Social Psych 1999: There’s an effect called Dunning-Kruger. Incompetent ppl are unable to recognize their own incompetence. SP 2011: Uh oh. We’ve a replication crisis. Maybe we’ve been doing stats wrongly? SP 2019: We don’t need expert statisticians to help us fix our subfield.https://twitter.com/dan_p_simpson/status/1145219937100865536 …
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At my uni stats profs teach undergrad stats to all majors. I think it’s good for our students. Though ofc not everyone is a good teacher, that’s aside from area expertise.
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I've known cases where it has worked out terribly. Generally in the UK service teaching to other departments is low status and historically offloaded to the worst teachers (you save your best teachers for your own students).
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I think the problem there is academics’ overall approach to service and terrible incentive structures. My institution assigns best stats teachers to service teaching and that pays off.
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That is refreshing. Generally what matters is how something is taught less than who - you can appoint psychologists with good stats skills and be successful also. Generally you need people with a foot in both camps (e.g., statisticians with good knowledge of the application area)
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My 2 cents (as somebody that teaches stats). I don’t think you need a PhD in stats to teach undergrads in psych depts. However, just having a psych PhD doesn’t equip you either. I think it’s a specialist role and I think depts should look to appoint specialist stats lecturers
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I also don’t think you can seperate stats teaching and phil of sci. I think phil of sci (and phil of psych) teaching is missing in a lot of depts and the ideal (I think, without a hint of bias
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I don't know about others but I sometimes think that the "research methods" module that we teach in r UK at all levels from UG to MSc should be split into further stuff like a separate stats module, a separate experimental design module, a separate scientific writing module.
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I always meet North American graduates and they know so much more.
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Yes it does vary widely (in fact most programs I've been in have student first take intro stats in the math department then they take another psych stats class in the psy dept.) so I would guess most students get both.
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Yeah, one uni I taught at did that. The students didn’t retain a lot but I did feel more comfortable moving faster. And they already knew how to use the calculator so that was nice
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