Articles About research methods
Resilience: Ordinary Recovery Rather Than a Rare Psychological Talent
Most people recover from the worst things that happen to them. The finding is solid. The number attached to it is not, and that difference changes what we do.
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29 Aug
Cognitive Dissonance: The Experiment Where One Dollar Changed More Minds Than Twenty
A famous 1959 result rests on sixty men and one question out of four. Sixty-five years later thirty-nine labs went looking for it again and came back empty.
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16 Aug
The Dunning-Kruger Effect: The Statistical Artifact Hiding Inside a Famous Chart
The pattern shows up in random numbers with no people in them. Here is what the 1999 study measured and what still survives when the statistics change.
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15 Aug