A paper (really more a news piece) in Nature launches a major attack on the commonly used and taught statistical methods. The focus is on Fisher and the T test, the pervasive “p” values students from high school to grad school learn to sue as a measure of reality. Everyone from politi[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Science’
So why not veto Keystone XL?
I must admit to some ambivalence about the Keystone pipeline as a political issue. While there is indubitably some impact on the environment, I suspect that on the scale of major environmental issues facing the United States this is relatively minor. On the other hand, adding to the global pollution[...]
November 9th, 2014 - 11:00 am § in Uncategorized
Mind-controlled prosthetic arm now a reality
A man in Sweden has become the first recipient of a mind-controlled prosthetic arm that is directly interfaced with muscle, bone and nerves.[...]
November 4th, 2014 - 2:25 pm § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
UK Angst Over Decline in Nobels to Brits
The Answer? Britain Needs to Encourage Immigration! The Nobel Prize winner for physiology or medicine reminded those who would celebrate Britain’s scientific prowess to beware an immigration policy that threatens to blunt such brilliance. Having come to Britain to work at University College London[...]
November 2nd, 2014 - 9:51 pm § in Uncategorized
Study: Americans Are Suckers For Graphs And Charts
New research proves “Americans… are perfectly happy to agree with whatever you tell them, as long as there’s a chart accompanying your statement,” Bloomberg Business Week reports. Here’s how the subjects were tested: “… [R]esearchers … showed study partic[...]
November 1st, 2014 - 4:04 pm § in Politics
How Do You Answer A Republican Who Says, ‘I’m Not A Scientist’?
“I’m not a scientist.” That’s the GOP’s new climate-change talking point. Because it sounds better than, “I don’t know, and don’t want to know.” These people have moved from denial, which is no longer tenable or respectable, to head in sand. [...]
October 30th, 2014 - 9:32 pm § in Politics
Why Kaci Hickox Is Right To Defy Governor LePage’s Quarantine
I don’t think any reasonable person will dispute that public health officials should have authority to quarantine individuals who may pose a threat to public health when there’s a rational medical reason to do so. The rationale for quarantining people is the same as for locking up crimin[...]
October 15th, 2014 - 12:54 pm § in America
EBOLA UPDATE:
EBOLA PATIENT FLEW ONE DAY BEFORE SYMPTOMS HUFFINGTON LINKS Patient Identified… Reported Fever On Tuesday… Had 99.5 Temperature On Flight… CDC: She Shouldn’t Have Flown… But ‘Extremely Low’ Risk For Other Passengers… 3 Contacts Being InvestigatedR[...]
Reuven Carlyle: Massive Expansion of the UW School of Medicine
Reuven Carlyle Thinks Big: Let the University of Washington Buy The Amgen Campus First it was Washington State University proposing to create a new medical school in Spokane for the absurdly low annual cost of 24 million dollars. Now, over at his blog, State Representative Reuven Carlyle h[...]