Biography

I am a professor of psychology. This means I spend my time teaching about the mind, statistics, and philosophy, when I’m not administrating things. My academic passions include: guiding whatever research topics my students like, connecting the history of philosophy to psychology, teaching statistics using R, and finding new ways to connect knowledge and life.

When I’m not in the classroom, I like to grow plants, hike in the woods, build things out of wood, and write.

Please check out the website, which has a blog, teaching materials for R and statistics, and other links.

One of my passions is teaching R in psychology statistics. There aren’t many resources for undergrad students, but here are a few I’ve found, including the textbook I’m writing. Please send me more if you find them!

• Statistics: The Story of Numbers, my draft textbook available on iBooks or as a bookdown book on GitHub.
• Learning Statistics using R
• Learning to Work with R from the May 2017 Issue of the APS Observer.

• rfranklin@andersonuniversity.edu