A few years back, a paper in Science caught the eye of one of my students, Clinton Sanchez.  Clinton brought me the paper in a state of excitement–it showed 4 different experiments in which very subtle nudges meant to foster …

Another disappointing replication result, but with as happy an ending as can be… Read more »

Here’s my second update from the Sackler Colloquium on Reproducibility in Research. For me, the highlight of the first day was David Madigan, who is a statistician at Columbia. David discussed the foibles of observational medical research.  Health care systems …

The incredible difficulty of making sense of medical data – Sackler Colloquim on Reproducibility Field Report 2 Read more »