23 June 2015

Mechanical Turk: Amazon's new charges are not the biggest problem

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Twitter was buzzing, or something, this morning, with the news that Amazon is going to change the commission rates that it charges research...
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05 June 2015

Dream on: Playing pinball in your sleep does not make you a better person

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(Note: this is more or less my first solo foray into unaided statistical and methodological criticism.  Normally I hitch a ride on the coat...
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21 May 2015

What to do with people who commit scientific fraud?

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Another story of apparent scientific fraud has hit the headlines .  I'm sure that most people who are reading this post will have seen ...
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09 May 2015

Real-time emotion tracking by webcam

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The European Commission is giving financial backing to a company that claims its technology can read your emotional state by just having y...
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01 May 2015

Violence against women: Another correlate of national happiness?

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Introductory disclaimer: This blog post is intended to be about the selective interpretation of statistics. Many of the figures under...
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29 March 2015

Open Access journals: what's not to like? This, maybe...

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When I used to work in an office, my boss used to say that any time he had a good idea, he could come to me and in ten minutes he'd k...
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28 August 2014

Why we believe our article "A critical reanalysis of the relationship between genomics and well-being" is correct

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Earlier this week (Monday 25 August 2014), our article was published in PNAS: Brown, MacDonald, Samanta, Friedman, and Coyne (2014). A cri...