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The Great Australian Internet Blackout Wordpress PluginEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Normally I stick to posts about science and technology on this blog. Like most Australians, I vote in elections, try to remain informed, but otherwise stay away from getting involved in politics. However, occasionally certain things become important enough issues that they need to be advertised more widely. As you may know, the Australian Federal Government is attempting to censor the Internet within Australia by forcing ISPs to block a list of websites. This proposed internet filter will not be optional; it will effect all Australians, and the blocklist will compiled by a small group of people. The list of blocked sites w...
Source: Your bones got a little machine. - January 22, 2010 Category: Bioinformaticians Authors: Andrew Perry Tags: code meta software wordpress censorship nocleanfeed plugin Source Type: blogs

2009 – the posts that never made itEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
So, people tell me 2009 ended recently. Apparently there were fireworks and stuff. This blog as seen very little action during 2009, despite my various good intentions for a blog ‘reboot’ (ala Pawel). Like many of my online friends, I blame FriendFeed. I find commenting on a FriendFeed post a much more productive way of having a conversation around some new development sweeping the web than writing a dedicated blog post. Still, despite this being my “year of FriendFeed”, I started writing a few blog posts / articles / essays this year which never made it out of the Drafts folder. There is a positive...
Source: Your bones got a little machine. - January 2, 2010 Category: Bioinformaticians Authors: Andrew Perry Tags: meta science 2009 diybio icecondor synthetic biology Source Type: blogs

Sharon AstykEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
will be joining Scienceblogs soon. Everyone is encourage to read the post about her upcoming transition. I would especially encourage my sciblings/colleagues here to read what her commenters have to say about us. Really. This is what the world thinks of us. Read the comments on this post... (Source: The Corpus Callosum)
Source: The Corpus Callosum - December 2, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: Meta Source Type: blogs

The Complexity of Psychology ResearchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A lot of times, I write about the results of some new psychology research study or scientific analysis. I boil the results down to digestible findings and try and wrap the whole thing up in simple, common-sense terms. But sometimes what I don’t write about is often more fascinating than what I do. The science of psychological research is, in itself, a complex and regularly contested issue. For every new study published, another study will come out that will directly refute or at the very least, call into question, the findings of the study. One of the journals I subscribe to from the Association for Psychological S...
Source: World of Psychology - September 23, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: General Psychology Research Academic Debate Assumption Common Sense Complexity Critical Analysis Debates Journal Editors Logical Arguments Merits Meta Analysis Peer Reviewed Journal Peer Reviewed Journal Articles Perspectives Source Type: blogs

CHC cognitive-achievement relations project finished! It is done!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
[Double click on image to enlarge]I'm pleased to announce the completion of the Cattell - Horn - Carroll (CHC) Cognitive Abilities-Achievement Research Synthesis project, a project first described in a prior post. The purpose of this project is to systematically synthesize the key Cattell-Horn- Carroll (CHC) theory of cognitive abilities designed research studies that have investigated the relations between broad and narrow CHC abilities and school achievement.The project can be accessed via a clickable MindMap visual-graphic navigational tool (similar to the image above...but "active" and "dyanamic") or via the more tradi...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - September 1, 2009 Category: Neurologists Tags: Gsm Ga g (gen intelligence) Glr meta-analysis g specific Cattell-Horn-Carroll Gv CHC theory Gc g specific abilities research chc cog-ach Gf Gq Grw newtag Source Type: blogs

Can cognitive tests differentiate Alzhemers from vascular dementia?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Can cognitive ability tests differentially diagnosis Alzheimer's from Vascular-Dementia? A recent meta-analysis (see reference below) suggests that the answer is "no"---cognitive measures need to be augmented by other diagnostic techniques when trying to differentiate Alzheimer's from Vascular Dementia.Mathias, J. L. & Burke, J. (2009). Cognitive Functioning in Alzheimer’s and Vascular Dementia:A Meta-Analysis. Neuropsychology, 23(4), 411–423Abstract (underlining is emphasis added by blogmaster)Differentiating between Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VaD) remains difficult but important i...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - August 19, 2009 Category: Neurologists Tags: neuropsychology meta-analysis diagnosis dementia Alzheirmers Source Type: blogs

The Chem Wiki to merge with…. the ChemwikiEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This weekend I was approached by Delmar Larsen of UC Davis who has established his own ChemWiki project about the prospect of integrating our current project, The Chem Wiki, with his. Seeing as how they are similar projects with identical names, I figured it was a good opportunity to both legitimize the project by placing it in the hands of a bonafide academic and transfer most of the responsibilities away from moi, who has his hands full with other matters more pressing. Therefore, all articles henceforth will be ported to Delmar Larsen’s ChemWiki into some sort of “Chemistry Techniques” section of his b...
Source: The Chem Blog - August 3, 2009 Category: Chemists Authors: Kyle Finchsigmate Tags: Uncategorized meta wiki Source Type: blogs

Vote time!!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I will choose from the top candidates on the basis of URL avaliablity (or, if it comes down to it, preference). You choose your two favorites and I’ll sort out the rest. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. (Source: The Chem Blog)
Source: The Chem Blog - June 6, 2009 Category: Chemists Authors: Kyle Finchsigmate Tags: Uncategorized meta poll wiki Source Type: blogs

What use are research patents?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
DrugMonkey has a conversation going about the ongoing kerfluffle over (micro)blogging of conference presentations (see also the FriendFeed discussion). I want to go off on a tangent from something that came up in his comment thread, so rather than derail it I thought I'd post here. In his first comment in the thread, David Crotty made the following claim: Lots of researchers support their families and labs through money generated by patents, and most universities are heavily dependent upon their patent portfolios for funding. That doesn't accord with my (limited!) experience -- I know a few researchers who hold multiple ...
Source: Open Reading Frame - June 5, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Tags: meta-science Source Type: blogs

What happened to serials prices in 1986-87? (Update: probably nothing.)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This could be nothing but an artifact (e.g. of the way the data were collected), but if you look at Fig 1 from this post, there's a clear break in the serials expenses (EXPSER) curve that's not evident in any of the others. Here's the same plot reworked to emphasize what I'm talking about: If you squint just right you can imagine a similar but much weaker effect, beginning a year or two later, in the total expenditures (TOTEXP) curve; and the salaries (TOTSAL) curve seems to start a similar upward trend at about the same time but then levels off after 1991 or so. I wouldn't put any weight on either of those observations...
Source: Open Reading Frame - June 3, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Tags: meta-science Source Type: blogs

Getting to know you - WTF is your name btw…?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
F.s sake there are a lot of people in my new group. I can’t count them all - over 30, I’m sure. I think most of them are Post-Docs… When I started teaching as a graduate student I took the time to learn all my students names - the first semester. By the last semester I taught, I knew about exactly zero names in my lecture. I’m not so good with names and I’m not so good with getting to know people. It’s a huge pain in the ass but everyone seems to be friendly enough so far. Haven’t gotten the “new guy from a shitty lab” feeling yet. I’ll get to the wiki...
Source: The Chem Blog - June 2, 2009 Category: Chemists Authors: Kyle Finchsigmate Tags: Uncategorized meta new post-doc wiki Source Type: blogs

Getting to know you – WTF is your name btw…?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
F.s sake there are a lot of people in my new group. I can’t count them all – over 30, I’m sure. I think most of them are Post-Docs… When I started teaching as a graduate student I took the time to learn all my students names – the first semester. By the last semester I taught, I knew about exactly zero names in my lecture. I’m not so good with names and I’m not so good with getting to know people. It’s a huge pain in the ass but everyone seems to be friendly enough so far. Haven’t gotten the “new guy from a shitty lab” feeling yet. I’ll get...
Source: The Chem Blog - June 2, 2009 Category: Chemists Authors: Kyle Finchsigmate Tags: Uncategorized meta new post-doc wiki Source Type: blogs

CHC cognitive-achievement relations: Limitations in prior reviewsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This is another post in a continued series of posts re: research synthesis of the CHC cognitve-achievement research literature. Click here for other posts in this series.The sheer number of key, review, and individual studies populating the published Flanagan et al. (2006) CHC CB COG-ACH correlates summary tables is impressive. However, the available CHC COG-ACH relations summaries suffer from a number of limitations. First is a lack of descriptive and operational rigor in the CHC COG-ACH syntheses. The Flanagan research group’s efforts appear to fit the definition of a purposeful research synthesis which “focus on emp...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - May 18, 2009 Category: Neurologists Tags: meta-analysis research chc cog-ach reading math CHC theory Source Type: blogs

More than 40 genes found for DiabetesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We know type 1 diabetes is as much affected by genes as it is by lifestyle and environment. But a huge international study found that there could be as many as 41 genetic loci that affect the risk of type 1 diabetes! Research on Type 1 Diabetes. Image: Newscom Touted as the largest genetic study into type 1 diabetes, and published in Nature Genetics online this week, the study combined results from two previous studies and found 41 genomic locations were significantly associated with diabetes. The DNA of more than 10,000 people with diabetes from all over the world were studied, including more than 2,300 families with at l...
Source: Genetics and Health - May 13, 2009 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Grace Ibay Tags: Genes Genetic Diseases and Conditions association autoimmune responses diabetes type 1 family study meta-analysis nature-genetics Source Type: blogs

Scholarly (scientific) journals vs total serials: % price increase 1990-2009Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Following on from this post, I manually extracted historical data for average scholarly journal prices in a dozen broad disciplines from the Library Journal Annual Periodicals Price Surveys by Lee Van Orsdel and Kathleen Born, and compared these with three datasets from the earlier post: ARL libraries' median total serials expenditures (ARL all serials), Abridged Index Medicus average journal price (AIM) and the consumer price index (CPI): My concern with the AIM dataset was that it was too small and specialized to support broad conclusions, but it turns out that the AIM data sit somewhere in the middle of the disciplin...
Source: Open Reading Frame - April 18, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Tags: meta-science Source Type: blogs

Some wishes come true.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A while back, I posted about my discovery (new to me, though not new to many others) that the serials crisis should probably be called something like the "scholarly journals crisis". The term "serials" includes a wide range of publications, most of which are not peer-reviewed scholarly journals -- newspapers, goverment reports issued in series, yearbooks, magazines and more. Only about 1/10 of the serials in Ulrich's directory are peer-reviewed. The average scholarly journal costs around 10 times as much as the average serial, and while the cost of the scholarly literature continues to climb, median serial unit costs at AR...
Source: Open Reading Frame - April 17, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Tags: meta-science Source Type: blogs

Someone else is fooling around with numbers.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Via Peter Suber, I came across this editorial in the Journal of Vision: Measuring the impact of scientific articles is of interest to authors and readers, as well as to tenure and promotion committees, grant proposal review committees, and officials involved in the funding of science. The number of citations by other articles is at present the gold standard for evaluation of the impact of an individual scientific article. Online journals offer another measure of impact: the number of unique downloads of an article (by unique downloads we mean the first download of the PDF of an article by a particular individual). Since Ma...
Source: Open Reading Frame - April 13, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Tags: meta-science Source Type: blogs

Should we talk about the "journals crisis" instead of the "serials crisis"?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I stumbled upon something new-to-me, and possibly even useful-to-others, in my fooling around with numbers (table 2 and discussion thereof here), but it's somewhat buried under all the "how I made this figure" and "where I got these data" details. For that reason, and because I didn't trust my idea until I had some external reinforcement, I thought I'd give it a separate post all its own. Here's the thing: what is widely known as the serials crisis in library costs is probably driven largely by the pricing of scholarly journals. In library parlance, "serials" includes, inter no doubt many alia, newspapers, goverment repor...
Source: Open Reading Frame - March 21, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Tags: meta-science Source Type: blogs

Fooling around with numbers, part 5Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As promised, here is the distribution of journal prices for the subsets of the Elsevier life sciences dataset which either have or don't have impact factors, and for the entire UCOSC dataset (in which all journals have IFs): Each interval is $499: $0 to $499, $500 to $999, etc, and datapoints are plotted at the midpoint of each interval. The conclusion is the same as in part 1, just a bit clearer now. Elsevier journals without an impact factor are priced lower than those which have an IF, and the price distributions are somewhat different between journals with and without an IF. Note, though, that if I'd used a $1000 i...
Source: Open Reading Frame - March 19, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Tags: meta-science Source Type: blogs

Fooling around with numbers, part 4; or, those data -- you keep using them -- I don't think they mean what you think they mean...Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
At the end of part 3, having looked at some of the ways in which prices and price/use were distributed, I said I'd try to say something about what constituted a fair price. I hadn't thought that through at all, and it turns out that I really can't get much leverage against that question from the UCOSC dataset alone. In addition to the graphs in parts 1-3, here's yet another way to look at the UCOSC data (again, this is a png from a screenshot because MT ate my balls perfectly good table1): Table 1 Perhaps Elsevier doesn't stand out quite so much as I might have expected -- they still dominate by virtue of market shar...
Source: Open Reading Frame - March 17, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Tags: meta-science Source Type: blogs

Updates on "science and selfishness"Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Update the first: now I feel bad for not waiting (though I did put "read AFTER honeymoon!!!" in the subject line), but John Wilbanks wrote back right away to say that it will take him a while to get to it, but he will ferret out specific answers regarding the Science Commons work and interoperability. Update the second: Peter Sefton has more here, including specific recommendations for working with Microsoft while avoiding "a new kind of format lock-in; a kind of monopolistic wolf in open-standards lambskin":The product (eg a document) of the code must be interoperable with open software. In our case this means Word must ...
Source: Open Reading Frame - March 16, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Tags: meta-science Source Type: blogs

Fooling around with numbers, part 3; or, why would anyone pay for these journals?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Following on from part 2, I thought I'd ask a couple more questions about price-per-use, based on the online usage stats in the UCOSC dataset. I started on this because I noticed that in Fig 2 of part 2, I'd missed a point: there is an even-further-out outlier above the Elsevier set I pointed out: It's another Elsevier journal, Nuclear Physics B. In 2003, only 1001 online uses were reported to UC by the publisher, but the 2004 list price was $15,360. The companion journal Nuc Phys A is not much better, $10,121 for 1198 uses. Compare that with Nature, 286125 uses at just $1,280! It gets worse, too, because I'm led to b...
Source: Open Reading Frame - March 13, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Tags: meta-science Source Type: blogs

Peters Murray-Rust and Sefton on "science and selfishness"Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Peter Murray-Rust (welcome back to blogging!) has replied to Glyn Moody's post about semantic plugins being developed by Science Commons in collaboration with the Evil Empire, which I discussed in my last post. Peter MR takes the view, with which I concur, that it's more important to get scientists using semantic markup than to take an ideological stand against Microsoft: Microsoft is "evil". I can understand this view - especially during the Hallowee'n document era. There are many "evil" companies - they can be found in publishing (?PRISM), pharmaceuticals (where I used to work) Constant Gardener) , petrotechnical, scien...
Source: Open Reading Frame - March 13, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Tags: meta-science Source Type: blogs

On science and selfishness.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Glyn Moody has a nice post up about fraternizing with the enemy in Open Science; you should read the whole thing, but here's the gist: One of the things that disappoints me is the lack of understanding of what's at stake with open source among some of the other open communities. For example, some in the world of open science seem to think it's OK to work with Microsoft, provided it furthers their own specific agenda. Here's a case in point: John Wilbanks, VP of Science for Creative Commons, gave O'Reilly Media an exclusive sneak preview of a joint announcement that they will be making with Microsoft later today at the O'...
Source: Open Reading Frame - March 11, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Tags: meta-science Source Type: blogs

Fooling around with numbers, part 2Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Following on from this post, and in the spirit of eating my own dogfood1, herewith the first part of my analysis of the U Cali OSC dataset. The dataset includes some 3137 titles with accompanying information about publisher, list price, ISI impact factor, UC online uses and average annual price increase; these measures are defined here. The spreadsheet and powerpoint files I used to make the figures below are available here: spreadsheet, ppt. As a first pass, I've simply made pairwise comparisons between impact factor, price and online use. There's no apparent correlation between impact factor and price, for either the f...
Source: Open Reading Frame - March 11, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Tags: meta-science Source Type: blogs

Fooling around with numbersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A while back, there was some buzz about a paper showing that, for a particular subset of journals, there was essentially no correlation between Impact Factor and journal subscription price. I think, though my google-fu has failed me, that the paper was Is this journal worth $US 1118? (pdf!) by Nick Blomley, and the journals in question were geography titles. Blomley found "no direct or straightforward relationship" between price and either Impact Factor or citation counts. He also looked at Relative Price Index, a finer-grained measure of journal value developed by McAfee and Bergstrom. He didn't plot that one out, so I wi...
Source: Open Reading Frame - March 10, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Tags: meta-science Source Type: blogs

ND is Science 2.0Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Science 2.0: You Say You Want a Revolution? [HHMI Bulletin] I’ve been remiss in posting this article that was featured in the HHMI Bulletin a few months ago, but Neurodudes was mentioned in an article about blogs and science, along with our friend Andrew Hires’s excellent Brain Windows blog. (Source: neurodudes)
Source: neurodudes - March 8, 2009 Category: Neurologists Authors: Neville Tags: Internet and blogs Neurodudes (meta) Source Type: blogs

Lancet Study Ignores Significance of Side EffectsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A new meta-analysis study was published today in the journal Lancet which showed that two antidepressant drugs — Lexapro (escitalopram) and Zoloft (sertraline) — were more effective than their psychiatric peers. Remeron and Effexor fared better, too, than the other drugs included in the analysis, such as Prozac, Cymbalta, Luvox and Paxil. The study looked at two components important to treatment — efficacy (how much does this drug actually help reduce depressive symptoms) and toleration of the drug (how many people stop taking the drug because it simply can’t be tolerated by their body), as measur...
Source: World of Psychology - January 29, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: General Medications Disorders Depression Antidepressant Treatment Research lexapro zoloft lancet viagara toleration meta luvox remeron side effects efficacy study effective tolerate help depressive symptoms Source Type: blogs

Is obesity all (just) in the mind? Genetically…Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
There is no doubt that obesity is primarily caused by poor eating habits and inactive lifestyle. But a meta-analysis of several obesity studies found that six new obesity genes are expressed in the brain. Scientists from the international GIANT (Genetic Investigation of Anthropometric Parameters) consortium analyzed data from 15 genome-wide association studies and identified six new candidate genes that were related to regulation of body weight. Several of these new genes are highly expressed or known to act in the brain, emphasizing the role of the central nervous system in predisposition to obesity. UPDATE: Endurance G...
Source: Genetics and Health - January 12, 2009 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Grace Ibay Tags: Genes Genetics of Disease Linkage and Association body weight brain central nervous system genetic investigation of enthropometric parameters giant Lifestyle meta-analysis obesity genes Source Type: blogs

That Science Blog Meme Thing Going AroundEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Something broke out of the picket-fence surrounding Nature Networks Blogs. I’ve never participated in a blog meme … but this one appealed to me simply because I liked the questions. I haven’t read anyone else’s answers yet, to avoid biasing my own. 1. What is your blog about? I often ask myself this question. Being a scientist, I always feel like it should be about science, and the various biological systems I work with. I reality, it is about programming, bioinformatics, the web with the tiniest bit of structural biology thrown in. I used to blog about Linux related things occasionally, but I split...
Source: Your bones got a little machine. - November 16, 2008 Category: Bioinformaticians Authors: perry Tags: meta random science blogging Source Type: blogs

No one goes into science to get rich.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A while back, Heather posted an entry about salaries in France, and just came right out and said what she makes: The beginning junior professor (maitre de conférences, or MdC) fresh out of the Ph.D. (which never happens anymore) gets approximately 1700 euros in their pocket after benefits withholding each month, and this measure will bring it up to about 1800 euros. [...] A MdC with 15 years' seniority on the Le Monde comment thread earns 2600 euros a month; I earn 2300. (Unlike the French, I have an American indifference to revealing my salary to all; what with the fluctuating exchange rate it's approximately equiv...
Source: Open Reading Frame - October 13, 2008 Category: Medical Scientists Tags: meta-science Source Type: blogs

An apologyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It has just been brought to my attention that for the last few months (!) neurodudes has had some serious problems with allowing users to comment, ie. commenting was completely closed. I am very sorry for that. The problem should be fixed and now commenting should again be easy for anyone to use. As always, feel free to contact us at contactus^neurodudes^com (replacing ^ as appropriate) if you have any questions or concerns. - Neville (Source: neurodudes)
Source: neurodudes - August 19, 2008 Category: Neurologists Authors: Neville Tags: Neurodudes (meta) Source Type: blogs

APA Report Examines Abortion’s Effect on Mental HealthEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
After evaluating over 150 studies which examine a potential link between abortion and mental health problems, the American Psychological Association (APA) Task Force on Mental Health and Abortion concluded in a draft report released Tuesday that “…there is no credible evidence that a single elective abortion of an unwanted pregnancy in and of itself causes mental health problems for adult women.” Although, according to their press release, the APA researchers did find that “some studies indicate that some women do experience sadness, grief and feelings of loss following an abortion, and some may experience clinica...
Source: World of Psychology - August 15, 2008 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: renee Tags: General Disorders Research Health-related Mental Health & Wellness Women's Issues abortion apa american psychological association meta analysis and illness pregnancy termination unwanted confounds poor methodology Source Type: blogs

Some CHC specific abilities are important in school learning: Reflections on the g+specific abilities researchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
[Double click on image to enlarge]Back in 1997, I, together with Dawn Flanagan, Tim Keith and Mike Vanderwood, published our first g+specific--->achievement article in School Psychology Review. I recently searched high and low for a pdf copy of this article via the usual library sources but came up blank. I finally scanned a copy into a pdf file. A copy of this article can be viewed by clicking here.Included in that article was the figure to the right (double click to enlarge the figure). I've always liked this figure as it laid out the reasoning why the "just say no" (to intelligence test subtest analysis) research needed...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - August 13, 2008 Category: Neurologists Tags: meta-analysis WJ III NU WJ-R g (gen IQ) g specific school psych achievement CHC theory Source Type: blogs

Let the Data Speak? No, Not AlwaysEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Frank L. Schmidt, a respected professor and researcher at the University of Iowa, gave a talk at the Association for Psychological Science’s 20th convention on Saturday about how scientific data can lie. Yes, that’s right, empirical data — even that published in respected, peer-reviewed journals — regularly do not tell the truth. Schmidt’s talk was well-attended in one of the largest ballrooms at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers in Chicago where the convention is being held. Although an uneven presentation, Schmidt’s main points came across. One of which is that the naive interpretation ...
Source: World of Psychology - May 25, 2008 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: General Psychology Research schmidt significance meta faulty analyses bulletin measurement convention Source Type: blogs

Meta-analyses and pollster.comEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The race for Minnesota's US Senate seat, US data on hypothetical McCain-Obama matchup for the general presidential election, and Pennsylvania Democratic primary polling, as shown by Pollster.comI have a new addiction.Pollster.com is the website political junkies have been jonesing for even before we knew what it was. It clusters the results of polls that ask the same question--like, Who are you going to vote for? or, Do you think the country is on the right track? Then it puts them together into a single graph with a unifying trend line. It's imperfect--I can't satisfy myself that the trend line weights for sample size--bu...
Source: hemodynamics - April 23, 2008 Category: Medical Students Tags: data meta-analyses personal politics Source Type: blogs

Migration from Blogger to WordpressEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Blogger has served me well for the last two years or so. When I started with Blogger, I’d never really blogged before, and decided that it was a good way to get going quickly. I avoided the free blog hosting on Wordpress.com because it wouldn’t allow enough customization of the templates. Today I’ve completed migration of this blog from Blogger to the Wordpress software … read on for the “how” and “why”. New URL is: http://blog.pansapiens.com/ Feed url is via FeedBurner at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/YourBonesGotALittleMachine (Don’t read on if you don’t like...
Source: Your bones got a little machine. - March 27, 2008 Category: Bioinformaticians Authors: perry Tags: meta wordpress Source Type: blogs

Words that Whack or WinEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Have you ever wished you’d added a word of hope … when a situation seemed grim? Or have you regretted that you tossed in words of defeat … rather than insights for a solution? Words tend to shape the direction of business far more than you may realize. How so?(I should mention that this cartoon which triggered Brad Shorr’s contest was originally produced for Bill Welter, president of Adaptive Strategies and co-author of The Prepared Mind of a Leader.) It reminds us how words can cost! Have you seen it happen?Sadly, words hold 5 hidden dangers that undermine people and limit profits. 1. Negat...
Source: BrainBasedBusiness - February 29, 2008 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: Language as Intelligence Brad Shorr brain based business Dr. Robyn McMaster Ellen Weber humor linguistic intelligence linguistic intelligences meta messages words Source Type: blogs

Antidepressant Data Showed Not as Effective as ThoughtEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Meta-analyses are great research tools, because they allow researchers to look at data across large sets of data published by multiple studies, and see if there are more powerful (or less powerful) effects that no single study has found on its own. So it’s always interesting to read something that a meta-analysis finds in the data that individual studies didn’t quite find. Today, British researchers discovered, unsurprisingly, that Antidepressant Data Showed Not as Effective as Thought. I say unsurprisingly, because the researchers made a series of decisions that pretty much guaranteed their end-result. Firs...
Source: World of Psychology - February 26, 2008 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: General Medications Disorders Depression Antidepressant Research unpublished unsurprisingly hamilton insignificant meta analyses british impossibility Source Type: blogs

More Questions on the Value of StatinsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Statins, (technically known as HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors) form a class of lipid-reducing drugs which are prescribed to reduce the so-called "bad" low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels in the blood of people with or who are believed to be at risk of cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular disease is the single biggest killer of all people with diabetes (type 1 and type 2), so as a group, patients with diabetes have long been assumed to have the same risk as someone who has already had a heart attack.For those of you who aren't familiar with them (or having been living in a cave for the past decade), statins are...
Source: Scott's Web Log - January 23, 2008 Category: Diabetes Tags: Lancet statins type 1 diabetes meta-analysis 2008 Source Type: blogs

Posts that didn't make it in 2007Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Well, a New Year is fully in swing, so I thought it would be a good time to cleanup my 'posts in progress'. There are a bunch of posts that I started last year, for reasons of lack of quality, lack of timeliness or general motivation never made it out the gate.I generally dislike this kind of 'meta-blogging', but this is the easiest way for me to let go of them and move on ... here is a list of the posts that could have been, but never were:"Open Data in structural biology: share your structure factors and restraints" was a post spurred on by the Chang et al incident and a letter written by Alexander Wlodawer about the imp...
Source: Your bones got a little machine. - January 9, 2008 Category: Bioinformaticians Tags: meta Source Type: blogs

ExitingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It's a new year, bringing new changes. I've decided to quit Omni Brain and move on to less important things, like creating baffling and somewhat offensive art and writing more books that I won't want anyone to read. It's been fun to be here, though. I'm grateful to Steve for being a terrific co-blogger, thankful to ScienceBlogs for hosting, and am glad we've all shared lots of laughs. There's been plenty of silliness and also some seriousness. On pondering what to write in a farewell post, it seems appropriate to share a piece of writing I never really knew what to do with. It exposes the fragmented angles comprising the ...
Source: Omni Brain - January 7, 2008 Category: Neurologists Tags: Meta Source Type: blogs

Cymbalta Still Good For Pain?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In the past ten days, a few different blog entries > have been written calling our attention to a meta-analysis that suggests perhaps Cymbalta (duloxotine) — a newer antidepressant — isn’t as good as the company claims it is for the physical symptoms of pain associated with depression. But, as regular readers of World of Psychology know, a single study does not a conclusion make. Not even a meta-analysis. The new meta-analysis, conducted by Glen Spielmans, included only five of the published studies that have examined the question of pain, depression and duloxetine (Cymbalta). Why only five, when there...
Source: World of Psychology - December 29, 2007 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: General Medications Disorders Depression Antidepressant Research pain and duloxetine cymbalta depressed treatment the meta analysis suggests newer Source Type: blogs

How You Communicate is Who You BecomeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Does this mean that on that day when you snap at a co-worker … that you become a cranky snapper? Or does it mean that you’d become a caring communicator simply stepping back to communicate carefully if another person diminishes you or devalues your offering. Surprising as this sounds, brain research now affirms that how you communicate today … literally shapes who you become tomorrow.Here are 5 ways people erode who they’d like others to see in them – all through communication blunders: 1. Communicate opinionated ideas without much regard for other’s input or new facts … a...
Source: BrainBasedBusiness - December 13, 2007 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: Insight for Change basal ganglia communicate communication competitive edge cortisol dendrites meta messages neuron pathways problem serotonin solutions tone Source Type: blogs

Tech Tip #5: Search ScienceBlogsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Why use Google, which will give you ten million irrelevant hits, when all you really want to do, is to find the juicy stuff on ScienceBlogs? Well, you can navigate to the ScienceBlogs home page, and search there, or go to any of the blogs and use the search boxes there. Or, to simplify things a bit, use can use a Firefox extension. First, you have to get Firefox, if you don't have it already. The install the "Add to Search Bar" extension (install here). Once it is installed, you have to restart Firefox. Then, go to the ScienceBlogs home page. Find the search box in the left sidebar. Right-c...
Source: The Corpus Callosum - November 23, 2007 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: Meta Source Type: blogs

Shakespeare Quote GeneratorEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
O excellent! I love corpus callosum better than figs.Which work of Shakespeare was the original quote from?Get your own quotes: Read the comments on this post... (Source: The Corpus Callosum)
Source: The Corpus Callosum - November 10, 2007 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: Meta Source Type: blogs

5 Surefire Ways to Kill Brainpower at WorkEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Here are five surefire ways to stall learning and shut down brainpower at work. 1. Demand attention and criticize every mistake you spot along the way, so that people around you run to keep up with your demands … and hide to avoid your criticism. 2. Come to work stressed to the gills and pass anxiety around freely by the way you communicate, and demand and worry, so that brains literally shrink in and around you. 3. Spout many meta messages so that people can never really take what you say as truly what you mean. Confuse people and communicate back with insincerity that stunts growth with you and prevents any l...
Source: BrainBasedBusiness - September 28, 2007 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: Insight for Change brainpower learning adventure meta message overwhelmed stop learning stress stressed Source Type: blogs

Science Blogging MetaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The science blogging survey quickly met its goal of 1000 respondents, and is now closed. Thanks to everyone who participated. Keep an eye on the blogs here to find out when the results are published, but you'll hear for sure if you're subscribed to the ScienceBlogs Weekly Recap newsletter. Find out about the buzzes, most popular posts, best photos, and more. Be current with news and what's hot. Don't forget to enter the ScienceBlogs 500,000th Comment Contest, open to anyone in the world with a valid email address who leaves a comment before we hit that number. Try leaving one now? Tell me something funny. Read the commen...
Source: Omni Brain - September 18, 2007 Category: Neurologists Tags: Meta Source Type: blogs