Léo Varnet @leovarnet@qoto.org

I finished reading @lakens ‘s book “Improving Your Statistical Inferences” (freely available here: https://lakens.github.io/statistical_inferences/ #OpenAccess). I originally read it because I was interested in the chapters on effect size and power analysis, but I learned a lot about #stats in general.
As an example, here’s something I never realized about p-values:
“When there is no true effect, and test assumptions are met, p-values for a t-test are uniformly distributed. This means that every p-value is equally likely to be observed when the null hypothesis is true. In other words, when there is no true effect, a p-value of 0.08 is just as likely as a p-value of 0.98. I remember thinking this was very counterintuitive when I first learned about uniform p-value distributions (well after completing my PhD). But it makes sense that p-values are uniformly distributed when we think about the goal to guarantee that when H0 is true, alpha % of the p-values should fall below the alpha level. If we set alpha to 0.01, 1% of the observed p-values should fall below 0.01, and if we set alpha to 0.12, 12% of the observed p-values should fall below 0.12. This can only happen if p-values are uniformly distributed when the null hypothesis is true” (https://lakens.github.io/statistical_inferences/01-pvalue.html#sec-whichpexpect)

#HelloESR ! Je suis chercheur #CNRS en Sciences Cognitives, spécialisé dans la #psychoacoustique la #psycholinguistique et la perception auditive en général.

J’adore la science et la vulgarisation scientifique et je déteste la mauvaise science et la mauvaise vulgarisation scientifique (surtout quand ça touche au cerveau). Aussi petite passion #PhiloDesSciences et un gros intérêt pour ce qui touche aux questions de parité dans l’#ESR (et à l’extérieur).

Je suis basé à l’#ENS paris et parfois de passage à #lemansuniv.

C’est quand même amusant les incentives contradictoires dans l’#ESR. En général on est poussé.e.s à mettre en avant le côté interdisciplinaire de nos recherches, parfois contre toute logique… mais pour l’#HCERES il faut surtout mettre en avant que notre labo n’est pas interdisciplinaire du tout, sinon il risquerait d’être fusionné avec un autre labo pour répondre à la politique actuelle de réduction des coûts administratifs dans le service public par diminution du nombre de structures.

The International Selection at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris France), Université Paris Sciences et Lettres is a unique opportunity for students from all over the world to join the ENS-PSL. Students in the International Selection prepare for a Master’s degree and the ENS-PSL diploma (DENS). Individual tutoring, access to a room on campus for most of the course and a three-year scholarship offer the most favorable study conditions.

To inform on this pathway, we are organizing videoconference presentations on Saturday 14/10/2023, which will be in French from 9:30 a.m. to 6:45 p.m., with a presentation of the ENS, teaching and student life in the morning, followed by a presentation of each department in the afternoon.

For non-French speakers, we are planning two sessions in English at either 8:30 am or 5:30 pm (Paris time), which will summarize the essential information. You can log on at the following link: https://jpo.ens.psl.eu/

Further information on the ENS website: https://www.ens.psl.eu/en/academics/admissions/international-selection

Very proud to be a coauthor on this paper by Nihaad Paraouty, Dan Sanes et al. in Nature Communications “Sensory cortex plasticity supports auditory social learning” (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41641-8 ). We used an ingenious protocol to study social learning in the absence of any visual cue, in Mongolian gerbils. #Learning @psychology @neuroscience @nature #auditory #openaccess #SocialLearning

Addendum : l'article est maintenant publié (cf. https://qoto.org/web/statuses/111147361942136511) https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1256779/full?&utm_source=Email_to_authors_&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=T1_11.5e1_author&utm_campaign=Email_publication&field=&journalName=Frontiers_in_Psychology&id=1256779 @psycholinguistics @linguistics

The publication of this article is remarkably timely, given that the French National Assembly is currently slated to examine a bill put forth by the far-right party, aimed at banning the use of “inclusive writing” (in fact mid-dots) from all administrative documents…https://blogs.mediapart.fr/eliane-vien (7/7) @MarCandea @laelia_ve

On the other hand contracted double forms (“un·e enfant”) are more effective in promoting gender balance, as they explicitely reintroduce grammatical gender markers associated with the feminine gender. (6/7)

The findings indicated that gender-unmarked forms do not fully neutralize the masculine bias. For example, “l’enfant” has no fixed grammatical gender, still our participants mostly interpreted it as “male child”. This is probably because, in everyday language, gender-unmarked forms are often used as generic masculine terms (“Ils ont eu un enfant”) or carry underlying masculine stereotypes (e.g. “citizen” in George Bush’s “We cannot tolerate attacks on the wife of an American citizen”). (5/7) #EcritureInclusive #GenderFair #GenderNeutral #GenderFairLanguage

We employed a sentence evaluation paradigm, where the participants had to decide whether a second sentence starting with a gendered personal pronoun (“il” or “elle”) was a sensible continuation of the first sentence written in a gender-fair form, either a gender-unmarked form or a contracted double form. (4/7)

There are two main strategies to counteract gender biases in language: neutralization (using gender-unmarked forms such as “l’enfant” in French) or re-feminization (contracted double forms such as “un·e enfant”). Here, we explored the relative efficiency of these strategies. (3/7)
@linguistics #EcritureInclusive #GenderFair #GenderNeutral

In languages with grammatical gender, it has been evidenced that using masculine forms as a generic reference induces a bias favoring masculine-specific representations. It is worth repeating that this statement is a well-established scientific result, not a matter of conjecture or debate (See my previous thread here: https://qoto.org/@leovarnet/110457249392068688) (2/7)

I’m thrilled to annouce that our latest article on #GenderFairLanguage has been published in #Frontiers in #Psychology! You can read it here: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1256779/full?&utm_source=Email_to_authors_&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=T1_11.5e1_author&utm_campaign=Email_publication&field=&journalName=Frontiers_in_Psychology&id=1256779
As one of the coauthors, I’d like to share some key insights from our research as a thread 🔽
#openaccess @psychology @psycholinguistics @linguistics #EcritureInclusive #GenderFair #GenderNeutral @tract_linguistes

Two upcoming workshops in #acoustics and #audition in Paris. Both free of charge (or very cheap) and both in late November:

• Auditory Development Workshop organized by Axelle Calcus and Laurianne Cabrera https://audidev.sciencesconf.org/ (20-21 November)
• Journées Perception Sonore co-organized by #SFA and #IRCAM https://sites.google.com/view/jps-2023/accueil?authuser=0 (21-22 November)
  @psycholinguistics #psychoacoustics #psycholinguistics #developmental @psychology