Why do academics choose useless titles for articles and chapters? Four steps to getting a better title. An informative title for an article or chapter maximizes the likelihood that your audience correctly remembers enough about your arguments to re-discover what they...
This post is a work in progress, as I try using Nvivo to get a systematic overview of my field of study; and where I store links and resources I have found useful. A complete post will follow when I have a conclusion (of whether to stop, or go on :)) It might be...
Does Diversity Actually Increase Creativity? Executive Summary Setting aside social, political, and moral reasons for encouraging a more diverse workplace, there is arguably no better incentive for promoting diversity than the premise that diverse teams and...
HARKing (Hypothesizing After Results Are Known) is generally regarded as a deceitful practice in science. The statistical tests associated with hypothesis testing are based on assumptions of a prioroi hypothesis, and a limited number to be tested. Once these are...
..and spend a couple of minutes studying the graph. A graph showing what people think of when using unspecific terms like: “some”, “a few”, “many”, as well as various types of probabilities. Rather interesting.. as well as a short...
When theorizing about the world and how information is spread, it is easy to assume that better information will prevail, and, when conducting social network analysis, that all information is equal, it is all about the structure and characteristics of the node. This...
