Nick Brown
Personal coach, in person or via Skype, specialising in dilemmas. Self-appointed data police cadet. British and Irish, amazingly.
Note. This is unlikely to be a complete listing.
A curious edge case issue with PET-PEESE
(This post has been written in the spirit of "If you want to understand how something works, dig around inside it for a while and write up...
Removing files which "just won't go away"
A standard way to remove many forms of malware is to remove the registry entry which autoruns them. For example, you might have an entry ca...
Some instances of apparent duplicate publication by Dr. Mark D. Griffiths
According to his Twitter bio , Dr. Mark D. Griffiths is a Chartered Psychologist and Distinguished Professor of Behavioural Addiction at ...
Applying some error detection techniques to controversial past research: Rushton (1992)
A few days ago, James Heathers and I were cc'd in on a Twitter thread. The Zietsch and Sidari critique of applications of life history t...
An open letter to Dr. Jerker Rönnberg
At the bottom of this post is the text of an e-mail that I have now sent three times (on May 9, June 11, and June 25 of this year) to Dr. Je...
An update on our examination of the research of Dr. Nicolas Guéguen
(Joint post by Nick Brown and James Heathers) It's now well over a year since we published our previous blog post about the work of Dr. N...
The results of my crowdsourced reanalysis project
Just over a year ago, in this post , I asked for volunteers to help me reanalyze an article that I had read entirely by chance, and which se...
Just another week in real-world science: Butler, Pentoney, and Bong (2017).
This is a joint post by Nick Brown and Stuart Ritchie . All royalty cheques arising from the post will be split between us, as will all the ...
Have scientists found an explanation for the onset of ME/CFS?
In this post I'm going to discuss this article (the link leads to a page from which you can download the PDF; I'm not sure if this will la...
Just another week in real-world science: de Venter et al. (2017)
Someone sent me a link to this article and asked what I thought of it. De Venter, M., Illegems, J., Van Royen, R., Moorkens, G., Sabbe, ...