Week 01: Getting Started - DATA!
Date: 08-27
Now- Science Stuff!
🧑🔬 💾 📎 📊
What makes science…good science?
Replication & Reproducibility
Replication: The process of applying the same methodology with a different sample and research group
Reproduction: Taking all materials from a study and coming to the same conclusions
Replication & Reproducibility 🍰
I want to bake a cake!
- Find a recipe online (try ignoring their life story narrative)
- Get ingredients (Wegmans if you 💰)
- Follow recipe and bake 🧑🍳
- Enjoy the delicious cake 🍽️
Replication
Replication & Reproducibility 🍰
I want to bake a cake!
Reproduction
- Find a recipe online –> Find their kitchen
- Get ingredients –> Use their ingredients
- Follow recipe and bake –> Watch what they do and follow
- Enjoy the delicious cake –> Enjoy cake (and jail for B&E)
Replication & Reproducibility 📊
| Replication | Reproducibility |
|---|---|
| Have a similar research question | Use the same research question |
| Collect your own data | Use their data |
| Follow their steps with your resources | Follow their steps with their resources |
| Outcome: Similar results (depends on other factors) | Outcome: Identical results |
Replication & Reproducibility 📊
Goals of Science
Important: We want to replicate other researchers work
MOST Important: Be able to reproduce all of our results
You are your own worst collaborator!
Does this play out in the field??
100 Replication Studies Adequately Powered
Original Studies:
Mean Effect: 0.403
% with p<.05: 97%
Replication Studies:
Mean Effect: 0.197
% with p<.05: 47%
Garden of Forking Paths
What can we do about it? 🤷
Installing and Using R
Getting R Setup Properly
There are some defaults that make things more challenging in the long run
To update them, let’s look at Setting Things Up
Working with R-Studio
R-Studio is just like a kitchen 🧑🍳
The Environment pane is the pantry/fridge
The Console is like the oven/stove
The Markdown document is the recipe
The bottom right sometimes acts as the little window on the oven where you can see things baking
Next Week
In-Person
📖 Read Chapter 1 & 2 - LSR
📖 Read Chapter 1 - ROS
Note
Items below are due 9/1 @ 11:59pm
📋Lab 1
📋Lab 2
