This teaching example: 1. Is psychology research. 2. Features the actual data from the generous and helpful Dr. Bray . 3. Features GIFs. EVERYTHING is better with GIFs. 4. Includes puppies. 5. Includes a good ol' Psych Statistics standard: The one-sample t-test. Okay, get ready. I first learned about Dr. Emily Bray's dog cognition research via Twitter . Never let it be said that good things don't happen on Twitter. Occasionally.  1 Dogs are known for their ability to cooperate with humans and read our social cues. But are these skills biologically prepared? To find out, we tested 375 puppies at 8.5 weeks on 4 social cognition tasks (task descriptions: https://t.co/aETequNBce ) #AnimBehav2021 #Cognition pic.twitter.com/7vN2lp82Dp — Emily Bray (@DrEmilyBray) January 27, 2021 This is such a helpful way to share your research. This example works for your Cognitive or RM classes as well as your stats class, since this thread illustrates not just her findings but her methods. T...

I am avoiding grading and trying to make this here blog more usable, so I am consolidating all of my funny scale examples into one location. Feast your eyes on this! https://earther.com/we-finally-know-what-hot-as-balls-really-means-1825713726 http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/02/boyfriend-doesnt-have-ebola-probably.html http://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2018/01/this-is-very-silly-example-for.html