Putting people in ‘boxes’ based on their demographics can miss some of the individual quirks that have a greater bearing on their behaviour and preferences, says Bethan Blakeley. I know – what I’m ...

Given the disparities in health outcomes for Indigenous populations in Canada, He and colleagues’1 work into infant morbidities in Quebec populations is an important contribution to the understanding ...

Normality testing is a fundamental component in statistical analysis, central to validating many inferential techniques that presume Gaussian behaviour of error terms ...

Given the disparities in health outcomes for Indigenous populations in Canada, He and colleagues’1 work into infant morbidities in Quebec populations is an important contribution to the understanding ...

The authors analyze some of the assumptions underlying most current research on television. They emphasize the dependence on (1) an individual rather than an institutional level of analysis; (2) a ...

The Mann-Whitney U Test, also known as the Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test, is a non-parametric statistical test used to compare two samples or groups. The Mann-Whitney U Test assesses whether two sampled ...

Source: Flickr: Cracking Under Stress by Bernard Goldbach, CC by 2.0 In this series of posts, I will be discussing false assumptions that are rampant in the personality disorders research literature ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- NBC's researchers are finding that people who know the results of London Olympics events before they are shown on tape delay are more — not less — likely to watch them. The ...

Objective. We test several underlying assumptions regarding the impact of a concealed-handgun policy on violent crime rates. We posit that significant differences exist within geographic areas, and ...