09 September 2013

How to read a scientific paper

The full title is: How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists.
The writer's name is Jennifer Raff and her homepage is called Violent metaphors.
Highly recommended.

How to help your readers' intuition, or lack thereof, when talking about probabilities

Bayes' famous theorem is widely regarded as the most important theorem in statistics. But that doesn't mean that it is easy to under...