The challenge of causation in physical activity research Although advancements such as access to large datasets with device-measured physical...
For those interested: On Thursday 26 October, 11.00-12.00 PDT, Dr Regina Nuzzo and Dr Kristin Sainani will give a free webinar on what a good...
Royal Society Open Science Big little lies: a compendium and simulation of p-hacking strategies Angelika M. Stefan and Felix D. Schönbrodt...
Abstract In 2016, we published a conceptual framework outlining the conclusions of our work in defining pilot and feasibility studies. Since...
As the title indicates -- a thread for lay people like me who have no or only superficial knowledge of trial methodology and statistics to ask...
Ensuring the Voice of the Very Severely Affected Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patient Is Heard in Research—A Research Model...
How the Lancet lost our trust Stuart Ritchie The Spectator (UK) 26/06/2021 A few of us have tried to get Ritchie interested in the PACE trial,...
Registration and primary outcome reporting in behavioral health trials | BMC Medical Research Methodology | Full Text (biomedcentral.com)...
Interesting article but ironic given the author's role with COPE, which whitewashed PACE, and Cochrane, given the organization's failure to deal...
The methodological quality of 176,620 randomized controlled trials published between 1966 and 2018 reveals a positive trend but also an urgent...
"Medicine is a practice built on trust—from patients and from society in general—and this is especially true for psychiatry, in which trust has...
Highlights • protocol discrepancies and spin in psychotherapy outcome research have not been investigated in detail so far • protocol...
I have just seen this new paper on Twitter. A timely reminder that imaging and the subsequent analysis is not an exact science....
Abstract Experimental manipulations in social psychologymust exhibit construct validity by influencing their intended psychological constructs....
Against pandemic research exceptionalism Alex John London, Jonathan Kimmelman The global outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has seen...
Most posts on this website are about duplications within or between figures in the same paper, or about duplications found between papers by the...
Abstract Depressive disorders are common, costly, have a strong effect on quality of life, and are associated with considerable morbidity and...
Hi A friend mentioned to me that they were considering using a new supplement* that others say has helped people with ME. She was confident that...
Mind-set refers to people’s beliefs about whether attributes are malleable (growth mind-set) or unchangeable ( fixed mind-set). Proponents of...
Several methodological problems in these sensitivity and provocation tests have been noted, which reduce the weight of their conclusions. These...
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