diff --git a/doubletdetection/doubletdetection.py b/doubletdetection/doubletdetection.py
index d3bf789..22d623a 100644
--- a/doubletdetection/doubletdetection.py
+++ b/doubletdetection/doubletdetection.py
@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ class BoostClassifier:
             use; other genes discarded. Will use all genes when zero.
         replace (bool, optional): If False, a cell will be selected as a
             synthetic doublet's parent no more than once.
-        use_phenograph (bool, optional): Set to True to use PhenoGraph clustering.
-            Defaults to False, which uses louvain clustering implemented in scanpy.
+        use_phenograph (bool, optional): Set to False to disable PhenoGraph clustering
+            in exchange for louvain clustering implemented in scanpy. Defaults to True.
         phenograph_parameters (dict, optional): Parameter dict to pass directly
             to PhenoGraph. Note that we change the PhenoGraph 'prune' default to
             True; you must specifically include 'prune': False here to change
@@ -97,8 +97,9 @@ class BoostClassifier:
             results across runs.
         verbose (bool, optional): Set to False to silence all normal operation
             informational messages. Defaults to True.
-        standard_scaling (bool, optional): Set to False to disable standard scaling
-            of normalized count matrix prior to clustering. Defaults to True.
+        standard_scaling (bool, optional): Set to True to enable standard scaling
+            of normalized count matrix prior to PCA. Recommended when not using
+            Phenograph. Defaults to False.
 
     Attributes:
         all_log_p_values_ (ndarray): Hypergeometric test natural log p-value per
@@ -136,7 +137,7 @@ def __init__(
         normalizer=None,
         random_state=0,
         verbose=False,
-        standard_scaling=True,
+        standard_scaling=False,
     ):
         self.boost_rate = boost_rate
         self.replace = replace
diff --git a/tests/notebooks/PBMC_8k_vignette.ipynb b/tests/notebooks/PBMC_8k_vignette.ipynb
index 732ffee..a0dee7f 100644
--- a/tests/notebooks/PBMC_8k_vignette.ipynb
+++ b/tests/notebooks/PBMC_8k_vignette.ipynb
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
    "source": [
     "## Run Doublet Detection\n",
     "\n",
-    "Here we show-off the new backend implementation that uses `scanpy`. This new implementation is over 2x faster than version 2.4.0. To use the previous version of DoubletDetection please add the parameters `use_phenograph=True`, `verbose=True` to the classifier and use the thresholds `p_thresh=1e-7`, `voter_thresh=0.8`. We recommend first using these parameters until we further validate the new implementation."
+    "Here we show-off the new backend implementation that uses `scanpy`. This new implementation is over 2x faster than version 2.4.0. To use the previous version of DoubletDetection please add the parameters (`use_phenograph=True`, `verbose=True`, `standard_scaling=False`) to the classifier and use the thresholds `p_thresh=1e-7`, `voter_thresh=0.8`. We recommend first using these parameters until we further validate the new implementation."
    ]
   },
   {
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
     }
    ],
    "source": [
-    "clf = doubletdetection.BoostClassifier(n_iters=50, use_phenograph=False)\n",
+    "clf = doubletdetection.BoostClassifier(n_iters=50, use_phenograph=False, standard_scaling=True)\n",
     "doublets = clf.fit(raw_counts).predict(p_thresh=1e-16, voter_thresh=0.5)"
    ]
   },