tries to ambush Patrick by bringing back the popular feature pop quiz, this time with a statistical acronym theme, only to pretty much get crushed by Patrick in the end. Along they way they also discuss wow that’s fantastic, QR codes and octogenarians, Questionable Rectum, catharsis, grassy knolls, petards, Sean […]
S6E06 Pop Quiz: Acronyms Read More »
In this week’s episode Greg and Patrick discuss Cattell’s data box and try to better understand what it is, what it is not, and how we might make use of this in practice. Along the way they also discuss illegal knives, baseball cards, the Cubs and the Mariners, bicentennial quarters, how to load a dishwasher,
S6E05 Cattell’s Data Box Read More »
In this week’s episode, Greg and Patrick talk about person-centered methods versus variable-centered methods with the punch line being that the historically contentious distinction between these two is unnecessary, unhelpful, and even counter productive. Along the way they also discuss lost luggage, Sabena Air t-shirts, the Inquisition, honey badger Americans, Fredrik Backman, punch lines, a
S6E04 Person-Centered vs. Variable-Centered Analysis Read More »
In this week’s episode Greg and Patrick explore the surprisingly tricky topic of multiple choice items: how to write them, how not to write them, and giving a well written test the respect it deserves. Along the way the also discuss recognizing emotions, laying down 50 feet of rubber, glass animals, rewriting your kid’s test,
S6E03 Multiple Choice Is ______ Read More »
In this week’s episode Greg and Patrick talk about different ways of assessing inter-rater agreement and reliability among two or more raters and the importance of doing so. Along the way they also discuss the summer Olympics, underdogs, monologue face-offs, Quincy Wilson, Boomers, the Soviet judge, biopsy subjectivity, the secret to college admissions reliability, skipping
S6E02 Judging Inter-Rater Reliability Read More »
In this week’s episode, the first of Season 6, Greg and Patrick visit with Dr. Ethan McCormick, an Assistant Professor of Educational Statistics and Data Science in the School of Education at the University of Delaware. After catching up on Ethan’s international adventures they discuss his recent work on using growth factors as predictors of
S6E01 Growth as a Predictor? Back to School with Ethan McCormick Read More »
In this week’s episode, our 150th and the last of season 5, Greg and Patrick hear from five people at different stages of their academic journey, who share some of their concerns about a career in academia. Along the way we also mention death scrolling, Patrick’s fuzzy blanket, slow motion ballerina, Twix, academia infomercial, Twitter
S5E25 Is Being a Professor the Right Fit for Me? Read More »
In this week’s episode Greg and Patrick somehow manage to tie together pretending to be sick with game shows with zombies with conspiracy boards to explore the remarkable inter-relations among probability distributions, starting with the Bernoulli and biting their way through the binomial, z, t, chi-square, F, and beyond. Along the way they also discuss
S5E24 Zombie Wheel of Distributions Read More »
In this week’s episode Greg and Patrick talk about both structural equation modeling and directed acyclic graphs, or DAGs, where they are similar and where they are different, and try to provide a Rosetta Stone for translating back and forth between the two. Along the way they also discuss pop, garage sales, thinking about excessive
S5E23 A Rosetta Stone for DAGs and SEM Read More »
In this week’s episode Greg and Patrick explore the incredibly cool topic of survival analysis, which is a set of techniques that allows for powerful tests of predictors of the amount of time to experiencing an event; yet these models are not often used in many areas of study. Along the way they also discuss
S5E22 Survival Analysis in the Social Sciences: It’s About Time Read More »
