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2011-06-02 17:03:45     Mpemba’s baffling discovery: can hot water freeze before cold? (1969) | Skulls in the Stars

http://skullsinthestars.com/...ater-freeze-before-cold-1969/

“My name is Erasto B Mpemba, and I am going to tel... discovery, which was due to misusing a refrigerator.”
With those words, Tanzanian student Erasto Mpemba entere ...

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2015-08-21 16:33:55     Academic urban legends

http://sss.sagepub.com/content/44/4/638.full

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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2010-11-17 12:40:14     The Fourth Paradigm (Science Paradigms) graphic drawn from PD... on Twitpic

http://twitpic.com/37kwbm

The Fourth Paradigm (Science Paradigms) graphic drawn fr...
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... c drawn from PDF report (large)http://j.mp/5jpvSh #bbvba

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2015-10-20 15:46:12     Why are placebos getting more effective? - BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34572482

When new drugs are put on the market, clinical trials de... they perform better than inactive pills known as "placeb... that over the last 25 years the difference in effectiven... drugs and these fake ones has narrowed - but more in the... Are America

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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

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...
Agnotology is the study of wilful acts to spread confusi ...
It comes fr

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2015-05-05 12:38:02     New gold standard established for open and reproducible research | University of Cambridge

http://www.cam.ac.uk/...d-for-open-and-reproducible-research

A group of Cambridge computer scientists have set a new ... openness and reproducibility in research by sharing the ... data and 20,000 lines of code behind their latest result... unprecedented degree of openness in a peer-reviewed publ... researchers

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2009-12-28 08:13:43     Hills Criteria of Causation

http://www.drabruzzi.com/hills_criteria_of_causation.htm

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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2009-12-28 08:14:16    

http://www.drabruzzi.com/ResearchDesign.htm

The Scientific Method
Reading Assignment:
1. Bernard, Chapters 1 & 2.
2. Kuznar, Chapters 1-3.
... --Lawrence Kuznar, Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology

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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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Home UK World Companies Markets Global Economy Lex Comme ...
... icks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.”

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2016-03-22 21:55:08     Why One Published Paper Is Causing The Scientific Community To Freak Out | IFLScience

http://www.iflscience.com/...designed-creator-causes-outrage

A group of Chinese scientists published their research i... peer-reviewed, open-source journal on January 5. The stu... paper that looked at the biomechanics of the human hand....
One of the sentences read: “Hand coordination should i ...
The word’

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2007-08-13 08:48:37     TIPS: How to Do Research

http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia/research-tips/

How to Do Research
* Marie desJardins, SRI International Menlo Park, CA ...
o How to Succeed in Graduate School
o How to Succeed in Postgraduate Study
... ine Sammlung bitterböser Geschichten von Florian Schiel

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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

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.
A study by more than 270 researchers from around the wor ...

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2013-12-13 11:47:20     Success rates for EPSRC proposals | James Keirstead

http://www.jameskeirstead.ca/...s-rates-for-epsrc-proposals/

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2018-01-04 08:40:32     Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis

http://www.jasnh.com/

Welcome to the Journal of Articles in Support of the Nul... the past other journals and reviewers have exhibited a b... articles that did not reject the null hypothesis. We see... offering an outlet for experiments that do not reach the... significanc

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2015-08-17 07:07:08     Registered clinical trials make positive findings vanish : Nature News & Comment

http://www.nature.com/...ke-positive-findings-vanish-1.18181

The launch of the clinicaltrials.gov registry in 2000 se... striking impact on reported trial results, according to ... that many researchers have been talking about online in ...
A 1997 US law mandated the registry’s creation, requir ...

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2014-02-18 16:48:02     Scientific method: Statistical errors : Nature News & Comment

http://www.nature.com/...c-method-statistical-errors-1.14700

Data from a study of nearly 2,000 people seemed to show ... moderates saw shades of grey more accurately than did ei... right-wing extremists. “The hypothesis was sexy,” he...
But then reality intervened. Sensitive to controversies ...
It turned o

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2015-02-27 22:38:37     Scientific method: Statistical errors : Nature News & Comment

http://www.nature.com/...thod-statistical-errors-1.14700?...

But then reality intervened. Sensitive to controversies over reproducibility, Motyl and his adviser, Brian Nosek, dec... the study. With extra data, the P value came out as 0.59... to the conventional level of significance, 0.05. The eff... disappeared

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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?...

Policy statement aims to halt missteps in the quest for ...

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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

Ridding science of shoddy statistics will require scruti... not merely the last one

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2012-01-16 17:51:41     The network takeover : Nature Physics : Nature Publishing Group

http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v8.../nphys2188.html#...

The network takeover
Albert-László Barabási
Nature Physics
8,
... pidly developing into a new discipline: network science.

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2012-12-30 21:00:05     cube map_web.jpg (JPEG Image, 1400 × 699 pixels) - Scaled (81%)

http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/7.80.../cube%20map_web.jpg

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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

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...
Innovation

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2015-08-17 07:08:16     The Truth Wears Off - The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/201.../the-truth-wears-off

Although many scientific ideas generate conflicting resu... falling effect sizes, they continue to get cited in the ... standard medical practice. Why? Because these ideas seem... make sense. Because we can’t bear to let them go. And ... decline eff

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2016-12-06 14:27:48     Fake News Or Real? How To Self-Check The News And Get The Facts : All Tech Considered : NPR

http://www.npr.org/...f-check-the-news-and-get-the-facts?...

These tips are just a start at determining what type of ... Zimdars outlined these and others in a guide for her stu...
If you do these steps, you're helping yourself and you'r ...
And you won't be the only one trying to stop the spread ...

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2013-01-06 13:37:43     Data-driven science is a failure of imagination | R you cereal?

http://www.petrkeil.com/?p=302

But most importantly, data-driven science is less intell... then hypothesis-driven science. Data mining is sweet, an... Plotting multivariate data, maps, “relationships” an... visualizations is hip and catchy, everybody can understa... thinking ab

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2007-10-14 11:32:33     Academic Phrasebank

http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/

The Academic Phrasebank is a general resource for academ... to provide you with examples of some of the phraseologic... of writing organised under the headings to the left. It ... primarily with international students whose first langua... in mind. Ho

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2015-03-23 11:26:12     About | re3data.org

http://www.re3data.org/about/

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2015-02-24 19:50:25     Scholarpedia - Scholarpedia

http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Scholarpedia:About

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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

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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2015-05-05 12:24:13     Keep it long: Most science writing advice flops, analysis finds -- ScienceDaily

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases.../150430191026.htm#...

When writing the abstracts for journal articles, most sc... similar advice: keep it short, dry, and simple. But a ne... 1 million abstracts finds that many of these tips backfi... abstracts cited less than their long, flowery, and jargo...

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