Description
Dan and James discuss a new preprint that examined the types of limitations authors discuss in their published articles and whether these limitation types has changed over the past decade, especially in light of methodological reform efforts.
Links
The Genetic Lottery by Kathryn Paige Harden
The limitations preprint by Beth Clarke and collegues
Simine Vazire’s episode (also known as the one where Dan's wife starts going into labor)
The heartbeat paper from Galvez-Pol and collegues
Rand Wilcox and robust statistical methods
The tweet thread explainer from Beth Clarke
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Dan on twitter
James on twitter
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