THE LETTERS TREE
hali
May 25, 2013
The letters tree
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
He said, she said, then they said...
hali
May 22, 2013
Conflicting studies can make life tough. A good systematic review could sort it out. It might be possible for the studies to be pooled int...
Thursday, May 9, 2013
They just Google THAT?!
hali
May 09, 2013
I admit I needed Google to quickly find out that the category for bunny-shaped clouds is "zoomorphic". And I think Google is wonde...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Women and children overboard
hali
April 23, 2013
It's the Catch-22 of clinical trials: to protect pregnant women and children from the risks of untested drugs....we don't test dru...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Look, Ma - straight A's!
hali
April 10, 2013
Unfortunately, little Suzy isn't the only one falling for the temptation to dismiss or explain away inconvenient performance data. Healt...
Monday, April 8, 2013
Don't worry ... it's just a standard deviation
hali
April 08, 2013
Of course, every time Cynthia and Gregory make the 8-block downtown trip to the Stinsons, it's going to take a different amount of time,...
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Monday, March 25, 2013
Every move you make....Are you watching you?
hali
March 25, 2013
Monitoring....There's something about getting something into numbers and targets that just makes it seem to be so controllable, isn'...
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Nervously approaching significance
hali
March 10, 2013
We're deluged with claims that we should do this, that or the other thing because some study has a "statistically significant"...
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Well, he would say that, wouldn't he?
hali
February 23, 2013
When a big medical conference is on, we're saturated with coverage of the presentations. This makes them a critical target for marketing...
Friday, February 22, 2013
Monday, February 18, 2013
You will meet too much false precision
hali
February 18, 2013
Precise numbers and claims - as though there is no margin for error - are all around us. When someone tells you that 54.3% of people with so...
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Friday, February 1, 2013
EASY VOCABULARY QUIZZES WITH PICTURES
hali
February 01, 2013
Vocabulary with pictures
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Data Bingo! Oh no!
hali
January 30, 2013
Oh boy - look what a data hunter has dragged in this time! Why is this problem so common? And who on earth is Bonferroni? Our friend here f...
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Newsflash: Honking causes cancer
hali
January 27, 2013
In The Emperor of all Maladies , author Siddhartha Mukherjee describes a type of cancer as "terrifying to experience, terrifying to obs...
Sunday, January 20, 2013
STAND BY ME
hali
January 20, 2013
On International Peace Day, there are many celebrations and peace marches in cities and countries worldwide.
Fright night in the doctors' lounge
hali
January 20, 2013
It doesn't come as a terrible shock to hear that a lot of patients struggle with statistics . It's a little more scary, though, to b...
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Sunday, December 9, 2012
The diagnosing disorders epidemic
hali
December 09, 2012
It all started with a single category in the 1840 US Census: "idiocy/lunacy", with the first DSM appearing in 1952 ( Diagnostic an...
