New post: Avoid brain rot on your IG feed and follow WeHaveTheData. Countless brief examples to get your students (and you!) to work on your statistical literacy and thinking. notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2026/09/weha...
Dr. Jess Hartnett
@notawfuljess.bsky.social
Professor and Social Psychologist. I love teaching stats. Blog: https://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/ Book: https://seagull.wwnorton.com/statistics
I picked up Vonnegut's Galapagos when I was in junior high because my older sister had to read it for AP English. It blew my mind. That book was the weirdest thing I had ever read and introduced me to sci-fi/fantasy as a way to unpack real issues. The first time a book blew my mind.
Preeti Chhibber@runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 4w agoIn honor of Dolly and her commitment to getting books to kids, tell me about a book you read as a child that changed your life. I’ll start: so many, but tonight maybe I’ll say A WRINKLE IN TIME, a book that taught me anger wasn’t wrong.
New post: Just in time for Fall 2026, freshen up your ordinal data slide with this table on emoji popularity. Or, use the rise and fall of the skull emoji among teenagers to illustrate how to visualize data changes over time. notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2026/08/mode...
I'm sharing this here because no one in real life will be amused: I was goofing around in JASP and entered pretend data. And I got this F value. Do I get an infinity stone now?
Do I have any followers here that are experts or expert-adjacent with SEM, either with Lavaan or in Jamovi? I have a complex problem/analysis that I am struggling to put together.
New blog post! Teach your students about non-significant/itty-bitty effect sizes for correlation and regression by asking them to reflect on the relationship between being a nepo baby and being a success. notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2026/08/anti...
New post! Do your students present data in your classes? If so, you might want to check out this brief article from Nature. It is written at an UG-accessible level and explains what a statistician needs to consider when sharing a data viz. notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2026/07/fuji...
Fujii's "How to design effective scientific figures"
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I went down a true-crime rabbit hole this summer after watching The Crash on Netflix. I emerged with a new way of explaining SEM. You see, investigation evidence boards are sort of like SEM path diagrams, complete with latent and observed variables. notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2026/07/what...
New post! A Reddit user compared the ethnicity of characters in movies to US Census data. I see an expected-proportions chi-square test. Or challenge your students to develop a methodology for collecting a more robust sample of movie ethnicities. notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2026/06/an-e...
NEW POST! According to new research, gulls appear to be more wary of men than of women. Use this to teach t tests, or combine it with a previous gull behavior post (indeed, I have two such posts now) to teach your students about factorial ANOVA. notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2026/05/moar...
Friends...can you send me recommendations for your favorite psych papers that use SEM? I'm looking for simpler models that UGs can understand with a little help. Please accept my favorite example of a truncated y axis as payment. Thanks!
R, Python, Stata, SPSS, SAS, Matlab
madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · 4mo agowhat are the Six Genders? wrong answers only
All the philosophy students who pursued their passion made a wise decision. Learning how to think is a always a good investment. Psychology grads are not doing too badly on the job market either.
With great sadness, I must announce that the time of the meme has come again.
I need to share two file uploads from my stats student. Despite what you may assume, he did v well on the exam.
New post: I used GenAI to create a fake dataset that mimics real findings. Here, I found new example to teach my students about independent t tests. The original research even involves CBT (a bonus for any psychologists who teaches stats). notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2026/05/usin...
Using GenAI to generate teachable data sets (here, an independent t test)
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Mayday = HELP ME May Day = Help me... pick these flowers 🧵⬇️
I have a request. I have a brilliant dissertation student who is collecting data on faculty adoption of GenAI. She is struggling with her sample size, and I would be much obliged if you would complete her brief survey. Thanks! forms.office.com/pages/respon...
a kitten is standing on its hind legs and looking at the camera .
ALT: a kitten is standing on its hind legs and looking at the camera .
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New post! Young adult suicide has been declining in the US since '22. This study makes a case for a causal relationship between the launch of the 988 mental health hotline and the decline. A good way to review regression AND how to est causality. notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2026/04/youn...
Does anyone else teach regression at the end of the semester? This is an optimistic example for reviewing the concept.
Scientific American@sciam.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe states with the greatest increases in 988 crisis hotline use since 2022 experienced the greatest decrease in suicide mortality, but the hotline alone may not explain the drop
New post! Are you following @sketchplanations.bsky.social ? He is great at explaining complex ideas via text and images, and some of those complex ideas are statistical.
Time to dig up this classic HuffPost/YouGov experiment on how wording can affect support for impeachment. www.huffpost.com/entry/obama-...
NEW POST: It is the end of the semester. Everyone is tired. So here is one small ANOVA example you can easily use with your students to review the topic. Bonus points for being a psychiatric example from JAMA that uses a jitter plot! notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2026/04/one-...
