Are you supposed to applaud after every lecture? Apparently there exists great variability among university departments, and even among Dutch universities. This article provides a radical solution to prevent social confusion.
And there she went, into the night of Arts and Sciences (Saturday 24th of May), looking for the representatives of the Psychology department. A report of a journey through time and mind, brain and behavior.
Academic administrators have responded to recent cases of misconduct by commissioning a multitude of regulations and protocols. The scientific code of conduct of the VSNU is an attempt to formulate the scientific ethos, but it works better as a discussion piece.
In his Mindwise blog post, Richard Morey argues that learning APA style is a waste of time, because computers can take over the formatting of documents. I disagree with this from an educational perspective, and in this post I explain to you why.
Key statistical concepts are poorly understood. I discuss a recent study in which we asked 120 researchers and 442 first-year students a series of questions about confidence intervals. Both groups performed miserably. Surprisingly, researchers failed to outperform the students, even though the students had not received any statistical education whatsoever.