Introduction The issues discussed in this paper are clearly not only prevalent in neuroscience... I know that this is a 2013 paper and hopefully the situation has improved, but allow…
Introduction Scientific rigour is a major concern and most scientific journals have a policy on statistical analysis and data representation to ensure that issues of experimental design can be reviewed…
Definition "The winner’s curse refers to the phenomenon that studies that find evidence of an effect often provide inflated estimates of the size of that effect. Such inflation is expected…
Introduction Today I would like to focus on the confusing reporting of findings using mean +/- error bars. There is a very heterogeneous use of error bars in publications.- Some…
Context I would like to propose alternatives to what is unfortunately very common in scientific papers "An ANOVA was done/..." Hopefully, the terminology below should help investigators improving the reporting…