Placebo Effect in Athletes

The Economist discusses a recent study looking at giving athletes a placebo that they believed was going to assist them in there performance. Here is an excerpt:In their new experiment, published this week in the Journal of Neuroscience, he and his colleagues...

Odds Ratios

The Language Log Blog has an interesting discussion of odds ratios being reported by the media: A few years ago, some researchers from Georgetown University published in the New England Journal of Medicine a study that demonstrated systematic race and sex bias in the...