OPEN SCIENCE & ITS ENEMIES, PART III: The Progressives
in this episode i conclude my critique of - some parts of - the open science movement by focusing on the positive reforms that might actually work.
keywords: open science reform critique commentary.
details, sources and full transcript at the error bar [https://theerrorbar.com?e=41]
https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/FZ84B
in this episode i continue discussing some problems in the open science movement. i focus on populist podcasters and the promotion of simplistic heuristics that some scientists argue will improve science. i argue that none of the heuristics will make much difference on their own, & often miss their target.
i say 'fucking' about five times.
the audio, especially the first 20 minutes, is a bit 'noisy', sorry (ironic, eh?).
keywords: openscience reform critique commentary.
details, sources and full transcript at the error bar [https://theerrorbar.com?e=40]
There's no brain news this month, but i take this unique opportunity to provide the first of my three part critique of - some parts of - the Open Science movement. This episode focusses on p-circling & reverse p-hacking. These two pejorative terms describe situations where scientists who *don't like* a particular reported effect, then decide to search for things in the paper which can 'un-explain' it. The reverse p-hacker turns a significant effect into a non-significant, or un-interesting one. These reverse p-hackers selectively adjust their version of data analysis (or interpretation) to *remove* significant p-values.
it's the same thing as p-hacking. but backwards. & equally wrong.
in this episode we find out how motivational talk makes you run faster & i ponder on the history of science & the death of ideas long, long after their time.
keywords: progress idea Kuhn death revolution.
details, sources and full transcript at the error bar [https://theerrorbar.com?e=38].
image credit: Kaan Durmuş, https://www.pexels.com/photo/military-jet-flying-against-morning-sky-leaving-smoke-trail-19191704/, image re-sized to fit
my name's nick holmes and THIS is the error bar: a podcast about brain science & statistics that's nothing like any other podcast about brain science & statistics.
this month's episode reveals the final truth about why men's and women's brains are so very similar or different, and I alog (it's like a blog, but its auditory) about why the problem of sample size in a research study is never really actually a problem at all. at least on its own. it's contextual. right?
my name's nick holmes and THIS is the error bar, a podcast by a middle age man who likes statistics, FOR middle aged men who like statistics.
keywords: podcast return season three brains stats.
details, sources and full transcript at the error bar [https://theerrorbar.com?e=35]
how learning to play the piano improves perception, why the brain needs a break, image manipulation & the wonder of winter walking.
keywords: bias perception break stress fraud walk.
details, sources and full transcript at the error bar [https://theerrorbar.com?e=34].
image credit: Wallpapers Box, http://wallsbox.blogspot.com/2009/12/winter-wonderland-hd-desktop-wallpapers.html, image re-sized to fit
how different people see the world of colour differently, the study of love that triggered a studied hate & the annual review of the error bar's existence..
keywords: colour love hate difference ReasonsToBe.
details, sources and full transcript at the error bar [https://theerrorbar.com?e=33].
image credit: Gabriel Meono, https://www.deviantart.com/gabrielmeono/art/Free-Eye-close-up-wallpaper-261096307, image re-sized to fit
how the largest part of the brain gets emotional, why older adults don't get emotion, how goldfish can swim 70cm for food & FREE ENERGY forever!
keywords: cerebellum emotion goldfish food pong.
details, sources and full transcript at the error bar [https://theerrorbar.com?e=32]
image credit: wisc-online.com, https://www.wisc-online.com/assetrepository/viewasset?id=31, image re-sized to fit
how the mouse eye tells the mouse brain that a mouse is scratching itself, how dogs are everywhere & the two scientific cultures of simplifiers & complificators.
keywords: mouse itch dogs Occam parsimony SCN.
details, sources and full transcript at the error bar [https://theerrorbar.com?e=31].
image: https://tse2.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.b57ASewfj-ezQ7pKV0SDbQHaD-&pid=Api, image re-sized to fit
how to massively improve your memory in old age after just a few hours, why scientists won't change their mind, & how the brain is not made of light bulbs...
keywords: memory stimulation electromagnetic light.
details, sources and full transcript at the error bar [https://theerrorbar.com?e=30]
bringing you the brain science news before it happens. or sometimes a long, long time afterwards. & sometimes it's not really news at all. more opinion really...
keywords: job news revamp advert.
details, sources and full transcript at the error bar [https://theerrorbar.com?e=29].
image credit: www.americanflyers.net, https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/14111/what-are-the-meanings-of-these-terms-related-to-instrument-flight, image re-sized to fit
the biggest brain scanning study ever, how the error bar was wrong, how magnetically stimulating the head is distracting & some vaguely-interesting news stories.
keywords: big data brain scan correction language.
details, sources and full transcript at the error bar [https://theerrorbar.com?e=28]
how the visual brain controls blind people's feet, & how every single brain scanning study ever done needed thousands more participants to be reliable.
keywords: movement blind scanning size matters.
contains some swearing.
details, sources and full transcript at the error bar [https://theerrorbar.com?e=27]
how to find the clitoris, how COVID shrinks some very important parts of the brain & the Canadian brain disease that isn't. still.
keywords: clitoris mapping COVID brain shrink.
details, sources and full transcript at the error bar [https://theerrorbar.com?e=26].
image adapted from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clitoris_3D_(v2).jpg
how your brain is just as good at age 60 as age 30, the neural correlates of near death experience & the most interesting questions in the whole of science.
keywords: mental speed reaction time.
details, sources and full transcript at the error bar [https://theerrorbar.com?e=25].
image credit: Dr. Marco Cardinale, http://lh5.ggpht.com/_hbZ_aIisSu8/SSLwsD9eR6I/AAAAAAAAARM/NDFPb262YUk/w1200-h630-p-nu/Squat%20Jump%20Bosco_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg, image edited & re-sized
how your brain lives in the past, the virus causing multiple sclerosis, consciousness explained three times, the scanner that talks scots & a news dump.
keywords: illusion face MS consciousness MRI dump.
details, sources and full transcript at the error bar [https://theerrorbar.com?e=24]
how rocket scientists & brain surgeons are just as clever as you, how to publish anything in medical journals, how music affects the brain & 2021 has ended.
keywords: rocket brain bogus music year 2021 error.
details, sources and full transcript at the error bar [https://theerrorbar.com?e=23]
how smelling bodily odour stops men from killing & makes women warriors, how alcoholic binges shrink your brain & the wind farms that make you sick.
keywords: poo vomit wind baby booze error.
details, sources and full transcript at the error bar [https://theerrorbar.com?e=22].
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