Author: Jeff Ramdass
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What do I consider when I am making or assessing a survey?
A well-designed survey can provide valuable information about a person’s attitudes, thoughts, evaluations, and behavioral intentions (or past behaviors). However, many of us have taken surveys that were inefficient, irrelevant, or confusing. We may have wondered: “how do these questions relate to my life?” or “why am I answering these questions?” Bad surveys have real…
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Want to win Survivor? Do what you can to make it to the Final Tribal Council
Recent seasons of Survivor suggest that final immunity challenge winners were disadvantaged in winning their season of Survivor. I look at whether that occurs and how Survivor seasons are similar or different across 43 seasons of results.
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Perspectives from two years of (mostly) emergency-remote high school speech and debate competitions—and the transition to a hybrid present
Many of us remember what life was like when the transition to emergency remote speech and debate competitions occurred in Spring 2020. Most tournaments after approximately mid-March were cancelled, and the main tournaments that were able to occur—the Tournament of Champions and NSDA Nationals—occurred through classrooms.cloud. This created the first immediate pivot during the start…
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What did I learn from running an online Student Congress competition?
Last weekend, I was one of the first people to be head of an online TOC-bid qualifying tournament in Student Congress… Here is what we learned from this weekend.
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How I will try and get through COVID-19
Covid-19 changed everything fast. Most of us are on a pseudo-isolation or pseudo-quarantine for at least 30 days… It is scary, and it is creating uncertainty in who we are and how we live.
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My Second Chance (or How my Worst Mistake from 2017 Turned Into My Best Gift from 2019)
I did not know what to expect. There was no guarantee for a second chance, much less one with a group I haven’t meaningfully talked to in two years. But I got lucky.
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The Questions We Face When We Follow Our Dreams
I know that I know the fundamentals. I can identify my strengths as a researcher, an administrator, and a lecturer or professor in training. But I need to figure out what I want to do with the next step of my life.
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“Will I Pass Statistics?” Advice to My Former Self and Current Students Taking Statistics in Psychology
Will most students pass? Probably, yes… Will you specifically pass? I do not know. But I can use data to design a course that will hopefully allow you to succeed, and I can serve as a guide to help you get to your end goal—whether the goal is to learn statistics more deeply or to…
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Perfect is the Enemy of Creating Good Content
I could ignore failure if I always said it was because I was pursuing perfection. That is, until it hit me straight in the face.
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I (Probably) Should Not Be Here
I probably should not be here. I am currently a sixth year in a PhD program in Basic and Applied Social Psychology at Claremont University. I am writing this from the library overlooking another beautiful sunny day in Southern California. I have good friends and driven colleagues, and I am trying to spend every day…
Social Psychology with Jeff 