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    Is the future of peer review automated?

    The rising rate of preprints and publications, combined with persistent inadequate reporting practices and problems with study design and execution, have strained the traditional peer review system. Automated ...

    Robert Schulz, Adrian Barnett, René Bernard, Nicholas J. L. Brown in BMC Research Notes (2022)

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    Correction to: Easy as (Happiness) Pie? A Critical Evaluation of a Popular Model of the Determinants of Well-Being

    In the original publication, the text (line 10) under the heading “3 Re‑examining the Numerical Estimates of the Effect of Genes and Circumstances” with sub heading “3.1 How Much Variance in Chronic Happiness ...

    Nicholas J. L. Brown, Julia M. Rohrer in Journal of Happiness Studies (2022)

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    The lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data alone are inherently unreliable

    Jack M. Lawrence, Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, James A. J. Heathers in Nature Medicine (2021)

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    Easy as (Happiness) Pie? A Critical Evaluation of a Popular Model of the Determinants of Well-Being

    An underlying principle behind much of the research in positive psychology is that individuals have considerable leeway to increase their levels of happiness. In an influential article that is frequently cited...

    Nicholas J. L. Brown, Julia M. Rohrer in Journal of Happiness Studies (2020)

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    Simpson’s Paradox is suppression, but Lord’s Paradox is neither: clarification of and correction to Tu, Gunnell, and Gilthorpe (2008)

    Tu et al. (Emerg Themes Epidemiol 5:2, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-7622-5-2) asserted that suppression, Simpson’s Paradox, and Lord’s Paradox are all the same phenomenon—the reversal paradox. In the revers...

    Carol A. Nickerson, Nicholas J. L. Brown in Emerging Themes in Epidemiology (2019)

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    Statistical heartburn: an attempt to digest four pizza publications from the Cornell Food and Brand Lab

    We present the results of a reanalysis of four articles from the Cornell Food and Brand Lab based on data collected from diners at an Italian restaurant buffet.

    Tim van der Zee, Jordan Anaya, Nicholas J. L. Brown in BMC Nutrition (2017)

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    Contesting the evidence for limited human lifespan

    Nicholas J. L. Brown, Casper J. Albers, Stuart J. Ritchie in Nature (2017)

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    Reducing Current Limitations in Order to Enhance the Quality of Subjective Well-Being Research: The Example of Mindfulness

    Biases are numerous in the literature on subjective well-being. This is true for measures of life satisfaction as well as for measures related to it, for instance . Reviewing the literature on mindfulness mea...

    Rebecca Shankland, Ilios Kotsou in Metrics of Subjective Well-Being: Limits a… (2017)