Ransom Stephens's Blog, page 5
February 19, 2016
A bluffers guide to evaluating scientific results, Part 2: Rules of Thumb
Rules of thumb for estimating the significance of research results.
February 13, 2016
A bluffers guide to evaluating scientific results, Part 1: Systematic Bias
How to determine the accuracy of scientific results reported by journalists.
February 11, 2016
Do grandmas make the best engineers?
Can big global problems be solved by grandmothers who are intent on solving small local problems?
January 1, 2016
Top ten cynical tech realizations of 2015
Did you really think I wouldn't write a "top ten" article? Well, at least the entries properly numbered, from 9 to 0, of course.
November 23, 2015
Mismeasure of economics
Is it impossible in principle to create accurate economic models?
September 25, 2015
The high tech diversity problem���s bottom line
Diversifying the tech workforce means more than political appeasement; diversity sets the stage for innovation.
July 30, 2015
Measure career advancement by blowing your mind
If you can possibly finagle this opportunity, do it right now!
June 8, 2015
Measuring dark matter: The ultimate signal-to-noise problem
How physicists try to detect dark matter is a good example of how the humans roll.
June 3, 2015
Scientific dogmatism: wild red herring or trained attack dog?
Do science researchers have to submit to established scientific dogma? No, it doesn���t work that way.
May 22, 2015
Higgs Pt. 9: What makes King Carl XVI Gustaf think it���s the Higgs Boson?
Thousands of physicists were searching for the Higgs, so why think it might be something else? Surely several thousand Ph.D.s wouldn���t be so arrogant as to assume that what they see is what they sought, right?
