Last year I wrote a post of “5 Key Things to Know About Meta-Analysis”. It was a great way to focus – but…
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Bias Another 5 Things to Know About Meta-Analysis
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Bias “Just” Joking? Sexist Talk in Science
I’m a scientist who’s also a cartoonist. So I’ve got a pretty keen interest in scholarship and empirical research on humor. And I…
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Bias Weighing Up Anonymity and Openness in Publication Peer Review
Scientists are in a real bind when it comes to peer review. It’s hard to be objective when we’re all among the peer reviewing…
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Bias Study Report, Study Reality, and the Gap Between
We take mental shortcuts about research reports. “I read a study,” we say. We don’t only talk about them as though they…
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Bias Mind Your “p”s, RRs, and NNTs: On Good Statistics Behavior
P is for pandemonium. And a bit of that broke out recently when a psychology journal banned p–values and more, declaring the whole…
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Bias 5 Shortcuts to Keep Data on Risks in Perspective
“Risky” is definitely not a one-size-fits-all concept. It’s not just that we aren’t all at the same level of every risk…
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Bias Long Overdue: Is the Question of Induction of Labor and Cesarean Section Settled?
I used to think there was no question about this. Induction was the prologue to a long, hard labor that often wouldn’t go…
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Bias Resveratrol Hangover: Waking Up After Hypothesis Bingeing
Outbreaks of science myth-busting can be a bit of a puzzlement. The science behind a popular headline-maker might be a tottering house…
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Bias Science in the Abstract: Don’t Judge a Study by its Cover
A competition for attention lies at the heart of the scientific enterprise. And the abstract is its “blurb.” A scientific abstract is…
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Bias A Viewer’s Guide to Mammography Evidence Ping-Pong
You could get a very sore neck watching all the claims and counter-claims about mammography zing back and forth. It’s like a…
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Bias The Disease Prevention Illusion: A Tragedy in 5 Parts
Act I: An ounce of “prevention.” “Prevention is better than cure.” Aphorisms like this go back a long way. And most…
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Bias 5 Key Things to Know About Meta-Analysis
Knowledge accumulates. But studies can get contradictory or misleading along the way. You can’t just do a head count: 3 studies saying…