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 […]
I love cooking. And my specialty is tomato sauce. I inherited it from my grandmother and improved it with my Italian aunts. Modesty aside, it’s a spectacle. Once, while giving the last boil before starting the long process of cold counting, I saw them there… beautiful… some ‘Benard cells‘. Well… weren’t perfect ones. Maybe it was wishful thinking […]
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