Updated, 2:01 p.m. | At a local art gallery in 2010, amid the loud chatter over wine and cheese, I heard a weird metronomic sound over toward one wall. I wandered over to find a hammer set to tap relentlessly on a sheet of glass, behind which were these words in red letters: “On August 25, Jennifer Tackett, a psychology professor at Northwestern University, got an odd email in her inbox. It was from PubPeer, an online forum where people share and discuss scientific articles. And it made her a little anxious.
“PubPeer is typically used to point out errors in papers, and no scientist wants to find errors in their published work,” Tackett tells me in an email.
When she clicked through to the PubPeer comment, this is what she saw.
A program called “Statcheck” was writing to inform her it had been double-checking the math in her paper.
Tackett wasn’t the only person to get such an email. Statcheck had scanned 50,000 papers and uploaded the results to the PubPeer comments. And while Tackett’s paper checked out, others had a more unpleasant surprise.
Statcheck is a simple program built to correct simple errors. But it provokes bigger questions about how the field of psychology should go about correcting errors in past work. Because psychologists are starting to find a great many.
Why scientists need robots to check their math
In science, even […]
- 26% of unemployed youth in high-income economies thriving in physical well-being
- 24% of employed older adults in high-income economies thriving in physical well-being
- Unemployment takes greatest toll on physical well-being of the highest educated
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Young people worldwide have an advantage over older adults when it comes to their physical well-being. In fact, in many low- to upper-middle-income economies, even young adults who are unemployed have higher physical well-being than older adults who are employed. But this is not the case in high-income economies: Young people between the ages of 15 and 29 who are unemployed are about as likely to be thriving in their physical well-being (26%) as people older than 50 with a job (24%).
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*World Bank categorizes high-income economies as ones where the gross national income per capita is $12,476 or more; 47 countries fall into this category.
Gallup-Healthways Global Well-Being Index, 2013-2015
These figures represent the averages for 47 high-income-economy countries Gallup polled in from 2013 to 2015, and while the averages show no difference between unemployed youth and […]
A Saudi man poses with Saudi riyal banknotes. Credit: Faisal Al Nasser / Reuters
Saudi Arabian civil servants will lose 11 days of pay after the country switched to the Gregorian calendar, the predominant format for organizing time in the West. The switch is part of austerity measures meant to curb the budget deficit.
Previously, only the private sector of the Gulf monarchy used the Gregorian calendar of its oil customers to calculate salaries, while the public sector has used the Islamic lunar Hijri calendar since 1932. Under it, a year comprises of 12 months lasting 354 or 355 days, or 11 days shorter than the Gregorian calendar. The salaries are calculated on annual basis, so a longer year translates into less payment for the employees.
![Saudi women shop at the Al-Hayatt mall in Riyadh. Single men are not allowed into the mall, [...]
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