One of my pet peeves as a psychologist is the misuse of correlational data. In spite of the best efforts of hoards of professionals in statistics and the behavioral sciences, we continue to see the misinterpretation of correlational data. A Read more…
Restaurants, including fast food chains, generally have calorie information available for consumers. However, they’re not always posted where people notice them much. NYC health officials are now insisting that calorie counts go right up there on the menu. One 1500 Read more…
Socioeconomic status has long been believed to play a role in standards of weight. After all, it was the Duchess of Windsor who famously proclaimed, “A woman can’t be too rich or too thin.” Eating disorders, anorexia nervosa in particular, are Read more…
András Lörincz and István Szita at Eötvös University in Budapest, Hungary have developed a computer program that outplays the average human at the classic arcade game, Ms. Pac-Man [1]. Starting off with scenarios (“ghost nearby”) and possible actions (“move away”), Read more…
Ivan Oransky of TheScientist.com blog made an interesting point this week. Reporting from the North Carolina Science Blogging Conference about a gender/race in blogging panel, Ivan tells us that about 22% of the blogs on scienceblogs.com are women. This sounds eerily similar to Read more…