Director of the Survey Research Center @um-src.bsky.social Univ. of Michigan Dev/Quant. Prof. of Psychology. APS President-elect. Longitudinal researchers studying SES, parenting, math dev, achievement, and data science. Open science supporter.
I consider myself an interdisciplinary scientist. A post on LinkedIn challenged the idea that we should mentor our students to be more interdisciplinary. Here are my thoughts on what that means in my new APS Presidential column. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
Is Interdisciplinary Science Worth It?"You don't want scholars answering to two or more disciplines. You want them to enrich and integrate their own discipline with ideas drawn from others."www.psychologicalscience.org
[shakes fist at sky] YAAAAAATTTTEEEEEESSSSSS!!!!!
American Statistical Association History of StatisticsFew statisticians know that Frank Yates, pioneer of experimental design, is responsible for the annoying practice of indicating 3 tiers of statistical significance by stars (*p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤0.01, ***p ≤ 0.001). He soon regretted it and “vehemently opposed its unthinking use”. And here we are.
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RegCheckRegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.regcheck.appSociety for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS)🏆We are very pleased to announce the 2026 Awards Winners and Commendations recipients for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science! 👏Join us in celebrating the exceptional projects that have revolutionized the field of psychological science. buff.ly/2lUKGFd
New paper out now 🥳 When psychologists discuss generalisability, they often refer to vague notions of representativeness. We provide an accessible intro to the total survey error framework as a tool to reason about this more rigorously. w @taymalsalti.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci >
This is fun - sharing "my first preprint" - I looked through my email to find mine, and realized that I forgot that I (somehow) was the first to post to PsyArXiv. There are 22 PsyArXiv papers that were posted that day: August 15, 2016.
Ryan GutenkunstJuly 8, 2015 for me: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... . Although I go back to arXiv from Jan 24, 2007: arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/07... .
Moral panics about kids not reading and kids being addicted to their devices are projection on the part of adults who no longer read and are addicted to their devices.
Opinion | Is This Really the End of Reading?It’s not the children who stopped reading. It’s their grandparents.nl.nytimes.com
Happy to share our new preprint exploring the everyday social ecology of preschoolers! We applied an automated multimodal pipeline to 267 hours of naturalistic egocentric video from 107 children (ages 3–5) to capture the changing natural statistics of everyday interactions: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
OSFdoi.orgIt was interesting to hear that rates of dementia have been going down across time. It appears that they higher because of the baby boomers aging. Why? They surmise that the GI Bill allowed generations to get access to higher education, which has reduced dementia.
UM SRCIn June, the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) program hosted an ice cream social with the SRC Director. @umpamdk.bsky.social and Ken Langa chatted about the Health and Retirement Study, its many sister studies, and the declining rate of Alzheimer's disease myumi.ch/Pb1E7
Remote work remains popular, but research studies have primarily focused on job satisfaction and productivity. A study using #PSIDdata suggests that "remote work substantially increases isolation and worsens mental health, particularly for those living alone." Read more in Science: myumi.ch/pgZWk
