A new paper titled Ordinal Pattern Analysis: A Tutorial on Assessing the Fit of Hypotheses to Individual Repeated Measures Data by Timothy Beechey has been published in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. The paper is provides an excellent introduction to OPA but is unfortunately behind a paywall. It is certainly great to see these simple, intuitive methods gaining traction. The Ordinal Pattern Analysis has also made its way into R. Dr. Beechey’s R code can be found online here.
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Person-Centered paper on social media viewing
Figure 1 in this interesting article shows clearly how “effects” can vary greatly from person-to-person. Such studies are becoming more common. I only wish the world of academia weren’t so big, as then it would be less likely that I would miss such interesting work.
Youtube Channel
I have been adding content to the Youtube channel. Eventually, I will have a complete set of videos describing the features of the software. You can find an index of the videos here along with links to websites that provide various analysis-specific resources (e.g., definitions, APA style write-ups, methods for determining sample size). Please visit and subscribe!
Person-Centered Smoking Paper
Here is an interesting paper by Sayette and colleagues titled “A Person-Centered Analysis of Craving in Smoking-Cue-Exposure Research” published in Clinical Psychological Science. While its appears they did not use the OOM software, they did follow the approach to focusing on individual responses in our Persons as Effect Sizes paper.
Randomization Tests
I have published a paper titled Drawing Inferences from Randomization Tests. It is published here in Personality and Individual Differences. My hope in writing this paper was to describe the types of inferences one can draw from the randomization tests used in the OOM software. Here is the abstract:
Randomization tests grew out of permutation tests that were developed in the 1930s. Since then statisticians have expounded upon their nature as well as their various strengths and weaknesses. Uncertainty remains, however, with regard to the types of inferences that can be drawn from randomization tests, if indeed any type of inference can be drawn at all. In this paper we propose that randomization tests can play a role in drawing what are known as abductive inferences and inferences to best explanation from empirical research. Contemporary philosophers of science hold that such inferences are central to scientific reasoning; hence, randomization tests may serve as an effective bridge between the specific realm of statistical inference and the more general realm of scientific inference.
Pervasiveness Paper
Speelman and McGann have published a paper in Frontiers titled “Statements About the Pervasiveness of Behavior Require Data About the Pervasiveness of Behavior.” This is a nice companion piece to our Persons as Effect Sizes paper. Generally, the argument we are all making is that one must be careful to focus on the individuals in one’s study. Aggregate statistics do not tell the entire story of one’s data. OOM can be used to analyze the data presented by Speelman and McGann, as their pervasiveness index is equivalent to the Percent Correct Classifications (PCC) index. They also discuss setting up thresholds for determining the number of people classified correctly according to expectation. In OOM this goal is accomplished with the Classification Imprecision option available in most analyses.
Lamiell and Slaney Book
James Lamiell and Kate Slaney (Eds.) have published their new book, Problematic Research Practices and Inertia in Scientific Psychology: History, Sources, and Recommended Solutions. There are chapters on statistics, measurement, psychologists’ distaste for criticism, and the struggle to understand persons using aggregate methods. We have a chapter in which we use OOM to analyse data from a study on Dissociative Identity Disorder. We also address strategies to help connect mainstream researchers to OOM the ideas expressed in Lamiell and Slaney’s book.
Persons as Effect Sizes Paper
The Personality Lab at OSU has published a paper titled “Persons as Effect Sizes” in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. In this paper we demonstrate how OOM methods are used to answer the question “How many people in my study behaved or responded in a manner consistent with theoretical expectation?”
Realism article in Theory & Psych
Dr. Frank Arocha has just published an article on scientific realism in the journal Theory & Psychology. The title of the article is: Scientific Realism and the Issue of Variability in Behavior. Here’s a link to the abstract:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0959354320935972
The paper is broad in scope and offers a clear exposition of important issues facing modern psychologists and how we might move forward from a realist perspective. This will be required reading in my courses at OSU.
New Version Available
A new version of the OOM software has been uploaded. A number of minor bugs have been removed from the program, and a new option for generating data from proportions and frequencies (contingency tables) has been added. A video demonstrating this new feature has been uploaded to the Instructional Videos page (see link to the right, or click here). Two new videos for editing multigrams have also been added.