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Using journal rank as an assessment tool- we probably shouldn’t do it
This is my summary of Brembs, Button, and Munafo (2013), “Deep impact: unintended consequences of journal rank.” Main points I took from the paper: 1) Some journals get their “impact factor” through...
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Should we buy what Greg Francis is selling? (Nope)
If you polled 100 scientists at your next conference with the single question, “Is there publication bias in your field?” I would predict nearly 100% respondents to reply “Yes.” How do they know? Did...
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The general public has no idea what “statistically significant” means
The title of this piece shouldn’t shock anyone who has taken an introductory statistics course. Statistics is full of terms that have a specific statistical meaning apart from their everyday meaning. A...
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