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2014-02-17 22:50:16 Debunking the myth of Kitty Genovese | New York Post | ||
http://nypost.com/...story-behind-the-kitty-genovese-murder/ | ||
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Despite the attempts of various neighbors to help, Mosel... wounds proved fatal, and Farrar did her best to comfort ... | ||
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2012-07-19 14:53:10 Our Frugal Future: Lessons from India’s Innovation system - Nesta | ||
http://www.nesta.org.uk/...ons_from_indias_innovation_system | ||
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Drawing on the latest data and over 130 interviews with ... policymakers, entrepreneurs and academics, this report e... policies, institutions and industries that are driving r... innovation. It measures how India's research strengths a... | ||
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2008-02-27 21:19:43 Estimated impact of publication venues in Computer Science [CiteSeer; Steve Lawrence, Kurt Bollacker, Lee Giles] | ||
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Estimated impact of publication venues in Computer Scien... better) - May 2003 (CiteSeer) | ||
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2016-09-06 13:12:19 Cognitive bias cheat sheet – Better Humans | ||
https://betterhumans.coach.me/...heat-sheet-55a472476b18#... | ||
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Every cognitive bias is there for a reason — prima... brains time or energy. If you look at them by the proble... to solve, it becomes a lot easier to understand why they... they’re useful, and the trade-offs (and resulting ment... they introd | ||
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2014-07-11 08:15:41 Scholarly journal retracts 60 articles, smashes ‘peer review ring’ - The Washington Post | ||
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...s-smashes-peer-review-ring/ | ||
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Every now and then a scholarly journal retracts an artic... errors or outright fraud. In academic circles, and somet... retraction is a big deal. | ||
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2016-09-07 09:15:20 Frontiers for Young Minds | ||
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Frontiers for Young Minds provides a collection of freel... scientific articles by distinguished scientists that are... audiences by the input of their own young peers. | ||
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2016-04-22 20:55:34 How politicians poisoned statistics - FT.com | ||
http://www.ft.com/...e8-01c7-11e6-ac98-3c15a1aa2e62.html#... | ||
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2017-01-11 13:03:40 Study finds women don't get same credit men do for co-authored papers | ||
https://www.insidehighered.com/...-do-co-authored-papers?... | ||
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Her findings: | ||
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2009-12-28 08:13:43 Hills Criteria of Causation | ||
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Hills Criteria of Causation outlines the minimal conditi... establish a causal relationship between two items. Thes... originally presented by Austin Bradford Hill (1897-1991)... medical statistician as a way of determining the causal ... specific fa | ||
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2007-08-13 08:48:37 TIPS: How to Do Research | ||
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How to Do Research | ||
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2016-03-04 13:43:56 | ||
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20.../160303145733.htm | ||
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160303145733.htm | ||
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2011-08-23 11:03:49 Writing the Dissertation: One Reason Why it is Difficult « Beki's Blog | ||
http://beki70.wordpress.com/...e-reason-why-it-is-difficult/ | ||
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I have a theory about why writing the dissertation is su... | ||
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2011-11-12 13:26:05 | ||
http://alumni.media.mit.edu/...arlo-rota-10-lessons.html#... | ||
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I have been collecting some random bits of advice that I... | ||
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2011-09-05 14:52:06 The Paradox of Openness: Attribution (network ‘whispers’) | Heloukee: EdTech and Digital Culture | ||
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I’m now going to briefly explore ‘network whispers.. content are shared easily through open platforms, and ye... be masked in the flow of dissemination: does credit alwa... due? | ||
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2016-03-31 10:59:42 | ||
https://lareviewofbooks.org/...l-matter-in-the-age-of-google | ||
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If anything, the reference system provided by a good citation style has come to matter even more in the age of the internet, rather than being rendered obsolete by the seemingly infinite networking and searchability of texts and other cultu... | ||
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2017-02-06 08:46:22 In referees we trust?: Physics Today: Vol 70, No 2 | ||
http://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/PT.3.3463 | ||
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In 1936 refereeing was not a universal practice at the w... scientific journals. It was not even a universal practic... Review. Einstein’s previous submission to that journal... Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paper, was not sent out fo... | ||
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2012-07-27 10:08:19 SerenA | chance encounters in the space of ideas | ||
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In a recent blog post, Ikka warns that it is all too eac... ‘trapped’ in mindsets and personal routines that shu... potential serendipitous experiences. I think we’ve all... traps at some point in our lives; being too busy to be a... | ||
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2010-12-11 00:38:15 | ||
http://psychsciencenotes.blogspot.com/...d-precognition.html | ||
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In case you missed it, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, a flagship APA journal, published a study by Daryl Bem containing evidence for psi (precognition). I didn't really want to post in too much detail about this study (wh... | ||
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2017-06-15 21:29:15 Counting Research ⇒ Directing Research: The Hazard of Using Simple Metrics to Evaluate Scientific Contributions (An EU Experience) | ||
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In many EU countries there is a requirement to count res... measure and prove its value. These numbers, often produc... based on the impact of journals, are used to rank univer... determine fund distribution, to evaluate research propos... determine t | ||
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2016-12-06 14:28:55 Impact of Social Sciences – Are 90% of academic papers really never cited? Reviewing the literature on academic citations. | ||
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/...emic-papers-citation-rates-remler/ | ||
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It is widely accepted that academic papers are rarely ci... But what kind of data lies behind these assertions? Dahl... look at the academic research on citation practices and ... it is clear citation rates are low, much confusion remai... figures and | ||
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2016-04-18 07:58:36 Here's Richard Feynman's simple technique for sorting science from pseudoscience - ScienceAlert | ||
http://www.sciencealert.com/...ng-science-from-pseudoscience | ||
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It turns out, all you need to do when you read or hear s... that sounds smart, is try to translate it back into ord... better yet, have the person explain it for you - without... scientific jargon or terms, and see if it still makes sense. | ||
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2007-02-22 10:18:22 Literature Reviews | ||
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/han.../literature_review.html | ||
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Literature Reviews | ||
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2015-08-21 16:33:55 Academic urban legends | ||
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Many of the messages presented in respectable scientific... in fact, based on various forms of rumors. Some of these... frequently, and in such complex, colorful, and entertain... can think of them as academic urban legends. The explana... phenomenon | ||
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2012-02-27 07:20:15 Nature Editorial: If you want reproducible science, the software needs to be open source | ||
http://arstechnica.com/...-source-according-to-editorial.ars | ||
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Modern scientific and engineering research relies heavil... programs, which analyze experimental data and run simula... would be hard-pressed to find a scientific paper (outsid... | ||
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2015-08-28 10:23:35 Study reveals that a lot of psychology research really is just 'psycho-babble' - Science - News - The Independent | ||
http://www.independent.co.uk/...t-psychobabble-10474646.html | ||
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More than half of the findings from 100 different studie... leading, peer-reviewed psychology journals cannot be rep... researchers who followed the same methodological protocol. | ||
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2007-10-14 11:32:58 Welcome to the Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) | ||
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OWL at Purdue Logo The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) | ||
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2011-01-14 11:35:11 Papers : mekentosj.com : Software for Research | ||
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Papers · your personal library of research | ||
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2016-03-08 16:55:15 Statisticians issue warning over misuse of P values : Nature News & Comment | ||
http://www.nature.com/...over-misuse-of-p-values-1.19503?... | ||
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Policy statement aims to halt missteps in the quest for ... | ||
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2016-12-27 09:25:00 BBC - Future - The man who studies the spread of ignorance | ||
http://www.bbc.com/...an-who-studies-the-spread-of-ignorance | ||
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Proctor had found that the cigarette industry did not wa... know the harms of its product, and it spent billions obs... the health effects of smoking. This search led him to cr... | ||
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2016-03-08 16:55:01 Statistics: P values are just the tip of the iceberg : Nature News & Comment | ||
http://www.nature.com/...just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-1.17412 | ||
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Ridding science of shoddy statistics will require scruti... not merely the last one | ||
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