You're sure this wasn't something typed by an immortal monkey? On Jan 8, 2014, at 6:50 PM, Mike Palij wrote:
> Making the media rounds is a story about physics "research" on > time travel that involves twitter. I can't/don't want to/whatever > explain, so see this story for one view: > http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/researchers-time-travelers-twitter-turn-empty-handed-article-1.1568677 > and > http://www.nbcnews.com/science/internet-search-time-travelers-turns-nothing-time-2D11840962 > > For those interested in reading the preprint, see: > http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.7128 > > Strangely enough, the authors have had a difficult time getting their > paper published. Initial examination of the paper suggests that it is > probably the lack of statistically significant results that causes the > paper from being published -- we all are aware of the prejudice > against papers reporting null results. Perhaps they should have > used confidence intervals instead. > > No truth to the rumor that Scott Lilienfeld and Sally Satel will write > a book about this misuse of resources in the name of science. > > Still, this research does raise the question "Does Daryl Bem have a > twitter account?" And if the answer if "Yes", the next question is > why didn't he answer? > > Things that make you go hmmmm. Paul Brandon Emeritus Professor of Psychology Minnesota State University, Mankato [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=32545 or send a blank email to leave-32545-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
