Sue Finch
Biographic Data
| ID | 1432048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sue Finch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sue |
| FAMILY NAME | Finch |
| SIGNATURE | FINCH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4261-0504 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Exploring course experiences that predict psychological distress and mental wellbeing in Australian undergraduate and graduate coursework students
University students are known to be at heightened risk among their peers for experiencing psychological distress and mental health difficulties. To date, there have been few interventions designed to reduce stressors in the educational environment. This may be due to limited research investigating course-related correlates of students’ distress. The present study addresses that gap by identifying and exploring the extent to which six common eleme…
Patents and Gender
Prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of psychological distress among students at an Australian university
This research contributes to the empirical literature on university student mental well-being by investigating the prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of severe levels of psychological distress. More than 5000 students at a metropolitan Australian university participated in an anonymous online survey in 2013 that included the short form of the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS-21). Comparisons with published research show that o…
Inference by Eye
Wider use in psychology of confidence intervals (CIs), especially as error bars in figures, is a desirable development. However, psychologists seldom use CIs and may not understand them well. The authors discuss the interpretation of figures with error bars and analyze the relationship between CIs and statistical significance testing. They propose 7 rules of eye to guide the inferential use of figures with error bars. These include general princi…
Past and Future American Psychological Association Guidelines for Statistical Practice
We review the publication guidelines of the American Psychological Association (APA) since 1929 and document their advice for authors about statistical practice. Although the advice has been extended with each revision of the guidelines, it has largely focused on null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) to the exclusion of other statistical methods. In parallel, we review over 40 years of critiques of NHST in psychology. Until now, the critiqu…
A Primer on the Understanding, Use, and Calculation of Confidence Intervals That Are Based on Central and Noncentral Distributions
Colloquium on Effect Sizes
Reformers have long argued that misuse of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST) is widespread and damaging. The authors analyzed 150 articles from the Journal of Applied Psychology ( JAP) covering 1940 to 1999. They examined statistical reporting practices related to misconceptions about NHST, American Psychological Association (APA) guidelines, and reform recommendations. The analysis reveals (a) inconsistency in reporting alpha and p valu…
Reporting of Statistical Inference in the Journal of Applied Psychology
A Primer on the Understanding, Use, and Calculation of Confidence Intervals that are Based on Central and Noncentral Distributions
Reform of statistical practice in the social and behavioral sciences requires wider use of confidence intervals (CIs), effect size measures, and meta-analysis. The authors discuss four reasons for promoting use of CIs: They (a) are readily interpretable, (b) are linked to familiar statistical significance tests, (c) can encourage meta-analytic thinking, and (d) give information about precision. The authors discuss calculation of CIs for a basic s…
Socialist-Feminists and Greenham
When we first talked in our Greenham group about writing something on the involvement of socialist-feminists in the peace camp our hearts sank. The labels had been used to attack and defend positions which each of us understood differently. Some of our small group had worked for years in the Communist Party, Labour Party and trade unions, and had experienced an exhaustion and draining of energy in the process. Perhaps what characterizes socialist…
Inference by Eye
Wider use in psychology of confidence intervals (CIs), especially as error bars in figures, is a desirable development. However, psychologists seldom use CIs and may not understand them well. The authors discuss the interpretation of figures with error bars and analyze the relationship between CIs and statistical significance testing. They propose 7 rules of eye to guide the inferential use of figures with error bars. These include general princi…
Prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of psychological distress among students at an Australian university
This research contributes to the empirical literature on university student mental well-being by investigating the prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of severe levels of psychological distress. More than 5000 students at a metropolitan Australian university participated in an anonymous online survey in 2013 that included the short form of the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS-21). Comparisons with published research show that o…
Socialist-Feminists and Greenham
When we first talked in our Greenham group about writing something on the involvement of socialist-feminists in the peace camp our hearts sank. The labels had been used to attack and defend positions which each of us understood differently. Some of our small group had worked for years in the Communist Party, Labour Party and trade unions, and had experienced an exhaustion and draining of energy in the process. Perhaps what characterizes socialist…
Socialist-Feminists and Greenham
When we first talked in our Greenham group about writing something on the involvement of socialist-feminists in the peace camp our hearts sank. The labels had been used to attack and defend positions which each of us understood differently. Some of our small group had worked for years in the Communist Party, Labour Party and trade unions, and had experienced an exhaustion and draining of energy in the process. Perhaps what characterizes socialist…
A Primer on the Understanding, Use, and Calculation of Confidence Intervals That Are Based on Central and Noncentral Distributions
Colloquium on Effect Sizes
Reformers have long argued that misuse of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST) is widespread and damaging. The authors analyzed 150 articles from the Journal of Applied Psychology ( JAP) covering 1940 to 1999. They examined statistical reporting practices related to misconceptions about NHST, American Psychological Association (APA) guidelines, and reform recommendations. The analysis reveals (a) inconsistency in reporting alpha and p valu…
Reporting of Statistical Inference in the Journal of Applied Psychology
A Primer on the Understanding, Use, and Calculation of Confidence Intervals that are Based on Central and Noncentral Distributions
Reform of statistical practice in the social and behavioral sciences requires wider use of confidence intervals (CIs), effect size measures, and meta-analysis. The authors discuss four reasons for promoting use of CIs: They (a) are readily interpretable, (b) are linked to familiar statistical significance tests, (c) can encourage meta-analytic thinking, and (d) give information about precision. The authors discuss calculation of CIs for a basic s…
Past and Future American Psychological Association Guidelines for Statistical Practice
We review the publication guidelines of the American Psychological Association (APA) since 1929 and document their advice for authors about statistical practice. Although the advice has been extended with each revision of the guidelines, it has largely focused on null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) to the exclusion of other statistical methods. In parallel, we review over 40 years of critiques of NHST in psychology. Until now, the critiqu…
Inference by Eye
Wider use in psychology of confidence intervals (CIs), especially as error bars in figures, is a desirable development. However, psychologists seldom use CIs and may not understand them well. The authors discuss the interpretation of figures with error bars and analyze the relationship between CIs and statistical significance testing. They propose 7 rules of eye to guide the inferential use of figures with error bars. These include general princi…
Prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of psychological distress among students at an Australian university
This research contributes to the empirical literature on university student mental well-being by investigating the prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of severe levels of psychological distress. More than 5000 students at a metropolitan Australian university participated in an anonymous online survey in 2013 that included the short form of the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS-21). Comparisons with published research show that o…
Exploring course experiences that predict psychological distress and mental wellbeing in Australian undergraduate and graduate coursework students
University students are known to be at heightened risk among their peers for experiencing psychological distress and mental health difficulties. To date, there have been few interventions designed to reduce stressors in the educational environment. This may be due to limited research investigating course-related correlates of students’ distress. The present study addresses that gap by identifying and exploring the extent to which six common eleme…
Patents and Gender
Psychology (8 works) · Statistics (6 works) · Mathematics (5 works) · Meta-analysis and systematic reviews (5 works) · Econometrics (4 works) · Inference (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Statistical inference (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Confidence interval (3 works)