I’m Karyssa Courey a current Ph.D. student at Rice University.
Hello! I am a fourth year Ph.D. student at Rice University advised by Dr. Fred Oswald. As an industrial-organizational psychologist, I am broadly interested in applying Bayesian methods to applied organizational problems to improve assessment and statistical communication. I am currently funded by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP).
- Employment discrimination (e.g., disparate impact and treatment)
- Research methods (e.g., Bayesian statistics, psychometrics, multilevel modeling, data visualizations)
- Statistical communication (e.g., frequentist versus Bayesian methods)
- Decision-making (e.g., fuzzy-trace theory, skilled decision theory, risk/uncertainty)
I enjoy teaching statistics to psychology students. Most recently, I taught the Quantitative Analysis for Social Sciences, Psychology Lab in Spring 2024 and Fall 2023. During the previous year I was the teaching assistant for both graduate level statistics courses. I also post educational videos on YouTube that cover a range of topics including Bayesian statistics and APA 7 formatting guidelines for data visualizations.
I have also consulted and interned for companies such as Educational Testing Service (ETS), HumRRO, the Association of American Medical Colleges, OpenStax, and Development Corps, among others, and provided pro bono consulting to animal shelters through the Volunteer Program Assessment at Rice University.
In my free time you can find me running outside, lifting weights, listening to podcasts and music, reading thriller fiction books, and attending concerts.
Feel free to reach out if you are interested in collaborating or want to chat about research ideas!