Biases
You favor information that confirms what you already believe.
What is confirmation bias?
This database helps one trace retracted or faulty research.
What is Retraction Watch?
The part of a paper that allows others to replicate it.
What is a methods section?
The unofficial tagline to this class.
Context!
You become defensive when confronted with information that affects you emotionally.
What is the backfire effect?
Articles are sometimes published in shady media that disregard the peer review process and.
What are predatory journals?
This number is used to indicate how likely it is that the results are due to chance.
What is a p-value?
A website that helps you access scientific articles that you otherwise don't have access to.
What is scihub?
You explain others’ actions by their character, but your own by circumstance.
What is a fundamental attribution error?
This kind of text includes government reports and NGO publications and isn't always peer-reviewed.
What is gray literature?
A study that follows people or data over a long time, often years.
What is a longitudinal study?
A key strategy to make science communication engaging to a wider audience.
What is storytelling?
Data used in a study is not representative.
What is sampling bias?
These "words" help your searches tremendously.
What are Boolean Operators?
A research approach where a researcher immerses themselves in a community to study cultural and social behaviors.
What is (auto-)ethnographic research?
A type of cautious language usually used in scientific papers.
What is hedging language?
Refering to laws or rules that relate to individuals.
What is idiographic?
This rhetoric tactic aims to produce as many unfounded claims as possible to overwhelm one's opponent by sheer volume.
What is a Gish Gallop?
This philosophical term defines what researchers consider as “knowledge” or how we know what we know.
What is epistemology?
Who is Enheduanna?