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Re:Psychologist finds Wikipedians grumpy and closed-minded by tokenadult on Sunday June 28, 2009 @07:27PM (#678228)
This news report badly needs checking by Peter Norvig's helpful checklist of what can go wrong in interpreting scientific research findings.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

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Re:Psychologist finds Wikipedians grumpy and closed-minded by wglb on Monday June 29, 2009 @11:09AM (#679062)
My favorite line there is "Cell phone masts ward off cancer clusters 99.985% of the time". I have a friend who specializes in RF safety and finds himself counter to public hysteria on this topic constantly.
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