Brian Hughes (2018): Psychology in Crisis

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MSEsperanza

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Being too sick today to write the posts, hellos and welcome messages I would like to write, I instead asked the two nearest libraries to buy @Brian Hughes' Psychology in Crisis (just in case you don't know: most libraries have online forms for asking to buy a book ), and opened this thread, looking forward to reading the first reviews and all you want to share about the book.

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Cheshire said:
You can read here part of the pages dedicated to the PACE trial (from p132 to 140, p 138 is missing)
https://books.google.fr/books?id=CkNmDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA139&lpg=PA139&dq=psychology+in+crisis+brian+hughes+pace+trial&source=bl&ots=6b2ZGi3Jl5&sig=TbuDSeUWlJdPHkYsWrdO79EJ7og&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjKttzZ5o_dAhUBxoUKHTTFBD0Q6AEwAnoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=psychology in crisis brian hughes pace trial&f=false
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wdb said:
I noticed that the first chapter is available to read on the book publishers website.
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Wonko said:
It's a book, with ink and paper (presumably), so fixed font size, contrast etc.. I can't read 'em. Maybe in a couple of weeks when my new specs exist, I'll re-assess, but pointless me buying it now.
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I generally can't read entire books most of the time.
I wonder if an audio version of something like this is economically viable... I imagine there must be more people who have a problem like the two of us, but Idk how many copies a book like this one can expect to sell.
I do hope it's a shitton, though.
 
I thought the French resume page was rather good - you hardly need to read the book after this. It includes:

Expressions et termes fréquents
academic analyses approaches authors behaviour biological brain activity brain imaging cent Chinese chology chronic fatigue syndrome claim coauthors cognitive cognitivism compute concept conducted confirmation bias considered construct validity control group cultural datasets depression effect ego depletion example extraversion fact false-positive feel findings fMRI gender difference human hurricanes internal validity internet addiction intervention IQ test logical margin of error ME/CFS mean average measurement mental health methods neuroscience NHST non-replicability null hypothesis one’s Open Science Collaboration original studies p-value PACE Trial paper paradigms participants patients peer review problem produce psychoanalysis psycholPsychological Science psychology research psychology’s crises psychology’s replication published qualitative research quantitative questionnaire Rampant Methodological Flexibility reason reflect replication crisis reported Retrieved April sample scale scientific scientists scores simply Social Psychology social support SRRS statistical significance statistical tests stress survey theory therapy things tion true variables voxels women words

Some this is clearly distractor padding but some bits are uncanny;

academic analyses approaches authors behaviour
false-positive feel findings
human hurricanes internal validity internet addiction intervention (I think that must be Tom and Alem)
PACE Trial paper paradigms participants patients peer review problem
scientists scores simply Social Psychology
statistical tests stress survey theory
therapy things, true variables, voxels, women and words (that says it all really)
 
erm....isn't that just a random collection of sciency sounding words that have absolutely no informational content? It's difficult to be sure, as I can't hold more than 4 or 5 words in my head at a time, but I can't see any consecutive word groupings, of the types normally used to convey information, to latch on to.
 
Trish said:
@Wonko I think it's an alphabetical list of frequently used terms and expressions in the book.

As to price, my Amazon receipt says £24.99.
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A quick scan would suggest that whilst vaguely alphabetical it is not, in fact, alphabetical

Might be an idea to cancel your order and immediately reorder it then Trish - £3.95 is nearly £4 ;)

ETA - both prices are sold by amazon prices, they've simply dropped to match the next lowest price that was available to get the orders, and then everyone else's pricing algorithms have done the same, forcing all the prices down.
 
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adambeyoncelowe said:
A children's book I published earlier this year strangely dropped to £2.94, which is *less* than Amazon's wholesale price. It promptly went up to £4.95 the next day.

I think they have arcane algorithms which attempt to make books more appealing to buy at a given time.
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I think they also do personal pricing . They may have a threshold of stock vs sales when they try to reduce stock in the warehouse even at a loss. For some older books they also do print on demand.
 
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