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The Aristotelian syllogistic logic behind the Fisherian p-value is ubiquitously misunderstood. This can lead to various fallacious logical inferences. The p-value resembles a Kantian paralogism, i.e., the metric appears objective and logically valid, even though it is not. The reliance on the p-value is an irrational social ritual (cf. Gigerenzer, 2004). Social conformity, obedience to authority, groupthink, and other aspects of Social Identity Theory (SIT) play an important role in this context.
Given the well-documented paralogisms associated with classical Fisherian null hypothesis significance testing (cf. Cohen, 1994) I advocate alternative inferential research methods. For the statistical analyses of the experimental data I collected during my PhD I utilised Bayesian bootstrapping, Bayes Factor analysis, and Bayesian parameter estimation via Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations (in addition to classical NHST).
“Few researchers are aware that their own heroes rejected what they practice routinely. Awareness of the origins of the ritual and of its rejection could cause a virulent cognitive dissonance, in addition to dissonance with editors, reviewers, and dear colleagues. Suppression of conflicts and contradicting information is in the very nature of this social ritual.”
(Gerd Gigerenzer, 2004, p. 592; Director Emeritus of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, inter alia)
becomes the bed of the lotus-naveled Vishnu when at the termination of every Yuga that deity of immeasurable power enjoys yoga-nidra, the deep sleep under the spell of spiritual meditation.
— Mahabharata, Book 1, section XXI
Yoga nidrâ (Sanskrit: योग निद्रा) also known as "yogic sleep" is a specific state of consciousness (usually induced by a guided meditation) which can be described as a a state between waking and sleeping. is an appropriate asana for yoga nidra.
Parker, S., Bharati, S. V., & Fernandez, M.. (2013). Defining yoga-nidra: traditional accounts, physiological research, and future directions.. International Journal of Yoga Therapy, 23(1), 11–6. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24016819
“The term yoga-nidra has been used in many empirical (...)
Below you can find a custom-made "meta-search-tool" I programmed (coded in ActionScript2) which facilitates to effectively search the web for psychology and neuroscience related information.
You can freely download the program as a zipped executable:
It is argued that the Möbius band provides a readily communicable conceptual visual metaphor for dual-aspect Monism à la Pauli-Jung. The Pauli-Jung conjecture is particularly relevant in the context of modern neuroscience as most contemporary neuroscientists stipulate prima facie that the brain produces consciousness. However, this perspective is not conclusively supported by empirical evidence. the monistic dual-aspect perspective provides a parsimonious & elegant solution for the mind-body problem and the hard problem of consciousness (viz., the production problem). The symbolism of the Möbius band is particularly interesting from an embodied and grounded cognition perspective. Specifically, Lakoff’s “conceptual metaphor theory” provides (...)
In order to make software easily citable, a "citation file format" *.CITATION.cff should be included in the root of the repository.
cff-version: 1.0.3
message: If you use this software, please cite it as below.
authors:
- family-names: Germann
given-names: Christopher, Benjamin
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1573-4651
title: Psychology Meta Search Tool
version: 1.0.2
URL: https://christopher-germann.de/psychology-meta-search-tool-v1-02/
date-released: 2012-07-16
In R the citation of a given package can be extracted as follows (using BibTeX for LaTex).
citation('ggplot2')
#To cite ggplot2 in publications, please use:
#H. Wickham. ggplot2: elegant graphics for data analysis. Springer New York, 2009.
#A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
BitTorrent is a communication protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing which is used to distribute data and electronic files over the Internet. BitTorrent is one of the most common protocols for transferring large files, such as digital video files containing TV shows or video clips or digital audio files containing songs. Peer-to-peer networks have been estimated to collectively account for approximately 43% to 70% of all Internet traffic (depending on location) as of February 2009.
To send or receive files, a person uses a BitTorrent client on their Internet-connected computer. A BitTorrent client is a computer program that implements the BitTorrent protocol. Popular clients include μTorrent, Xunlei, Transmission, qBittorrent, Vuze, Deluge, (...)
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The majority of professors who lecture statistics are unable to interpret a simple t-test correctly as the following empirical data illustrates (adapted from Haller & Krauss, 2002).
Figure 1. Fallacious statistical reasoning in the interpretation of an independent samples t-test (Haller & Krauss, 2002).
"Teaching statistics to psychology students should not only consist of teaching
calculations, procedures and formulas, but should focus much more on statistical
thinking and understanding of the methods...Since thinking as well as understanding are genuine matters of scientific psychology, it is astounding that these issues have been largely neglected in the methodology instruction of psychology students." (Haller & Krauss, 2002, p.17)
The Kochen-Specker theorem (see for example Kochen & Specker, 1975) is a “no go” theorem in physics which was mathematically proved by John Bell in 1966 and by Simon Kochen and Ernst Specker in 1967. It conclusively demonstrates that it is impossible that quantum mechanical observables represent objectively observable “elements of physical reality”. More specifically, the theorem falsifies those hidden variable theories that stipulate that elements of physical reality are independent of the way in which they are measured (i.e. they are not independent of the measurement device used to measure them and are therefore inherently contextual). That is, the outcome of an experiment depends on how the experiment is designed and executed. The theorem proves mathematically (...)
