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26 June, 2018

The need for nuance in the null hypothesis significance testing debate

Educational and Psychological Measurement, Vol. 77 (2017), 4, p. 616-630. Abstract Null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) provides an important statistical toolbox, but there are a number of ways i

Type of publication: Journal articles | Häggström, Olle
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14 September, 2022

Significant but inconclusive evidence

Where:Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm Speakers: Richard Dawid (Stockholm), Ulrike Hahn (Birkbeck), Wendy Parker (Virginia Tech), Joe Roussos (IFFS), Karim Thebault (Bristol) and William Wolf II (Oxford). P before October 7.

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10 September, 2020

Whatever You Want: Inconsistent Results is the Rule, Not the Exception, in the Study of Primate Brain Evolution

PLoS ONE Abstract Primate brains differ in size and architecture. Hypotheses to explain this variation are numerous and many tests have been carried out. However, after body size has been accounted for

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lindenfors, Patrik , , Lind, Johan & Wartel, Andreas
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03 May, 2010

Family Policy, Perceived Stress and Work-Family Conflict. A Comparative Analysis of Women in 20 Welfare States

Individual- and country-level factors are brought together in simultaneous analyses of their relationships with perceived stress and work-family conflict for women. The hypotheses predicting higher st

Type of publication: Working papers | Ingrid Esser and Tommy Ferrarini
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28 October, 2007

Age Structure and Productivity Growth

There are two competing hypotheses regarding demographic processes and technological progress. One holds that a rapidly growing adult population stimulates technological progress, while the other hold

Type of publication: Working papers | Jaypee Sevilla
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18 March, 2019

Completed: Population Growth and the Sustainable Development Goals

To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), several obstacles must be overcome. This planning project investigates an obstacle that is often neglected: population growth.

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30 August, 2013

Contexts and Conditions of Ethnic Discrimination: Evidence from Field-Experiments in German Housing Markets

Katrin Ausprung, History and Sociology, Konstanz University, Germany People’s housing conditions and places of residence have serious impacts on individual living conditions and social stratification.

Katrin Ausprung, History and Sociology, Konstanz University, Germany
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29 May, 2018

Investigating sequences in ordinal data: A new approach with adapted evolutionary models.

Political Science Research and Methods, Volume 6, Issue 3, pp. 449-466. doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2018.9 Abstract This paper presents a new approach for studying temporal sequences across ordinal variables. I

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lindenfors, Patrik , , Fredrik Jansson, Yi-ting Wang and Staffan I. Lindberg.
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27 May, 2007

Has the Youth Labour Market Deteriorated in Recent Decades? Evidence from Developed Countries?

This paper investigates the evidence concerning trends in youth relative pay and employment in developed economies since the mid-1970s, focusing on structural change on the demand-side of the labour m

Type of publication: Working papers | Paul Ryan
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14 December, 2022

Global sex differences in hygiene norms and their relation to sex equality

Plos Gloal Public Health Abstract Strict norms about hygiene may sometimes have health benefits but may also be a burden. Based on research in the United States, it has been suggested that women traditi

Type of publication: Journal articles | Eriksson, Kimmo , & Thomas E. Dickins Strimling, Pontus , & Thomas E. Dickins
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