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herrerof.aldea.social
Yo es que no trabajo en la Unidad de Gestión, no son mis competencias, y no tengo por qué saber eso. Al igual que ellos no tienen por qué saber hacer un proyecto de investigación, ni utilizar el SPSS o el STATA, etc.
November 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
libbyheeren.bsky.social
Manipulating data frames. At all 😂 I work in R, Python, SAS, SPSS, and Excel, and nothing is more useful to me than R. I do find I like manipulating unstructured text data more in Python.
October 30, 2025 at 5:06 AM
bextraordinary.bsky.social
Teaching someone "to code" : qualitative research :: teaching someone to use SPSS :: quantitative analysis.

In that one of those things is absolutely not the same as the second thing, and you can teach people the first part all day long and still get absolute nonsense on the second part.
October 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
meddly.bsky.social
Someone on a listserv I was on asked how to install SPSS on a server. I scoffed before realizing one day soon I'll be asking how to install Stata on a server and someone else will be rolling their eyes...
October 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
nxptvne.bsky.social
SPSS/data analysis crash out thread so I don’t flood the TL I need to crash out to get through this if you need amusement just read this thread
MS paint drawing guy on his knees crying
October 28, 2025 at 7:22 AM
nxptvne.bsky.social
Someone actually made a GIF specifically for hating SPSS (that’s the logo)
a man is carrying a bag on a sidewalk in front of a don villa 's garbage truck
Alt: A man throwing away a garbage bag but the SPSS logo is over the garbage bag
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October 28, 2025 at 7:08 AM
nxptvne.bsky.social
Me at my laptop because SPSS (the stats program I have to use) hates me and wants me to die and it is a very mutual feeling
a green frog with a blue sky and clouds behind it
Alt: POV: yoshi is crushing you with a hammer
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October 28, 2025 at 7:05 AM
broviacboy.bsky.social
Danke! :) Ich schrieb dir mal. Ich weiß, welche Methode ich brauche (ANOVA, weil veränderung über zwei Zeiträume und vergleich WKG, ist ne RCT, danach ggf. Post-hoc), aber ich kanns irgendwie einfach gar ncht umsetzen, weil ich den Datensatz bearbeiten muss und kaum Plan von R und SPSS hab
October 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
taeminified.bsky.social
Sitze seit 2h vor SPSS und weine noch nicht!!!
October 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
recklessinsnow.bsky.social
Estoy a esto 🤏🏻 de volver a follarme a Sergio con tal de que me enseñe a usar el SPSS
October 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
dingdingpeng.the100.ci
Each year I teach test design I ask the master’s students how much R they’ve learned & there is a pleasant shift (lots of undergrad psych programs in Germany now teach R), but there’s always some variation—like one program relying on excel, and another that starts with R but then switches to SPSS?!
October 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
dingdingpeng.the100.ci
That I can understand! But the student told me semester 1-2 were R and semester 3 was SPSS? Wild. Maybe they wanted that sweet PROCESS.
October 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
fdzgml.bsky.social
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October 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
pwgtennant.bsky.social
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

"Statistical analysis used SPSS"
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In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 12, 2025 at 8:39 AM
atlasbun.bsky.social
Bad political scientists must collate SPSS data until they've learned their lesson. This shit is why I'm a qualitative researcher.
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October 4, 2025 at 3:27 AM
f2harrell.bsky.social
An excellent argument. One related way I try to get course managers’ attention is to quote the cost of SPSS licenses to students once they leave the comfort of the university site license. The cost is obsene, for a product that does far less than R, & LLM can even help students learn to program R
October 4, 2025 at 12:09 PM
richarddmorey.bsky.social
Also - contrast b/w the response when I advocate teaching R instead of SPSS -- "No hurry, let's not rush into it" (still waiting) -- & others re: use of LLMs -- "It's inevitable, we're behind; need it implement it ASAP!" -- is telling. Learning to code is freeing. Overhyped LLMs create dependency.
Excerpt from Guest & van Rooij, 2025: As Danielle Navarro (2015) says about shortcuts through us- ing inappropriate technology, which chatbots are, we end up dig- ging ourselves into “a very deep hole.” She goes on to explain: "The business model here is to suck you in during your student days, and then leave you dependent on their tools when you go out into the real world. [...] And you can avoid it: if you make use of packages like R that are open source and free, you never get trapped having to pay exorbitant licensing fees." (pp. 37–38)
October 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
olivia.science
Second, if we uncritically adopt AI in psychology, we outsource programming of our experiments to companies. This undoes a lot of open source: experiments are under industry capture, written without formal specifications. It deskills us: psychologists spent the last decade learning to code.

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4 Outsourcing Programming to Companies [Sanford’s mechanical vernier chronoscope] had two pendulums, one set longer than the other but both set at known lengths. When the stimulus appeared, the longer pendulum was released mechanically. When the participant pressed the key in response, the shorter pendulum was similarly released. By counting the number of swings it took the shorter pendulum to catch up with the longer, experimenters could use a mathematical formula to calculate the difference in time between the two events. (Evans, 2000, p. 322–323) A century later, all this is now done by programming computers to display stimuli, and collect and analyse data. The largely harmless and perhaps even beneficial (cf. Guest, 2025) transition to computational experimentation, where all instruments (e.g. EEG, fMRI, eye-tracking) are hooked up to the codebase for running experiments and the database for storing participant data, has been completed through: the adoption of programmes such as SPSS for statistics (Landau & Everitt, 2003) and E-Prime for presenting stimuli (Spapé et al., 2019); and training psychologists to use programming languages (e.g. R, Python; British Psychological Society, 2017; Peirce et al., 2022). The last part, from the mid 2010s onwards, where psychologists spent time and effort learning how to program is a massively laudable case of reskilling (N. D. Anderson, 2016; Guest & Forbes, 2024; Scherer et al., 2019) From the 2020s, however with the rise of the kinds of AI products we critique herein, this is under threat. If scientists accept the AI “snakeoil” and “con” (Bender & Hanna, 2025; Bjarnason, 2023; Narayanan & Kapoor, 2024) and use it to deskill themselves from learning proper programming, then code reproducibility and verifiability are lost causes; not just short-lived, dead on arrival (Becker et al., 2025a). If the code is for running experiments, strange side-effects will be present from so-called ‘vibe coding’ (Harkar, 2025), which is ‘programming’ using a chatbot such that nothing is checked or verified against software engineering principles and only the output being seen as acceptable under a small sample of conditions is evaluated. This means that because standards are ignored and best practises are violated the stimuli may be presented in the wrong order, participant data may not be properly or securely saved, and the code may be unmaintainable (Burgess, 2023, 2025; El-Mhamdi et al., 2022; Greshake et al., 2023; Ming, 2025; Tangermann, 2025). And the same is true for this non-engineered code in the case of analysing data, which will not only not be analysed, but open to all sorts of bugs. To add insult to injury, because the scientist is not practising programming or never learned how to code, all this will be outside their skill level and they will be unable to detect and fix these issues (Becker As Danielle Navarro (2015) says about shortcuts through using inappropriate technology, which chatbots are, we end up digging ourselves into “a very deep hole.” She goes on to explain: The business model here is to suck you in during your student days, and then leave you dependent on their tools when you go out into the real world. [...] And you can avoid it: if you make use of packages like R that are open source and free, you never get trapped having to pay exorbitant licensing fees. (pp. 37–38) These were and are the reasons to switch from e.g. SPSS, which is owned by IBM, to R or Python (Wills, 2019). The same and more hold for being locked in and addicted to AI products, which have closed or industry-controlled source code (Hao, 2025; Liesenfeld & Dingemanse, 2024; Liesenfeld et al., 2023; Maffulli, 2023; Maris, 2025; Mirowski, 2023; Solaiman, 2023) , and mislead us into overestimating our programming abilities (Lehmann et al., 2025)
October 4, 2025 at 6:07 AM
matthewmatix.bsky.social
Have you considered getting them to use SPSS via a remote desktop connected to a university machine? Because I find that's always fun too
September 29, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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September 27, 2025 at 2:25 AM
cconrymurray.bsky.social
I just talked to a great team from Kenya who described the challenge of paying for a statistical platform like SPSS, but then loosing the license and the skills. Of course, R solves the cost issue, but it was also nice to tell them about jamovi (and JASP)--free AND easy to use. www.jamovi.org
jamovi - open statistical software for the desktop and cloud
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September 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
benansell.bsky.social
Peter Kyle frantically wondering why Britain's legion of HTML 3.0 and SPSS coders can't get jobs
September 19, 2025 at 10:42 AM
seanpmackinnon.bsky.social
Is there a context where an F-statistic with a given degrees of freedom doesn't have an exact single p-value associated with it?

Asking for a video of somebody's analyses would be weirdly invasive for a journal review for a problem this small (besides, SPSS does have syntax and output files).
October 17, 2024 at 2:50 PM
ivanscat1.bsky.social
Just like we use SPSS? For us its just a tool created by a big tech company that helps with stuff like classification. We do not see it "intelligent" or otherwise special. Its just software. You can be transparent about its probabilistic nature and the variance of its outputs.
August 8, 2024 at 5:21 AM
salzmoritz.bsky.social
Was brauch ich
1. Arzt/Ordisoftware (eigenes Produkt) + SPSS
2. Word
3. PP
4. Excel
Das wars eigentlich.

Also, was interessiert mich Apple?
Wiegesagt nicht 1x Virus, nicht 1x Kompatibilitätsprobleme.
Fanboy Issue?
December 1, 2023 at 8:08 PM