June 4, 2015

Round up on the chocolate hoax

Science journalism (or science) has a problem:

Meh. Unimpressed.

Study was unethical

 

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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »

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    Megan Pledger

    Small sample, I know, but there does seem to be a gender bias in what people made of it.

    Although it’s not directly on topic but the incident reminded me of the movie “Wit”
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243664/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
    I watched it one evening and had the most horrific nightmares.

    9 years ago

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      Thomas Lumley

      Yes, I noticed the division by gender. And I could easily have classified Maria Godoy’s post differently and got perfect separation.

      On the other hand, this doesn’t include my post on the ethics.

      9 years ago