If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. ~ Ernest Rutherford Many psychology students (and readers of Psychology Today) hate statistics, p < .05. During my ...

LeBron James has broken Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's record of most career points scored by a professional basketball player. James' career statistics serve as a prime example of the interplay between sports ...

A few years ago, I caused considerable weeping and gnashing of teeth among psychologists for a piece I wrote explaining why psychology isn't science. It was predicated upon a lengthier argument, which ...

This is the first of three Blogs, 1: Are Patients Statistics or Persons? 2. Building a Modern Medical Society and Beyond, and 3. Pillars of Tomorrow’s Medicine Today. I will share my thoughts ...

A psychology major covers a lot of ground, so it is useful for many different fields. You learn about topics as diverse as neuroscience and social psychology, statistics and art therapy. A bachelor’s ...

As Alex Berezow wrote in his piece yesterday, psychology is not a science, and statistics in and of itself is not science either. Then again, lots of useful and worthwhile things are not science. So, ...