On scientific consensus
In reply to: Scott Alexander's Learning To Love Scientific Consensus. Actually, I have planned (in my mind) a somewhat longer post on my take on the 'correct contrarian cluster', or…
Tail effects in climate science and the pleasures of polymathy
From the interactive visualization I previously published to give foster an intuitive understanding of the concept: Tail effects are when there are large differences between groups at the extremes (tails)…
How to integrate Winnower, blog posts and ResearchGate?
Abstract I argue that traditional scientific publication is extremely costly and that scientific publication must move towards more rapid publication practices. I discuss how this might be accomplished by integrating…
Personality correlates of breadth vs. depth of research scholarship
Also posted on the Project Polymath blog. An interesting study has been published: Thomas S. Bateman, and Andrew M. Hess. Different personal propensities among scientists relate to deeper vs. broader…
Review: The Second Machine Age (Brynjolfsson & McAfee)
Goodreads. Libgen. This book is background material for CGPGrey's great short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU So, if you saw that and are more curious, perhaps this book is for you. If the…
Review: Faking Science (Diederik Stapel)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24298516-faking-science FakingScience-20141214 <-- PDF In general, this book was a fun and quick read. It gets somewhat repetitive with his descriptions of how bad he feels for his actions and…
Publication bias index by the author: a way to keep scientists honest?
https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/551535440831201280 Would this work? Authors can reduce their publication bias measure by publishing new studies that are more honest (with regards to reporting, research practices or not making data up,…
Discrimination against females in grant applications or publication bias?
While looking for peer-review related studies, I came across a meta-analysis of gender bias in grant applications. That sounds good. Bornmann, L., Mutz, R., & Daniel, H. D. (2007). Gender…
Jeffrey Beall’s anti-open access tirade
I came across this one. On the one hand it seems written in a serious tone. On the other hand, the claims are so ridiculous that it is hard to…
P-hacking in science over time
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…