SDT Update 2 - moving psychology

This past week wasn't quite as productive as I would have liked. Ian and I did chat and we got him straightened out on his assignments, which he has followed through on. I'm thoroughly pleased that Ian is both independent enough to function in between our weekly meetings, but he also makes very good use of our time by asking the right questions both in those meetings as well as in his musings while writing his own entries here. Unfortunately a good portion of my research time has been eaten by dealing with insurance and car matters after a Friday evening rush hour fender bender. That said I was able to meet with a colleague who was able to direct me to a reference (Manolov & Solanas, 2012) that may solve our scattered statistics problem. At the very least, the reference list from that article will be useful in getting some further statistical help. The colleague was also able to direct me to several other people within the department who have experience in meta-analytic types of research who could provide some possible solutions to our issues as well.

I have not delved completely into the FBI'S data yet to see if it is useful, but upon first glance there will be some useful information on hate crimes based on race there to test out hypotheses.

The plan for the morning is to meet with Ian, check his progress on our database and go from there. I am hoping that the statistics are a bit more uniform than my first glance about a week ago, as while consulting colleagues is a nice option to fall back on; each little step slows us down just a bit. One suggestion I have already gotten from a colleague is to email the original researchers directly for their tables of means and effect sizes. Which reflecting on now, will be time consuming, but may provide the most accurate picture for the questions that we are tackling. But engaging this step will definitely bog us down in time. That said, I may have just typed myself and us into pursuing this route. While it may be more cumbersome than simply collecting articles, if we end up having to do this anyway because of lack of uniformity and/or incomplete statistics in the existing literature it could turn out to be a time saver.

References

Federal Bureau of Investigation. (n.d.). Hate Crime Statistics. Retrieved at: http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/ucr#cius_hatecrime

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Manolov, R., & Solanas, A. (2012). Assigning and combining probabilities in single-case studies. Psychological Methods, doi: 10.1037/a0029248

Source: http://www.personal.psu.edu/bfr3/blogs/moving_psychology/2012/09/sdt-update-2.html

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