This is a presentation I held for the young researchers branch of the Finnish Psychological Society. I show how low power and lack of transparency can lead to weird situations, where the published literature contains little or no knowledge.

We had big fun with Markus Mattsson and Leo Aarnio in a seminar, presenting to a great audience of eager young researchers.

The slides for my talk are here:

If you’re interested in more history and solutions, check out Felix Schönbrodt‘s slides here. Some pictures were made adapting code from a wonderful Coursera MOOC by Daniel Lakens. For Bayes, check out Alexander Etz‘s blog.

Oh, and for the monster analogy; this piece made me think of it.