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Monthly Archives: May 2016
Fishy feedback
I don’t think that I am ever going to win prizes for my artwork. However this post is about my picture of a fish, shown below: A month or so ago, I was invited to take part in a live … Continue reading
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The importance of neutral results
This is the third posting in this morning’s trilogy about research methods, and this one was prompted by an article in this month’s issue of Physics World : Ball, P. (May 2016), No result, no problem? Physics World, 29(5), 38-41. … Continue reading
The unscientific method
The title of this post is copied from another New Scientist article, this time by Sonia van Gilder Cooke, and published in Issue number 3069 (16th April 2016) on pages 39-41. The article starts “Listening to When I’m Sixty-Four by The Beatles … Continue reading
Simpson’s paradox
Back in November, I posted about the fact that I was going to be more bullish about the fact that I am a physicist but that I do educational research. As I try to build my confidence to say some … Continue reading
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