Is there something wrong with the scientific method?
An across the boards decline in the significance of well accepted research is examined and explained
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/13/101213fa_fact_lehrer#ixzz19W1q1YEF
Showing posts with label research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label research. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Friday, December 17, 2010
Amazing Word Frequency Viewer
Compare Frequency Occurrences of any word or phrase from the Middle Ages until today!
"Scholars interested in topics such as philosophy, religion, politics, art and language have employed qualitative approaches such as literary and critical analysis with great success. As more of the world’s literature becomes available online, it’s increasingly possible to apply quantitative methods to complement that research. So today Will Brockman and I are happy to announce a new visualization tool called the Google Books Ngram Viewer, available on Google Labs. We’re also making the datasets backing the Ngram Viewer, produced by Matthew Gray and intern Yuan K. Shen, freely downloadable so that scholars will be able to create replicable experiments in the style of traditional scientific discovery.
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