Statistical noise is nearly universally considered an impediment to sound decision-making. But what seems like noise to those shaping the rules may actually be critically important to those on the receiving end.
The Research Lead is a monthly digest connecting you to noteworthy academic and applied research from around the behavioral sciences. Here are our picks for August 2020.
The Research Lead is a monthly digest connecting you to noteworthy academic and applied research from around the behavioral sciences. Here are our picks for June 2020.
A word of caution to researchers using digital platforms to run their studies: beware of bots. They’re more sophisticated than you might think.
In the fall issue of Public Opinion Quarterly in 1949, sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld pulled one of my favorite social science head fakes of all time.
Don’t be tempted to rewrite research history. Registered reports can help you design and evaluate studies with guards against changing the story once the results come in.
How can we design studies so that we learn from them, even if they “fail?”
To what extent are we inadvertently limiting the range of problems for behavioral science’s attention?
What do we lose by failing to apply behavioral science earlier in the policy making process?
RCTs are a valuable tool for behavioral scientists. But they’re not the only tool.
