Episode 80 of our book read/podcast covering major topics in various fields of psychology moves us into RESEARCH METHODS! New open-source book and a split semester, with Interviews and discussions on as many types of research types as we can fit in, along with every other episode as PSD with a Twist! (It’s a cocktail pun!).
In this episode we reflect on our talk with Marc Abrahams, founder and master of ceremonies of the Ig Nobel Prize and editor of the Annals of Improbable Research and go through some retractions and favorite studies in the Annals of Improbable Research and what the next steps might be.
The Case of the Bottomless Bowl and 15 Other Retracted Tales:
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2007/10/self-filling-soup-bowls-garner-cus-wansink-ig-nobel
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/08/20/did-that-bottomless-soup-bowl-experiment-ever-happen/
https://www.science.org/content/article/cornell-nutrition-scientist-resigns-after-retractions-and-research-misconduct-finding
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/09/what-is-food-science/571105/
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/brian-wansink-cornell-p-hacking
https://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2018/feb/16/mindless-eating-brian-wansink-is-there-something-rotten-behind-the-research
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5598018/
Textbook: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/75
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Thomas' Webpage: https://sexography.org/
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Daniel's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScienceInChaos
Bias of the Week: The Dunning-Kruger Effect
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h3r_CNg_MuRKbi_oJYVRth7dAMW2nNiS/view?usp=sharing