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JenLucPiquant, 10 months ago to random

Czech experimental archaeologists successfully completed their 1-month voyage in the Aegean Sea using a replica of a prehistoric vessel https://arkeonews.net/czech-experimental-archaeologists-successfully-completed-their-1-month-voyage-in-the-aegean-sea-using-a-replica-of-a-prehistoric-vessel/

eLife, 11 months ago to random

A new study shows that simply believing a sham medical treatment is personalised increases its effectiveness. https://elifesciences.org/digests/84691/personalised-placebo?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

grimalkina, 11 months ago to random

Ah are we finally going to talk about this, something which has been screamingly obvious to methodologists.

https://retractionwatch.com/2023/06/15/plague-of-anomalies-in-conference-proceedings-hint-at-systemic-issues/

deboraha, 1 year ago to random

Hey #rstats people! I have a dataset where I’ve asked people to rank a set of 10 items from 1 to 10, and I want to compare those rankings between two groups. Sounds super simple, but I can’t work out what #statistic to use! I’ve found the nParLD package, but that’s not quite right as it’s not longitudinal data. Help?

ct_bergstrom, 1 year ago to random

Remember that nonsense from Pamela Paul in the New York Times about how science must no longer be a meritocracy because PNAS rejected a (very poor) paper titled "In defense of merit in science"?

No? That's ok. It wasn't memorable.

In any case, my letter to editor at the Times about that nonsense was just published.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/27/opinion/letters/science-diversity-equity-inclusion.html?unlocked_article_code=pbg9OxKceqaZrtpOfrp3MZd6Fngb2cs7UHIR7eSkY3IKfSgpa7tqQj9_ie6bdNLtoG4v0tQZhratBmt_f6jJM0DbhCTikM0cmCGydjdLbnfTleGdBUScsO0gc4JbiDmcanMoDK-M7Z1-ig9S6NwiIcnG_b-Y_gvnH_5VefwnVjQSXsf3ZSTWUAS5Q2Jbe2ttiXAyraghGMJ4PPDIFvT1nGJsSK_JlWmZGkSaIQQW-q4lJy4lscfDSozxJVwlBabd86hx7u9Mp5PBie9cYJCO1Qm6qzjsF7ynPQfbHCWPReFB8OR6nszE7QUd-MfI1IYsVCxm3XB4Ldm01uPqleQUNrrBmnPBICs3JW91j-7mwlkHZeNR&smid=url-share

ct_bergstrom, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to random

The loss of access to Twitter data under the new pricing plan was a dire blow to our research at the UW-CIP.

Now being forced to delete the data that dozens of people spent years collecting, curating, and studying—outrageous. It’s like burning lab notebooks, an attack on science for the sake of pure malice.

(UPDATE: it appears that the deletion mandates may not apply to us given our data use, but they are still devastating to the groups affected.)

https://inews.co.uk/news/twitter-researchers-delete-data-unless-pay-2364535

phire, 1 year ago to random

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timpratt, 1 year ago to random

It’s a shame Iain M. Banks isn’t around to name a Culture Ship “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly”