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Posted in English, Psychology on Oct 22nd, 2009
After listening to Göte Nyman at TEDxHelsinki about Null hypothesis (H0), I just had to write down some thoughts that arose from it. First a recap:
Göte presented examples from popular news media, such as “coke and pepsi activate different areas of the brain”. Well duh, if they are experienced differently, someone might assume that the [...]
Posted in English, Technology on Oct 18th, 2007
I originally discussed the waterfall method in a previous blog post. Pranav just made a comment that I feel needs some further discussion:
I disagree with the following statement: “This is how science (unfortunately) often works – researchers just cite something, because everyone else does so as well, and don’t really read the publications that they [...]
Posted in English, Psychology, Technology on Sep 9th, 2005
The Waterfall model is originally invented by Winston W. Royce in 1970. He wrote a scientific article that contained his personal views on software development. In the first half of the article, he discusses a process that he calls “grandiose”. He even drew a figure of the model, and another showing why it doesn’t work [...]
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