Showing posts with label research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label research. Show all posts
Thursday, 4 January 2018

Statistics are altogether too bourgeois for the public sector elite

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I've been thinking for a while about Graeme Archer's article on how 'getting' statistics is as important as 'getting...
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Friday, 15 September 2017

Quote of the day: On knowledge...

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From Don Boudreaux at Cafe Hayek: Too many are the people who, having mastered econometrics and gathered lots of data, wrongly suppose them...
Wednesday, 28 June 2017

So is Bradford part of Leeds? On rebranding our Combined Authority

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Tomorrow I'll be toddling across to Leeds where, among other momentous matters, the West Yorkshire Combined Authority with consider whet...
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Tuesday, 20 December 2016

On the manufacture of fake news

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I know others have commented on this but it's pretty important that we understand that fake news is not simply something manufactured by...
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Wednesday, 16 December 2015

How to respond when your precious theory is debunked. The case of farting cows.

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"Who're you blaming for climate change, matey?" We should stop eating meat because of climate change. All the cow farts,...
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Sunday, 29 November 2015

So most academic research is pointless?

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**** This was really striking: In his new book “Higher Education in America,” former Harvard president Derek Bok notes that 98 percent...
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Friday, 16 October 2015

Nope, 'food porn' isn't making us fat.

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Some 'food porn' what I made Salivate, dear reader. Salivate. Look at the oil, the cheese. Imagine the flavours as they explode...
Tuesday, 21 July 2015

How left wing academics are killing the business school

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**** For many years business schools and management faculties were the bastions of sanity in academia. Places where such concerns as robu...
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Thursday, 10 July 2014

Does sociology need to be rubbish?

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**** I'm not a sociologist. Indeed I have on many occasions criticised the discipline of sociology for its lack of rigour, its prefere...
Sunday, 15 June 2014

Shock as prohibitionist finds Drinkaware and British Institute of Innkeeping are funded by the drinks industry!

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**** There is an academic called Jim McCambridge at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine who has written some stuff about ...
Sunday, 1 June 2014

"White Hat Bias" - fixing results to support what you think is righteous

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When we look at research in public health fields - those matters relating to lifestyle choices especially - we often see what we suspect i...
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Monday, 14 April 2014

On research and policy...

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**** This is a comment on research in education (from Tom Bennett) but it could apply across the whole of social policy: I'm sure ...
Saturday, 29 March 2014

Is £5 a lot of money?

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I know it's an odd sort of question but it's one that has, from time to time exercised my mind. I think it helps to show how o...
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Thursday, 20 February 2014

Why we shouldn't be banning vaping

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**** Via the estimable Dick Puddlecote comes the report on this piece of research: Safety evaluation and risk assessment of electroni...
Tuesday, 19 November 2013

More evidence that e-cigs don't need medical regulation

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**** From researchers who have connections to "manufacturers of smoking cessation medications". There is very little risk of...
Monday, 22 July 2013

That minimum pricing evidence...or should I say lack of evidence?

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**** The 'scientific' argument (as opposed to the New Puritan or prohibitionist arguments) for minimum pricing of alcohol was base...
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Wednesday, 3 April 2013

The BBC's new class system - a vanity project of no value or purpose

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**** When you’ve been involved with direct marketing, marketing planning and profiling for as long as I have, you will know that every so ...
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Monday, 11 March 2013

Quote of the day...on ancient heart attacks

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***** He said the Ancestral Puebloans who lived in underground caves in modern-day Colorado and Utah, used fire for heat and cooking, pro...
Sunday, 2 December 2012

Eating stuff doesn't cause cancer....

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Pie. A very good pie. From Ellisons in Cullingworth Over recent years assorted nannying fussbuckets and attention seeking "research...
Sunday, 4 November 2012

So why is there less research into lung cancer compared to other cancers?

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**** Here are the statistics from the USA - which is the biggest spender on basic cancer research: A Which of course begs the question...