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The rest of the paper is interesting too: A surge of p-values between 0.040 and 0.049 in recent decades (but negative results are increasing rapidly too). Found via Scholar of the author’s page: Joost de Winter
Continue ReadingI found this paper: The expansion of Google Scholar versus Web of Science: a longitudinal study – See also other interesting papers by the same author: Joost de Winter Abstract Web of Science (WoS) and Google Scholar (GS) are prominent citation services with distinct indexing mechanisms. Comprehensive knowledge about the growth patterns of these two…
Continue Readinghttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/282085.Human_Accomplishment http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=735E143F5E5C9A49FD1188DA457E8287&open=0 This book was very interesting much of the time, somewhat interesting some of the time, and dumb at some time. However, the first part was much larger than the other two, so i think its a great book. The chapters where Murray speculates beyond the data are worst ones IMO. –…
Continue ReadingThe Signal and the Noise Why So Many Predictions Fail – but Some Don’t Nate Silver 544p It is a pretty interesting book especially becus it covers some areas of science not usually covered in popsci (geology, meteorology), and i learned a lot. it is also clearly written and easy to read, which speeds…
Continue ReadingThis was interesting. A_Plea_for_Science_Studies_Philip_Kitcher
Continue Readingi hav riten about it befor, but here is som mor i came acros. Found via: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130117/03040821712/scientist-explains-why-putting-research-behind-paywall-is-immoral.shtml For general public: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2013/jan/17/open-access-publishing-science-paywall-immoral http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=417576&c=1 http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jul/15/free-access-british-scientific-research Background material for the curious: Blog series: http://svpow.com/2009/06/01/choosing-a-journal-for-the-neck-posture-paper-why-open-access-is-important/ http://svpow.com/2011/09/29/researchers-stop-doing-free-work-for-non-open-journals/ http://svpow.com/2011/10/17/collateral-damage-of-the-non-open-reviewing-boycott/ http://svpow.com/2012/01/30/what-is-a-private-sector-research-work/ http://svpow.com/2012/03/30/my-rcuk-submission/ http://svpow.com/2012/05/17/see-this-is-why-publishers-irritate-me-so-much/ http://svpow.com/2012/05/18/publishers-versus-everyone/ http://svpow.com/2012/10/16/publish-means-make-public-paywalls-are-the-opposite-of-publishing/ Other: http://drvector.blogspot.dk/2007/02/reason-317-to-be-depressed-journal.html http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/journal.html http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=911
Continue ReadingBackground Lately I’ve been interested in cluster analysis and factor analysis. These two families of analyses have extremely many practical data-related uses. So far I’ve begun cluster analyzing Wikipedia to get an overall idea about the structure of human knowledge (how cool is that?). I’ve also read Arthur Jensen’s The g Factor to get an…
Continue Readinghttp://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0010068 The hypothesised Hierarchy of the Sciences (henceforth HoS) is reflected inmany social and organizational features of academic life. When 222 scholars rated their perception of similarity between academic disciplines, results showed a clustering along three main dimensions: a ‘‘hard/soft’’ dimension, which roughly corresponded to the HoS; a ‘‘pure/applied’’ dimension, which reflected the…
Continue Readinghttp://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-rt-brazil-prisonreadingl2e8hp75l-20120625,0,7694158.story This is an interesting idea. – http://news.yahoo.com/math-anxiety-school-scientists-too-190128180–abc-news-tech.html http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/06/22/1205259109 Not surprised. Surely, there is a similar aversion among filosofy students at my university to logic, since its the formal near-equivalent of math. And when i change to linguistics this fall, i expect to see a similar aversion to formal linguistics (say, generative grammar). I wonder,…
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