Wasted women doctors: a fallacy.

The “banzhaf Fallacy” Fallacy

A Social Security Fallacy

The article investigates whether compulsory old age provisions are justified from an econom-ic point of view. According to a standard argument, some people would not provide suffi-

Doctors with difficulties: why so few women?

The National Clinical Assessment Service (NCAS), an NHS organisation that assesses doctors and dentists referred to them because of perceived difficulties, has produced a report describing data arising from its first 4 years, showing that male doctors were referred to the service considerably more often than female doctors. Despite women accounting for 42% of the general practitioner medical wo...

A power fallacy.

The power fallacy refers to the misconception that what holds on average -across an ensemble of hypothetical experiments- also holds for each case individually. According to the fallacy, high-power experiments always yield more informative data than do low-power experiments. Here we expose the fallacy with concrete examples, demonstrating that a particular outcome from a high-power experiment c...

Do Financial Incentives Increase Doctors’ Willingness to Publish Research? – A Pilot Study of 21 Junior Doctors