| These Guardian / Independent stories are dodgy. Traps in data journalism. - Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:56:05 +0000 |
| Here’s an interesting problem with data analysis in general, and so, by extension, data journalism: you have to be careful about assuming that the numbers you’ve got access to… really do reflect the underlying phenomena you’re trying to investigate. Today’s Guardian has a story, “Antidepressant use in England soars“. It’s much more overstated in the [...] |
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| “Bad Science”is £2.49 on Kindle for the next week - Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:04:52 +0000 |
| Briefly: I thought this was a pricing error, but it turns out it’s deliberate, so… My book is £2.49 on Kindle for the next week or so. When it’s this cheap you might as well use it to test the Kindle app on your phone (I’m a massive Kindle dork, it helps me get more [...] |
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| Why won’t Professor Susan Greenfield publish this theory in a scientific journal? - Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:43:19 +0000 |
| Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 22 October 2011 This week Baroness Susan Greenfield, Professor of pharmacology at Oxford, apparently announced that computer games are causing dementia in children. This would be very concerning scientific information: but it comes to us from the opening of a new wing at an expensive boarding school, not an academic [...] |
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