About to write this week's Commonplace post, on the relationship between self-forgiveness and procrastination.
Then I realise that I don't know the state of replication of the studies in this area.
Then I realise that no meta-analyses have been done.
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And then I realise that not enough studies on this exact effect exist, which makes computing the replicability index score difficult.
AFAIK, this is supported by a single study with a sample of 134 undergrad students. And yet I count at least 5 blog posts on the result. Gah.
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Probably the lesson here is: don't trust blogs that cite psych studies, if that blogger doesn't display adequate statistical proficiency.
But then how do you tell if the blogger has adequate stats proficiency?
I don't know. Psych is a dumpster fire.
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I don’t consider myself statistically proficient, so I’ll probably only be able to write this up once I figure things out. My current hack is to take a psych paper and then work through the stats, pausing to revise what I don’t understand. And then double check w friends.