Author: Jason Sherwin
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When can we consider “significance” significant?
Statistical significance is one of those things that comes up quite often in medical research. Many people are fond of p-values, i.e. probabilities that the results could have been obtained by chance, being less than 5%. There are many types of tests for validating experimental findings that use thi...
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Ah, the rocket scientist from the Upper West Side
“Ah, the rocket scientist from the Upper West Side!” That was the greeting I got when I was called in for the voir dire with the attorneys. They knew this from the questionnaire all jurors had to complete on arrival at the courthouse. I had jury duty last week – the infamous jury duty of New Y...
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Listen for When Opportunities Knock
The theme of this post is about keeping your ear to the grindstone. In research, as in life, you’ve got to keep an ear out for opportunities. But it’s not enough to hear about them. As Woody Allen says, “90% of life is just showing up.” In other words, you have to follow up on them – and b...
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A Unique View of a Lunar Eclipse
The theme of this entry is the human visual system and one of its curious abilities; contour completion. I write this in the context of a rare celestial event having happened early this morning; a full lunar eclipse on the winter solstice. As a quick recap, a lunar eclipse is when the shadow of ...
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A Fish in New Waters
The theme of this posting is “a fish in new waters.” In particular, the fish (myself) is more like a tadpole in the bio-related-career ocean. So I’ll preface these remarks with the warning that I’m new to all of this.
