Everyday life is full of small behaviors we treat as moral choices, scientific truths, or acts of civic virtue—often without ...

McShane, Blakeley B.; Bradlow, Eric T.; Lynch Jr., John G.; Meyer, Robert J. "Statistical Significance" and Statistical Reporting: Moving Beyond Binary. Journal of ...

To prevail in a toxic tort action, the plaintiff must show both general causation and specific causation. Under Federal Rule of Evidence 702, an expert can qualify if she has sufficient "knowledge, ...

In the middle of the 20 th century, the field of psychology had a problem. In the wake of the Manhattan Project and in the early days of the space race, the so-called “hard sciences” were producing ...

Stephen Ziliak of Roosevelt University and Deirdre McCloskey of University of Illinois at Chicago have done the world of academic research the greatest, but least welcome, of favors. In their book, ...

A century ago, two oddly domestic puzzles helped set the rules for what modern science treats as "real": a Guinness brewer charged with quality control and a British lady insisting she can taste ...

Here’s a short version of this post (spoiler! I’m making two intentional rhetorical missteps): Last week, the Columbia University Community College Research Center (CCRC) released a working paper ...

Although analysis of variance (ANOVA) is widely used by ecologists, the full potential of ANOVA as a descriptive tool has not been realized in most ecological studies. As questions addressed by ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Norman Swan: Let's go to the second issue and a really big row that's brewing amongst medical ...