Statistically Funny

It's the most-read part of scientific articles. Abstracts are supposed to give you a quick impression of research results. But while the...

  I first encountered science seriously as a health consumer advocate, a very long time ago. And I thought of medical and health research as...

  On the plus side, this jerk explains a lot about the data in a meta-analysis! This cartoon is a forest plot, a style of data visualization...

  Here we see an expert in evidence synthesis meet a metascientist! Evidence synthesis is an umbrella term for the work of finding and makin...

  The guy in this cartoon really drew a short straw: most clinical trial participants , at least, know they were in a study. On the other ha...

  A simple question, theoretically, has a simple answer. That's not necessarily the case in a clinical trial, though.  To measure in a w...

  "Were you in the vax group or the placebo?"  It sounds like a simple question, that should have a simple answer, right? And usua...

She's right to be worried! There are so many possible cracks that bias can seep through, nudging clinical trial results off cours...

This fortune cookie could start a few scuffles. It's offering a cheerful scenario if you are looking for a benefit of a treatm...

Imagine if weather reports only gave the expected average temperature across a whole country. You wouldn't want to be counting on t...