Busting a myth with the Bayes Factor

Only Rare Cases are Case Reports: Busting a Myth

Being the editor of Journal of Orthopaedic Case Reports, I encounter a variety of queries and questions regarding the nature of Case Reports. Often when I point that a particular case can be presented as a case report, I get a reply that it is not a rare case, can it be published? Even at other times when I point that an image, or a technique or even an idea can be published, the same counter c...

Myth Busting the Cost of One-Way Tickets

The Semantic Grid: Myth Busting and Bridge Building

The Semantic Grid is an extension of the current Grid in which information and services are given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. The full richness of the Grid ambition depends upon realizing the Semantic Grid, but it is still, to many, a mysterious hybrid of the Semantic Web and the Grid, both of which are subject to myths and misunderstanding...

Medical myth busting to engage physiology students in scientific literature.

This assignment was offered in a fourth-year medical sciences course for students enrolled in an honors specialization in interdisciplinary medical sciences. A basic medical science course is a course that focuses on a discipline that is related to the study of human health (e.g., human physiology, human anatomy, pharmacology, etc.). The course has a “flipped” design wherein students complete i...

Bayes Factor 1 Running head: BAYES FACTOR A Bayes Factor Calculation for Accepting the Null Hypothesis

Progress in science often comes from discovering invariances in the relationship between variables. Invariances correspond to null hypotheses. As is commonly known, it is not possible to accumulate evidence for the null hypothesis in conventional significance testing. We highlight a Bayes factor alternative to the t-test for accumulating evidence for either the null or alternative hypotheses. T...