Research and statistical analysis help us understand how the world works, how effective medications and treatments are, what influences our health, the best approach for business practices, and much ...
"We think we can make something better or find out what is going on in this interesting area if we try a bunch of things and apply several sophisticated techniques to study this." These proposals are ...
Translational Behavioral Medicine, a major scientific behavioral medicine journal, now publishes research studies that have null results. Some in the scientific community view null results research as ...
Evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman takes the long view of physical activity. His name has been connected to running and human evolution ever since his seminal Nature study “Endurance running and ...
Much of running a small business is a gamble, buoyed by boldness, intuition and guts. But wise business leaders also conduct formal and informal research to inform their business decisions. Good ...
As I’ve discussed previously, conventional wisdom suggests that using social media promotes poor mental health, especially in teenagers. But there is good reason to question this idea. As more ...
Hypothesis testing is a formal procedure for investigating our ideas about the world using statistics. It is most often used by researchers to test predictions, called hypotheses. The first step in ...