Shachar Hochman
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Shachar Hochman
@hochmanshachar.bsky.social
Data Enthusiastic • Researcher • Applied Statistician

Ex-Academic (Cognitive Psychology, PhD)

My blog: https://cogpsychreserve.netlify.app
My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shachar-hochman-phd/
Dive in for code, visuals, and a clearer path through the log-odds fog → cogpsychreserve.netlify.app/posts/logist...

#NLP #Kaggle #marginaleffects #BayesianStatistics #DataScience #SignificantTesting
Beyond the Exclamation Points!!! – CogPsych Reserve
cogpsychreserve.netlify.app
July 14, 2025 at 7:14 AM
2/3

• NLP + PCA to capture toxicity/incoherence
• Cohen’s d ➡️ log-odds priors in one line using #brms
#marginaleffects → 0–100 % probability shifts you can explain
• Inference with HDI-ROPE. It flags which effects are big enough to matter. Great for researchers and anyone shipping spam filters!
July 14, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Thanks Laura! 🙏 I analyzed vertical-face tasks (6 variants across SOAs) from subjects with mouse responses only. The Preprocessing details are in the post’s collapsible section 😊. Grateful for your work—DM anytime!
March 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Thank you! 😊 While latent correlations are possible in Stan via custom likelihoods (modeling latent Gaussian variables), it's quite involved. For 95% of cases, I recommend the simpler brms approach: model questionnaires as predictors of task effects using condition-by-questionnaire interactions.
March 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
6/6 Thanks to @solomonkurz.bsky.social for statistical inspiration, @natehaines.bsky.social for works that influenced my approach, and @almogsi.bsky.social & @mattansb.bsky.social or thoughtful feedback!

#BayesianStatistics #ReliabilityAnalysis #CognitiveScience
March 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM
5/6 The implications go beyond this single task. Many measures in psychology (and beyond) might be more reliable than we thought—we need to preserve and properly model the information in trial-level data.
March 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM
4/6 This visualization shows the transformation when the same data is analyzed with trial-level Bayesian methods instead of traditional aggregation:
March 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM
3/6 I implemented two Bayesian approaches in #brms:

@jeffrouder.bsky.social & @juliaha.bsky.social's variance decomposition
@gangchen6.bsky.social's approach

Both show substantially higher reliability than traditional analyses.
March 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM
2/6 Recent research by @irenexu.bsky.social claimed the emotional dot-probe task lacks reliability for individual differences research. I wanted to see if more sophisticated analysis methods could tell a different story.
March 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM