It starts with: "what?", it goes to: "is that really a problem?", and it ends with: "how interesting!". These are the three stages that most fellow researchers are going through when I talk about one of the most...
English
Kevin Kloos
Why statistics is like cooking
Taking statistics classes can be bewildering. It is not like most other branches of mathematics. So bewildering it can be, that some people ask why they cannot just get the recipe for a number of situations and only...
Carolien de Kovel
You see the outlier because it is an outlier
Symptoms are often at their worst when patients visit their doctor, and also get better without intervening. This can happen thanks to a phenomenon we call regression to the mean. A doctor appreciates that if they say...
Judith ter Schure
Why being wrong is better than being right (if you’re a model)
When estimating the relationship between two variables we want this estimate to be as close to the true relationship as possible, right? Wrong. Often an estimate that is wrong is better than one that is right.
Wouter Weeda
Doing or Managing Science?
The appreciation for management and raising money vastly exceeds that of doing research. The result: many talented young researchers leave academia.
Mark van de Wiel
When statistics lie, Statistics can unravel the lie
Were the results of Mendel's famous experiments on pea hereditary too good to be true? Is the efficacy of the Sputnik vaccine really thát homogeneous across age groups? When we don’t trust the numbers - i.e. statistics ...