: Social Science in Medicine . Leo W. Simmons, Harold G. Wolff.

Social Science in Medicine

Medicine. By Leo W. Simmons fe? Harold G. Wolff. New York, 1954. Russell Sage Foundation. $3.50. 254 pp. Medical and public interest has formerly been focussed more on bacteriological and pharmacological advances and the result has been inevitably some neglect of the patient as a person; the pendulum is now swinging back and it is somewhat ironic that it has been necessary to invent a new term?...

Social Science in Medicine

In these times, when our social and political inadequacies in dealing with the advances wrought by nuclear fission are so apparent, it is encouraging to find that forward-looking men in medicine and the social sciences are working together to bridge that gap between their respective fields of interest. Although the authors point out that the practice of medicine at large or in the hospital in p...

Andrea Calabrese and W . Leo

Psychological Science-2011-Simmons-1359-66

In this article, we accomplish two things. First, we show that despite empirical psychologists’ nominal endorsement of a low rate of false-positive findings (≤ .05), flexibility in data collection, analysis, and reporting dramatically increases actual false-positive rates. In many cases, a researcher is more likely to falsely find evidence that an effect exists than to correctly find evidence t...

Andrea Calabrese and W . Leo Wetzels