{"id":6201,"date":"2016-03-13T10:14:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T16:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=6201"},"modified":"2016-03-13T10:14:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T16:14:52","slug":"worth-sharing-the-crusade-against-multiple-regression-analysis-edge-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2016\/03\/13\/worth-sharing-the-crusade-against-multiple-regression-analysis-edge-org\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth Sharing: The Crusade Against Multiple Regression Analysis | Edge.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><h2>A Good Read<\/h2>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"c6gh8-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"c6gh8-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"c6gh8-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">There&#8217;s a certain cargo cult associated with these sorts of correlations.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"7c7kk-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"7c7kk-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"7c7kk-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">If there are more than 3 or 4 variables that have an influence on something, we very quickly lose our ability to say anything meaningful about the situation. It&#8217;s true in health, the environment, and it&#8217;s also true in Education.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"7c7kk-0-0\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"7c7kk-0-0\">Knowing that the technique is terribly flawed and asking yourself\u2014which you shouldn\u2019t have to do because you ought to be told by the journalist what generated these data\u2014if the study is subject to self-selection effects or confounded variable effects, and if it is, you should probably ignore them. What I most want to do is blow the whistle on this and stop scientists from doing this kind of thing. As I say, many of the very best social psychologists don\u2019t understand this point.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edge.org\/conversation\/richard_nisbett-the-crusade-against-multiple-regression-analysis\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Nisbett640.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edge.org\/conversation\/richard_nisbett-the-crusade-against-multiple-regression-analysis\">The Crusade Against Multiple Regression Analysis | Edge.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-6201'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(6201);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(6201);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(6201);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A Good Read There&#8217;s a certain cargo cult associated with these sorts of correlations. If there are more than 3 or 4 variables that have an influence on something, we very quickly lose our ability to say anything meaningful about &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2016\/03\/13\/worth-sharing-the-crusade-against-multiple-regression-analysis-edge-org\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,9,371],"tags":[388,389,108,212],"class_list":["post-6201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-educational-technology","category-research","tag-academia","tag-educational-technology","tag-life-in-general","tag-research"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1C1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6881,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/04\/02\/is-contemporaneous-grading-more-consistent-than-grading-over-a-long-period\/","url_meta":{"origin":6201,"position":0},"title":"Is Contemporaneous Grading More Consistent than Grading over a Long Period?","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"April 2, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I have an education question for anyone with expertise in assessment: Are there any studies examining the notion that marking all of one assignment\/paper contemporaneously leads to more consistency? \u00a0 It strikes me as intuitively true, but I'd love to find citations to studies that have examined this. 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