April 2012 Blog Posts (9)

When I started writing this blog, I was planning to add a post every other week - or every week, even. To write a few lines - surely this fits in anywhere, anytime - doesn't it? But I suppose that the human capacity for self-deception is endless and that academics are no exception... And this is why it has been three weeks (three weeks??) since the last post. But I will keep it up, even if at longer intervals.

Today I want to focus not so much on what QCA can, as on what it cannot do.…

Someone posed me this question:

Some of my research, if not all of it (:-S) will use multiple correlations. I'm now only considering those correlations that are less than .001. However, having looked at bonferroni corrections today - testing 49 correlations require an alpha level of something lower than 0.001. So essentially meaning that correlations have to be significant at .000. Am I correct on this? The calculator that I am using from the…

The University of Florida is now offering online courses on research methods in anthropology.

The first two courses, offered in May-June of 2012, are Text Analysis in Cultural Anthropology (taught by Clarence Gravlee and Amber Wutich) and Geospatial Analysis in Cultural Anthropology (taught by Eduardo Brondizio and Tracy Van Holt).



For more information and to enroll, go here:



http://rma.distance.ufl.edu



Or contact…

This blog was published recently showing that the use of R continues to grow in academia. One of the graphs (Figure 1) showed citations (using google scholar) of different statistical packages in academic papers (to which I have added annotations).…

For those of you attending the AERA Annual Meeting in Vancouver #AERA2012, please come by and visit me at the SAGE booth!  I will be doing demos for SAGE Research Methods.  See a demo or fill out a survey for a chance to win a Kindle 3G!  We are…

For those of you attending the AERA Annual Meeting in Vancouver #AERA2012, please come by and visit me at the SAGE booth!  I will be doing demos for SAGE Research Methods.  See a demo or fill out a survey for a chance to win a Kindle 3G!  We are…

Truth to tell, I had not exactly planned to write another blog entry today. Easter is almost here - time to walk outside in the sunshine, sip a coffee and watch people walking by, chat with friends, maybe paint an egg or two... But: The sky is grey, it is freezing cold, and the last thing I would want to do is sit outside. Much better to finish telling you about how to assess symbol visibility using qualitative content analysis - before that first post has slipped everybody's mind, including…

Readers  may be interested in a new  page on my website dedicated to the late…

I’ve been thinking about writing a blog on one-tailed tests for a while. The reason is that one of the changes I’m making in my re-write of DSUS4 is to alter the way I talk about one-tailed tests. You might wonder why I would want to alter something like that – surely if it was good enough for the third edition then it’s good enough for the fourth? Textbook writing is quite an interesting process because when I wrote the first edition, I was very much younger, and to some extent the content…