I recently received an email telling me that an article I had reviewed for a journal had achieved 10,000 views. The astonishing thing was that the email arrived less than 3 weeks after the article had been published online! Believe…
Introduction to the New Statistics
The online community and blog for ITNS
Month: February 2017
NIH asks journals to make sure we get the whole story
The Open Science credo is “Get the whole story”–we can only evaluate the claims made from scientific data when we know the whole context of how that data was generated. For example, finding a large effect of a new drug…
Sample Size Planning – Even when required, not usually done well
In many research fields, sample sizes are too small for the research questions being asked. In neuroscience, the field I work in, this problem is now very well documented (see Button et al., 2013; Szucs & Ionnidis, 2016). In response…
Open Science: Who is paying?
It’s the Open Science fairy story: Brian Nosek was one of a number of young researchers worried that all didn’t seem right in the research world. To what extent was research really producing trustworthy findings? To what extent was it…
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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