Are You a P-Value Worshipper?

Are You a P-Value Worshipper?

The trend of the over-emphasis on having the results of a research work to be statistically significant (P<.05) is still going strong today due to the fact most researchers are statisticallyphobiaed. In this write-up, I want to encourage a research paper reader to firstly critique on the research process. Table 1 shows the stages of a research study that need to be addressed in detail before a ...

Are you demonstrating the value of caring?

Stool culture: are you getting value for money?

AIMS To assess the best medium for primary isolation of enteric pathogens; to determine the need for a second primary culture medium; and to gather information on stool culture media used in 20 other randomly selected laboratories. METHODS Specimens were cultured on desoxycholate citrate agar (DCA), Hektoen enteric agar (Hektoen), and xylose lysine deoxycholate agar (XLD). Non-lactose ferment...

So you think you are a professional ?

The human ego provides continuous opportunities to explore the richness and variety of human perception. It is capable of excruciating truth and insight as well as delusions of grandeur that obscure truth and reality. The maturity of an individual can be defined in relation to his ability to differentiate between these extremes. The computing practitioner, being human, is no exception. His exis...

Are you sure you have a strategy?

Executive Overview After more than 30 years of hard thinking about strategy, consultants and scholars have provided an abundance of frameworks for analyzing strategic situations. Missing, however, has been any guidance as to what the product of these tools should be—or what actually constitutes a strategy. Strategy has become a catchall term used to mean whatever one wants it to mean. Executive...