Tag Archives: Design of experiments

What if you assume your hypothesis is wrong when you design an experiment?

Posted on March 27, 2014 by Joan E. Strassmann

Designing experiments is deceptively simple. After all, you know what’s going on, right? So you just design an experiment that manipulates or otherwise examines the variable of interest, with an appropriate control, then show the pattern you expected, write it … Continue reading →

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Communication up is better than communication down

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Joan E. Strassmann

A research lab group is a complex mix of partly independent individuals of varying research levels attempting to do something new. There is usually a power and information inequity because the laboratory leader controls much of the funding, has more … Continue reading →

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