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The Challenges of Debunking ESP
The Wall Street Journal: Earlier this year, a major psychology journal published a paper suggesting that there was some evidence for “pre-cognition,” a form of ESP. Stuart Ritchie, a doctoral student at the University of Visit Page
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A Science We Can Believe In
APS, our Board and our Members are against scientific misconduct… at least (by my estimate — more on that below) 98.03 percent of them are. Does this sound like something newsworthy enough to devote a Visit Page
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More About Academics and Dodgy Statistics
The Wall Street Journal: Can statisticians “prove almost anything”? Canada’s National Post takes on one of the academic issues of the moment. The focus is a new article in Psychological Science, alluded to on Ideas Visit Page
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Statisticians can prove almost anything, a new study finds
National Post: Catchy headlines about the latest counter-intuitive discovery in human psychology have a special place in journalism, offering a quirky distraction from the horrors of war and crime, the tedium of politics and the Visit Page
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The New Statistics
Statistics has been called “the grammar of science.” Few understand this idea better than Geoff Cumming, whose research explores statistical cognition, or how we use and interpret statistical methods. He is particularly interested in replication Visit Page
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Analyzing Data
In scientific experiments as in architecture, it’s all about design. Patrick Onghena studies methodology and statistics in order to help other investigators properly set up their studies and analyze their results. He is especially interested Visit Page
