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It's subtle, but a claim in this story is misleading: "At the same time, 31% said they were able to get tested when they sought to do so."I'd say that
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In science, people tend to be most interested in positive results — a manipulation changes what you are measuring, two groups differ in meaningful ways, a drug treatment works, that
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Jevin West was away today so in lecture I was able to sneak in one my favorite topics, observation selection effects.Let's start a little puzzle.In Portugal, 60% of families with
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A couple of months ago, an almost unfathomably bad paper was published in the Journal of Public Health: From Theory to Practice. It purports to prove—mathematically—that homeopathy will provide and
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A truly remarkable example of misleading data visualization from the Georgia department of public health.https://twitter.com/andishehnouraee/status/1284237474831761408 In our book we suggest that one never assume malice when incompetence is
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We've written several times about what we describe as Phrenology 2.0 — the attempt to rehabilitate long-discredited pseudoscientific ideas linking physiognomy to moral character — using the trappings of machine
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