On June 17th, 2021 with 120 comments
Pie charts and scatter plots seem like ordinary tools, but they revolutionized the way we solve problems. From a report: John Carter has only an hour to...
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On June 5th, 2021 with 269 comments
Slashdot reader DevNull127 writes: Documents filed by Florida's health department now "confirm two of the core aspects" of a whistleblower complaint filed by...
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On July 25th, 2020 with 355 comments
The New York Times has created a surprising interactive analysis of the number of coronavirus cases (per million residents) in different countries:
With its...
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On July 4th, 2020 with 129 comments
"A new study found low to moderate drinking may improve cognitive function for White middle-aged or older adults," reports CNN:
The findings support prior...
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On May 23rd, 2020 with 197 comments
New research from Imperial College London suggests the coronavirus "may still be spreading at epidemic rates" in 24 different states in America, reports the...
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On May 2nd, 2020 with 55 comments
"Data from connected scale users suggests Americans, on average, are not gaining weight during lockdowns," writes long-time Slashdot reader pfhlick.
The...
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On April 12th, 2020 with 247 comments
Yahoo News shares an encouraging report from former Newsweek correspondent Andrew Romano:
Until very recently, nationwide data about how many COVID-19...
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On March 28th, 2020 with 43 comments
An anonymous reader quotes Wired:
Next week, blood banks across the Netherlands are set to begin a nationwide experiment. As donations arrive — about...
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On March 15th, 2020 with 26 comments
Microsoft recently added a COVID-19 tracking map at Bing.com. But they're not the only ones visualizing data on infection rates...
Founded in 2008, BibBase...
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On March 8th, 2020 with 76 comments
The five years between 2013 and 2017 saw a 200% increase in the number of commercially-insured Americans diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or early-onset...
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On August 31st, 2019 with 88 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 quotes Science Alert:
Among the 100,000 most cited scientists between 1996 to 2017, there's a stealthy pocket of researchers...
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On June 22nd, 2019 with 83 comments
Remember that mouse study which concluded gut bacteria may contribute to autism symptoms?
Jon Brock, a cognitive scientist with 18 years research experience...
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On March 21st, 2019 with 184 comments
More than 850 scientists and statisticians told the authors of a Nature commentary that they are endorsing an idea to ban "statistical significance." Critics...
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On February 16th, 2019 with 23 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader kbahey writes: The increased reliance on machine-learning techniques used by thousands of scientists to analyze data, is producing...
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On October 14th, 2018 with 151 comments
A new study in Frontiers in Psychology examined why people struggle so much to solve statistical problems, particularly why we show a marked preference for...
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On June 30th, 2018 with 179 comments
97% of us don't wash our hands properly, a new government study concludes. An anonymous reader quotes CNN:
The study from the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
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On February 22nd, 2018 with 129 comments
According to a new survey from Common Sense Media and SurveyMonkey, 47% of parents worry their child is addicted to their mobile device. By comparison, only...
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On January 4th, 2018 with 31 comments
In a blog post, personal analytics service RescueTime revealed exactly what days and times we were most productive in 2017, by studying the anonymized data of...
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On September 16th, 2017 with 153 comments
Ars Technica's health reporter argues that a new study suggesting sitting will kill you "is kind of a raging dumpster fire. It's funded by Big Soda and riddled...
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On April 16th, 2017 with 74 comments
First, "A new study finds that nearly 9 in 10 people who go for a second opinion after seeing a doctor are likely to leave with a refined or new diagnosis from...
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On February 5th, 2017 with 64 comments
Three researchers "decided to scan the entire IPv4 address range every 15 minutes between 2006-2012 to work out what insights they could gain from humanity's...
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On September 24th, 2016 with 81 comments
A new study calculates a low probability that real effects are actually being detected in psychology, neuroscience and medicine research paper -- and then...
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On July 11th, 2016 with 321 comments
Slashdot reader schwit1 quotes an article from the New York Times: Something strange is going on in medicine. Major diseases, like colon cancer, dementia and...
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On March 20th, 2016 with 146 comments
Cognitive Dissident writes: It's only one study, but the results are disturbing. An article in The Guardian describes a study by the UK charity Autistica...
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On March 12th, 2016 with 819 comments
An anonymous reader writes: The study, published in The Lancet, used a cross-sectional, state-level dataset relating to a host of topics associated with...
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On March 8th, 2016 with 446 comments
hondo77 writes: On Tuesday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its official assessment of December, January, and February's...
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On March 3rd, 2016 with 50 comments
An anonymous reader writes to point out a software review of the kind you can't generally find in an app store. A group from Johns Hopkins checked the accuracy...
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On February 25th, 2016 with 115 comments
sciencehabit writes: How often do people conducting surveys simply fabricate some or all of the data? Several high-profile cases of fraud over the past few...
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On February 23rd, 2016 with 520 comments
Layzej writes: A new study finds that sea levels on Earth are rising several times faster than they have in the past 2,800 years and are accelerating. ...
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On February 22nd, 2016 with 182 comments
schwit1 writes: Drinking more coffee might help reduce the kind of liver damage that's associated with overindulging in food and alcohol, a review of existing...
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