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Andy Field

4 years

New edition of R textbook is in progress () including interactive R tutorials in the discovr () package. Older interactive R tutorials for my book An Adventure in Statistics are in the adventr package ()

discovr

Statistics education

www.discovr.rocks

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

7 years

I'm a little too excited to announce 'adventr', a package of interactive tutorials to teach R that accompany my book 'an adventure in statistics'. It was a lot of work, so please use them!

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

5 years

I’ve produced a video-based introduction to R and RStudio for complete novices. I can’t vouch for the quality but it’s at

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

4 years

This sums up my term

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

4 years

I’m posting my remote UG stats Lectures 2020 here via @YouTube

Lectures 2020

Statistics lectures mainly covering the general linear model

www.youtube.com

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

5 years

Another year starts @Sussex_Psych but this one is particularly monumental. For the first time, our 500+ UGs will be taught R and @rstudio instead of SPSS. Feels scary and exciting, but mainly scary.

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

5 months

Postman just delivered this, so I guess it’s out! @Sage_Methods

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

4 years

Four nights now of not being able to sleep because of stress of all the work that needs doing before term starts, & after term starts, & general anxiety about how the hell I'm going to teach anyone anything without it being a completely souless experience for everyone.

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

4 years

The silver lining of all this time at home? You can learn R with tutorials by me:

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

6 years

Probably something I shouldn’t admit to, but when I wrote this caption I had a couple of minutes slumped over my desk incapacitated with laughter. This happens to me more than you might imagine when writing statistics textbooks: it’s probably a sign of a deficient personality

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@aliceinjoyland

6 years

WHY IS THIS SO FUNNY (from Discovering Statistics Using SPSS by ⁦ @ProfAndyField ⁩ )

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

4 years

Eldest son (5): “daddy, I think I’d love you a bit more if you were a proper scientist, not a boring one ...” he’s got a point. (FYI proper scientist = one that builds rockets)

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

3 years

Want to learn R? Here’s a tutorial that I give my students to get them up and running and after that interactive tutorials

discovr: a package of interactive tutorials | discovr

Statistics education

www.discovr.rocks

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

7 years

Best stats joke I've seen in a while ...

Mad As A March Hare

@twowitwowoo

7 years

I made a graph showing my past relationships. It has an ex axis and a why axis.

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

8 months

Currently reading proofs of the forthcoming 6th edition of my SPSS textbook. I'm not prone to thinking anything I do is any good, but I did a massive re-write of the logistic regresison chapter, and reading it now with 6 months distance, I really like what I did with it.

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

4 years

First day of remote teaching went surprisingly well. Live ‘chat’ during a prerecorded lecture was great - lots of fab questions, and much more interactive than a lecture theatre. An unexpected positive was I learnt a lot about what I had/hadn’t explained well in the lecture.

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

5 years

If anyone can think of a bigger waste of time than trying to write 85 character ‘highlights’ for articles in elsevier journals I’d like to know what it is.

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

5 years

This story is heartbreaking, and strikes a very personal chord ☹️ it’s not just Cardiff, it’s U.K. HE generally. > Lecturer’s widow hits out at Cardiff University workload

Lecturer's widow hits out at Cardiff University workload

Dr Malcolm Anderson killed himself after complaining about mounting pressure at work.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

2 years

Been updating my discovr #R tutorials for my teaching. All existing tutorials converted to native pipe, reporting boxes added, general housekeeping/tweaks. Available now at

GitHub - profandyfield/discovr: discovr package for R to accompany Discovering Statistics Using R...

discovr package for R to accompany Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio - profandyfield/discovr

github.com

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

2 years

We're on the verge of WWIII and people on twitter are arguing about whether base R or tidyverse is better. So much of the mess in the world boils down to intolerance of individual differences. Choose ❤️💛💙

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

6 years

So far this week I’ve taught 14 hrs of R workshops & 3 lectures to 500 students. Been awake since 4.30am today. While reading my 4 yr old his bed story I fell asleep mid-story, then woke myself up mumbling about ‘R install files’. He didn’t bat an eyelid, bless him🤣

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

6 years

Welcome to my new writing companion, Milton. Already whispering good ideas to me ...

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

2 years

Having a shit work week, but it’s all going to turn around today because I found a stick in the shape of a skewed normal on my dog walk this morning

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

2 years

Am I about to go (1) trick or treating or (2) give a lecture?

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

4 years

Learn R with 'adventr', a package of interactive tutorials. Now available on CRAN!

adventr: Interactive R Tutorials to Accompany Field (2016), "An Adventure in Statistics"

Interactive 'R' tutorials written using 'learnr' for Field (2016), "An Adventure in Statistics", . Topics include general workflow in 'R' and 'Rstudio', the 'R' environment and 'tidyverse', summari...

cran.r-project.org

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

7 years

20 min until my 1st lecture of term and I’m a gibbering wreck. Never ceases to amaze me how no amount of exposure decreases the anxiety😬

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

4 years

Me too ....

Siobhan

@SiobhanLeachman

4 years

This sums me up.

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

5 months

Welcome to the `metahelpr` package containing a learnr tutorial for doing meta-analysis with the `metafor` package ( @wviechtb ). Includes some very badly written helper functions that will probably break if you try to use them.

GitHub - profandyfield/metahelpr: Helpers For Meta-Analysis

Helpers For Meta-Analysis. Contribute to profandyfield/metahelpr development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

7 years

20 years in academia and it still baffles me how - even when I gave the same talk 7 days ago - I can be sitting on a train worrying that I’m going to forget what to say or otherwise have some kind of massively humiliating social failure. #wrongpersonality4thejob

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

4 years

My PhD student and I are looking for collaborators for a multi-lab multi-study project exploring the validity of statistics anxiety and maths anxiety. Will need to be able to collect samples (non-WEIRD especially welcome) of N > 300 students in 2021. DM @jennyterry if interested.

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

6 years

The more I read about the Thai cave rescue the more awe and admiration I have for the bravery and skill of the people going in to try to rescue those kids. I wish I had even an ounce of their character and strength. Good luck for everyone’s safe return❤️

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

7 years

DSUS5 has arrived!

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

5 years

Spent my pre-lecture lunch hour writing lyrics about the F-statistic to the tune of The Monster Mash, because it was more fun than proper work.

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

4 months

Major changes to SPSS book Ch 2: expanded on null hypothesis significance testing, included a concrete example of calculating a p-value, included a description of maximum likelihood, expanded material on probability density functions.

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

2 years

Stretching the definition of ‘treat’ somewhat, but what the hell …

Sage Methods

@Sage_Methods

2 years

Treat someone this Christmas to an @ProfAndyField book. Andy combines humorous text with graphics to make learning #statistics a fun yet educational experience. Explore his collection here:

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

4 years

Happy that week 1 of teaching is over and went ok. I did some good stuff and some lousy stuff (teaching wise) and I’m basically a barely functioning husk right now.

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

9 years

Received this fantastic email this morning .... http://t.co/IVEUIomfg1

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

4 years

I just had my adventr R package accepted to CRAN. It's taken me 2 years to take the version on GitHub and submit it. Not because it wasn't ready (although it has improved in that time) but largely because the process of submitting confused and scared me. 1/n

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

4 years

I dropped a new space themed lecture on my students today. I love doing these 'narrative' style lectures, and it was a lot of fun but holy shit is a collosal amount of work ... I have basically screwed my life for the rest of term putting this together.

Repeated measures (afex)

This lectures looks at how to analyse repeated measures designs using the general linear model. We begin by discussing what repeated measures deisgns. Then w...

www.youtube.com

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

4 years

Incidentally I should be adding 1 per week until either term ends or I have a breakdown. Whichever comes first. How I feel right now the later may come before the former but perhaps I underestimate my resilience.

Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

4 years

I’m posting my remote UG stats Lectures 2020 here via @YouTube

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

5 years

I wish I had even the slightest idea of what I’m doing when using github

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

2 years

Free one-day online conference on teaching R. Sign up at

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

4 years

Thought for today: If covid had happened during my A-level year, I wouldn’t have got a place at Uni: a lot fell into place for me in those last few months of A-level. I would have a different life. I feel for those whose futures are at the mercy of incompetent politicians.

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

8 years

Marking resit exams: one candidate has written 'linear aggression' throughout. I guess the exam was annoying them. #FreudianSlip

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Andy Field

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6 years

The last week or so seems to be all about random people emailing me to help them to justify unjustifiable statistical decisions☹️ please send animal pics to restore my good mood

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

4 years

As someone prone to anxiety, I'm trying to be calm right now, but everytime I hug my kids I feel panic in case I'm unknowingly passing on disease. I know kids are low risk etc., but try telling that to your innate, all-consuming, need to protect your children and keep them safe.

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

8 years

My newly overhauled website is up and running - I hope you like it.

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

4 years

So, review of psychiatric jnl says more sophisticated stats are being used in research papers so we need to improve stats education. Agreed. At same time I’m constantly being told to dumb down my stats modules by my school’s education committee.🙄

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4 years

Reporting of data analysis methods in psychiatric journals: Trends from 1996 to 2018 This 👇

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Andy Field

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2 years

It’s a good Twitter week when someone mentions one of your books and it leads to a cascade of love on your timeline. ❤️💙💜🖤💛💚

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

4 years

After months of being told nothing, then informally told teaching will be online, then formally told it will be blended & we’re expected to teach F2F, we get an email yesterday, 1 week before term, to say all our year 1&2 UG teaching must now be online. I predicted this in March.

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

3 years

I am happy that I am now an @rstudio certified trainer! Hooray!

| RStudio Education Partners

RStudio Certified Trainers

education.rstudio.com

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

7 years

Currently engrossed in updating SPSS book, this week I am inserting material on open science, preregistration, and a hint of Bayes😏

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

7 years

I'm a little too excited to announce 'adventr', a package of interactive tutorials to teach R that accompany my...

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

4 years

My 4 year old just put in earphones in for first time: “it’s magic. I can’t hear music, then I put this in my ear and I can hear music” ... he’s right, it is magic in so many ways. ❤️💕

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

4 years

twitter has been very warm and cuddly to me today, so thanks for that ❤️

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

4 years

How do psychology researchers analyse their quantitative data? Help my PhD student @martinasladek and I find out! We’re recruiting psychology researchers (all career levels) to take part in an online study. Please retweet. More info at:

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

7 years

Good paper!

Bayesian data analysis for newcomers

This article explains the foundational concepts of Bayesian data analysis using virtually no mathematical notation. Bayesian ideas already match your intuitions from everyday reasoning and from...

osf.io

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

3 years

A thing about having kids is I am constantly reminded of how unconstrained their imaginations and worlds are and how sad it is that somehow over the years I’ve lost the ability to think as freely as a 7 year old. But at least I still appreciate a fart joke.

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

8 years

After several mad weeks and late nights of proof checking, 'An Adventure in statistics' is off to the printers!

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

2 years

So, this came out …

Sage Methods

@Sage_Methods

2 years

"An Adventure in Statistics, 2nd Edition" by @ProfAndyField is finally here! Join Zach on an exciting adventure to conquer introductory #statistics . Watch a sneak peek about the book:

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

6 years

Although I'm fairly certain that no-one uses them, fully updated answers to the smart Alex tasks in 'Discovering Stats using IBM SPSS ...' are at please use them - they were a soul-destroying mountain of work.

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

5 years

Including …“The recommendation for only one space after punctuation at the end of a sentence.” How is this shit still relevant in the digital age?

American Psychological Association

@APA

5 years

Do you use @APA_Style for your writing? Get ready for some changes! We’re pleased to announce that the 7th edition of our Publication Manual will go on sale in October. Get a sneak peek at some of the latest updates, 10 years in the making:

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

2 years

This is a thread about the benefit of recording lectures. I want to flip this and ask - what’s the benefit of in-person lectures? I’m becoming convinced live lectures are pointless for students, convince me otherwise.

Martha W. Alibali

@mwalibali

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Academic friends — a 🧵about recording lectures. This semester, for the first time ever, I used “lecture capture” to record the lectures for my large undergraduate class, and I posted the recordings to our course Canvas site. 1/x

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

3 months

Major changes to SPSS book Ch 21: this was a gateway to a very unpleasant dimension for me. It's basically a complete rewrite. I expanded the theory section enormously and also included more practical advice. Growth models are gone. The main example data changed. @Sage_Methods

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

2 years

@dr_gomez_lopez @AcademicChatter Glad it was helpful😁

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

8 years

Happy 20th birthday to Fuzzy-star of my Discovering Stats books. Congrats on being older than most of my students!!

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

7 years

And not behind a paywall at

Dan Quintana

@dsquintana

7 years

For an great primer on robust statistical methods, check out this paper from @ProfAndyField and Wilcox

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

6 years

Friday Spaniel selfie ...

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

4 years

I've decided to do something about this state of affairs ....

Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

4 years

Eldest son (5): “daddy, I think I’d love you a bit more if you were a proper scientist, not a boring one ...” he’s got a point. (FYI proper scientist = one that builds rockets)

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Andy Field

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2 years

@Dr_LPrendergast I use time tracking software. Needless to say I work more than 37 hrs per week, but the breakdown of tasks by % of time is ~23% pure admin, ~65% teaching related, ~12% research. So, essentially my research activities are being squeezed out.

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

6 years

Stop working and PLAY!!! #spanielFriday

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

4 months

In related news, have finished the web materials for the new edition of the SPSS book (). The smart alex answers alone involved over 500 images and 7000 lines of text/code. I bloody hope people actually use them. @Sage_Methods

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

3 years

Young people please help me. I need an example of a band/musical artist who is mega-popular but is the aural equivalent of watching paint dry? Like, Coldplay, but for your generation. Asking on behalf of a metaphor ....

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

1 year

I’m frequently so exhausted when reading my kids bedtime stories that I start to fall asleep mid sentence and complete the sentence with random words that pop out of my brain. Does this happen to others? What’s the weirdest bit of gibberish you’ve uttered as you doze off?

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

4 years

The last few months has felt like when you’re queuing for a terrifying rollercoaster, you keep looking at it, your heart pounding, thinking ‘surely there’s a way to leave the queue?’ Term starts Monday, so I now feel like when the bar comes down and you think ‘holy shit ...’

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

5 years

it is true that I will write anything (well, maybe not *anything*) someone asks me to in a book, even if the book isn’t my own. It can be wise to suggest an inscription though: when left to my own devices I have been known to write quite odd things when signing books

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@Johnny_Dubois_

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@ProfAndyField Never meet your heroes, unless they are exceptionally cool about weird strangers. Great to meet you! PS the 'hausekeep' package by @hauselin has a great function for WS-error bars (and more). Details: #SRCD19

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Andy Field

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3 months

Major changes to SPSS book Ch 15: I changed both examples in this chapter (so it’s effectively a complete rewrite) to revolve around a narrative of preventing an alien invasion using sniffer dogs. @Sage_Methods

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

1 year

“I want to make brain shaped lemon cake” says 6-yr old. They don’t look much like brain hemispheres, but I tried.

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

6 years

Lunchtime, @SussexUni campus …

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

3 years

I find it really messed up that with restrictions in the UK lifting today the media’s focus is almost entirely on pubs being open and how we can all now go on an alcohol binge.

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

7 years

Two weeks off of work and I’m struggling to write a coherent academic sentence [insert your own joke here]

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

2 years

@westwoodsam1 I’m allowed to wear @IronMaiden t-shirts to work and my weirdness is tolerated.

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

3 years

@jacasiegel @SolomonKurz I still don’t have my anxiety and imposter syndrome under control.

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

3 years

I was going to tweet a photo of me with the new ⁦ @IronMaiden ⁩ album, but I took it and I looked like a proper fucking old man, which was very depressing, so here’s a photo of it on my turntable instead.

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Andy Field

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1 year

Anyone who uses my SPSS book solutions, note that my shiny server reconstruction means that the links directing from @SAGE_Methods website for the book are now broken, but you can access everything from this landing page

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

4 years

I'd love to know how much of my life I have wasted 'authorising my credentials' to access journal articles that my employer pays a small fortune for me to access. 1/2

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

6 years

@andyfieldfans It’s p-value. Andy p-value Field.

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

6 years

For those that use my SPSS book, the updated web materials for the fifth edition are now complete

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

2 years

Last UG lecture today and one of my students made me a patch. It’s truly amazing. To understand it you need to have seen my lectures, but trust me this is an *incredible* gift

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Andy Field

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6 years

Damn, my cover is blown ….

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

2 years

I once gave a stats talk @BPSOfficial conference to 7: me, chair, 3 friends and 2 attendees. 5 mins in it became obvious the 2 attendees had come to the wrong talk. I told them it was fine if they wanted to leave - I wouldn’t be offended. They stayed, which I thought was v sweet.

Dr Laura King 🌈

@KinglaKing

2 years

🤣 y’all my talk at APA had 5 people in the room including me & the 2 program chairs.

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2 years

PsyPAG has been a vibrant and vital source of intellectual and emotional support for PHD students for as long as I can remember. The @BPSOfficial have effectively killed it, they need to sort their shit out FAST: start listening to students and repair the damage.

Dr Nina Higson-Sweeney

@n_higsonsweeney

2 years

As you may have seen, today the entire PsyPAG Core Committee made the difficult decision to step down from our roles, meaning I am no longer Vice Chair. The dissonance between calling myself a champion of PGR rights, yet accepting less for myself, became too much to ignore.

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Andy Field

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4 years

To be clear, I've been doing prep work since March to try to avoid this anxiety and yet am still in 'shit hits the fan' territory with my prep.

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

7 years

this comment on the 0.005 paper just got favourited by a plumbing firm, finally plumbers take an interest in p values

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Andy Field

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8 years

Today was the launch of my new book 'an adventure in statistics'. Download prologue and ch 1

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

6 years

Holy shit, on my earlier tweet I didn’t even realise it was #NationalPuppyDay today. Here’s another

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Andy Field

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8 years

I am utterly ashamed to be British today.

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Andy Field

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8 months

The 'some of my favourite parts of my textbook are the bits that no-one will read' Exhibit A

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

7 years

Just turned down an invite to speak on the grounds that I have tickets to see @IronMaiden on the same day #priorities

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Andy Field

@ProfAndyField

2 years

When I'm inserting a face emoji, I often mimic the emoji with my own face to check I've selected the expression I'm indending. Is this another item of ideosyncratic weirdness to add to my list, or do others do this? 🧐 (just off to find a monocle...)

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