Hi Class, It is Week 3

Agenda and Announcements

Agenda :

  • 10 Min : Welcome and Check-In
  • 20 Min : Part 1 : Cognitive Biases in Real-Life and Science
  • 40 Min : Part 2 : Academic Articles
  • 15 Min : Part 3 : We only have <15 minutes to Read an Article????

Announcements :

  • How’s the class going?

    • Comments / Concerns / Complaints / Compliments?

    • Posting to Canvas & the Vision Board?

  • Office Hours in SSSC (LC-105) Today. 2:00 - 4:00.

Week 2 Vision Board Review

  • Models & Me-Search

  • The Dig Deeper Assignment

Part 1 : People (and Scientists) Are Biased

ACTIVITY : Identifying Biases in Horoscopes

Find examples of each of the different cognitive biases: Patterns in Randomness, Positive Evidence, Previous Beliefs, Availability, Social Influence, Regression to the Mean.

DISCUSSION : Biases in Science

  • How might the scientific method PREVENT these biases?
  • How might the scientific method PROMOTE these biases?
  • Patterns in Randomness
  • Positive Evidence
  • Previous Beliefs
  • Availability
  • Social Influence
  • Regression to the Mean.

EXAMPLE : biases in peer-review?

Click the image to link to the original article.

Part 2 : Scientific Business

RECAP : questions?

  • The People Involved:

    • author : the person(s) who writes the article

    • affiliations : where the authors come from

    • editor : a person who sends the article to review, and ultimately decides whether to accept / reject an article for publication.

    • peer reviewers : other scientists who comment on the article and give feedback before it is published (unpaid, anonymous, and uncredited on the paper)

  • Types of Scientific Articles

    • original report : one or more studies where researchers collect original data to answer a specific question(s)

    • replication : a copy of a previous original report (with new people)

    • literature review : summarizes main ideas from past research to find common themes

    • meta-analysis : summarizes data from past studies to find common themes.

  • Ways To Evaluate an Article :

    • citation count : the number of times that other people reference a specific article.

    • impact factor : the average number of times the average article in a journal has been cited in an average year

    • jargon : the specific words psychologists use to define variables.

    • APA Citation (or “Citation in APA Format”) : a super specific way of referencing an article that you do NOT need to memorize because computers do this for us.

ACTIVITY : VISION BOARD.

INSTRUCTIONS

  • Open the Vision Board.
  • Find the final project tab; copy your model from Week 2.
  • Copy my annotated bibliography template.
  • Find some articles

GOAL : Learn more about the topic than you did before

  • look to the present : what do you learn from this article?
  • look to the past : what reserach was cited by this article?
  • look to the future : what articles have cited this article?

PART 3 : READING AN ARTICLE

WE DON’T HAVE TIME TO READ, PROFESSOR!

  • How are you feeling as you look at this document?
  • Abstract –> Headers –> What looks interesting?

NEXT WEEK : WE HAD TIME TO READ, PROFESSOR!

  1. Continue your literature review. Cool!

  2. Do a closer reading of the “Objectivity Interrogation” article. Okay not to understand everything; we will discuss!

  3. Learn about reliability and validity and why phrenology was hella racist bad science.

  4. Byeeeeee.