Daniël Lakens

@lakens

Psychological Scientist at TU Eindhoven. Co-host of Nullius in Verba.
Improving Stats Textbook lakens.github.io/statistical_in… Omnia probate 🇪🇺

Netherlands sites.google.com/site/lakens2/H… Joined November 2008

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Daniël Lakens @lakens Aug 3

In the last 2 years I (and our lovely collaborators) have been rather obsessively working on Metacheck - a tool to automatically check best practices in papers. In this RIOTS summerschool talk, I walk you through what the tool can do, and future plans youtube.com/watch?v=OWd2zE…

www.youtube.com Metacheck: automatically check papers for best practices - Daniel Lakens Can automated tools help researchers catch problems before their wo...

Daniël Lakens @lakens 1d

There is a lot of vagueness in the literature about when a test is exploratory, and when it is confirmatory. I really like our definition where a test is exploratory when you can't control the Type 1 error rate (even if you tried). See doi.org/10.1080/026404…

Daniël Lakens @lakens Nov 2

Big news from the PsyArXiv team! They will be moving to a new host, KnowledgeFutures, which offers more room to develop existing functionalities: blog.psyarxiv.com/2026/11/02/psy…

I beta tested the platform, and I think it an important step in making PsyArXiv more future-proof!

blog.psyarxiv.com PsyArXiv is moving to a new platform! – PsyArXiv Blog The Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS), the academic society that runs and maintains PsyArXiv, and the Center for Open Science (COS), the non-profit that runs and maintains...

Daniël Lakens @lakens Nov 1

Getting ready to record a podcast on whether frequentist statistics is related to eugenics (in my view: not at all) and if Fisher is a terrible person (as far as I can tell, no, even though I thought so). The main lesson for me is: read history if you want an informed opinion.

Daniël Lakens @lakens Oct 30

New blog post, about a really cool new feature in Metacheck: Automatic computational reproducibility checks with Metacheck daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/10/automa…
This should be of interest to reviewers, data managers, and anyone sharing data and code. Run the checks on our SURF hosted server!