Cap'n Refsmmat's Blog of Doom

Statistical results are everywhere in science. When the Higgs boson discovery was announced, nearly every news article mentioned how there was just a one in 1.74 million chance that the results were a statistical fluke. Well, that’s not entirely true: some said one in 5 million, others one in 2 million, others one in a …

I was recently assigned to give a 25-minute presentation on a subject of my choice. After choosing “scientific dishonesty and fraud,” I happened upon a paper by John Ioannidis claiming that “Most Published Research Findings Are False.” After skimming through Ioannidis’ paper and reading some of the references, I quickly changed my presentation’s title to …

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but I want a new version, with: Higher-resolution screen (200 DPI or more?) with greater contrast Full Unicode fonts (or at least handle the Euro symbol, Cyrillic and the Greek alphabet) Bigger, more responsive screen Better fonts and typography (proper small-caps, LaTeX-style justification and hyphenation algorithm, etc.) More attention paid to formatting in books and …

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