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Ian Hussey
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Meta-scientist and psychologist. Senior lecturer @unibe.ch‬. Chief recommender @error.reviews. "Jumped up punk who hasn't earned his stripes." All views a product of my learning history. If behaviorism did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it. .. more

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · Jul 22
Lego Science is research driven by modular convenience.

When researchers combine methods or concepts, more out of convenience than any deep curiosity in the resulting research question, to create publishable units.

"What role does {my favourite construct} play in {task}?"

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 3d
{psychdsish} R package to create standardized structured projects for psychological research projects processed and analyzed in R:

github.com/ianhussey/ps...

Reposted by James E. Bartlett

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 3d
Early draft of my ebook for the course:

ianhussey.quarto.pub/reproducible...

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 3d
Basic questions like "how many participants are in the dataset?" can produce surprisingly different answers between analysts.

Results from students in my class in data wrangling in tidyverse, who are good at wrangling but still have to make semi-subjective choices:

Reposted by Ian Hussey, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 4d
dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited!

- `filter_out()` for dropping rows

- `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools

These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats!

tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...
dplyr 1.2.0
dplyr 1.2.0 fills in some important gaps in dplyr's API: we've added a new complement to `filter()` focused on dropping rows, and we've expanded the `case_when()` family with three new recoding and re...
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Reposted by Scott L. Greer, Calvin K. Lai, Cameron Brick , and 12 more

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 4d
Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars?

These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research.

So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 4d
"We, the arbiters of correction notices, retractions, and future publications - the major reinforcers for academics - have no levers to pull on to enforce this" 👀

If failure to supply data upon request after committing to do so resulted in a correction notice, researchers would comply immediately.

Reposted by Ingo Rohlfing, Ian Hussey, José Pina-Sánchez

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 5d
Don't you f**king dare.
Screen shot of a youtube video titled "AI.FILL Function Explained: 10X Productivity in Excel with AI" with the caption "Let ChatGPT fill your missing data"

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 5d
If you're interested in data sleuthing but aren't sure where to start,

or if you're conducting a systematic review/meta-analysis and want to ensure you're not including junk studies,

check out this Cochrane training session on Trustworthiness Assessment by @jdwilko.bsky.social
INSPECT-SR: A tool for assessing trustworthiness of randomised controlled trials | Cochrane
www.cochrane.org

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Nick DeVito @ndevito1.bsky.social · 6d
My own personal example of this for a study I got rejected in one place as a reviewer and then got published at another, unchanged.

Look at the two citations in the image. The years alone should give away they don't support the claim made in the paper.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 6d
This is the difference between "the literature is a mess" in the sense of being able to integrate findings from different papers without fine grain additional info vs "individual papers in the literature are a mess". The analyses we provide show convincingly that the literature is a mess.

Reposted by Ian Hussey, Patrick S. Forscher, Jesper Wulff

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 6d
Wow this scoring chaos seems to be an extreme case of what I say about many ad hoc analyses: no derivation of method from a clear scientific theory, no assessment of statistical properties, and decades pass before someone notices. This happens in biology too, so let’s not pick on psychology only

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Ioana A. Cristea @ioanaacristea.bsky.social · 6d
But data is available from the authors upon reasonable request. For a meta-research paper this is simply ridiculous
Honestly, read our paper more

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35623542/

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 6d
8.0% of citations in the medical literature contain major errors.

E.g., the cited work makes the opposite claim or is unrelated to the claim in the citing article.
Systematic review and meta-analysis of quotation inaccuracy in medicine - Research Integrity and Peer Review
Background Quotations are crucial to science but have been shown to be often inaccurate. Quotation errors, that is, a reference not supporting the authors’ claim, may still be a significant issue in s...
link.springer.com

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 6d
@anniria.bsky.social second attempt at tagging you

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 6d
"you could - by careful choice of an existing scoring method from the literature - find any effect, or nothing, or the reverse of any effect you choose. This is bonkers. ... so extreme as to be farcical."

This is the sentiment we were hoping people would come away with!

w/@anniria.bsky.social

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 6d
Separately, the COMPare project spent a lot of time tracking outcome switching and reporting it to journals, who usually did nothing about it. It was labor intensive, but @jamiecummins.bsky.social is working with them to create a semi-automated version of it as a branch of regcheck.

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 6d
Out of interest, do you make a non-anonymised copy of your data available? Ie so that readers can know which specific trials have poorly specified outcomes?

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Denis Mongin @denismongin.bsky.social · 6d
We spent time checking how outcomes are registered and reported in publication, using database of RCT in rheumatology.
The results just got published in Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Results aren't good ⬇️1/5

#MetaResearch #ClinicalTrials #Rheumatology
Adequacy of trial registration and consistency in outcome reporting in rheumatology RCTs: A meta-research study
Transparent reporting of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is essential to ensure research integrity. While registration practices of RCTs are impro…
www.sciencedirect.com

Reposted by Ian Hussey

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Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) @snsf.ch · 6d
❗📢 The SNSF is adjusting its project funding as of 1 April 2026. Our goal is to stabilise success rates at a level that ensures funding for research of the highest quality. This is how we guarantee a fair chance for all researchers.

➡️ sohub.io/5x59

Reposted by Richard McElreath, Olivier Corneille, Ian Hussey , and 1 more

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 6d
Read my latest post for reflections on reproducibility, research quality and a summary of a great new study which shows how NOT to do it

https://open.substack.com/pub/tomstafford/p/gambling-with-research-quality
Gambling with research quality
How you get 244 different ways to measure performance on the same test of decision making. And what it means for the reliability of behavioural science
tomstafford.substack.com

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 7d
Both kids are gone so naturally, I'm making the most of my precious free time.
Aurora Borealis Simpsons scene. Superintendent Chalmers: Good lord, what is happening in there? Skinner: An age effect. Superintendent Chalmers: An age effect? At this time of the year, at this time of day, in this particular cohort, localized entirely within your kitchen? Skinner: Yes. Superintendent Chalmers: May I see it? Skinner: No.

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 10d
Scrutiny web app for GRIM/GRIMMER: errors.shinyapps.io/scrutiny/

GitHub docs for R package: lhdjung.github.io/scrutiny/

Reposted by Andrew K Przybylski

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 10d
Great talk from @lhdjung.bsky.social at the SwissRN Research-On-Research day on his, our, and other folks' work to develop trustworthiness assessment tools.

Finally his {scrutiny} R package has a logo!

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 10d
Interesting work, thank you.
I don’t mean this as a whataboutism, but as a clarification. Am I right in thinking that undisclosed but apparently large speaking fees like this don’t come under this work’s definition of COI, as it focuses specifically on industry? bsky.app/profile/malt...
malte.the100.ci Malte Elson @malte.the100.ci · 10d
Fortunately, Conflict of Interest begins at $200,001

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Malte Elson @malte.the100.ci · 10d
Fortunately, Conflict of Interest begins at $200,001

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 10d
I disagree with this take so hard that I will be dropping the long-held tradition of referring to the coefficient as Nivard-Spearman’s rho and will in future refer to it only as Spearman’s rho.

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 10d
So we can find what you call inventive like systems inside cultures, and cultural systems implementing incentive structures. It’s a false dichotomy. The concept of Multilevel selection (eg Jablonka & Lamb’s evolution in 4 dimensions for intro) spells this out well, as well as adding parsimony.

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 10d
And cultural inherence doesn’t happen magically either, it’s a description of a set of contingencies delivered by a community of individuals, sometimes inherited across generations.

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 10d
Incentives have a veneer of being less cultural but they usually involve human delivery too. Incentives don’t come from nowhere, they also have historical lineages, making them follow the same prediction as culture.

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 10d
I think this is a good example of “incentives” being poorly defined and not very useful, which is where I started. Culture and incentives are not meaningfully distinct, nor do they make clearly distinct predictions if you dig deep into what defines and distinguishes them.