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McCloskey and Ziliak vs. Hoover and Siegler, from the (very welcome, long overdue…) statistician’s perspective. Gelman has extremely interesting points and I agree with most of them, except that I think (and he partially admits…) he does not know much (euphemism…) about the rational addiction & co literature, so let us leave that point out, shall we (in any case it is not related to the matter at hand)…
Category: ethics
Peer review how-to
The Science edition from the 4th of Jan had two extremely interesting short essays published in the “letters” section. You can read them both on the first page of this PDF.
→ Read more Importance of early environment for children’s cognitive development: Bucharest Early Intervention Project
A very important and welcome study on the cognitive recovery of socially deprived young children, using a randomized controlled trial with young orphans from Bucharest, Romania, has been published in Science, on the 21st of Dec ’07.
→ Read more Probability of being a serial killer: the case of Lucia de Berk
Here’s a post on an extremely interesting story at the intersection of law, statistics and professional ethics in several disciplines. Inter alia, the issue has been covered in some of the best scientific journals.
→ Read more New, old and (always) exciting in science
Shortly back to blogging after quite a while… Today I’ll drop a few lines about some interesting science pieces, both new and old, but anytime exciting. Of course the selection is mine.
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