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Here's a quick bit of obnoxious bad math. I saw this myself in a link to an AP article via Salon.com, and a reader sent me a link to the same story via CNN. It's yet another example of what I call a metric error: that is, the use of a measurement in a way that makes it appear to mean something…
Links for you. Science: "We Win": Conservative Media Celebrate Public Misconception That Climate Scientists "Falsified" Data Evangelicals Question The Existence Of Adam And Eve (it's actually about how human genomics is forcing a reality check. For some). A Fox News Science Lesson It's not a…
"In today's lecture, I will be casting false pearls before real swine" ... I won't tell you who said that, but when he did say it, he was in front of a classroom of several hundred Harvard freshmen, and he was referring to the idea of telling little white lies to the unwashed masses in order to…
It is well established among those who carry out, analyze, and report pre-employment performance testing that slope-based bias in those tests is rare. Why is this important? Look at the following three graphs from a recent study by Aguinis, Culpepper and Pierce (2010): Figure 1. Illustration…