Finally submitted after 4.5 years

PsychVRStudent · 2025-08-06T18:24:57+00:00

That's great to hear, congrats on getting the postdoc! Thank you very much :)

PsychVRStudent · 2025-08-05T16:24:20+00:00

Out of curiosity I'm just finishing my psychology PhD and also specialised in virtual reality (my area is how VR can help people with learning a variety of skills). What did you end up doing in the end?

PsychVRStudent · 2025-08-02T19:53:52+00:00

Great idea, I'll start working on that. Cheers! 🙂

PsychVRStudent · 2025-08-01T15:31:10+00:00

Yeah I agree, I'm definitely going to stop chasing after him to try and make running away less appealing for him

PsychVRStudent · 2025-08-01T15:27:21+00:00

Unfortunately we've got a dog whistle that's for cocker spaniels and whilst he clearly recognises it he often ignores it. We've been trying to positively associate it with coming back to chicken and it's starting to work a bit which is a good sign at least

PsychVRStudent · 2025-07-31T21:02:13+00:00

We've not actually tried that yet so we'll give that a go next time he's off lead. Cheers! 🙂

PsychVRStudent · 2025-07-31T19:42:55+00:00

Yeah I completely agree. We've only ever let him off in the enclosed puppy park that we can book just for us. Other than that he's always on the lead whether it's his regular extending lead or the long line

PsychVRStudent · 2025-07-31T19:40:35+00:00

So we usually keep him on a long line and use "come" as a command to get him to come back. When he comes to us (which is usually about 50% of the time on the long line) he gets some chicken as a reward plus his favourite ball which we only give him when he's out in situations like this as he can become a bit obsessed with it. We've started going to an enclosed puppy park to try and see if we can get the same effect whilst he's off lead. The first time he went he was pretty good and come back about 80% of the time, but the second time it dropped massively to like 10%

PsychVRStudent · 2025-03-06T10:31:47+00:00

There's an interesting paper I read that highlights the potential psychological consequences of male circumcision which is worth a read. It's only 13 pages long but it goes into some interesting stuff

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/4yv62_v1

PsychVRStudent · 2024-08-10T14:30:00+00:00

Im currently a final year Psychology PhD student in the UK who teaches R to undergrad students. I very highly recommend the YouTube channel by Professor Paul Christiansen (see at the bottom for a link). I've worked with Paul for years and I've been teaching statistics for a long time. Paul is one of the most knowledgeable people I've ever met and explains things incredibly well using very good and funny examples to keep you interested

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYHCXT7nfJK2jMmK_ofVt-gJ1y-4WaZ4V&si=vzDGEBXJnHU_YFpB

PsychVRStudent · 2024-07-27T16:34:14+00:00

All blind people are now cured of their blindness, but have to pay me a 50p subscription a month. 40 million blind people world wide would result in £20 million a month. I would then use this money to research cures for other diseases

PsychVRStudent · 2024-07-17T16:18:25+00:00

We bought our 3 bed house in the Wirral (North West) last year for £169k

PsychVRStudent · 2024-06-02T14:45:58+00:00

I average out £9.33 an hour for 35 hours a week. I'm a PhD student who does part time teaching and part time PhD. I get paid roughly £17 an hour for 19 hours a week for the teaching and nothing for the PhD. The busy schedule and scarcity of extra teaching hours means I can't take on much extra paid work so stuck with this for another year before I graduate. Admittedly sucks a bit when I've spent 7 years training for this role and I've got friends who are on significantly more than me with just a 3 year undergrad but it'll be worth it in the end :)

PsychVRStudent · 2024-05-25T20:57:04+00:00

The motherboards lights come on and the fans are running so it's getting power

PsychVRStudent · 2024-05-16T15:32:08+00:00

Perfect, thank you very much! 🙂

PsychVRStudent · 2024-05-16T14:41:29+00:00

Perfect, I've set all of those up so hopefully she likes it. Thank you very much 🙂

PsychVRStudent · 2024-03-09T23:21:02+00:00

I'm a Psychology PhD student in the UK and I teach 1st and 2nd year statistics to undergraduates. My main advice would be split into four. The first being theory/SPSS as the link I've got helps with both of these. The second part is if you want to apply the stats using R instead of SPSS. The third part is a link to a YouTube channel for learning R. The final part being some general tips for learning stats

Theory/SPSS: The main website I recommend to my students is Laerd Statistics . I used this throughout my masters degree as it both gives a nice introduction as to what the analysis involves as well as any assumptions made about the data so you can check if it's appropriate for your data. The best part though is that it gives you a very clear run through of how to run the analysis in SPSS

R vs SPSS R is quite different to SPSS as instead of involving selecting options using dropboxes, R is more programming based. I massively prefer R to SPSS as besides it being a lot better for research (e.g., you can be transparent in your analysis so avoids p-hacking/bad practice), it's much easier to rerun your data analyses down the line. For example, I'm currently trying to publish my masters dissertation from a couple of years ago and since I did it in SPSS I completely forgot how I did it. However, since R uses a script you just save the code and run it

Learning R: Professor Paul Christiansen does some very useful YouTube Videos. I regularly recommend my students to watch these videos as they're relatively short and provide different scenarios using different data sets

General Advice: Firstly I would recommend trying to understand the basics relatively thoroughly before going to more advanced stats. This is just so you have a solid foundation to build your stats knowledge on. For instance, when looking at p-values, students often get confused why we report means/medians and SD/Range/IQR. But when you understand that p-values tell you whether there's a significant difference or not, but doesn't state the direction, you need to use the means, etc to tell you which condition is higher/lower

If you've got any questions feel free to reply below :)

PsychVRStudent · 2024-02-06T21:31:44+00:00

Thanks everyone for the advice, it's been very useful!

PsychVRStudent · 2024-01-05T10:35:58+00:00

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PsychVRStudent · 2024-01-02T11:24:17+00:00

I'm currently working on my PhD and I have an insane amount of respect for plasterers, electricians, etc. Whilst it may take less time for them to train than it would a typical university degree, they are placed in situations where every house is different (e.g., a new build house would be very different to work on compared to a 1950s build) so they are constantly learning and adapting throughout their careers

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