Matthew B. Jané
@MatthewBJane
PhD student @UConn | Applied statistics, meta-analysis, psychometrics, and #RStats | Retweets and follows are not endorsements.
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of. — Fisher (1938, p. 18)
About 2% of biomedical papers show signs of deliberate image manipulation, just from looking at western blots. This doesn’t include other types of errors, miscalculations, or manipulations in the rest of the study. We need more accountability
How much misconduct/fraud is there in the academic literature? About 0.2% of papers get retracted, but that's obviously a severe underestimate. Probably the best estimate comes from a manual (!!!) inspection of 20K (!!!) Western blot images. Estimate is 3.8% (1/2)
Does anyone know of any opportunities (research, industry, academia, etc.) for a recent college grad with a B.S. in Neuroscience (3.8 GPA - graduated two years early) and lots of research experience (western blotting, immunohistochemistry, cell culture, flow cytometry, ELISAs)?
The really annoying thing is I just started incorporating em dashes into my writing, but now it’s not even cool anymore.
Please stop assuming that too many em dashes means AI written. Some of us are producing grammatically incoherent work the honest way!
“Shocking results”😱 and it’s just d=.05
Stanford paid 35,000 people to quit social media. This was the largest study on emotional health in history. The results were so shocking, scientists called it "comparable to therapy." Here's what happens when you break free from the algorithm: 🧵
Mixed feelings. In practice he is right. The big problems are as follows: - people who conduct meta-analyses are often not meta-analysts so they haven’t a clue what they are doing or how to interpret anything. - I think there is a fundamental misalignment between what readers…
Update on Error Report #2: The impact of acoustic stimulation during sleep on memory and sleep architecture: A meta-analysis The article has been retracted by agreement with the journal editor and authors
Born in Connecticut and raised in a Boston suburb, Ian Seymour couldn’t have scripted it any better for his @MLB debut. We chatted after he earned the extra-innings win at Fenway, a ballpark he’s come to since he was a kid. @FanDuelSN_Rays
This is awesome. I played on Ian’s little league team and I pitched against him in high school (I wasn’t able to strike him out unfortunately). He was always a stud. This is the only time I rooted against the Red Sox.
Ian Seymour grew up in Massachusetts. He was a starter in the minors. He just made his big league debut at Fenway Park in relief in extras, went two innings and picked up a W 👏 (🎥 @RaysBaseball)
It’s more like <.05 = significant >.05 = redo calculations until <.05
a classic
Happy Friday everyone! I just posted what I think is an important blog post on my website. It is a critique of meta-meta-analyses: meta-analyses of meta-analyses.
An awesome post by @MatthewBJane on the scourge of meta-meta-analyses. These things should be banned.
Happy Friday everyone! I just posted what I think is an important blog post on my website. It is a critique of meta-meta-analyses: meta-analyses of meta-analyses.
Thank you Thom! I really appreciate the support!
I just received 3 coffees from Thom Marchbank on @buymeacoffee! buymeacoffee.com/matthewbjane/c…