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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.” | ||
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2015-08-21 16:33:55 Academic urban legends | ||
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 | ||
The Fourth Paradigm (Science Paradigms) graphic drawn fr... | ||
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2015-10-20 15:46:12 Why are placebos getting more effective? - BBC News | ||
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... | ||
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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 | ||
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 | ||
The Scientific Method | ||
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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#... | ||
ft.com > life&arts > | ||
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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.... | ||
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2007-08-13 08:48:37 TIPS: How to Do Research | ||
How to Do Research | ||
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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. | ||
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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 | ||
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 ... | ||
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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... | ||
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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 | ||
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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... | ||
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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... | ||
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2013-01-06 13:37:43 Data-driven science is a failure of imagination | R you cereal? | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
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2015-02-24 19:50:25 Scholarpedia - Scholarpedia | ||
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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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