By: Björn
Additional Reads in April 2017
April 19, 2017How original are your scientific hypotheses really? (a german version can be found here) More than 3Rs: the importance of scientific validity for…
Read MoreOptimising reliability of mouse performance in behavioural testing: the major role of non-aversive handling
April 19, 2017Handling laboratory animals during test procedures is an important source of stress that may impair reliability of test responses. Picking up…
Read MoreEmpirical assessment of published effect sizes and power in the recent cognitive neuroscience and psychology literature
April 19, 2017In this paper, Denes Szucs and John P.A. Ioannidis have empirically assessed the distribution of published effect sizes and estimated power…
Read MoreResearch Funding: the Case for a Modified Lottery
April 19, 2017The time-honored mechanism of allocating funds based on ranking of proposals by scientific peer review is no longer effective, because review…
Read MoreReplication data collection highlights value in diversity of replication attempts
April 19, 2017Researchers agree that replicability and reproducibility are key aspects of science. Here, K. Andrew DeSoto and Martin Schweinsberg present datasets collected…
Read MoreMeta-assessment of bias in science
April 19, 2017Numerous biases are believed to affect the scientific literature, but their actual prevalence across disciplines is unknown. To gain a comprehensive…
Read MoreIncreasing efficiency of preclinical research by group sequential designs
April 19, 2017Despite the potential benefits of sequential designs, studies evaluating treatments or experimental manipulations in preclinical experimental biomedicine almost exclusively use classical…
Read MoreNot allowed to publish everywhere
March 26, 2017The Economist reported (link) that the biggest foundation in the world, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, have a new policy…
Read MoreMeeting Report: Reproducible Research and Registered Reports
March 21, 2017NIHR STATS Group: Laboratory StudiesLondon, 20 March 2017 Invited speakerThe meeting opened with a comprehensive presentation by guest speaker Professor Chris…
Read MoreEffect Vibrations and a Roman God
March 19, 2017There are a large number of ways how to analyze the same data set. Depending on the decision made in handling,…
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