Once I did something almost unthinkable for me: I bought a magazine off the supermarket shelf while waiting in the checkout line. No, it wasn’t a gossip magazine—that would be too much! It was the surf magazine TRIP. The gorgeous Annelyse Schoenberger was showing her left nipple and inviting readers to delve into the main […]
The problem with trying to fix an error after making many mistakes is that we tend to err in the opposite direction. You know the saying: first by omission and then by excess? In statistics, we say there are two types of errors: “Type I error” and “Type II error,” which are terrible names because […]
I start this article with a strong opinion. You may say I am an opinionated person and I may agree with you on that. But can we decide who is right and who is wrong or we will remain in an endless discussion about the topic? One that can end up we both of us celebrating […]
A very important article published today in Nature called my attention. It talks, again, about the misuses of statistics by scientists and the volume of unreproducible studies it is producing. You probably have heard the joke: “there are three kinds of lies: lies, big lies and statistics”. Even though unfair (does anyone expect a joke to be fair?), it is […]
An essay based on the article Sarewitz, 2016. Saving Science. The New Atlantis During the COVID19 pandemic, once again, science has brought the solution to a health, humanitarian, social and economic crisis. Scientists, distributed in universities, research institutes, startups, large and small companies, have improved diagnostic methods, tested drugs, developed, produced and tested vaccines that will […]
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