A Laboratory of the Future Human Experience
Ed Gracely, biostatistics professor, provides seven questions to ask while reading health studies.
One potential roadblock in producing good research is the problems with how researchers measure statistical significance. Laypeople can spot many others much easier.
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A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming. On Monday, Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore’s chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, and is one of four bodies responsible for monitoring global temperatures, announced that last month was the hottest October on record.
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