Recent content by MelFoof

For experiment design, try explaining it to someone who knows nothing about psych. If you can make your grandma understand your study, you understand it. For stats, practice with real data. The UCI library has datasets you can play with. Running the numbers yourself > reading about running the...

Amelia, Cornell's guide to graphs and tables is literally the best thing ever. They show bad examples vs good examples so you can SEE the difference. Once I started formatting my graphs properly (white background, no gridlines, proper axis labels), my grades went up even when my data was still...

Hey Walter, I think you might have undiagnosed ✨academic anxiety✨ (same tho). The intro is terrifying because it feels like you're setting the tone for everything and if it's wrong the whole paper collapses. Here's a trick my writing tutor gave me: write the worst possible intro you can imagine...

This is a strange one. I'm a third-year psych major, and for my abnormal psychology class, we have to write a detailed case study analysis of a patient with a specific disorder. We choose from a list of de-identified cases from the professor's old clinical work. I chose one that looked...