Stephen Dewitt @TheComplexBrain

Associate Professor | Fan of nuance https://t.co/rwN9qtcbfo University College London Joined January 2014

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Stephen Dewitt @TheComplexBrain

8 months ago

Anyone still on here? If so, and you do surveys with open text box responses, you might be interested in a new analysis guide we've just had published with @SJDMOfficial @SJDM_Tweets cambridge.org/core/journals/…

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Stephen Dewitt @TheComplexBrain

2 years ago

My brain won't stop trying to parse this company's sign into a single sentence in various ways ...

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Stephen Dewitt @TheComplexBrain

3 years ago

Online here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co… Researchgate: researchgate.net/publication/37…

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Stephen Dewitt @TheComplexBrain

3 years ago

New paper with @cogsci_soc looking at how people update propensities under uncertainty - we find many update 'categorically' which amounts to a novel form of confirmation bias. Thanks to co-authors @david_lagnado @profnfenton @AdlerNine and @SamuelGBJohnson for great reviewing :)

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Stephen Dewitt @TheComplexBrain

4 years ago

@smfleming Hi Steve, my 1st daughter is 2 months now - I took 1 month and spread a couple of weeks annual leave over another month. Salaries a major decision factor in me not taking more - I earn ~10k more as a lecturer despite partner equally qualified in equivalent seniority in the NHS

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Stephen Dewitt @TheComplexBrain

4 years ago

@maddi_pow @themichjam @GiselaGovaart You're welcome, thanks for the paper - I might be in touch to ask you guys to speak at UCL some time :) Also, not sure what the status is of the full publication, but if you're struggling to find reviewers to recommend ... 👋

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Stephen Dewitt @TheComplexBrain

4 years ago

Just found an awesome preprint by @themichjam @maddi_pow @GiselaGovaart 'Reflexivity in #quantitative research: a rationale and beginner’s guide' - Yes, yes, yes! It's definitely making it's way into my '#qualitative and #mixedmethods' module next term! psyarxiv.com/xvrhm

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Stephen Dewitt @TheComplexBrain

4 years ago

@david_lagnado @alice_liefgreen @SamuelGBJohnson @ProfRuthMorgan Congratulations Alice, well done on a great PhD!

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David Lagnado @david_lagnado

4 years ago

Massive congrats to @alice_liefgreen who passed her phd with flying colours today - she’s produced an amazing body of research and I’m privileged to be involved - thanks also to 2 great examiners @SamuelGBJohnson and David Shanks and to @ProfRuthMorgan 🥳🥳

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Steve Haroz 📊👁️🧠 @sharoz

4 years ago

Title: A > B Abstract: A > B Results: A > B Limitations: The method probably isn't a valid comparison of A and B Conclusion: A > B

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Andreas De Block @DeblockBlock

4 years ago

Stop funding research (the way you do) Because it is wasteful, unethical and unscientific A thread (1/16)

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Stephen Dewitt @TheComplexBrain

5 years ago

@StevenMBelknap @NinaStrohminger What if it's a bit of a mix? I think the theory predicts this, but someone else might not ...

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Stephen Dewitt @TheComplexBrain

5 years ago

@NinaStrohminger I would love to see a history of the relationship between the idea of the ideal theory-derived hypothesis, where it being a priori shouldn't really matter, and the more personal version we actually see, where it does to prevent cheating (lol) - anyone have a good link?

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Stephen Dewitt @TheComplexBrain

5 years ago

@Jm32745851 @NinaStrohminger That's just what the textbook says - the softer the science, the more subjective and personal (and useless) the 'hypothesis' tends to become

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Neuroskeptic 🇺🇦 @Neuro_Skeptic

5 years ago

"Psychology is fundamentally incompatible with hypothesis-driven theoretical science" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34878945/ Shots fired! See this @chrisdc77 @lakens @BrianNosek

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Stephen Dewitt @TheComplexBrain

5 years ago

@DoobieDuh 😁 Yes this could be a subtle contributor to publication bias along with all the other ways the whole process is just a total PITA

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Stephen Dewitt @TheComplexBrain

5 years ago

Something that would be amazing: a journal rejects your manuscript after receiving reviews because it doesn't fit their remit. They send your manuscript complete with the reviews to one of their parent company's other journals which they think would be a more appropriate fit.

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Brian Nosek (@[email protected]) @BrianNosek

5 years ago

Published! Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology @eLife * 193 experiments planned, 50 completed. Challenges in transparency, sharing, & implementation doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… * Replication effect sizes were 85% smaller on avg than original effects doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… 1/

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Stephen Dewitt @TheComplexBrain

5 years ago

@nicholaraihani Yes I've noticed this with a preprint put on researchgate

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Stephen Dewitt @TheComplexBrain

5 years ago

@chrisdc77 @annemscheel I agree our hypotheses are often underspecified but see this as the reality and reason to give up that approach and accept that most of our work is exploratory, not push harder on forcing everyone to specify precise hypotheses when they don't really have one