Asking once again that researchers spend even half as much time thinking about design, sampling, and measurement as they do tinkering with their favorite R package to analyze and present their results.

Clinical psych PhD programs really need to get a common app moment going the struggle is real for everyone involved

And if you do try to understand methods more deeply, you might hear that “you’re in the weeds,” “leave that to the statisticians” etc. I feel like I’m often trying to convince folks that we need to care about basic methods because it matters for substantive inferences we applied people want to make.

For anyone hesitant on submitting grad apps, DO IT‼️ The worst possible outcome is “apply again next year”. But the best is that YOU GET ACCEPTED ✨ • • I applied to 4 grad programs and was rejected from all except one. But they still call me Dr. now 😏 ALL YOU NEED IS ONE 🙌🏾