Quantitude

S8E02 Lost in Standardization

In this week's episode Greg and Patrick have a loosely organized discussion about metrics, including the pros and cons of raw versus standardized scales and the adva

S8E01 The True Crimes of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing

In this first episode of Season 8, Greg and Patrick decide it is deeply unfair that the podcast has not grown popular enough for them to buy their own Quantitude jet. The

S7E24 The Seven Questions of Quantitude (Plus or Minus Two)

In this week's episode Greg and Patrick revisit their earlier promise of creating seven questions that will help you use your Quantitude to annoy the people you love

S7E23 Quantitude Philosopher of Science Trading Cards

In this week's episode Patrick and Greg talk about creating collectible trading cards for some of our favorite philosophers of science and the impact each has had on

S7E22 Is College Worth It? Maybe...

In this In the Wild episode, Patrick and Greg conclude their unexpected cluster of college-themed conversations by turning their Quantitude loose on the ultimate question

S7E21 Qualitative Research with Emily Namey

In this week's episode Greg and Patrick have a wonderful time talking about qualitative research methods with Emily Namey. Emily has dedicated her entire career to q

S7E20 Modeling Co-Development Over Time

In this week's episode Greg and Patrick follow-up their previous discussion of time-varying covariates with a conversation about methods for modeling the simultaneou

S7E19 Growth Modeling With Time-Varying Covariates

In this week's episode, Greg and Patrick have great fun talking about the inclusion of time-varying covariates within growth models. They differentiate time invarian

S7E18 St. Patrick's Day Pub Quiz

In this week's episode, Greg and Patrick magically find themselves at trivia night in the Rusty Mackerel pub in Teelin, Ireland, where a secret celebrity trivia mast

S7E17 Elements of Structural Equation Models with Ken Bollen

In this week's episode Patrick and Greg talk with Ken Bollen who is a Professor of Psychology and Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In ad

S7E16 Jumping Into Regression Discontinuity Designs

In this week's episode, Greg and Patrick discuss the decades-old method of the regression discontinuity design and describe how, when properly applied, this approach

S7E15 Are College Rankings Useful? Maybe...

In this In the Wild episode, Greg and Patrick turn their Quantitude loose on college rankings. In particular, they discuss whether these rankings are of use to anyone at

S7E14 Sample Size Planning: The Groundhog Day Episode

In this week's episode Greg and Patrick talk, for the third time, about power analysis, drawing on a recent paper by Greg and Yi Feng at UCLA, that reminds us how li

S7E13 Time-Varying Effect Models

In this week's episode Patrick and Greg explore the incredibly cool possibilities offered by the time-varying effects model as a non-parametric alternative to the mo

S7E12 The Gift of Regifting

This week's episode is the seventh annual Quantitude Holiday Special, but because Greg and Patrick both forgot to get each other something, they frantically regift o

S7E11 Should Essays be Used in College Admissions? Maybe...

In this In The Wild episode, Patrick and Greg turn their Quantitude loose on college admission essays, in particular whether or not they should be used to make such high-

S7E10 A Report Card on GPAs

In this week's episode Patrick and Greg have fun exploring the questionably valid but always high stakes role of the grade point average, of GPA. They consider the d

S7E09 Modeling Categorical Change with Latent Transition Analysis

In this week's episode Patrick and Greg talk about latent transition analysis, which embeds latent class analysis within a longitudinal context, allowing us to explo

S7E08 Bootstrapping

In this week's episode Greg and Patrick discuss the amazing world of the empirical bootstrap. They start with inferential testing using business as usual, describe w

S7E07 Is the SAT Biased and Should be Banned? Maybe...

In this In The Wild episode, Greg and Patrick turn their Quantitude loose on the ever-present SAT, in particular the premise that it is biased and should be banned. They