Vox: A surprising amount of medical research isn’t made public. That’s...
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View ArticleThe negative results that improved healthcare for women
"In medicine, you can never be comfortable with what you learned last year,” says Dr. June Chang, formerly of the Women's Health Initiative, one of the largest medical studies of postmenopausal women...
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Sense About Science USA's panel discussion on reporting data in the media: three journalists talk about the obstacles and opportunities at the Symposium on Statistical Inference The post How data is...
View ArticleFake news, science, and pseudo journalism
Paul Thacker’s checkered history and deceptive practices are widely known in the science journalism community. So why do reputable science media platforms keep giving him a platform? The post Fake...
View ArticleThe hot sauce linking violence to video games
As President Donald Trump frets about video game violence, we look at the evidence for its link to violent behavior. The post The hot sauce linking violence to video games appeared first on Sense About...
View ArticleHow to wreck Puerto Rico
When politicians fail to grasp the importance of data: After saving Puerto Rico hundreds of millions of dollars, a world-class statistics institute faces destruction. The post How to wreck Puerto Rico...
View ArticleWant to change the world? Give kids data
Research shows that if you make data relevant to their lives, and create tools to visualize and play with the data, kids become empowered. Even those who are supposedly 'not good at math.' The post...
View ArticleDesign for statistical understanding
What happens when a textbook approach to learning doesn't work with scientists? We brought a top medical journal and a leading data visualization company together to try to explain a key statistical...
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