#biased research

[gunservant]

GFSA anti-firearm research biased.

Bias-driven anti-firearm research present in GFSA advocacy. By Wikus Erasmus The popular press has been inundated of late with articles punting firearm control legislation, most recently those published by Dr Matzopoulos from Gun Free South Africa. The current discourse seems determined to create a broadly negative view towards legal and responsible firearm ownership. This negative narrative is…

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[fatchicksings-blog]

Half in the Data Dark, We've More Work to Do!

Half in the Data Dark, We’ve More Work to Do!

Today, I read a horrifying statistic about the state of statistics.  A group called All Trials has flatly stated that of all the clinical trials, encompassing hundreds of thousands of patients, 50% have never reported the results.  They state this, and offer this research to back it up. One can speculate many reasons why various research results have not been reported.  But I keep coming back to…

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[ghsrispa-blog]

"The Case of Israel in European News Sites"

“The Case of Israel in European News Sites”

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[withasmoothroundstone]

So, we have a group of individuals whose more factual descriptions of a meaningless picture were interpreted as insignificant and talkative. We have a group whose more accurate tactile matching was interpreted as sensory prediction deficits. And we have a group whose heightened memory discrimination in one study was interpreted as the result of an as-yet-unknown pathology, and whose equivalent performance in another study was interpreted as frontal executive impairment. Confused? If I told you the group interpreted as providing insignificant and talkative descriptions comprised "normal females," the group interpreted as unable to predict the sensory consequences of their actions comprised persons diagnosed with schizophrenia, and the group interpreted as having aberrant mental representations and frontal executive impairment comprised persons diagnosed with autism, would it help? It shouldn't. Maggio (1991) recommends that we test our writing for bias by substituting our own group for the group we are discussing. If we feel offended, then our writing is biased. I recommend that we test our interpretations for bias by peeling off the labels, as I've done here. If our interpretations make little sense, then our science is biased.

Morton Gernsbacher, How to Spot Bias in Research (PDF)