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Pedagogisk utviklingsprosjekt

Undersøkelse av tiltak i en hybridundervisnings situasjon: Likestille læringsutbyttet for to studentgrupper, de som følger undervisning via nett og de som er fysisk til stede. Njål Andersen Introduksjon Det siste tiåret har det blitt økende fokus på å tilrettelegge...

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Advice on the basic parts of writing an article…

and indeed, most academic writing 🙂 https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~lp15/Pages/Scream.html   Researcher, Don’t Make Your Readers Scream! Practically everybody who reads your research paper, referees especially, wants to know only a few basic things: What did you do?...

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How we can spot emotions on how people walk

Status and emotions are quite easy to spot and identify, as is evaluating our own and others status. There is a website where you can look at a dot-drawing of people walking, based on biometric data. Amazing how easy it is to spot differences, also based on gender....

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Applying for jobs.. the slog

Applying for jobs.. the slog

Applying for an academic job is a little different from other jobs, especially in the amount of documentation some schools require. Academic CV’s are famously long. But then there are documents such as: research statement (2-6 pages) teaching statement diversity...

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How to build a search in Web of Science

How to build a search in Web of Science

While it is fast and simple to conduct a basic search on Web of Science (WoS), to build a corpus for a bibliometric analysis, the search needs to be precise, with as many relevant articles as possible included, while excluding irrelevant ones, that will just create...

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When scientists are wrong..

Many studies and findings are questioned as a replications fail. When some are approached about possible weaknesses, like Amy Cuddy (and with her mentor Susan Fiske at her back), they fight tooth and nail. Others do it differently. A finding Dan Ariely has based part...

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Replication vs. reproducibility

There is a distinction (not always observed by various authors) between Replication and reproducibility. Replication is re-running studies to confirm results. This means, collect own data, and get the same effect for your study. Reproducibility is the the ability to...

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There are many ways to scientific fraud

There are many ways to scientific fraud

An entertaining version of it was published ten years ago, by Neuroskeptic at: http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2010/11/9-circles-of-scientific-hell.html and since then, also as an article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1745691612459519 as both can be...

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Advice through a PhD, from Oliver Williamson

Advice through a PhD, from Oliver Williamson

We all know our PhD journey has been unique, special, just like the snowflakes we are. Reading the advice Oliver Williamson gave his phd students, makes me smile, it is advice I should have got during my journey. It would have been perfectly tailored to me. The essay,...

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Effect size, statistical significance and big data

Effect size, statistical significance and big data

Many, if not most statistical methods were developed for relatively small datasets. Big Data means we need to reevaluate how we interpret results. A good examples comes from “the Facebook experiment” Emotional contagion through social networks Adam D. I. Kramer, Jamie...

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