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Science Fictions

How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth

de Stuart Ritchie ...

An insider’s view of science reveals why many scientific results cannot be relied upon – and how the system can be reformed.Science is how we understand the world. Yet failures in peer review and mistakes in statistics have rendered a shocking number of scientific studies useless – or, worse, badly misleading. Such errors have distorted our knowledge in fields as wide-ranging as medicine, physics, ... Leer más

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An insider’s view of science reveals why many scientific results cannot be relied upon – and how the system can be reformed.Science is how we understand the world. Yet failures in peer review and mistakes in statistics have rendered a shocking number of scientific studies useless – or, worse, badly misleading. Such errors have distorted our knowledge in fields as wide-ranging as medicine, physics,
... Leer más

Disponible también en: Audiolibro
Intelligence: All That Matters

de Stuart Ritchie ...

Series series All That Matters
"A wonderful, readable summary of what we know about intelligence." Dylan Wiliam, Institute of EducationThe scientific evidence is clear: IQ tests are extraordinarily useful. IQ scores are related to a huge variety of important life outcomes like educational success, income, and even life expectancy, and biological studies have shown they are genetically influenced and linked to measures of the ... Leer más

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"A wonderful, readable summary of what we know about intelligence." Dylan Wiliam, Institute of EducationThe scientific evidence is clear: IQ tests are extraordinarily useful. IQ scores are related to a huge variety of important life outcomes like educational success, income, and even life expectancy, and biological studies have shown they are genetically influenced and linked to measures of the
... Leer más
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Science Fictions

How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth

de Stuart Ritchie ...

Narrado por Stuart Ritchie ...

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8 hora 35 minutos

An insider’s view of science reveals why many scientific results cannot be relied upon – and how the system can be reformed.Science is how we understand the world. Yet failures in peer review and mistakes in statistics have rendered a shocking number of scientific studies useless – or, worse, badly misleading. Such errors have distorted our knowledge in fields as wide-ranging as medicine, physics, ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

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An insider’s view of science reveals why many scientific results cannot be relied upon – and how the system can be reformed.Science is how we understand the world. Yet failures in peer review and mistakes in statistics have rendered a shocking number of scientific studies useless – or, worse, badly misleading. Such errors have distorted our knowledge in fields as wide-ranging as medicine, physics,
... Leer más

Disponible también en: eBook
科學的假象：造假、偏見、疏忽與炒作:如何阻礙我們追尋事實

Science Fictions: How Fraud: Bias: Negligence: and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth

de 史都華‧利奇, Stuart Ritchie ...

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知識是如何產出，又是如何出錯的？◎拯救科學的第一本書◎泰晤士報2020年度好書研究造假沸沸揚揚，怎麼會這樣？科學是我們認識世界的方法，但不論是國際社會或是台灣學界，不論是自然科學又或者社會科學，論文造假的新聞滿天飛。2011年，一篇康乃爾大學頂尖心理學家的論文指出，大學生們都有通靈的能力。如此離譜的論文通過了同樣專業的研究人員審查，還刊載在一份相當重要的心理學期刊上。②一個調查檢視的3萬篇科學論文中，近一半的論文存在數值錯誤，其中15%的錯誤嚴重到足以完全顛倒研究結果。這樣的錯誤已經在醫學、物理學、經濟學、心理學等各個領域扭曲了我們的知識。本書指出，目前的學術補助和發表體系不僅無法保護我們避免錯誤，還積極鼓勵了糟糕的科學方法，並可能帶來致命的後果。科學出了什麼問題？倫敦大學國王學院講師史都華‧利奇在本書中盤點現今科學的重大問題：造假、偏見、無知與過度期待。作者也指出 ... Leer más

$13.99 USD

知識是如何產出，又是如何出錯的？◎拯救科學的第一本書◎泰晤士報2020年度好書研究造假沸沸揚揚，怎麼會這樣？科學是我們認識世界的方法，但不論是國際社會或是台灣學界，不論是自然科學又或者社會科學，論文造假的新聞滿天飛。2011年，一篇康乃爾大學頂尖心理學家的論文指出，大學生們都有通靈的能力。如此離譜的論文通過了同樣專業的研究人員審查，還刊載在一份相當重要的心理學期刊上。②一個調查檢視的3萬篇科學論文中，近一半的論文存在數值錯誤，其中15%的錯誤嚴重到足以完全顛倒研究結果。這樣的錯誤已經在醫學、物理學、經濟學、心理學等各個領域扭曲了我們的知識。本書指出，目前的學術補助和發表體系不僅無法保護我們避免錯誤，還積極鼓勵了糟糕的科學方法，並可能帶來致命的後果。科學出了什麼問題？倫敦大學國王學院講師史都華‧利奇在本書中盤點現今科學的重大問題：造假、偏見、無知與過度期待。作者也指出
... Leer más
Diplomatic Passport

More Undiplomatic Diaries, 1946-1962

de Charles Ritchie ...

In his first book, The Siren Years, the public was introduced to Charles Ritchie as a young diplomat serving with the Canadian Embassy in wartime London. In Diplomatic Passport, we follow his career as he climbs the rungs of the diplomatic-service ladder – as an advisor to the Canadian Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in 1946; as a Counsellor at the Canadian Embassy in Paris, where his ... Leer más

$9.99 USD

In his first book, The Siren Years, the public was introduced to Charles Ritchie as a young diplomat serving with the Canadian Embassy in wartime London. In Diplomatic Passport, we follow his career as he climbs the rungs of the diplomatic-service ladder – as an advisor to the Canadian Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in 1946; as a Counsellor at the Canadian Embassy in Paris, where his
... Leer más
Storm Signals

More Undiplomatic Diaries, 1962-1971

de Charles Ritchie ...

In the fourth volume of selections from his delightfully wise and witty diaries, we see Charles Ritchie, the seasoned (but never stuffy) diplomat, in his last two major postings – as Canadian Ambassador to Washington and as Canadian High Commissioner to London. Full of anecdotes rather than briefing papers (was JFK really “shooing” the new Canadian ambassador out of his office?), Ritchie’s diaries ... Leer más

$11.99 USD

In the fourth volume of selections from his delightfully wise and witty diaries, we see Charles Ritchie, the seasoned (but never stuffy) diplomat, in his last two major postings – as Canadian Ambassador to Washington and as Canadian High Commissioner to London. Full of anecdotes rather than briefing papers (was JFK really “shooing” the new Canadian ambassador out of his office?), Ritchie’s diaries
... Leer más
An Appetite for Life

The Education of a Young Diarist, 1924-1927

de Charles Ritchie ...

Charles Ritchie’s first volume of diaries, The Siren Years, created a sensation when it was published in 1974. Besides winning the Governor General’s Award for Non-fiction, it was hailed by reviewers on both sides of the Atlantic. An Appetite for Life, his second volume, first published in 1977, deals with his youth in Halifax and his career at Oxford—the years when Charles Ritchie turned from a ... Leer más

$11.99 USD

Charles Ritchie’s first volume of diaries, The Siren Years, created a sensation when it was published in 1974. Besides winning the Governor General’s Award for Non-fiction, it was hailed by reviewers on both sides of the Atlantic. An Appetite for Life, his second volume, first published in 1977, deals with his youth in Halifax and his career at Oxford—the years when Charles Ritchie turned from a
... Leer más
My Grandfather's House

de Charles Ritchie ...

In this book, Charles Ritchie looks back at some of the characters that peopled his childhood and youth, in the years before his brilliant career in Canada’s diplomatic corps began. In these essays we are introduced to his uncles, Harry “Bimbash” Stewart and the dashing, doomed Charlie Stewart; to his indomitable mother; to his mad cousin Gerald; to the newspaper tycoon Lord Beaverbrook; to his ... Leer más

$11.99 USD

In this book, Charles Ritchie looks back at some of the characters that peopled his childhood and youth, in the years before his brilliant career in Canada’s diplomatic corps began. In these essays we are introduced to his uncles, Harry “Bimbash” Stewart and the dashing, doomed Charlie Stewart; to his indomitable mother; to his mad cousin Gerald; to the newspaper tycoon Lord Beaverbrook; to his
... Leer más
Multi-Species Dementia Studies

Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach

de Ann Madeline Toohey, David B. Hogan, Stuart Woods, Anne Crilly, Gail Davies, Richard Gorman, Richard Milne, Elizabeth Peel, Jennifer Hewson, Jayne Beselt, Damien Riggs, Lorena Sordo, Anne Rankin, Vanessa Ashall, Melanie Rock, Nik Taylor, Fiona L. Henriquez ...

Dementia is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. Responding to the global dementia challenge, however, affects more than humans alone. We live in a multi-species world but often think about dementia in mono-species ways. From the lab to the living room, other beings are “on the scene” and our relations with them affect how we understand, experience, and respond to ... Leer más

$37.79 USD

Dementia is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. Responding to the global dementia challenge, however, affects more than humans alone. We live in a multi-species world but often think about dementia in mono-species ways. From the lab to the living room, other beings are “on the scene” and our relations with them affect how we understand, experience, and respond to
... Leer más
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Lost Souls of Paradise

A Key West Novel

de Ian Ritchie Stewart ...

Narrado por Elizabeth Ashby ...

Completo

11 hora 32 minutos

This compelling and compassionate mystery takes place in the quirky and intoxicating island town of Key West, Florida, where 21-year-old Jillian Dougherty, a newly graduated Boston nursing school student away from home for the first time, finds herself completely absorbed into the homeless population. Meet the island inhabitants who live under the bridges, behind the hedges and on the edge of ... Leer más

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This compelling and compassionate mystery takes place in the quirky and intoxicating island town of Key West, Florida, where 21-year-old Jillian Dougherty, a newly graduated Boston nursing school student away from home for the first time, finds herself completely absorbed into the homeless population. Meet the island inhabitants who live under the bridges, behind the hedges and on the edge of
... Leer más
The Siren Years

A Canadian Diplomat Abroad 1937-1945

de Charles Ritchie ...

Charles Ritchie, one of Canada’s most distinguished diplomats, was a born diarist, a man whose daily record of his life is so well written that it leaps from the page.In wartime England, Ritchie, as Second Secretary at the Canadian High Commission, served as private secretary to Vincent Massey, whose second-in-command was Lester B. Pearson, future prime minister of Canada. In a perfect position to ... Leer más

$14.99 USD

Charles Ritchie, one of Canada’s most distinguished diplomats, was a born diarist, a man whose daily record of his life is so well written that it leaps from the page.In wartime England, Ritchie, as Second Secretary at the Canadian High Commission, served as private secretary to Vincent Massey, whose second-in-command was Lester B. Pearson, future prime minister of Canada. In a perfect position to
... Leer más
50 Essential Classic Adventure Short Stories You Have To Read Before You Die, Vol.1: Jack London, Robert Ervin Howard, E.Nesbit, Max Brand... (Golden Deer Classics)

de Jack London, Golden Deer Classics, A.M. Chisholm, A.M. Williamson, Achmed Abdullah, Arthur Train, Buck Connor, Charles Beadle, Charles E. Van Loan, E.Nesbit, Edward S. Ellis, F. Hopkinson Smith, Forrest Crissey, Frank L. Packard, G.B. Lancaster, H. Bedford, H.C. Bailey, Hamlin Garland, Hapsburg Liebe, J. Allan Dunn, James B. Connolly, Josephine Daskam Bacon, Marie Manning, Max Brand, Morley Roberts, Ralph D. Paine, Raymond S. Spears, Richard Harding Davis, Robert Ervin Howard, Robert Welles Ritchie, Rupert Hughes, Stacy Aumonier, Stewart Edward White, W.W. Jacobs ...

Contents: A.M. CHISHOLM A Thousand a Plate A.M. WILLIAMSON The Eccentricity of Fleetwood ACHMED ABDULLAH The Home-Coming ARTHUR TRAIN The Escape of Wilkins ARTHUR TRAIN The Governor-General's Trunk BUCK CONNOR Get Your Man CHARLES BEADLE John O'Damn CHARLES E. VAN LOAN Water Stuff E.NESBIT The Dwellers EDWARD S. ELLIS A Battle in the Air EDWARD S. ELLIS An Unpleasant Companion EDWARD S. ELLIS Lost ... Leer más

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Contents: A.M. CHISHOLM A Thousand a Plate A.M. WILLIAMSON The Eccentricity of Fleetwood ACHMED ABDULLAH The Home-Coming ARTHUR TRAIN The Escape of Wilkins ARTHUR TRAIN The Governor-General's Trunk BUCK CONNOR Get Your Man CHARLES BEADLE John O'Damn CHARLES E. VAN LOAN Water Stuff E.NESBIT The Dwellers EDWARD S. ELLIS A Battle in the Air EDWARD S. ELLIS An Unpleasant Companion EDWARD S. ELLIS Lost
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