Meng Pei

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What progresses have been made in improving the assessment of motivation for a career with high income, high pressure, high risk and high expertise?

Hi all, For example (just an example), it will be a huge waste of time and money if a Ph.D candidate in physics at MIT becomes bored with academia or is scared away and withdraws. Then how can we...

08 November 2019 1,011 3 View

Does it make sense to compare two samples grouped by DV on a continuous IV?

Hi fellows, Say I want to investigate the association between car preference and age. Then I have data from 100 people who like SUV, and another 100 who like classic models. As expected, A t-test...

01 October 2019 5,084 6 View

Does it make sense to calculate validity for VPT-director task?

Hi everyone, The Visual Perspective Taking task requires the participants to figure out which item on the shelf the "director" was referring to. Someone asked me about the psychometric properties...

18 June 2018 8,508 2 View

How to interpret EFA and CFA results when they reveal a reverse-coded dimension in a scale?

Dear everyone, Imagine I have an instrument called ET Belief Scale. There are 10 statements that indicate the respondent believes in Extra-Terrestrial life, and 10 indicating the opposite (reverse...

26 February 2018 1,305 3 View

Why should we expect two variables to interact (or expect one to moderate the other)?

Hi fellows, To introduce our research we often need to provide reasons why two independent variables may interact - or our finding of interaction may be simply data-driven. One common reason...

01 January 1970 4,801 6 View

Is longitudinal logistic regression suitable for this case?

Hi Fellows, In a longitudinal research, 30 (for example) preschoolers were assessed roughly biweekly over a year on a cognitive task called, say, "Bright Brain". A participant could use one of...

01 January 1970 2,090 7 View