The McGill quant area hosted sessions with 8 PhDs working outside of academia. They had great advice for getting and doing nonacademic jobs. IMO, this is the advice that is applicable to academic jobs as well, so take it and you are good either way 🧵 1/7 2/ master the basics. Intro and intermediate stats, research design (experimental and quasi experimental), developing and evaluating measures -- you use (and teach) these methods with clients and collaborators all the time and need to be fluent in them

Measurement Schmeasurement: Questionable Measurement Practices and How to Avoid Them w/ @EikoFried : psyarxiv.com/hs7wm/

We've updated the final version the of the preprint.

1. So what is schmeasurement and how does it encourage QMPs? And, what do we do about it? 2. Schmeasurement is an approach to measurement. I summarize it as, "Construct validity? Don't know, don't care" It is normative in psychology. We can tell because made up on-the-fly measures are common and details about measures are hard to find in published papers.

What? The GRE is not a face valid measure of quantitative + verbal reasoning? These discussions are off the rails. Validity evidence for the GRE is not lacking. You can disagree with how universities use it, but make sure you are clear you disagree with the use of cognitive tests

https://twitter.com/tage_rai/status/1174855321015242753

Perhaps a history lesson is needed. The college board began developing entrance exams so that "elite" colleges in the US could expand admission and access to hire education. Who do you think had exclusive access before standardized tests...?

Starting now @McGillPsych "Solving the replication crisis with multilevel modeling" by @StatModeling (Andrew Gelman), my second ever attempt at live tweeting! Most people in the room have heard of the replication crisis--part of the crisis is that various well known studies didn't replicate and the other part of the problem is studies we know wouldn't replicate, so we don't even try.

I just read this paper: psyarxiv.com/7rbfp/ by @ianhussey + Sean Hughes, "Hidden Invalidity among Fifteen Commonly Used Measures in Social and Personality Psychology" - Let me tell you why it is important.
THREAD 1/n 2/n first, this is a massive study of the psychometric properties of 15 scales that are used in social and personality psychology. If you want to use one of these scales you have a comprehensive evaluation of critical psychometric information right here

Thread re 1st gen professors (1/6): Recently I attended an academic event for professors. When I arrived the greeter said they wanted to raise awareness about professors who were 1st in their family to go to college and support for 1st gen students. (2/6) She offered a pin to wear for those who were 1st in their family to go to college. I was excited about the prospect of that and I want to support 1st gen students, so I eagerly put my pin on.

I signed a thing. I’ll be joining the Quantitative area of the Psychology Department at McGill University in the fall! These past months have been exciting, exhausting, and scary all at once. The job market was a very different experience than I expected…(1st thread ever! 1/n) The nature of my work puts me in this twofer category-I’m an applied methodologist with substantive lines of research and a strong interest in interacting with substantive research communities (ed and social psych). I was told this might make it hard for me to get a job. (2/n)