Patrick and Greg celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Irish storytelling of some of their own epic academic fails, interspersed with a selection of quantitative limericks submitted by Quantitude listeners (as well as a few of their own). The final selections are read by a special guest (who, be warned in advance, is a bit grumpy). […]
S1E19: Live from The Rusty — Irish Storytelling & Quantitative Limericks Read More »
Patrick and Greg have a blast hanging out with quant super-star Katherine Masyn, arguably one of the coolest people on earth. In addition to talking about professional development, the futility of making plans, and how to make meaningful contributions to science, the trio also discuss the power of three, mad cow disease, evaporated metal films,
S1E18: A Conversation with Katherine Masyn — The Power of Three Read More »
Greg and Patrick start with what seems like a reasonable metaphor linking musical compositions to planned missing data designs, and then they proceed to beat it to death. Then, just when you think they’ve buried it, they dig it back up and beat the carcass some more before eventually just running out of time. In
S1E17: Planned Missing Designs (or, How to Beat a Metaphor to Death) Read More »
In Episode 16 of Quantitude, Patrick and Greg have more fun than is probably socially acceptable when talking about missing data. In addition to embracing the Zen-like paradox of “the presence of missing data,” they also discuss West Point, “is” versus “are,” middle school English teachers, relentless tenacity, talking narwhals, being completely pregnant, taking in
S1E16: Missing Data: (IF EPISODE=16 THEN EPISODE=-999) Read More »
Greg and Patrick embark on a free-ranging discussion of many of the things no one bothers to tell you when entering academia, some that were particularly (and often pleasantly) surprising. They also talk about learning to fly, parenting, Richard Russo, Bayesian personality, Craisins, just noticeable differences, crayon giraffes, academic mulligans, final_final_final drafts, dead birds, Britney
S1E15: Academia and the Chamber of Secrets Read More »
Patrick and Greg take on the topic of model evaluation and fit, particularly as applied to structural equation models. They also discuss compulsive counting, mashed potatoes, letting the horses out of the barn, building model 747s, Jenga, Moses’s third tablet, the Pirate Code, demon conferences, and Roo Mates.
S1E14: Model Fit & The Curse of the Black Pearl Read More »
Greg and Patrick pursue several topics raised on prior episodes on scale reliability and measurement invariance to their logical conclusion. Namely, they ponder the multitude of persnickety issues associated with putting a set of items into the psychometric sausage maker to grind out scale scores for use in subsequent analysis. In addition to bickering with
S1E13: How Do I Get Scale Scores? Weight, Weight… Don’t Tell Me… Read More »
In this episode, Patrick and Greg respond to a call-in question that raises a host of issues revolving around measurement invariance testing. In addition to complaining about horrible terminology commonly used in quantitative methodology, they also address pirate mothers, irreverance, time machines, quadruple negatives, buying firewood, digging up bodies, the Schotz clock, and dumpster fires.
S1E12: Measurement (Non)Invariance — Can We Ever Fail to Not Incorrectly Reject It? Read More »
In Part 2 of a two-part series, Greg and Patrick draw on their experiences with the National Institutes of Health and the Institute of Education Sciences (as grant PI/co-PI, reviewer, panelist, and panel chair) to offer recommendations for those planning to seek funding for their own research projects. They also talk about a thousand monkeys,
S1E11: Grants — Recommendations for Applicants (Disc 2) Read More »
In Part 1 of a two-part series, Patrick and Greg draw on their experiences with the National Institutes of Health and the Institute of Education Sciences (as grant PI/co-PI, reviewer, panelist, and panel chair) to discuss aspects of the grant review process, including the scoring criteria, conflicts of interest, what it’s like “in the room,”
S1E10: Grants — The Process (Disc 1) Read More »
