7 Deadly Sins in Educational Research

The Seven Deadly Sins of Cloud Computing Research

Research into distributed parallelism on “the cloud” has surged lately. As the research agenda and methodology in this area are being established, we observe a tendency towards certain common simplifications and shortcuts employed by researchers, which we provocatively term “sins”. We believe that these sins, in some cases, are threats to the scientific integrity and practical applicability of ...

Eight Deadly Sins of GRL

Deadly Sins of Antibiotic Abuse in China.

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The seven deadly sins of comparative analysis.

Phylogenetic comparative methods are extremely commonly used in evolutionary biology. In this paper, I highlight some of the problems that are frequently encountered in comparative analyses and review how they can be fixed. In broad terms, the problems boil down to a lack of appreciation of the underlying assumptions of comparative methods, as well as problems with implementing methods in a man...

The seven deadly sins of DNA barcoding.

Despite the broad benefits that DNA barcoding can bring to a diverse range of biological disciplines, a number of shortcomings still exist in terms of the experimental design of studies incorporating this approach. One underlying reason for this lies in the confusion that often exists between species discovery and specimen identification, and this is reflected in the way that hypotheses are gen...