Some common misconceptions about Lucid

Some Misconceptions about Genetics

providing a succinct summary of what is known about the opportunities for psychia try that are likely to derive from genetic findings as they emerge from future re search. The research techniques used in both quantitative genetics (Rutter et a!, 1990a) and molecular genetics (Owen & McGuffin, 1993; Lander & Schork, 1994; Risch & Merikangas, 1996) have been the subject of previous non-technical ...

Common misconceptions about Lyme disease.

Lyme disease, infection with Borrelia burgdorferi, is a focally endemic tick-transmitted zoonosis. During the 3 decades since the responsible spirochete was identified, a series of misconceptions and misunderstandings have become widely prevalent, leading to frequent misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment. Persistent misconceptions concern the reliability of available diagnostic tools, the si...

Some Common Misconceptions of Malaria

Some Common Misconceptions of Malaria

Common misconceptions about data analysis and statistics1

Ideally, any experienced investigator with the right tools should be able to reproduce a finding published in a peer-reviewed biomedical science journal. In fact, the reproducibility of a large percentage of published findings has been questioned. Undoubtedly, there are many reasons for this, but one reason may be that investigators fool themselves due to a poor understanding of statistical con...