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Evolutionary and Cultural Psychologist | Centre for Culture and Evolution | Brunel University London
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Keep Your Head Up

Post about concussions and messy recoveries from them.

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PostedFebruary 12, 2021
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Logistic Regression Blues

Lotta folks say it’s too hard to interpret logistic regression output. Here I talk about 1) why I disagree, and 2) how I like to do it. Plus robots.

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PostedSeptember 28, 2020
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bayes

Becoming A Bayesian Dabbler: My Silly Statistical Memoir

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PostedSeptember 7, 2019
AuthorWill Gervais
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The WORLDBREAKER Heuristic

Would that reported effect size lead to the downfall of human civilization if transferred to the real world?

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PostedJune 7, 2019
AuthorWill Gervais
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To play or not to play, that is the question.

The Impact Factor Game

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PostedFebruary 28, 2018
AuthorWill Gervais
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The Atheists!!! They're Everywhere!!!

And they sure are scary

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PostedOctober 8, 2017
AuthorWill Gervais
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tone vs tactics

yay, another toney discussion about tone

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PostedAugust 4, 2017
AuthorWill Gervais
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Post publication peer review

A PPPR of a bygone study that failed to replicate. With a plot twist.

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PostedMarch 6, 2017
AuthorWill Gervais
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The author's file drawer, circa 2017

The author's file drawer, circa 2017

Tidyin' the ol' file drawer...

File drawer? It's a dark, scary place. Full of dragons and scary things. Clean it out.

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PostedJanuary 27, 2017
AuthorWill Gervais
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"I'm not an atheist...I'm an agnostic"

A meaningless statement

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PostedJanuary 24, 2017
AuthorWill Gervais
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books for kids who cant statistics good and want to learn how to do other stuff good too

I read and liked some books about statistics.

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PostedJune 17, 2016
AuthorWill Gervais
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please don't be that atheist

Atheists, creationists, billboards, and how not to be *that* atheist

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PostedMarch 27, 2016
AuthorWill Gervais
Tagsanti-atheist prejudice, creationism, billboards
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heavy PETting

Is PET more sensitive than an experiment with 7 participants?

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PostedMarch 3, 2016
AuthorWill Gervais
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Casting a wide net?

Should we use small studies to pick which ideas to pursue with big studies?

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PostedFebruary 10, 2016
AuthorWill Gervais
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Bayes Factors for the Alternative Actually Tested?

Play with some BF goodness

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PostedNovember 20, 2015
AuthorWill Gervais
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Wait...have I been boycotting JPSP?

I haven't submitted there in 5 years. Why? Does this mean I'm boycotting?

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PostedSeptember 17, 2015
AuthorWill Gervais
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Will Gervais, and the people who play him on the Internet

Or: how to tell the difference between "Will Gervais" and Will Gervais

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PostedAugust 21, 2015
AuthorWill Gervais
Tagsrandom, media portrayal
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PET-PEESE vs. Peters

Round 1 of a meta-analytic cage match

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PostedJune 29, 2015
AuthorWill Gervais
Tagsstats-ey stuff
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Putting PET-PEESE to the test...

Testing a test of tests...

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PostedJune 26, 2015
AuthorWill Gervais
Tagsstats-ey stuff
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A powerful nudge?

How to reward power...

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PostedMay 14, 2015
AuthorWill Gervais
Tagsstats-ey stuff, new paper, power
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“Science faces in ethics and religion its most interesting and possibly humbling challenge.... Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition and in time uncover the bedrock of the moral and religious sentiments.”
— E. O. Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
“It is high time that we subject religion as a global phenomenon to the most intensive multidisciplinary research we can muster. Why? Because religion is too important for us to remain ignorant about.”
— Daniel C. Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

Recent Articles

How many atheists are there?

— SPPS

Global evidence of extreme moral prejudice against atheists

— Nature Human Behavior

In the News

  • How many atheists are there really?

    — Vox

  • Americans Intuitively Judge Atheists as Immoral

    — Pacific Standard

  • The Serial Killer Test

    — New York Times

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Recommended Sites

  • Epiphenom
  • Science and Religion Today
  • Not Without Salt
  • Serious Eats
  • Adventures in BC Wine
 

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