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Ryan Bowles @ryanpbowles.bsky.social · Aug 21

Many thanks to MSU for issuing policies critical for my syllabus less than a week before the start of classes. After I finished the syllabus.

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Ryan Bowles @ryanpbowles.bsky.social · Aug 21

Wait until you read Infinite Jest. It's not that funny.

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Ryan Bowles @ryanpbowles.bsky.social · Aug 21

The new Cracker Barrel logo is the visual version of a 50 year old saying skibidi.

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Lori Skibbe @loriskibbe.bsky.social · Aug 12

A press release about our new measure of print concepts knowledge
innovationcenter.msu.edu/msu-boosting...

MSU Boosting Early Childhood Literacy- MSU Innovation Center

PAWPrint Concepts was made by Dr. Lori Skibbe and Dr. Ryan P. Bowles to evaluate children's print concepts knowledge with a new testing method

innovationcenter.msu.edu

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Ryan Bowles @ryanpbowles.bsky.social · Jul 11

No, because it's hearsay. And not an exception to hearsay. Or it's an exception to an exception. But not an exception to an exception to an exception.

Opening Arguments Podcast @openargs.bsky.social · Jul 10

#T3BE (quote skeet to play) is back in business with your weekly shot to be admitted to the Bluesky Bar, have at it! Episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Question 76 of Thomas Takes The Bar Exam: A driver and a passenger were involved in a car accident. Shortly thereafter, the passenger wrote a summary of the events surrounding the accident in a journal entry. At trial three years later, the passenger is on the stand and unable to accurately recall the details of the accident, even after reviewing his written summary about the accident from his journal.

Assuming a proper foundation is laid, may the summary of the accident be read into evidence?

Ryan Bowles @ryanpbowles.bsky.social · Jul 4

Already on my syllabus for next year!

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Ryan Bowles @ryanpbowles.bsky.social · Mar 20

This analysis was supposed to be easy. F*** you, data.

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Ryan Bowles @ryanpbowles.bsky.social · Feb 12

White and Nerdy

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Ryan Bowles @ryanpbowles.bsky.social · Feb 8

Great to see a student in my program get recognized for her expertise.

Lori Skibbe @loriskibbe.bsky.social · Feb 8

My graduate student - Burcu Ozkum - was featured in the news for her expertise on children's digital media. So proud!
www.wlns.com/news/parenti... @msuhdfs.bsky.social

How to maximize screen time for your child

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – It’s Parenting Connection Tuesday and 6 News is here for you with tips, strategies, and helpful reminders from child development experts on how we can be better …

www.wlns.com

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Ryan Bowles @ryanpbowles.bsky.social · Jan 16

Where is the groan button in bluesky?

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Ryan Bowles @ryanpbowles.bsky.social · Jan 16

It finally happened. I have a student in my grad stats course whose advisor was once my student in the same grad stats course.

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Ryan Bowles @ryanpbowles.bsky.social · Dec 11

Language people: my trivia team had a rhyming question where the answer was Towel Howl. We had a debate about whether those words actually rhyme. Thoughts?

Ryan Bowles @ryanpbowles.bsky.social · Dec 3

Delete everything. If it's important enough, they'll email again.

Note: Despite the brilliance of this strategy, I have never been able to implement it.

Adrea Truckenmiller @adrea.bsky.social · Dec 3

Here we go again. I've reached a new level of email overload. What are your secrets for responding to the important ones while also not letting it take your whole day?

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Ryan Bowles @ryanpbowles.bsky.social · Dec 2

Lick hurt. Don't like hurt.

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Ryan Bowles @ryanpbowles.bsky.social · Dec 2

A Likert scale is always some form of Disagree to Agree rating scale. It is a type of rating scale, not synonymous with rating scale.

This is a hill I will not die on, because I have given up and have nothing left but to scream into the Bluesky void.

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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · Nov 29

Underappreciated fact:

„When the entire population is measured there is no need to perform a hypothesis test. After all, there is no pop. to generalize to. When data from the entire pop. has been collected the pop. effect size is known, and there is no confidence interval to compute.“

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Ryan Bowles @ryanpbowles.bsky.social · Nov 22

A standard error is a standard deviation of a sampling distribution. What is a sampling distribution? That is a question for another weekend's mediation.

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Ryan Bowles @ryanpbowles.bsky.social · Nov 19

Don't be a hardass. At least one of your students is struggling with something major right now. No matter when now is.

Ryan Bowles @ryanpbowles.bsky.social · Nov 16

How much different do two samples need to be for factorial in invariance to be meaningful validity evidence? For example, randomly splitting a sample in two and finding factorial invariance is definitely not meaningful validity evidence.

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Ryan Bowles @ryanpbowles.bsky.social · Nov 13

As long as the old friend is a companion during eating, not a side dish to go with the noodles. English can be a little vague.

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Ryan Bowles @ryanpbowles.bsky.social · Nov 13

I taught a lecture on IRT today, and I have to say that even after 25 years in the field, I don't really get it. In the absence of a causal theory of the response process, what can IRT really say about measurement and validity?

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Ryan Bowles @ryanpbowles.bsky.social · Nov 13

Not in Python, but I've tried several R packages and keep coming back to Winsteps.

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Ryan Bowles @ryanpbowles.bsky.social · Nov 12

I'd count myself in this group.

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Ryan Bowles @ryanpbowles.bsky.social · Nov 12

My prediction is fewer international students in higher tier programs, more students from high reputation U.S. colleges, and no change for low/mid reputation colleges.

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