Methods + Statistics

Awards and Accomplishments

• Graduate Certificate in Psychological Statistics (Expected Spring 2027)

• John and Joyce Schaeuble Award for Quantitative Approaches to Psychological Science (December 2025)

Methodological Skills

• Experimental methods 

  • Means, K. K. & Morgenroth, T. (under review). Gender-Critical Feminists’ Beliefs About Transgender Women’s Stereotype Conformity and its Harmfulness. 

• Correlational methods 

  • Means, K. K. & Morgenroth, T. (in press). Bathroom Bills and Gender-Affirming Care Bans: Understanding People’s Views on Different Types of Transgender Policies. American Psychologist.

• Meta-analytic methods 

  • Means, K. K., Chung, H. & Morgenroth, T. (in progress). Meta-Analyzing the Relationship Between Gender Essentialism and its Subscales and Anti-Transgender Prejudice.

• Large-scale cluster-randomized trials 

  • Kennedy, K. R., Means, K. K., & Brauer, M. (revise & resubmit). Making Classrooms More Inclusive Reduces the Achievement Gap in STEM: Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Controlled Trial With 60 College Courses.

I employ principles of Open Science in all of my research, for example by preregistering studies and making my materials, data, and syntax openly available. 

Statistical Experience

• Linear regression

  • Delker, B. C., Means, K. K., Schwam, A., Patterson, A. L., Fogel, C. A., Brown, A., Czopp, A. M., & McLean, K. C. (2024). Perceptions of Sexual Assault Perpetrators, Victims, and Event Depend on System Justification Beliefs and Perpetrator Atonement. PLOS One, 19(12), e0311983. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311983 

• ANOVA

  • Fee, B.*, Means, K. K., & Morgenroth, T. (2025). Heteronormative Definitions of Sex: The Roles of Androcentrism, Phallocentrism, and Objectification. Psychology & Sexuality. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2025.2610306

• Mixed-effects modeling

  • Means, K. K. & Morgenroth, T. (under review). Publishing Gender Research in High-Status Journals: Experiences and Perceived Barriers. 

• Mixture modeling

  • Morgenroth, T., Means, K. K., & Zeng, Y. (in preparation). Understanding the Heterogeneous Psychology of Those Opposed to Gender Diversity.

• Factor analysis 

  • Means, K. K. & Morgenroth, T. (in press). Bathroom Bills and Gender-Affirming Care Bans: Understanding People’s Views on Different Types of Transgender Policies. American Psychologist.

• Bayesian approaches 

  • Hoogeveen, S., Sarafoglou, A., Aczel, B., Aditya, Y., Alayan, A. J., Allen, P. J., Altay, S., Alzahawi, S., Amir, Y., Anthony, F.-V., Kwame Appiah, O., Atkinson, Q. D., Baimel, A., Balkaya-Ince, M., Balsamo, M., Banker, S., Bartoš, F., Becerra, M., Beffara, B., … Means, K. K., …Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2023). A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 13(3) 237-283. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2022.2070255 

Proficiency in Statistical Software

• R (using RStudio): Advanced

• SPSS: Intermediate

• Python (using Visual Studio Code): Intermediate

• JASP: Intermediate

Extracurricular Training