Monday, November 15, 2010

Unmasking a Psychologyst

Hey guys!
This morning I was reading la Repubblica and I found this:
http://www.repubblica.it/scienze/2010/11/12/news/veggenti-9050929/?ref=HRERO-2
and, eventually, this:
http://dbem.ws/FeelingFuture.pdf

Now, I started reading and immediately I had the feeling that there is something wrong with the statistics there... (I didn't read the whole paper, though)
Since the journal has a high impact factor (number 3 within psychology journals), it would be nice to unravel the mystery showing (if it's the case) that it's all about bad use of statistics...
I know... I have a lot of time to waste...
but if someone is interested, let me know!

3 comments:

  1. I've downloaded the paper in order to read it... but as soon as I have seen the layout, I've changed idea... I'll read it when it will be published in a "human" way...

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  2. For me even teh first line is wrong..psi is the partito socialista italiano..

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  3. It could be very interesting to analyze this "paper". But as you said we need a lot of time to waste... we can talk about it in a month, back to Italy...

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