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How infographics can lose the plot
if you don’t force designers to follow best practices when making an infographic, you’ll be setting a lower bar that will soon turn around and assault you with all kinds of charts conceived to hide what the numbers are really saying. Continue reading
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Some research misconduct trends by the numbers
A study published in eLIFE on August 14, 2014, looked at data pertaining to some papers published between 1992 and 2012 that the Office of Research Integrity had determined contained research misconduct. From the abstract: Data relating to retracted manuscripts and authors … Continue reading
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Tagged Office of Research Integrity, retractions, scientific publishing, Statistics
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Replication studies, ceiling effects, and the psychology of science
On May 25, I found Erika Salomon’s tweet: Excellent comment thread on replication going on at the SPSP blog http://t.co/9dI72z0LGL — Erika Salomon (@ecsalomon) May 25, 2014 The story started when the journal Social Psychology decided to publish successful and failed replication … Continue reading
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Tagged Analysis, ceiling effect, Daniel Kahneman, false positives, peer review, psychology, replication studies, replications, scientific publishing, Simone Schnall, Social Psychology, Statistics
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The case of the red-haired kids
This blog post first appeared, as written by me, on The Copernican science blog on December 30, 2012. — Seriously, shame on me for not noticing the release of a product named Correlate until December 2012. Correlate by Google was … Continue reading
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Tagged covariance, deviation, Google Correlate, Higgs boson, Statistics, trends
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The case of the red-haired kids
Seriously, shame on me for not noticing the release of a product named Correlate until December 2012. Correlate by Google was released in May last year and is a tool to see how two different search trends have panned out over a … Continue reading
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Tagged covariance, deviation, Google Correlate, Higgs boson, standard deviation, Statistics, trends
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A cultured evolution?
Can perceptions arising out of cultural needs override evolutionary goals in the long-run? For example, in India, the average marriage-age is in the late 20s now. Here, the (popular) tradition is to frown down upon, and even ostracize, those who would … Continue reading
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Tagged biological imperatives, Culture, environmental factors, evolution, heredity, Statistics
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The weakening measurement
Unlike the special theory of relativity that the superluminal-neutrinos fiasco sought to defy, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle presents very few, and equally iffy, measurement techniques to stand verified. While both Einstein’s and Heisenberg’s foundations are close to fundamental truths, the uncertainty … Continue reading
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Tagged bra-ket notation, fuzzy logic, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Quantum mechanics, Statistics
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