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  1. I've had a gin and something so now I'm going to list the most inappropriate-sounding legit scholarly/professional names for things I learned in grad school.

    - Woodcock-Johnson

    - Box-Cox transformation

    - Cohen's d

    Honorable mentions:

    - Bogus Pipeline (IDK, it sounds unwholesome, somehow)

    - Log likelihood (haven't we all been there?)

    Seriously, Jacob Cohen must have laughed his ass off every time he saw the academic world going on about his d

    #statistics #highered #psychology #research #dirtywords #notreally