Thursday, 19 July 2012

The bewildering bathroom challenge

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The tap is a simple but genius piece of design. You turn a handle one way and water flows. You turn it the other way, and the water stop...
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Sunday, 15 July 2012

The devaluation of low-cost psychological research

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Psychology encompasses a wide range of subject areas, including social, clinical and developmental psychology, cognitive psychology and n...
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Friday, 13 July 2012

Communicating science in the age of the internet

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© www.CartoonStock.com Here's an interesting test for those on Twitter. You see a tweet giving a link to an interesting topic. Y...
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Saturday, 30 June 2012

Schoolgirls' health put at risk by Catholic view on vaccination

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Today's Time Newsfeed carries a remarkable story: parents of children attending Catholic schools in Calgary were sent a special lette...
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Sunday, 24 June 2012

Causal models of developmental disorders: the perils of correlational data

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Experimental psychology depends heavily on statistics, but psychologists don’t always agree about the best ways of analyzing data. Tak...
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Monday, 4 June 2012

The ‘autism epidemic’ and diagnostic substitution

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Based on: King & Bearman (2011) American Sociological Review, 76 (2), 320-346;  Data from birth and diagnostic records for all chil...
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Monday, 21 May 2012

Well, this should be easy….

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 Life and times of an amateur video-maker It’s been an exciting week. On Friday, a small group of us launched a campaign to raise aw...
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Sunday, 6 May 2012

Sharing of MRI dyslexia datasets

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One of the great things about blogging is that it allows for communication to proceed far more rapidly than would be possible through ...
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Wednesday, 2 May 2012

Neuronal migration in language learning impairments: a suggestion

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Specific language impairment (SLI) and dyslexia are related developmental disorders in which a child has difficulty learning to talk (SLI) o...
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