Dalmeet Singh Chawla
Guest appearance on Science Friday: Could Lowering The P-Value Threshold Benefit Research?
I was invited to Science Friday to talk about the recent debate around lowering p-value thresholds. Listen to the podcast here. I...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 4, 2017
- 1 min
New metric takes a crack at solving science’s credibility problem
A newly proposed, citation-based metric assesses the veracity of scientific claims by evaluating the outcomes of subsequent replication...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 3, 2017
- 1 min
Research papers are becoming less readable
Researchers are proposing ways to make scientific texts clearer amid concerns that scholarly literature is getting harder to read. The...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 19, 2017
- 1 min
‘One-size-fits-all’ threshold for P values under fire
Researchers are at odds over when to dub a discovery 'significant'. In July, 72 researchers took aim at the P value, calling for a lower...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jul 26, 2017
- 1 min
Big names in statistics want to shake up much-maligned P value
Science is in the throes of a reproducibility crisis, and researchers, funders and publishers are increasingly worried that the scholarly...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 18, 2017
- 1 min
We May Not Be Able To Do Math Unconsciously, After All
A study that seemed to show people can read and do math with their unconscious minds has been called into question by researchers. Read...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 12, 2017
- 1 min
No, Wearing Red Doesn’t Make You Hotter
A popular theory suggesting people perceive others wearing red as more attractive has come under fire. Read the full article at Slate...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 6, 2017
- 1 min
Online Platform Aims to Facilitate Replication Studies
A volunteer-run database called StudySwap, which launched in beta last month, is starting to gain momentum. Initially, the platform aimed...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 20, 2017
- 1 min
Taking on chemistry's reproducibility problem
Not a week passes without reproducibility in science – or the lack of it – hitting the headlines. Although much of the criticism is...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 15, 2017
- 1 min
Religious Belief and Analytical Thinking Don’t Necessarily Cancel Each Other Out
In 2012, several media headlines touted the narrative of what seemed like a groundbreaking study, which claimed that techniques used to...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 3, 2017
- 1 min
Do Men Eat More Pizza in Front of Women?
Analytical techniques of four studies by a prominent Cornell University researcher came into question after the scientist blogged about...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 3, 2016
- 1 min
More than half of top-tier economics papers are replicable, study finds
A repeat of the results 18 papers from two reputable economics journals found that 11 were replicable. Economics studies, according to...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 26, 2016
- 1 min
How many replication studies are enough?
When psychologist Courtenay Norbury came across a paper this week that had similar conclusions to research she published 12 years ago,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 17, 2016
- 1 min
Why publishing negative findings is hard
When a researcher encountered two papers that suggested moonlight has biological effects — on both plants and humans — he took a second...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 4, 2016
- 1 min
Let’s just try that again
Science's reproducibility problem has drawn significant attention over the last few years, but there are few ideas to resolve. This week,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 28, 2015
- 1 min
Researchers argue for standard format to cite lab resources
A single, standard format to identify resources such as model organisms and reagents used in published experiments is catching on with...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 21, 2014
- 1 min
Contaminated samples point the finger at the wrong suspects
Some studies on the relationship between microbes and human health may be producing incorrect results due to lab contamination, according...
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