Science Journalism: Crash Course Statistics #11
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Sophia
Privatelly funded science can be really good, even if it affects the company that funds it, Mario Molina (chemistry Nobel prize from Mexico's National Autonomous University) discovered the relation between tetrafluorocarbons (gas that's used for cooling) and the hole in the ozone layer, and that study was funded by a company that used them, so yeah, that happens
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Privatelly funded science can be really good, even if it affects the company that funds it, Mario Molina (chemistry Nobel prize from Mexico's National Autonomous University) discovered the relation between tetrafluorocarbons (gas that's used for cooling) and the hole in the ozone layer, and that study was funded by a company that used them, so yeah, that happens
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Knut
The emphasis on the critical analysis of the funding source is a bit too -breitbart- for my taste.
A biased source of funding doesn't necessarily lead to biased research. As long as the research is carried out by a serious, respectable institution, it frequently doesn't matter where the funding came from
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The emphasis on the critical analysis of the funding source is a bit too -breitbart- for my taste.
A biased source of funding doesn't necessarily lead to biased research. As long as the research is carried out by a serious, respectable institution, it frequently doesn't matter where the funding came from
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Eric
Article: -a study found a mild correlation between ADHD in kids and amount of time they spend playing videogames. This might have to do with the stimulation that games provide. -
Headline: -Kids are being hypnotized by videogames-
(seriously. This was a real thing that I read in an actual newspaper)
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Article: -a study found a mild correlation between ADHD in kids and amount of time they spend playing videogames. This might have to do with the stimulation that games provide. -
Headline: -Kids are being hypnotized by videogames-
(seriously. This was a real thing that I read in an actual newspaper)
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TheaDragonSpirit
Don't leap before you look.
Don't believe what you read in the papers, without doing research.
If they jumped off a cliff would you jump off a cliff too?
Be sceptical but not so sceptical that everything is an illusion made by your own mind, since that is all you can believe.
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Don't leap before you look.
Don't believe what you read in the papers, without doing research.
If they jumped off a cliff would you jump off a cliff too?
Be sceptical but not so sceptical that everything is an illusion made by your own mind, since that is all you can believe.
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Alverant
Funding for science studies isn't neutral in the US, not since Jan 20, 2017 and a bunch of anti-science politicians got put into very powerful positions. Even then it wasn't great. The CDC was prevented from studying gun violence since the research already done upset the NRA.
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Funding for science studies isn't neutral in the US, not since Jan 20, 2017 and a bunch of anti-science politicians got put into very powerful positions. Even then it wasn't great. The CDC was prevented from studying gun violence since the research already done upset the NRA.
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Raymond
-_. worse than -text neck- is 'butt callous' from sitting extra-low in the chair all day to avoid ceiling-glare on the computer screen-and-has anybody defined control-group placebos, and done tests to determine the proper types of placebos, e. g. non-digestable L-sugars. _-
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-_. worse than -text neck- is 'butt callous' from sitting extra-low in the chair all day to avoid ceiling-glare on the computer screen-and-has anybody defined control-group placebos, and done tests to determine the proper types of placebos, e. g. non-digestable L-sugars. _-
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gaeb1811
I have a question: how can you trust that the data and/or results shown in a paper are legit and not made up?
I guess its not difficult at all to just lie about the measurements or complex calculations made in the study.
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I have a question: how can you trust that the data and/or results shown in a paper are legit and not made up?
I guess its not difficult at all to just lie about the measurements or complex calculations made in the study.
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Almond
only the abstract of a study are usually free, the whole article is for sale. but if the study got filtered by peer-review and scrutiny by the journal editors are these not enough to trust the study?
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only the abstract of a study are usually free, the whole article is for sale. but if the study got filtered by peer-review and scrutiny by the journal editors are these not enough to trust the study?
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Tabitha
Regarding chocolate: I lose weight when I eat it because the caffeine and sugar make me hyperactive, and I lose my appetite for real food. But that's just me. I'm a statistical outlier.
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Regarding chocolate: I lose weight when I eat it because the caffeine and sugar make me hyperactive, and I lose my appetite for real food. But that's just me. I'm a statistical outlier.
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Azmuel
when read things and they state correlation
Remember that it does not mean Causation
and go deep, check with much care
for the study may not have been just and fair.
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when read things and they state correlation
Remember that it does not mean Causation
and go deep, check with much care
for the study may not have been just and fair.
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