34: E-health (with Robin Kok)

Dan and James have their very first guest! For this episode they're joined by Robin Kok (University of Southern Denmark) to talk e-health. They also cover a recent blog post that inadvertently highlighted questionable research practices in psychology.

Some of the topics covered:

• The grad student who never said no
• Postdoc work/life balance
• Questionable research practices
• Torturing data (with rattan sticks)
• Using the GRIM test to assess data accuracy
• Unpaid internships
• Saying 'yes' to opportunities that come your way
• The Myers-Briggs test is rubbish
• What is e-health?
• Are e-health interventions efficacious?
• e-health intervention implementation issues
• The poor quality of psych intervention smartphone apps
• Using "Facebook Live" to broadcast conference presentations
• The future of e-health

Links

Robin's twitter account

https://www.twitter.com/robinnkok

• "The grad student who never said no" blog post

http://www.brianwansink.com/phd-types-only/the-grad-student-who-never-said-no

• The Buzzfeed quiz on 'Which Disney princess are you?' (James is Belle)

https://www.buzzfeed.com/mccarricksean/which-disney-princes-are-you?utm_term=.riNJn5DbW#.ci9gL3Xq8

• XKXD TornadoGuard comic

https://xkcd.com/937/

• The efficacy of e-health interventions

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wps.20151/abstract

• Wild West eHealth: Time to Hold our Horses?

www.ehps.net/ehp/index.php/contents/article/download/765/pdf_44

• Smartphone app interventions

http://www.jmir.org/2013/11/e247/

• Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/everythinghertzpodcast/

• Twitter account

https://www.twitter.com/hertzpodcast

Special Guest: Robin Kok.

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