Ronán Michael Conroy

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Is anyone doing research into long-term incidence of psychiatric disorders and use of Mefloquine (lariam)?

There seems to be quite a bit of short-term research, but I wonder if anyone out there is doing long-term research – 20-year or 10-year incidence of serious psychiatric disorders.

06 October 2015 7,579 4 View

Is anyone using think-aloud protocol (cognitive lab) methodology to investigate test-taking strategies in multiple-choice exams?

I am interested in why some students can score better on MCQ exams than other forms of assessment while others underperform. It seems to me that a think-aloud protocol (cognitive lab) might cast...

09 February 2015 1,797 17 View

Does Spearman's rho have any advantage over Kendall's tau?

I've always had a preference for tau, because it's got an intuitive interpretation. It's not easy to locate literature comparing tau and rho. From what I have read, rho is badly affected by small...

09 January 2015 3,875 21 View

Can anyone suggest a practical use for the standard deviation?

The standard deviation is usually quoted alongside the mean, as a matter of convention. However, it rarely tells you anything useful about the dispersion of the data in the sample or the...

02 December 2013 8,405 37 View

Is it ethical to use ChatGPT to produce answers to questions and then pretend you have written them yourself?

Here's what ChatGPT had to say: Using ChatGPT to generate answers to questions and then presenting them as your own work without proper attribution is generally considered unethical and...

01 January 1970 1,014 24 View