External validity in translational biomedicine: understanding the conditions enabling the cause to have an effect
March 14, 2022A spectre is haunting biomedical research: It appears that a substantial fraction of published research results cannot be reproduced, while spectacularly…
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March 14, 2022A snake, having made his hole close to the porch of a cottage, inflicted a severe bite on the cottager’s infant…
Read MoreIllustrating the role of PPV, power and sample size with an R script
March 8, 2022This is the R Script referenced in the blog post LINK # ratio of true to not-true relationships tnott
Read MorePreparing for a journey
February 27, 2022Recently, I went on a trip to a nice hotel with a swimming pool. Upon arrival, standing in the modern room…
Read MoreExperiences with the EQIPD QS
January 20, 2022The perks of a quality system in academia The research group of Prof Kas at the University of Groningen was one…
Read MoreNEWSLETTER December 2021
December 20, 2021EQIPD News Update EQIPD Toolbox: Item “1.4.3.5 Expectations from public funders” – Read more New EQIPD-certified research unit – Read more…
Read MoreReference Collection to push back against “Common Statistical Myths”
December 20, 2021In this wiki, the author provides an easy to navigate list of references that may be used to argue against some common…
Read MoreThe “from-quality-to-system” pendulum
December 20, 2021by Anton Bespalov and Anja Gilis In the dialectics world of the German philosopher Georg Hegel, quantitative changes transform into qualitative…
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December 20, 2021Want research integrity? Stop the blame game Einstein Foundation Award 2021 Understand the real reasons reproducibility reform fails Five keys to…
Read MoreNonreplicable publications are cited more than replicable ones
December 20, 2021In this article, Marta Serra-Garcia and Uri Gneezy used publicly available data to show that published papers in top psychology, economics,…
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