Here is link to the COMPARE project, an incredible, though depressing, project designed to check if clinical trials are following their preregistered analysis plans when published. Pre-registration is a great technique to help draw a bright line between planned and …
Sometimes it is nice to be able to make up a set of data to explore. Here is a cool tool that makes it easy to craft your own data set: just draw the data and you will instantly see …
Regression analysis is incredible–it can literally help us predict the future based on patterns observed in the past. There are many pitfalls, however, to using regression. First, the correlations observed in the past may not apply to new cases or …
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Here’s a rather incredible piece of science writing that helps exemplify why data sharing is such an important component of the Open Science movement: http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/07/why-it-took-social-science-years-to-correct-a-simple-error-about-psychoticism.html