Melissa Q. Wood
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Research &
work.


Empirical work, independent projects, and selected technical writing. The desk is where these begin. The most recent or most substantive sit at the top.

01gated

Perceptions of animal pain.

An experimental study on how disgust shapes the way we perceive animal suffering, with implications for how affective responses might influence clinical judgment.

Experimental designQualtricsSPSS
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02gated

Music and concentration.

A self-designed study examining the relationship between music and cognitive focus. Fully independent design, analysis, and write-up.

Experimental designQualtricsR
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03writing

Implementing Neyman's allocation in R.

What it actually looks like to be handed a statistical principle, a dataset, and no implementation guide. Written for the version of me that had to figure this out at midnight.

Sampling theoryGraduate statisticsR
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04writing

A plain-language BRCA guide.

A plain-language guide to BRCA testing, built from the patient's view up. The methodology piece: how I researched the gaps, found and vetted the sources, and decided what 'plain-language' actually means in clinical content.

Public-facingSEOPlain-language editing
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Melissa Q. Wood · 2026
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