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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study uses an analytical technique called 'network science' to determine factors contributing to statistics anxiety among psychology majors. Have you ever been stressed out by the idea of doing ...

An ambitious new project is attempting to replicate every single study published in 2008 in three leading academic psychology journals. It’s called the Reproducibility Project. As the name suggests, ...