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Managing Life
Conferences are upon us!
At least for us coral researchers! Is there a conference season? Conferences, we have seen, are stressful. Its overwhelming to be in a hotel, conference centre, or resort with all the biggest names and up-n-comers in your field. You are literally on a stage sometimes. If feels like the lights are so bright that you're a little blind, and you're trying the old wives tale of imagining your dream supervisor naked (and isn’t really calming the nerves). Caitlin on a literally podi
hannahkish6
Jul 1
karol was here
Stats/Data Processing Tips
By Sanna Eriksson Data processing and statistics are one part of science that a lot of people don’t like, and a lot of people find really intimidating. Luckily for me, I loved maths throughout high school, and my brain naturally likes things like coding and calculations. For me, analysing data -- from cleaning up the raw numbers a machine gives you, to running stats, all the way to visualising the results in a nice figure -- is a super satisfying process. It takes the hard wo
hannahkish6
Sep 16
A PhD is all about statistics
We, as a collective, are chasing that p-value high (or low?). A quick background, statistics, at its basis, is comparing groups and seeing if the difference between them is random (not-significant) or not random (significant). And the cut off for that is a p-value of less than 0.05. There is a lot of misconceptions about statistics. I think one of them is that if you include a percentage, it tells the whole story but saying something is ‘statistically significant’ has nuance.
hannahkish6
Sep 9
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