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Parachute use to prevent death, trauma when jumping from aircraft (2018) [pdf]
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Berkson's Paradox
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Why most published research findings are false (2005)
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Preparedness Paradox
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No evidence for nudging after adjusting for publication bias
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To improve medical trials, justify exclusion criteria
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The claimed effect size is about a zillion times higher than is plausible
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The control group is out of control (2014)
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How people reason their way through echo chambers and what might guide them out
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Evidence of fraud in an influential field experiment about dishonesty
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Has the lead-crime hypothesis been debunked?
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Science relies on constructive criticism. How to keep it useful and respectful
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Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo
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One in ten medical treatments are supported by high-quality evidence – study
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Statisticians want to abandon science’s standard measure of ‘significance’
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How should we critique research?
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Most Published Research Findings Are False (2005)
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Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation (2007)
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Berkson's Paradox
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Chart of the Decade: Why You Shouldn’t Trust Every Scientific Study You See
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Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (2005)
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About 40% of economics experiments fail replication survey (2016)
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Understanding Simpson’s Paradox (2013) [pdf]
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p-Hacking and False Discovery in A/B Testing
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New Zealand Study Provides More Support for Lead-Crime Hypothesis
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It will be much harder to call findings ‘significant’ if a team gets its way
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A Study That Bolsters the Lead-Crime Hypothesis
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New paper: “Why most of psychology is statistically unfalsifiable”
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Is Ego-Depletion a Replicable Effect?
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Scientific Regress
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Why are submarines demagnetized?
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Regression to the mean is the main reason ineffective treatments appear to work
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A scientist studying the accuracy of stereotypes
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Not Even Scientists Can Easily Explain P-values
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How scientists fool themselves and how they can stop
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P values are not as reliable as many scientists assume (2014)
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Why you shouldn’t believe that exciting new medical study
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Psychology Journal Bans Significance Testing
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Cause And Effect: A New Statistical Test That Can Tease Them Apart
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A surge of p-values between 0.040 and 0.049 in recent decades [pdf]
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The Control Group Is Out of Control
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Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation (2007)
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P values are not as reliable as many scientists assume
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The Science Of Snobbery
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If correlation doesn’t imply causation, then what does? (2012)
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Is Wine Bullshit?
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What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit?
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'You Are Not So Smart': Why We Can't Tell Good Wine From Bad
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Simpson's paradox
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Make up your own rules of probability
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Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
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Simpson's paradox: why mistrust seemingly simple statistics
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Simpson's paradox
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Chinchilla Scaling: A replication attempt
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Understanding Stein's Paradox (2021)
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The t-test was invented at the Guinness brewery
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Generating Simpson's Paradox with Z3
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Lady tasting tea
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