Hurricanes and Himmicanes revisited with DHARMa
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[This article was first published on Submitted to R-bloggers – theoretical ecology, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (Yo…
[This article was first published on Submitted to R-bloggers – theoretical ecology, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (Yo…
We all want to do our part to contain the virus. In particular, cognitive and social scientists have been encouraged to apply…
Il fumetto/infografica qui sotto ha un'origine molto semplice: con Laura Barbalini eravamo intenti con le prove per la…
Americans don’t take extreme weather seriously enough. A little dramatic flair could help.
The Washington Post's Jason Samenow reports that "people don’t take hurricanes as seriously if they have a feminine name and…
Steven Universe, desenho que os floquinhos do Tumblr adoram odiar. Não tente entender. Calma, a história não tem nada a ver com…
One interesting thing about the recent scandal of the retracted study on voter persuasion (see my earlier post for details and…
Follow-up post where I share a list and chart of 2014 Top 25 Paywalled and Top 25 Open Access Outputs in the 2014 Altmetric…
The fact that I am driving away from Madison Wisconsin tomorrow, to my cold weather nest in Fort Lauderdale Florida, made me…
Peut-être avez-vous vu passer cette nouvelle sortie le 2 juin dernier. Une étude publiée dans une revue scientifique appelée…
Regular visitors to the Monkey Cage will probably remember the discussion/dismantling of a recent paper claiming a strong…
Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes Kiju Jung et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 17 June…
Shutterstock: http://ow.ly/yq3zLJane Hu, writing for Slate, called last week a week of spectacularly bad social science…
I came across an article in PNAS (the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) with the catchy title ‘Female Hurricanes…
I just came across an article in PNAS (the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) with the catchy title ‘Female…
The deadly meteorological consequences of gender stereotypes.Advertisement:→ Please participate in a PSYCHOMETRIC TEST on CIVIC…
The other day I received the following e-mail from a reporter: A colleague is working on a quick piece on a soon-to-be-released…
Two stories we're looking at reflect issues that we care about, and that we think everyone who thinks about how we know what we…
Gender stereotypes affect the perceived threat of incoming storms. Read more of the article here.
I have made the observation – not seriously – many times, especially after the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It seems that…
Environment Photo credit: NASA, via Wikimedia Commons. A controversial new study, published in the…
A group of marketing researchers at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign decided to tackle the problem of gender bias by…
You ever notice how your gender bias is killing you? Well, researchers at the University of Illinois have noticed it for you.
PrintA new research paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (see abstract) has found that hurricanes with…
Forget the brouhaha over Jill Abramson’s firing and questions about sexism running rampant in America’s newsrooms: here’s some…
The fourth hurricane of this year’s season will be named Dolly and that might be a problem. Dmitriy T.C. sent in a link to a…
This is Wilma. And boy is she unhappy. “Say, Elbert. What’s the name of that there hurricane that’s fixin’ to pounce upon us?” “L…
Dass Frauen systematisch unterschätzt werden, ist ja nichts Neues, aber dass Orkane unterschätzt werden, wenn sie weibliche…
In 1992, Hurricane Andrew destroyed more than 25,000 homes in Florida. But its death toll was far less than "female" storms…
Gender bias has countless serious implications, but here’s one that I never predicted: a study published today in the…
Blustery academia sometimes coughs up a perfectly delight-filled storm of assumptions. With that quasi-thought in mind, can you…
Rudyard Kipling was right: "The female of the species is more deadly than the male." Even, apparently, when it comes to weather…
Here’s a simple fact with an uncertain explanation: historically, hurricanes with female names have, on average, killed more…