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2011-01-23

The Swiss Ban on Minarets Confirms the Contact Hypothesis

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In November 2009, Switzerland held a referendum that sought approval for a constitutional ban on minarets. 57.5% of the voters supported th...
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2009-11-14

Aus dem Kontext gerissen: Eine Meldung zu einer Facebook-Studie und ihre Geschichte

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(special circumstances require a post in German) Unsere Studie gibt die Interpretation, dass "Facebook-Verweigerer" (Morgenpost) m...
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2009-10-17

SPSS / PASW Statistics 18 for Mac: The Same Junk as Always

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So I write this rant about the horrors of SPSS 16 for Mac. As a result, SPSS Inc. invite me into their beta program for SPSS 17 and offer a...
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2009-10-15

Virtual Reality Social Psychology

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Today I had the pleasure of giving a talk at the Institute of Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Neuchâtel (Institute d...
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2009-08-12

An R Function for the Blau Index of Diversity

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In diversity research, one is often interested in how an individual feature is distributed among the members of a group. In other words, one...
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2008-09-27

How to make a list of own publications in LaTeX in APA Style with sub-headings

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Your PhD is through and you apply for a post doc or, after that went through, write a grant proposal. And you have to attach a list of your ...
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2008-08-20

The Finnish Husband

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The husband and his group's design ideas for creating a new sense of identity for the inhabitants of the former Finnish capital Turku w...
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My PhD thesis was published today despite copyright screw-ups

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Since I embrace the concept of open access very much, I published it on the electronic document server of Humboldt-University Berlin. It can...
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2008-08-07

Starchitecture

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The husband finally has a website that displays his gorgeous architectural designs. I'm sure that he's up for quite a career.
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2008-07-16

Re: Grok or: Information, Knowledge, and Mental Models

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Jack Shedd has an insightful piece on his blog concerning shared patterns of thought and language: If you ever meet two folks who collabor...
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2008-05-24

Obtaining the same ANOVA results in R as in SPSS - the difficulties with Type II and Type III sums of squares

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I calculated the ANOVA results for my recent experiment with R. In brief, I assumed that women perform poorer in a simulation game (microwo...
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2008-04-09

Beautiful Correlation Tables in R

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I have achieved another victory in getting R to produce SPSS-like results. In experimental psychology, an analysis of measurement variable c...
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2008-04-08

Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials

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Marvelous piece mocking exaggerated demands for randomized experimental designs. Some journal review editors should definitely read this. ...
2008-04-01

More Beautiful Error Bars in R

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The rather complex structure and syntax of R (at least to the spoiled SPSS user that I am) comes with a steep learning curve but also with ...
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2008-03-31

Beautiful Error Bars in R

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One of the reasons why I haven't made the switch from R to SPSS is R's lack of proper error bar graphs. I use them frequently becau...
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A reply from SPSS Inc.

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SPSS Inc. replied to my open letter on the poor quality of SPSS 16 for Mac : Dear Bertolt: I want to acknowledge your email/blog and apologi...
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SPSS 16 for Mac Doesn’t Make the Cut

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Mark Kupferberg took up my open letter to SPSS on his Blog . He agrees with me on the poor impression that SPSS 16 for Mac's UI creates...
2008-03-28

Learning R for SAS and SPSS Users

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For all of those who as frustrated with SPSS as I am , decisionstats has a great tip: So you decided to cut down on your Statistical softwa...
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2008-03-27

SPSS 16 for Mac: Insulting users. An open letter to SPSS Inc.

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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen at SPSS Inc , As a psychologist working in experimental research, the statistical analysis of data is the bread an...
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