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Tag Archives: statistics
Fix Science In Half An Hour
You’ve probably heard about the crisis of replication in psychology. The problem is that replication is an unglamorous business; researchers would much rather do the sexier work of pushing forward knowledge with new results. So we need to make replications … Continue reading
Effects Of Vertical Acceleration On Wrongness
Whenever someone sneers “Evidence-based medicine? You wouldn’t demand a double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial of PARACHUTES, would you?” I feel a strong urge to use them as the control group in my double-blind parachute experiment. Of course, deep down inside I … Continue reading
Lies, Damned Lies, And Social Media (Part 5 of ∞)
[content warning: rape, false rape allegations. Some people have been linking this article claiming it says things it DEFINITELY DOES NOT, so please read it before you have an opinion.] (see also parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 of ∞) … Continue reading
Nootropics Survey Results And Analysis
In case you are just joining us: nootropics are substances which purportedly improve mental functioning with relatively few side effects when used responsibility. Caffeine is a good example. It improves wakefulness and energy, and when used responsibly is so safe … Continue reading
Two Dark Side Statistics Papers
I. First we have False Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility In Data Collection And Analysis Allows Presenting Anything As Significant (h/t Jonas Vollmer). The message is hardly unique: there are lots of tricks unscrupulous or desperate scientists can use to artificially … Continue reading
Statistical Literacy Among Doctors Now Lower Than Chance
Good news! 42% of doctors can correctly answer a true-false question on p-values! That’s only 8% worse than a coin flip! And this paragraph is your friendly reminder that six months after this study was published, the FDA decided it … Continue reading
Lies, Damned Lies, And Facebook (Part 4 of ∞)
(see also parts 1, 2, and 3 of ∞) Some friends of mine on Facebook were talking about rape (as you do), and one of them brought up how anti-rape public awareness campaigns targeting men have been found to be … Continue reading
The Trend Evaluation Of All Values
In case you forgot: yesterday, 170 people sent in their predictions on what percent of Americans agreed with vaguely political statements like “I am very patriotic”. Then they predicted how answers to these questions have changed in the past 22 … Continue reading
The Thin Blue Line That Stays Strangely Horizontal
Last night I was pondering how to test the Reactionary claim that society was drifting inexorably to the Left, and I wondered whether maybe someone had created a mathematically rigorous model of people’s positions along the left-right spectrum and then … Continue reading
Scientific Freud
In this month’s American Journal of Psychiatry: The Efficacy of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Psychodynamic Therapy in the Outpatient Treatment of Major Depression: A Randomized Clinical Trial. It’s got more than just a catchy title. It also demonstrates that… Wait. Before … Continue reading