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The tyranny of citation statistics
Bureaucrats everywhere fall over themselves in their rush to replace judgements about quality and impact of research with simple statistics like citation scores and impact factors. It is plainly nonsense to think that such numbers provide evaluations that are better … Continue reading
The Mind-Reading Salmon: The True Meaning of Statistical Significance: Scientific American
The Mind-Reading Salmon: The True Meaning of Statistical Significance: Scientific American. Should we worry that so many of the research results published in Construction Management and Economics are justified on the basis of statistical significance?
Management and Economics in Construction 