Staff profile

Dr Fiona M Fidler

ARC Postdoctoral Fellow

Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering

School of Psychological Science
Department of Psychology

George Singer Building, room 456, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BPsych Hons, PhD UMELB.

Membership of professional Associations

Member Association of Psychological Science (APS), Member American Psychological Association (APA), Member Society for Judgment and Decision Making (JDM).

Area of study

Psychology

Brief Profile

Research interests:

- History and philosophy of science, the nature of scientific evidence. - Overconfidence in expert judgments. - Judgment and decision making under uncertainty. - statistical cognition, statistical reform, resistance to methodological change.

Recent Publications

 

Lai, J., Fidler, F. & Cumming, G. (in review). Subjective p intervals: Researchers underestimate the variability of p values over replication.

Speirs-Bridge, A., Fidler, F., McBride, M., Flander, L., Cumming, G. and Burgman, M. (in review). Reducing overconfidence in the interval judgements of experts. Risk Analysis.

Fidler, F. & Loftus, G. (in press, invited). Why figures with error bars should replace p values: Some conceptual arguments and empirical demonstrations. Zeitschrift fuer Psychologie / Journal of Psychology.

Cumming, G. & Fidler, F. (in press, invited). Confidence Intervals: Better Answers to Better Questions. Zeitschrift fuer Psychologie / Journal of Psychology.

Beyth-Marom, R., Fidler, F. & Cumming, G. (2008). Statistical Cognition: Towards Evidence-Based Practice in Statistics and Statistics Education. Statistics Education Research Journal.

Kalinowski, P., Fidler, F. & Cumming, G. (2008). Overcoming the inverse probability fallacy: A comparison of two teaching interventions. Methodology, 4, 152-158.

Faulkner, C., Fidler, F. & Cumming, G. (2008). The Value of RCT Evidence Depends on the Quality of Statistical Analysis. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 46, 270-281.

Walshe, T., Wintle, B., Fidler, F. & Burgman, M. (2007). Use of confidence intervals to demonstrate performance against forest management standards. Forest Ecology and Management, 247, 237-245.

Wintle, B., Burgman, M. & Fidler, F. (2007). How fast should nanotechnology advance? Nature Nanotechnology, 2, 327.

Cumming, G., Fidler, F., & Vaux, D. L. (2007). Error bars in experimental biology. Journal of Cell Biology, 177, 7-11. [Feature article] [Reprinted in Journal of Experimental Medicine, April 2007, 204, i11.]

Fidler, F. and Cumming, G. (2007). Lessons learned from statistical reform efforts in other disciplines. Special Issue: Statistical reform in school psychology (Thomas J. Kehle and Melissa A. Bray, Eds.) Psychology in the Schools, 44, 441-449.

Cumming, G., Fidler, F., Leonard, M., Kalinowski, P., Christiansen, A., Kleinig, A., Lo, J., McMenamin, N. and Wilson, S. (2007). Statistical reform in psychology: Is anything changing? Psychological Science, 18, 230-232.

Fidler, F., Burgman, M., Cumming, G. Buttrose, R. and Thomason., N. (2006). Impact of criticism of null hypothesis significance testing on statistical reporting practices in conservation biology. Conservation Biology, 20, 1539-1544.

Belia, S., Fidler, F., Williams, J. and Cumming, G. (2005). Researchers misunderstand confidence intervals and standard error bars. Psychological Methods, 10, 389-396.

Fidler, F., Thomason, N., Cumming, G., Finch, S. and Leeman, J. (2005). Still much to learn about confidence intervals. Reply to Rouder and Morey. Psychological Science, 16, 494-495.

Fidler, F., Cumming, G., Thomason, N., Pannuzzo, D., Smith, J., Fyffe, P., Edmonds, H., Harrington, C. and Schmitt, R. (2005). Toward improved statistical reporting in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 73, 136-143.

Fidler, F., Cumming, G., Burgman, M. and Thomason, N. (2004). Statistical reform in medicine, psychology and ecology. Journal of Socio Economics, 33, 615-630.

Fidler, F., Thomason, N., Cumming, G., Finch, S. and Leeman, J. (2004). Editors can lead researchers to confidence intervals but they can't make them think: Statistical reform lessons from Medicine. Psychological Science, 15, 119-126.

Cumming, G., Williams, J., and Fidler, F. (2004). Replication, and researchers’ understanding of confidence intervals and standard error bars. Understanding Statistics, 3, 299-311.

Fidler, F. (2002). The 5th edition of the APA Publication Manual: Why its statistics recommendations are so controversial. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 62, 749-770.

Fidler, F. and Thompson, B. (2001). Computing Correct Confidence Intervals for ANOVA fixed and random effect sizes. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 61, 575-604.

Note: Geoff Cumming’s staff page has pdfs of several of these articles.