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Research Skills

How to ask questions, test ideas and trust the answers

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Doing research

Start here: plan a study and collect your data fairly

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Experiments & the scientific method Hypotheses, fair tests, controls and measuring reliably 6 resources Surveys, interviews & fieldwork Collecting good data from people and the real world 7 resources Research ethics & integrity Consent, honesty, reproducibility and spotting bad science 6 resources

Using research

Turn data into findings and judge the work of others

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Analysing & reporting results Making sense of your data and presenting what you found 6 resources Finding & reading research Searching the literature and reading papers critically 6 resources

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C YouTube Staff pick Carl Bergstrom, Jevin West · YouTube / University of Washington

Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data (University of Washington)

Famous UW course on spotting misleading data, graphs, statistics and science claims, with free lectures and case studie… Beginner 10 – 40 hrs Lecture series No prerequisites View C YouTube Staff pick CrashCourse (Adriene Hill) · YouTube / CrashCourse

Crash Course Statistics

44 lively 10-minute episodes: controlled experiments, sampling and survey bias, p-values, and how to read data without … Beginner 2 – 10 hrs Video series No prerequisites View F YouTube Staff pick Leslie Curry · YouTube / Yale University

Fundamentals of Qualitative Research Methods (Yale)

Six short Yale lectures on qualitative research: research questions, interviews, focus groups, analysis and rigour. Beginner 30 min – 2 hrs Video series No prerequisites View YouTube Staff pick Derek Muller · YouTube / Veritasium

Is Most Published Research Wrong? (Veritasium)

A 12-minute explainer on p-hacking, publication bias and the replication crisis, and what scientists are doing about it. Beginner Under 30 min Single video No prerequisites View

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