Ryan Briggs writes: In case you haven’t seen this, PNAS (who else) has a new study out entitled “Unconditional cash transfers reduce homelessness.” This is the significant statement: A core cause of homelessness is a lack of money, yet few … Continue reading
4 different people pointed me to this article by biologist Elisabeth Bik about a distressing problem in biology research where published articles include fraudulent images created by photoshopping and similar techniques. It kinda makes me wonder: when scientists commit out-and-out … Continue reading
Nick Brown writes: You might enjoy this… Some researchers managed to include 11 articles by Wansink, including the “bottomless soup” study, in a meta-analysis in PPNAS. Nick links to this post from Aaron Charlton which provides further details. The article … Continue reading
Alan Sokal writes: I’ve just had my attention drawn to an article, “Donor money and the academy: Perceptions of undue donor pressure in political science, economics, and philosophy” by Sage Owens and Kal Avers-Lynde III that apparently was intended as … Continue reading
This one came up in a blog comment by Carlos; it’s an article from PNAS (yeah, I know) called “Context effects produced by question orders reveal quantum nature of human judgments.” From the abstract: In recent years, quantum probability theory … Continue reading
Do flowers exist at night?—John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch I have very little to say here, except to let you all know that the venerable PNAS has today published a paper (edited by Steven Pinker) letting use know … Continue reading
Ben Bolker sends an email with the above subject line, a link to this article, and the following content: Experimental evidence that hummingbirds can see purple … researchers used Stan to analyze the data … The article in question is … Continue reading
Baruch Eitam writes: This may be a rant I don’t think so and so I am sharing it with you but one can never be sure. Just had a paper desk rejected from PNAS. You may not appreciate the journal … Continue reading
Under the subject line, “I needed this information to make a go/no-go decision on my new Death Star,” Kevin Lewis points to this press release from a prestigious journal: Because versions of the below articles were previously posted online, PNAS … Continue reading
I’m so happy about this, no joke. Here’s the story. For awhile I’ve been getting annoyed by the junk science papers (for example, here, here, and here) that have been published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences … Continue reading
In an email with subject line, “Difference between “significant” and “not significant”: baseball edition?”, Greg Distelhorst writes: I think it’s important to improve statistical practice in the social sciences. I also care about baseball. In this PNAS article, Table 1 … Continue reading
[cat picture] Asher Meir points to this breathless news article and sends me a message, subject line “Fruit juice leads to 0.003 unit (!) increase in BMI”: “the study results showed that one daily 6- to 8-ounce serving increment of … Continue reading
Someone pointed me to this post by “Neuroskeptic”: A new paper in the prestigious journal PNAS contains a rather glaring blooper. . . . right there in the abstract, which states that “three neuropeptides (β-endorphin, oxytocin, and dopamine) play particularly … Continue reading
Kevin Lewis asks for my take on two new papers: Study 1: Honesty plays a key role in social and economic interactions and is crucial for societal functioning. However, breaches of honesty are pervasive and cause significant societal and economic … Continue reading
Jochen Weber writes: As I follow your blog (albeit loosely), I figured I’d point out an “early release” paper from PNAS I consider to be “garbage” (at least by title, and probably by content). The short version is, the authors … Continue reading
Do anyone out there know anyone at Time Inc? If so, I have a question for you. But first the story: Mark Palko linked to an item from Barry Petchesky pointing out this article at the online site of Sports … Continue reading
From zero to Ted talk in 18 simple steps: Rolf Zwaan explains how to do it! The advice is from 2013 but I think it still just might work. Here’s Zwaan: How to Cook up Your Own Social Priming Article … Continue reading
Uri Simonsohn just turned down the chance to publish a paper that could’ve been published in a top journal (a couple years ago I’d’ve said Psychological Science but recently they’ve somewhat cleaned up their act, so let’s say PPNAS which … Continue reading
Ivan Oransky pointed me to this press release: Study finds honesty varies significantly between countries Research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) has found that people’s honesty varies significantly between countries. It also suggests that honesty is less important … Continue reading
In the comment thread to today’s post on journalists who take PPNAS papers at face value, Mark asked, in response to various flaws pointed out in one of these papers: How can the authors (and the reviewers and the editor) … Continue reading