I’m in the midst of an unhappy experience serving as a peer reviewer. The situation is still evolving but I thought I’d put up a short post describing (in general terms) what’s happened because I’d be happy to have some…
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Month: August 2019
Meta-Science: It’s all Happening in Melbourne
Are you interested in meta-science? In Open Science? If so, check out the inaugural conference of AIMOS, the Association for Interdisciplinary Research &Open Science. It’s a two-day meeting, on 7 & 8 November, at the University of Melbourne. There’s an…
eNeuro’s new push to encourage estimation
eNeuro, one of the two journals published by the Society for Neuroscience, has revised its author guidelines to encourage estimation. That’s great news. Here is: The announcement and comment from editor Christophe Bernard An accompanying commentary from us that explains…
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6475/240?utm_campaign=toc_sci-mag_2020-01-16&et_rid=17172836&et_cid=3167079
“In an era when every restaurant is obliged to publish on its front door the hygiene rating in their kitchen, we're seriously not saying whether a trial that costs millions of dollars has broken the law [...] by failing to report its results?”@bengoldacre
More evidence that superstition does not strongly influence performance.
https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/10.1024/1010-0652/a000263
Still, the idea won't die. The original study was cited 29 times last year (2019) vs. 5 cites for the replications I conducted with @Fernie103 showing negligible effect.
Sensible reporting guidelines for exp bio: show the data, make confirm vs. exploratory clear, emphasize effect size and uncertainty. Good resource.
Two colleagues and I just published an editorial/review for how to present data and stats in experimental biology journals. It explains new guidelines adopted by three American pharmacology journals.
http://molpharm.aspetjournals.org/content/molpharm/97/1/49.full.pdf
Polisci types: Beyond voting, what are the most effective things I can do towards the 2020 elections? ($ to a pac? A candidate? Volunteer to canvas? Phone bank?)
What is actually helpful?
Never cared so much before. Not asking for a friend.
(@BrendanNyhan?)
Doing more with confidence intervals. https://replicationnetwork.com/2020/01/10/doing-more-with-confidence-intervals/
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