Angie Nikoleychuk @Juxtacognition@qoto.org
- Website is
- https://www.angienikoleychuk.com/about/
- Lives in
- Alberta, Canada
- Works at
- Search Engine Journal
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/angnik/
Marketing/consumer behaviour funds my Human-Computer Interaction habit (Alzheimer's & Autism). Cheap coffee fuels the rest. (Psych/Comp Sci/Community) She/Her
Suppose it's time for an introductory post...
I've been in SEO, online marketing, and consumer behaviour since 2004. I've since gone in-house and am currently the Content Marketing Manager for Search Engine Journal.
But my true passion is the mystery and wonder that occurs at the moment technology and humans interact—how tech affects our behaviour and how we affect technology.
I'm completing a BA/BSc in psychology and computer science, but I also have two main projects on the go:
The smaller project is examining the methodology behind Quality of Life surveys and assessment tools. I'm looking at all the things that happen before and during the use of these tools and how they affect validity and reliability.
The larger project uses ML and AI to adapt software for those with cognitive errors and decline to improve autonomy and independence. It's been a labour of love for over a decade. I have 12 more experiments to run and one major snag to sort out, and I'll be ready to put all the pieces together. At least, that's the idea anyway. Either way, I suspect that I'll learn a lot.
That's what I hope to do here... Learn from others, share my successes, and if I'm fortunate, have a few things to brag about. The only thing I can really promise is that whatever I share here will likely be horribly and wonderfully nerdy.
Anyway, until I finally finish some of these lofty goals, I'm working on my last semester at the University of Lethbridge and look forward to starting my masters in the fall.
Until I get my act together and have something good to share...
May your participants be plentiful and all the reviewer 2s you encounter be kind.
Psychologists call it “Collaborative Memory”.
- Research paper: https://bit.ly/3oFosGu
- Learn more: https://bit.ly/39RYcVr
#Psychology #CognitivePsychology #Brain #Health #Love #Relationships #Science
I was hoping to share something clever that I learned today, but unfortunately, it was one of those days. So, instead, I will share today's theme in a meme.
Another paper showing many published articles lack a sample size justification https://bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12874-022-01723-5
Not having a sample size justification is like lacking a rationale for why you used a measure, or used an intervention.
My ridiculously long Sample Size Justification paper is a one-stop solution for many types of studies https://online.ucpress.edu/collabra/article/8/1/33267/120491/Sample-Size-Justification
I am seriously going to code all this stuff into an app. I can't be there only one who has found this all extremely difficult.
I shouldn't have to write a program every time I want to do a systematic review. That has to be awfully limiting.
After several hours, I was able to pull the methods section out of a pdf.
Tomorrow, I need to figure out if I can read that text into a CSV.
Also, for tomorrow: Is it possible to convert 600+ pdf files into html in python using a loop?
And...is it possible to read those files into a data frame?
I really need to find something easier. I'm supposed to be studying for an exam 😂
I really should have taken that "GitHub for the humanities" workshop. So many people have found really clever ways to make use of it. I've never used it for much more than just website updates.
Why is "Things could be better" (https://psyarxiv.com/2uxwk/) the greatest #psychology / #academia paper I have read this year?
- Readable, not pompous
- Written to convey information, not that the writers are smart
- Hyperlinks, not bibliographies (might be better with both though; see how this supports their thesis 😆)
- Funny, not boring
- Meta-commentary (things = ? [p. 16] 😉)
I’m going to make a thread of our #PsyTeachR resources. We’re a group of psychologists at #UniversityOfGlasgow who are passionate about teaching #OpenScience. We love #rstats, but the R actually stands for #reproducibility. We’ve made a series of textbooks for undergrad and postgrad methods, plus some other resources. All our materials are CC-BY-SA, so you freely use and adapt them.
Undergrad life and the importance of joining a lab
So, after several days of fighting with a problem, and weeks of dealing with a difficult educational situation, I was able to find a solution to both with one chat to my former lab partner.
I know that in today's world, the push is to have huge labs or none at all, but mine has been absolutely pivotal to my education, my success, and quite frankly, my well being.
All of us who joined the lab that year became close. And some of us are still best friends to this day.
I love that we can call each other this many years later and still help each other find answers and solutions to the problems we can't solve on our own. And I have no idea how other students survive without it.
A lab should absolutely be necessary for every undergrad.
To this extent I'm really interested to know how the age breakdown of people on the #Fediverse. On one hand it would seem to make sense to me that most people here remember the "old internet" before the centralization and they're here to rekindle that flame of independence. On the other hand the youths are generally pretty up on this whole technology thing. I grew up on the internet and since then smartphones have become even more ubiquitous.
(Please boost for reach)
The first problem, of course, is that there isn't a single, universal definition. It's altered to meet the needs of each situation. And when that happens, are we really measuring quality of life? Or something else?
We struggle even to assess our own quality of life. Is it perceived inequality? Unachieved dreams? We as humans overestimate the impact of future events, and constantly rewrite history to convince ourselves that we made the right choice. Or that our history was better than it seemed the first time around—the wrongly convicted say it was the best thing that ever happened to them, losing a limb made another a better person, another would relive a violent situation if given the chance to do it all over because it made them who they are.
Money only makes us happy to a point. And if we lose our sense of identity or passion, we eventually find some other reason to enjoy life. We ease the loss by saying that we really didn't want that anyway. It wasn't so great.
Work, school, marriage... Everything we do is to give ourselves a better life.
So the question is this: is quality the way things are?
Or "quality of life" something a bit more intangible? Is it the desire and drive to achieve—the absence of apathy?
Quality of Life Measurement
Earlier today, I was going through some of the papers by Dr Latvia Pheiffer from the University of Zurich.
A really fascinating collection of works on caregiver bias and apathy. And while it provides evidence of the influences and interactions between caregivers and patients, it also helped me clarify the conundrum I've had over quality of life measurements. (Cont)
Researcher bias:
“Bias can neither be created nor destroyed; it may only be converted from one form to another!”
The “law of the conservation of bias,” as discussed in our recent article on the advantages of exploratory hypothesis testing (Rubin & Donkin, 2022).
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2022.2113771
This is my ever-indiferent companion Cleocatra.
Yes, she is starving and offended by the bottom of her food dish. Why do you ask?
An interesting take on Mastodon, claiming it intentionally attenuates virality and introduces frictions to negativity:
https://uxdesign.cc/mastodon-is-antiviral-design-42f090ab8d51
Hi ggplot2 users! Seeing OJS & wondering how to get started w/ Observable Plot to build interactive JS #dataviz?
You’re already most of the way there! Here I highlight how your existing grammar of graphics know-how gets you up-and-running in Plot 🏃📊
I should have added hashtags... #psychology #technology #behaviour #qotojournal
Suppose it's time for an introductory post...
I've been in SEO, online marketing, and consumer behaviour since 2004. I've since gone in-house and am currently the Content Marketing Manager for Search Engine Journal.
But my true passion is the mystery and wonder that occurs at the moment technology and humans interact—how tech affects our behaviour and how we affect technology.
I'm completing a BA/BSc in psychology and computer science, but I also have two main projects on the go:
The smaller project is examining the methodology behind Quality of Life surveys and assessment tools. I'm looking at all the things that happen before and during the use of these tools and how they affect validity and reliability.
The larger project uses ML and AI to adapt software for those with cognitive errors and decline to improve autonomy and independence. It's been a labour of love for over a decade. I have 12 more experiments to run and one major snag to sort out, and I'll be ready to put all the pieces together. At least, that's the idea anyway. Either way, I suspect that I'll learn a lot.
That's what I hope to do here... Learn from others, share my successes, and if I'm fortunate, have a few things to brag about. The only thing I can really promise is that whatever I share here will likely be horribly and wonderfully nerdy.
Anyway, until I finally finish some of these lofty goals, I'm working on my last semester at the University of Lethbridge and look forward to starting my masters in the fall.
Until I get my act together and have something good to share...
May your participants be plentiful and all the reviewer 2s you encounter be kind.
- Website is
- https://www.angienikoleychuk.com/about/
- Lives in
- Alberta, Canada
- Works at
- Search Engine Journal
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/angnik/
Marketing/consumer behaviour funds my Human-Computer Interaction habit (Alzheimer's & Autism). Cheap coffee fuels the rest. (Psych/Comp Sci/Community) She/Her
