Category: Methods
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Open Science Practices in Qualitative Communication Research?
Lina Buttgereit Jul 2023 Preregistering Research – Fostering Trust through Transparency In the pursuit of greater transparency and to ensure public trust in research findings, preregistrations have emerged as a useful tool for quantitative researchers. The idea is straightforward – when preregistering a study, researchers outline and timestamp the research idea, hypotheses, and analysis strategies…
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The things we do for data
Leonie Westerbeek Feb 2023 Collecting data is a big part of doing research but it does not always come easy. For my own PhD project, for instance, we rely on a very time-consuming in-person data collection strategy: a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) with general practitioners (GPs) and older patients. While the process is a lot…
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Next in Line! Analyzing Sequential Data Using a Markov Chain Approach
Susan Vermeer Busy or tired while texting a friend? You most likely have experienced making a glaring mistake at least once. After receiving lots of laughing emojis you recheck what you just sent: “I’m getting Pringles tonight!” turned into “I’m getting pregnant tonight!” Oops… But even though automated spelling correction – or “autocorrect”, as it’s…
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Experiments Without Explosions
Marthe Möller News outlets often discuss scientific research investigating possible causal relationships between two factors. One such causal relationship that is frequently discussed in the media evolves around the question ‘Does playing violent video games make people aggressive?’ (for example, see these articles by CNN, The New York Times and The Guardian). But when it…
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The Five Stages of Big Data Grief
Edina Striković This year, I embarked on the half-exciting /half-terrifying task of conquering the theories and practices of Big Data analysis. For some, the thought processes involved in writing code may be intuitive and come as second nature. If you are one of those lucky folk, keep moving along, this is not the blog you’re…
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The Dilemma of Finding Non-Significant Results
Maria Altendorf I started in the field of health science with an ambition to make the world a healthier, better and maybe even fairer place. I specialised in health research – so I could support the vision of “global health” with my own research. Okay! Some might now call me idealistic. They would argue: “you…
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