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Building a 21st century interface for science

1. We asked students to test a specific hypothesis with a dataset: Is BMI related to number of steps? Other students were just asked to analyze the dataset. The students with a specific hypothesis were 3X less likely to see the gorilla in the data! https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-020-02133-w…

Itai Yanai

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Johanna

Leaving the Church of Science

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Stuart Evans

What New Theories of Change Will Help Us Respond to the Climate Crisis?

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Lucas Jackson

Is Science Slowing Down?

Scott Alexander (slatestarcodex)slatestarcodex.com

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The joke of self-correcting science: The Andero lab and Nature Communications | Introduction to the New Statistics

Robert Calin-Jageman thenewstatistics.com

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The Syllabus

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Education Next - A Journal of Opinion and Research About Education Policy

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Juan Orbea

Things change as contradictory evidence piles up, but even then, it doesn’t mean you should scrap the theory you started out with. Everyone back in the 1870s made a big mistake throwing out their perfectly good “disease of deficiency” theory as soon as there were a few contradictory stories from polar explorers. Their mistake was thinking “maybe

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Stuart Evans