If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. ~ Ernest Rutherford Many psychology students (and readers of Psychology Today) hate statistics, p < .05. During my ...

LeBron James has broken Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's record of most career points scored by a professional basketball player. James' career statistics serve as a prime example of the interplay between sports ...

New research suggests that efforts to advocate improved statistical practices in psychological research may be paying off. New research published in the March issue of Psychological Science suggests ...

As Alex Berezow wrote in his piece yesterday, psychology is not a science, and statistics in and of itself is not science either. Then again, lots of useful and worthwhile things are not science. So, ...

One in eight articles contain data-reporting mistakes that affect their conclusions. Researchers have created an automated software package that extracts and checks statistics from psychology research ...

A few years ago, I caused considerable weeping and gnashing of teeth among psychologists for a piece I wrote explaining why psychology isn't science. It was predicated upon a lengthier argument, which ...