Work session

2024-11-08 Fri

Rick Gilmore

Prelude

Markov, Bagchi, Grover, & Kugler (2024)

Overview

Facts are stubborn things

Adams (n.d.)

Facts are stubborn things - 1

“Gross federal debt as percent of gross domestic product” (2024)

Dow Jones Industrial Average” (n.d.)

“Consumer price index for all urban consumers” (2024)

Facts are stubborn things - 2

Lindsey (2024)

Lindsey (2024)

Facts are stubborn things - 3

Moslimani & Passel (2024c)

Moslimani & Passel (2024b)

Moslimani & Passel (2024a)

“Embed chart widget” (n.d.)

Facts are stubborn things - 4

Mathieu & Roser (2021)

Opinion vs fact

Daniel Patrick Moynihan from Wikipedia

You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.

In the news

Cobey et al. (2024)

Announcements

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Preregistration

  • Read
    • Nosek, Ebersole, DeHaven, & Mellor (2018)
    • Ledgerwood (2018) or Goldin-Meadow (2016)
    • (Optional) Claesen, Gomes, Tuerlinckx, & Vanpaemel (2021)
  • Explore

Resources

References

Adams, J. (n.d.). A quote from the portable john adams. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/32621-facts-are-stubborn-things-and-whatever-may-be-our-wishes.
Claesen, A., Gomes, S., Tuerlinckx, F., & Vanpaemel, W. (2021). Comparing dream to reality: An assessment of adherence of the first generation of preregistered studies. Royal Society Open Science, 8(211037). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211037
Cobey, K. D., Ebrahimzadeh, S., Page, M. J., Thibault, R. T., Nguyen, P.-Y., Abu-Dalfa, F., & Moher, D. (2024). Biomedical researchers’ perspectives on the reproducibility of research. PLoS Biology, 22(11), e3002870. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002870
Consumer price index for all urban consumers: Food at home in U.S. City average. (2024, October). Retrieved from https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUSR0000SAF11
Dow Jones Industrial Average. (n.d.). https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/index/DJIA/advanced-chart; The Wall Street Journal.
Embed chart widget. (n.d.). https://www.ers.usda.gov/developer/embed-chart-widget/?chartId=63466.
Goldin-Meadow, S. (2016). Why preregistration makes me nervous. APS Observer, 29(7). Retrieved from https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/why-preregistration-makes-me-nervous
Gross federal debt as percent of gross domestic product. (2024, September). Retrieved from https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDGDPA188S
Ledgerwood, A. (2018). The preregistration revolution needs to distinguish between predictions and analyses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(45), E10516–E10517. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1812592115
Lindsey, R. (2024, April). Climate change: Atmospheric carbon dioxide. http://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide.
Markov, I. L., Bagchi, S., Grover, S., & Kugler, L. (2024, October). Reevaluating google’s reinforcement learning for IC macro placement – communications of the ACM. https://cacm.acm.org/research/reevaluating-googles-reinforcement-learning-for-ic-macro-placement/.
Mathieu, E., & Roser, M. (2021). How do death rates from COVID-19 differ between people who are vaccinated and those who are not? Our World in Data.
Moslimani, M., & Passel, J. S. (2024a, July). From 2007 to 2022, the U.S. Labor force grew but the unauthorized immigrant workforce did not. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/27/key-findings-about-us-immigrants/sr_24-07-22_immigrant-facts_7/.
Moslimani, M., & Passel, J. S. (2024b, July). Unauthorized immigrants are almost a quarter of U.S. Foreign-born population. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/27/key-findings-about-us-immigrants/sr_24-07-22_immigrant-facts_5/.
Moslimani, M., & Passel, J. S. (2024c, September). Immigrant share of the U.S. Population, 1850-2023. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/27/key-findings-about-us-immigrants/sr_24-09-26_immigrantupdate_4/.
Nosek, B. A., Ebersole, C. R., DeHaven, A. C., & Mellor, D. T. (2018). The preregistration revolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(11), 2600–2606. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1708274114