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Helping your students with craptops

 I teach with JASP.  Compared to, say, SPSS, JASP doesn't drain my computer of its processing abilities. But it takes more than a Chromebook to run. And I know that many of my Psych Stats colleagues are teaching with SPSS, which takes way more than a Chromebook to run.  This is troublesome because some of our students have Chromebooks. Or second-hand laptops or very inexpensive laptops that fit their budget and run Word just fine but leave some of our students at a disadvantage regarding their ability to succeed in classes that require more than Word. I bet many of these students are financially responsible for themselves and operating on a limited budget. So let's help those students. I learned about a workaround for this problem from one of the ITS employees at Gannon University. A workaround that may be obvious to some of you but I never knew about. It helped one of my students who had a crap top AND (at the time) a concussion, and she was struggling to keep up with wo...

Dennis Quaid, the ages of his wives, and regression

This hilarious quip made me think of regression.   So I created a wee data set ( available here ): It features this scatter plot of the data (r = .99). It also includes JASP output of the regression for this data (a person born in 2020 is predicted to marry Dennis Quaid in 2052).