Jul 21, 2026
I have previously written about Amy Cuddy and her disgraced claim about Power Posing. Very short summary: The original study, where Cuddy was second author, had several severe methodological flaws that gravely undermined the findings Cuddy gave a wildly popular TED...
Jun 30, 2025
Three researchers analyzed the network of Cardinals before the last election for the new Pope. They analyzed the cardinals based on: Status, measured through Eigenvector centrality (where the value of connections are weighted by the importance of your connections)....
Jun 26, 2020
An entertaining version of it was published ten years ago, by Neuroskeptic at: The 9 Circles of Scientific Hell Dante’s : a classic of world literature, the definitive statement of the mediaeval Christian world-view, the first major work in the Italian language,...
Jun 5, 2020
Many, if not most statistical methods were developed for relatively small datasets. Big Data means we need to reevaluate how we interpret results. A good examples comes from “the Facebook experiment” Emotional contagion through social networks Adam D. I. Kramer, Jamie...
May 20, 2020
There are ohh-so many ways to mess up when conducting research, leading either intentionally or unintentionally, to false results. Open science, where every effort is made to allow others to check your work (put very simply) is on the rise. Here is a great article on...
Feb 10, 2020
While most make models in Word or Powerpoint, there are other alternatives, that can also be used with R. One such, is DAGitty, (and related packages). You can make the diagrams in a browser window, and export the R code. The diagrams can be exported in most high...
