Here is an interview with Peter Wilmshurst, cardiologist, researcher, and courageous advocate for doing science better. He discusses some of the enormous pressures that can be brought to bear to shape the outcomes of industry research, and how, as a…
Introduction to the New Statistics
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Month: September 2016
Sample sizes are too dang small…
Here’s another incredible paper by John Ioannidis and associates. This one uses text mining to examining the statistical results of thousands of cognitive neuroscience and psychology papers. It finds that sample sizes being used remain far too small: the typical…
More on the dangers of p values
Here is an interesting new paper in which experienced researchers were asked to make judgements about research results expressed using the NHST approach (p values!). A free copy of the paper is here, but it is easier to read the…
NIH and the push for better science
Science is vital and it is also big business. In the U.S., one of the biggest founders of scientific research is the National Institute of Health (NIH). As the NIH writes the checks, you can imagine that it finds the…
Is Science Sick? Bob’s talk on the replication crisis
Here’s a video of a talk Bob gave to first-year honors students about the replication crisis and what lessons it might have for their own lives. Enjoy!
Good research in the service of more effective activism
Research can be vitally important, helping shape how we see the world and the policies we enact. Here is an example of an applied research lab aiming to use applied research to figure out the most effective ways to lobby…
Get involved: registered replication project on “professor priming”
Registered replication reports are a new initiative sponsored by the APS where labs around the world collaborate to conduct a large-scale, precise replication of an important finding in psychology. The really cool thing about these projects is that they are…
New paper from Ioannidis suggests fMRI studies of sex differences suffer from publication bias (https://t.co/944KKGSpWG). This is a big issue, leading to inaccurate conceptions and poor policy. Also, this is not an isolated finding...
This thread by @danengber gives a thoughtful overview of the much-hyped report on reproducibility by the National Association of Scholars, a conservative group. It shows the report has much sense to it, some non-sense, and some invidious use of rigor issues to de-regulate
I'll be curious to see reactions to this report on "The Irreproducibility Crisis of Modern Science." Most of it (~80%) is entirely in line with honest efforts to promote open, reproducible research. Highlights in this thread: https://t.co/bDrT34M81N
New Stats blog: Badges, Badges, Badges: Open Science on the March https://t.co/LNy1tFrOL7
New Stats blog: ITNS–A New Review on Amazon https://t.co/izCG6d9C9p
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