- What happens if you have no word for 'dinosaur' (BBC)
- Take nobody's word for it – evidence and authority in a world of propaganda (The Guardian)
Surveys
- For 79 years, this groundbreaking Harvard study has searched for the key to happiness. Should it keep going? (The Washington Post)
Experiments
- Experiments are Fascinating but Nobody Can Repeat Them (The New York Times)
Data Collection
- What Is the Hawthorne Effect and How Does It Influence Productivity? (Very Well Mind)
- How counting SoCal's homeless population works (KPCC)
Data Analysis
- Why Data is Never Raw (The New Atlantis)
- What’s That Fact? A Tricky Graph on Terror (Sociological Images)
- When Scientists “Discover” What Indigenous People Have Always Known (Smithsonian)
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How to break regression (Pew Research Center)
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Applying a Mindfulness Practice to Qualitative Data Collection (The Qualitative Report)
Ethics
- Authors of premier medical textbook didn’t disclose $11 million in industry payments (Stat)
- Paying Professors: Inside Google’s Academic Influence Campaign (Wall Street Journal)
- Medical studies are almost always bogus (New York Post)
- The Best-Selling, Billion-Dollar Pills Tested on Homeless People (Matter)
- Health Studies Funded By Beverage Companies Are Dangerously Misleading (Gizmodo)
Validity, Reliability, Replication
- Scientists Rarely Admit Mistakes. A New Project Wants to Change That. (UnDark)
- Beware those scientific studies -- most are wrong, researcher warns (Phys Org)
- How Do You Know If Aid Really Works? Turns Out ... We Often Don't (NPR)
Research Issues in Higher Ed
Research Issues and Gender
- More than half of women in science experience harassment (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
- Female Researchers Underrepresented But Collaborate Widely (Reuters)
Research and Society
- Americans’ Attitudes about Science and Scientists in 2017 (Research America)