by Craig Marker | Sep 28, 2007 | Uncategorized
Below is an excerpt from Wired magazine, also see this earlier entry on the ‘file drawer problem’ discussing this same problem:In 1981, the New England Journal of Medicine published a Harvard study that showed an unexpected link between drinking coffee and...
by Craig Marker | Sep 26, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from the Social Science Statistics blog:I was reminded again the other day that the word “data” is plural, since it means more than one “datum”, and thus “data” requires a plural verb. The Economist style guide says so, as does the European Union...
by Craig Marker | Sep 25, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from livescience.com: Forty-three years after that Friday in Dallas, JFK is still the victim of a massive conspiracy, Elvis is still alive and presumably eating chocolate-covered fried chicken, and Paul McCartney is dead. For those who don’t know,...
by Craig Marker | Sep 18, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from the Wired Science Blog:The capacity for cluelessness of the clever was the subject of an Idea Festival talk by journalist Laurence Gonzales, who in Deep Survival examined the question of why some people survive crises and others die. The two questions,...
by Craig Marker | Sep 11, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from Livescience: A common media myth that sprung up after the attacks was that American tastes in entertainment would be forever changed. After seeing real-life horrors, the experts claimed, Americans would yearn for non-violent, wholesome family fare....
