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Journals That Send Inappropriate Solicitations

I get an email or two a week from journals that solicit research from me. My area of expertise is the sociology of religion, with specialties in nonreligion and Mormonism. Anything outside of that is not my area of expertise. If a journal that does not focus on those topics is soliciting me, that is […]

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The List of Meaningless Research

I’m not going to make any friends by posting this, but perhaps shaming researchers will lead to some reform in the social sciences. Below is an embedded spreadsheet listing studies I have read (so, definitely not exhaustive) that either exclude effect sizes from the paper entirely, include them but don’t use them correctly, or ignore […]

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About

Ryan T. Cragun is professor of empirical sociology at The University of Tampa. His research focuses on the nonreligious and Mormonism and has been published in various scholarly journals. He is also the author of several books. Ryan T. Cragun is also one of the world’s leading experts on nonreligion, including religious exiting, atheism, agnosticism, […]

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Effect Sizes

I regularly forget standard rules of interpretation for effect sizes when running analyses. I figured I’d put these here so I can quickly refer to them when needed. For more details on most effect sizes, Wikipedia is always useful. Also, if you’re wondering why these matter, see this page. Cohen’s d Cohen’s d is typically […]

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Monty Python In My Work

I know it’s kind of silly (not this silly) but I have, somewhat subtly in some cases, slipped in references to Monty Python and several other favorite movies, TV shows, or video games in several of my publications. Why? Life is short. Have some fun. Laugh a little. Here’s a list of my publications with […]

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